What's the story behind your name?

My dad was a clerk and used to have to write letters to his bosses daughters boarding school apologising for whatever mischief she had been upto that week.

He always spelt her name incorrectly and this incorrect name became my name several years later.

It's a proper name before anyone asks, and not too common although every so often I'll suddenly notice a lot of them everywhere ie journalists, a friend of a friend on facebook etc.

A character in a play my dad was in. Also means in hebrew something they really liked, also has biblical links to my dad's name.

Typing this I'm thinking - did my mum have any choice over this at all?! I might ask.

I know what your name is LTBR.It is my sister's middle name.

Not really sure why my parents gave me the first name I have as it shortens to exactly the same name as my eldest brother's does, it still sometimes causes confusion. They both start with the same 5 letters.
Second name - DM's first name
Third name - from a sixties film (but the full name not the shortened version)

I love my third name and wish my parents had made it my first name .

I was named after my aunt's godmother. never quite understood that.

I was named after a serious ex-girlfriend of my father . It is a very unusual name so is no co-incidence. My DM says that the agreement was that she could name a boy, and my DF could name a daughter. I guess DF liked the name.

Oddly, my namesake lived with my parents for several months whilst she was pregnant and then emigrated......

Oh, and my son was named after my first canine best friend

I randomly named my daughter after the delightful daughter of a handsome and swarthy French baker we met whilst viewing a cottage in Devon!

It's a real old lady name, but the way he pronounced it was lovely, and her very sweet and friendly nature nailed it as I'd been plucking up the courage to go for it for ages.

I was going to be called Rebecca lousie, but my paternal grandmother didn't,t like it because it would get shorten to becky, so it got changed my first name was chosen but they couldn't find a middle name until they saw a female politician (70's) not maggie and decided on that.
I don't like either. However if I was a boy I was to be named after two crickets of the time Gary & Clive they didn't know which way round they would be.

When it came to choosing the names of our children
Dd1 was named after a character in dh favourite sci fi tv program modern name different spelling, her middle name is after my great aunt who was like my grandmother as she brought mother up.( wanted to honour her as she was a great lady)

Dd2 we had 2 names short listed for both sexes. Once born we asked the midwife & paramedics which one they preferred and they went with my choice yeh!!!! 1st name is hyphernated I saw in a mag & liked it the 2nd part is also great aunts middle name, dd2 middle name is after my mil who died a month b4 she was born.

Ds1 is a family name from dh side from the 19 century noticed it on FIL family tree, his middle name is from my great uncle, dh of great aunt above.

i wouldnt even buy a pram (icandy) as it had the same name as one of dp's ex's ...paranoid much?!

My SIL is named after FIL's girlfriend from his younger days. I think MIL knows but chooses to ignore. but he told dh

used to know a guy whos sister was called Ursula, her fathers idea, everyone thought after Ursula Andress the actress but it later transpired it was after a girlfriend he'd had in his younger days!

i was named after an aunt and i named my son after the lead singer of The Lemonheads cos i thought he was a rather handsome chap!

My mother says she like the name so much she named me before I was and without knowing my sex. She has it on everything. She or I was lucky I was a girl as they is not even a male version to my name.

darn it!

My first name is the surname of a well respected actor (from 40's/50's/60's) and my middle name is just one my parents liked.

My DH was meant to be named after his maternal grandfather but his dad, who registered him, gave him a name he liked!!!!

Our DS is named just because we like it but his middle name is one of the main characters from my DH's favourite film.

Ah... but that wouldn't make any difference, Edam, as it is my maiden name that makes it dreadful :)

My name is proof that pregnant/hormonal women shouldn't be allowed to choose the name of their baby.

My first name is the same as an actress that died around the time my Mum found out she was pregnant - not sure if that is co-incidence or where she got the name subconsciously.

My middle name was after the midwife stitching her up. Nice!

I think my parents just liked my name and it went with our last name - I'm not named for anyone and both first and middle names are common-ish.

My son (11 wks old)'s name is inspired by one of my partner's favourite World Superbike riders (but the sort of Scots version of it - it was the only name we could agree on). His middle name is my surname and his last name is my partner's last name (again an old Scots tradition).

I really like it - let's hope he does!

i was named after my grandfather,
slightly odd considering im a girl,they did change it to a female variant,but it's very 80's so obvious when i was born...

my middle name was picked by my sisters,

and my second middle name,well
it's 'march'...

i was born in December

that was a truly shocking teenage realization and a tradition i did not inflict upon my own DD to my mothers great suprise

HopeForBaby, that's so adorable - "and Emily loved him so" always makes me well up, for some reason . I was three when my baby brother was born and I wanted to call him Zebedee. I still think that's a cool name, sadly my parents plumped for Paul. No imagination, some people!

Middle name of my mum's aunt, who brought her up after her own mum died. My mum decided on it when she was a little girl (partly because she wanted a name that couln't be shortened, for some reason!) but then didn't have me until her late 40s, by which time it was horrifically old-fashioned and I hated it. Don't mind it quite so much now though. It's boring but inoffensive and the foreign students I work with can all pronounce and spell it, so it has its advantages.

my parents asked my big sister to name me, she was 3 at the time. She wanted to call me Bagpuss as it was her favourite programme. Thankfully my parents didnt think this was a fit name for a child so I was called Emily as she was the little girl who looked after bagpuss. My sister will still often end our conversations with "and Emily loved him so".