Your name

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by rubytuesday

I was named after my grandma, can't you tell it's so old fashioned. My brother was named after my grandfather Wesley but doesn't like it so he calls himself by his second name Thomas. I guess I might have been named after the other one so I would have been Timothy. It would be weird having Tom and Tim. But our last name is so ridiculous that everything sounds stupid in front of it.

Ruby is actually a cute name. Imagine if your grandmother had a really old-school name like Martha or Pearl or Wilma or Berniece or Beatrice or Marjorie...

[skcin]

Great stories, people! Jaz - yours is so touching, I love it. And I lol'd at Betsy/Twinkle.

Another thing - my parents never gave us middle names. If you ask why, their reason is "we just didn't." They both have middle names, so does everyone else in our fam. Oh well, at least I didn't get stuck with some horrid embarassing one. Also, if it had started with an E my initials would have been PEZ. I made my maiden name my middle name when I got married - it's so unique I didn't want to lose it.

[amber]

^^^
I forgot about that. Weird. I forgot what your maiden name was, but I remember thinking it was cool.

I don't know why I was named Amber, but I have five middle names, all but one are my mom's relatives. The other one is her best friend. She left out her brother, haha. His name is Paul. It wouldn't fit nice with all the girl names.

Hmm, I know one reason was no nickname possible for Amber, but I can't remember hearing any other reasons.

I like these stories about everyone's name.

[GarboSpeaks!]

Anita.

Yuck! I don't like it, but it is a tad different. The thing is, I'll be in a supermarket, and hear over the loud speaker "I NEED A checker on isle ____."
I hear the I NEED A and think someone is calling my name. lame but oh so true.

Could be worse. As I have mentioned in other threads, so help my gawd, I knew a "Gang Ba(e?)ng." Sweet girl in junior high. Surely in Laos that name was no problem. People w/ the cutsie names, like an old friend of my moms, Candy Valentine...ugh! Sickly sweet. Chrissy Snow...a for real one. All of a sudden Anita is ok. It's just bland, and I think there is no charachter to it, so I work extra hard to make it memorable I just hate that I get Anna all the time. Hello, Anita is 5 letters...NOT that hard.

Have a cousin that I was supposedly named after. Dad also knew a hot red-head name Anita, so how both came to the conclusion, well.......
Was supposed to have been named Erin (girl) or Aaron if I had been a boy. Not so sure I'd have liked that anymore. I like exotic names. Sahara, Anastacia, Isabo etc. Although I don't think I'd ever change my name I always right prose about a "December." Just has a far away sound to it.

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

I have no clue what other choces my Mum had as she wasn't around when I was growing up. And my Dad never seemed to remember things like that. I always hated my name though

[GypsySorcerer]

My parents considered several names (Julie, Ginger, Shelley, etc) but eventually wanted to go with a "Kris" name and liked Krista the best. I personally have never liked my name. Not so much the name itself, but the fact it's mispronounced so much -- I get Kristy, Kristin, Krystal, Kristine, Kristina. My middle name, Marie, is after my mother (Mary.)

[skcin]

Originally Posted by amber

^^^
I forgot about that. Weird. I forgot what your maiden name was, but I remember thinking it was cool.

I don't know why I was named Amber, but I have five middle names, all but one are my mom's relatives. The other one is her best friend. She left out her brother, haha. His name is Paul. It wouldn't fit nice with all the girl names.

Hmm, I know one reason was no nickname possible for Amber, but I can't remember hearing any other reasons.

I like these stories about everyone's name.

No nicknames, huh Amby? And I guess your parents made up for mine in the middle name category. 5? Holy crap!

[buckymcnix]

Originally Posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon

I always hated my name though

Pip,
just for the record. I love it.

[Steviefan49]

Originally Posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon

I have no clue what other choces my Mum had as she wasn't around when I was growing up. And my Dad never seemed to remember things like that. I always hated my name though

I love your name - Pip! I think it's SOOO original, and UNIQUE!

[amber]

Originally Posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon

I have no clue what other choces my Mum had as she wasn't around when I was growing up. And my Dad never seemed to remember things like that. I always hated my name though

Isn't Pip the nickname for Philippa?

[Red]

I was going to be Jacob if I were a boy. Popular name now but not so much in 1977.
And boy, did I dodge a bullet...I was very nearly called Ariel. ARIEL!! Undah da seeeeaaaaaa, undah da seeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaa. Glad my 'rents went the way they did.

[amber]

Originally Posted by Red

I was going to be Jacob if I were a boy. Popular name now but not so much in 1977.
And boy, did I dodge a bullet...I was very nearly called Ariel. ARIEL!! Undah da seeeeaaaaaa, undah da seeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaa. Glad my 'rents went the way they did.

That's my friends daughters middle name. I'm not sure it suits you, you seem more consonental.
But...I never liked the name Rachel before. I only met one, ever, (I think it's a common jewish name, I never met any jewish people either) she was this bitchy girl in gymnastics when I was 7. I also like lots o' vowels in a name, I like them to flow prettily~*~ like a crystal dream~*~into the sea~*~melting on the water's flow~*~
But, ever since I met you, the name became waaaay better.

I like the name Jake for a boy a lot, but Jacob is too biblical for me.

[rubytuesday]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

Ruby is actually a cute name. Imagine if your grandmother had a really old-school name like Martha or Pearl or Wilma or Berniece or Beatrice or Marjorie...

Thanks. lol yeah, my other grandmother's name is Dorothy so it's better this way.

[LngPrmsdRd]

Ooh...cool thread! My mom always loved the name Patrick, but hated Pat as a nickname, so if I'd been a boy I would've been Matthew Christopher. Oddly enough, that's now the name of one of my cousins, and we actually don't speak to his mom, so they couldn't have like...conferred or anything. Her second choice was James Patrick, apparently.

Girl-wise, I think I was about to be Skye Hope. LOL...not quite Morning Star, but still very.....very daughter-of-a-flower-child-esque. Although I do sort of like Skye, just not in combination with my middle name. Then she heard Brianna somewhere, loved it, but decided to misspell it so it wouldn't be confused with 'Brian'...so I am now Breanna Hope. Which doesn't get confused with Brian, but gets pronounced "Breenna", "Brayna", or "Brenna". I can't win! Incidentally, if I'd had a sister, she would've been Haley Alexandra.....which is the name of another of my cousins, actually the aforementioned Matthew Christopher's sister. Weeeiiiiiirrrrddd...!

xxxmx...my God, I need to freakin' Myspace you or e-mail you or something. I have to say though...yah...Jasmine Desmond...eep! I think they made a good call there!

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Originally Posted by buckymcnix

Pip,
just for the record. I love it.

Originally Posted by Steviefan49

I love your name - Pip! I think it's SOOO original, and UNIQUE!

lol... thanks guys! My full name is Phillipa and I don't use that at all now.