She wanted me to be named "Agnes."

My aunt wanted to name me Marnapuss Marlene! Thank god my parents didn't go with that. Mom wanted to name me Roxanne (Roxy for short) but then they decided to name me after a lady who run the local store. It worked out good because when I was a kid I would always get free candy at the store because I was named after her.

agnes doesn't suits u.Danielle is a nice name my mom gave me this name Ritu...thre is no story behind it....

I don't know how my name got chosen as I had my name already when I was adopted and my adoptive mom didn't change it.

Agnes definitely is a name whose time has passed. Glad you weren't named that.

My dad named my brother and my mom named me. My dad told me he hated the fact that Mom named me after him. He said she could have come up with a better name than that. So it's a bit rare that I was named after my dad instead of my older brother. The first born usually gets that honor. Dad also told me that he gave my brother the middle name of Augustus but Mom just wrote down Gus on the paperwork. Dad was not too happy about that either.

I'm not sure how I can to be Judy or more correctly Judith. Mum never called me Judy as she said she had had too many milking cows called 'Judy'. It seems strange that she still used Judith. She must have known many would shorten it.

Yeah I'm not a big fan of the name Agnes, it's okay but as you said old fashioned. My name was the first name they picked and they both liked it so they went with it. =)

if she loved the name agnes so much then she should have used it on her children. when you see her, does she mention it?

Mother Teresa? Really? Grand aunt wanted you named after Her? Not that anything was wrong with Mother Teresa. She was a spectacular personality! lol Edit: Sorry I forgot Okay so how my humongous name came to be (scowl) I don't like my name but I like to use it (if that makes any sense) Over here, father's sister gets the first right to name the newborn. (Though she can give the rights up if she desires and parents can also opt to name their child differently if they don't like the name. But it rarely happens) My only aunt named each of his nieces and nephews! That will be 3 kids of her eldest brother (my father), 2 kids of her middle brother and 2 kids of her third brother. I was the first kid so there was no way I was going to escape lol I am her favorite and very close to her also. So she named me after her best friend who was named Baljinder. She named me Daljinder! My nickname "Honey" was coined by her too.

Once my maternal uncle named me Akhilesh. But latter it was changed with my name.