ed shank
20 Answers
jhharlan
Best answer!
Everyone in the family has a name starting with the letter "J" thus, my name is Julie. My mother was going to name me Sally but the J's won out.....
| 12 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
doolittle
FISH-O
ROMOS
Colleen
Flip
Hmmmmm .... Each of my 5 siblings were named after a family relative, but not me. Never thought about it before ..... Thanks a lot ED .... Now you've put hurtful feelings in my mind!
| 12 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
padovenick
daren1
Ann
I was named after my mother- all in the family so to speak.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
mycatsmom
I was named Juliana ,after Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, b/c all 4 of my mother 's grandparents came here from Holland. But, unfortunately, I've always been called Julie, b/c when I went to kindergarten, my mom told everyone to call me Julie, b/c my grandma said Juliana was too big a mouthfull. In fact, my grandma called me Lovey and got the whole neighborhood calling me Lovey. So, I was Lovey, untill I went to kindergarten.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
PANDA
Bob/PKB
My name was going to be "Beverly", but my mom changed her mind and named me after a good friend of hers at nursing school in New York. My middle name, though you didn't ask, is Kay. honoring my dad's father, whose name was "Kerop". (Armenian)
| 12 years ago. Rating: 8 | |
I wish your family had told you something nice about your bio-dad. He had to have had something that was lovable to your mom.
It is unusual to meet someone who was actually born in "the old country"...so many were murdered during the Ottoman Empire massacre that "never happened" (a little holocaust pre-game show, not to be vulgar)
lindilou
My father claimed he named me after Roy Rogers' neices' horse...lindi lou.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 8 | |
bulletman
dowsa
Vinny
witchway
coolandy2000
Now Jean-paul means "God's Grace" and Paul means "small or humble." Sometimes parents name their children for one reason, and the person becomes the person that the name implies. I guess that is why numerology also plays such a major role in child naming and such. Paul was my dad too and he was a professor of Anatomy, and a very large man physically. He had several other names which probably made him what he was :).
Andrea is a man, and my mother desperately wanted a boy, and she had a boyfriend called "Andrew" when she was 6, so rather than let on to my dad, she named me such which means manly and beautiful and dared. "manly, virile" is also used. 'Man, warrior; manly. Then the more feminine side would be the Latin meaning "Womanly" or "Beautiful Lady". She is steadfast and confident,honest and reliable.A tower of strength for those she cares for and a rock to the family. So my mother got what she wanted, and I am cursed because I think like a man and have the body of a female and I have to do the job of a man most often and I don't accept rubbish from anyone especially since I believe in the freedom of expression (that comes with being a teacher) and human rights and everything that respects others.
And I do not believe in power struggles either, its in the politics and policies practiced here in SL. The most frustrating about being named after someone is that all the males who have lost their boyfriends who are called "Andy" beseech their lovers return, so I am an agony aunt on my network as well.I also get inundated with females who want to bed me :). Too old for either!
| 12 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
gloriafrmCal
My dad named me after "glory hallelujah" he was so glad he finally got a girl!
| 12 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
friendindeed
My husband's family rotates through four names, Edward, Thomas, James and George. My husband's middle name is the same as his father's and my son's... My mother-in-law decided to vary my husband's first name and we did that for our son. Families can be so funny!
All three of my children have one Irish name and one family name.