What's the story behind your name?

I'm named after my mum's great aunt. It is a terribly boring and common 80's name but FAR better than the other name they were considering! My first middle name is for another great.

I have a second middle name but didn't realise until I was doing the paperwork for our wedding that it isn't an official name i.e. doesn't appear on my birth certificate or passport, although it's on all my paperwork from school, doctor, bank etc. My mum comes from a very Catholic family and my dad wasn't fussed so I was Christened. Apparently the priest refused to Christen me unless my parents changed my name to something Biblical or a saint's name. As a compromise, I was Christened with an additional middle name (Margaret). It caused a big fuss at our wedding as the registrar had my 'official' name on the marriage certificate but the bishop married me using all four names, so the registrar was going to make me take the vows again so they matched! Luckily he let me off

My middle name is the girl's spelling of my Uncle's name.

First name chosen cos it went ok with weird surname and mum thought it was modern (until the vicar came round and said 'What a lovely old-fashioned name"!!!)

My name is a variation of my Great Grandmother's name. I oddly enough now use the same nickname as her's.
DP was named after the midwife, male version obv.
DS' name is the only name we could agree on and his middle name is the same middle name of both our favourite Grandfathers.

I think my own parents were just terribly unimaginative when they named me. I have a really basic boring first name and no middle name.

I'm named after my mum's middle name. 5th generation of women in the family to do this. My middle name is the one my birth mother gave me (adopted).

My DD has a french version of my middle name and hopefully will like to pass on her middle name if she ever has a DD.

I was named after a character in the book my mum was reading when I was born.

Upon telling my Year 8 History teacher this (can't remember how it came up) he said 'I wouldn't want to be named after her, she was a slut'!!

I was given my first name after my youngest auntie and my middle name after my eldest auntie both of them gave up their bed at my grandparents home when my mum went into labour and stayed up all night until i was born. My mum had a homebirth and my grandmother delivered me before the midwife even arrived

Great Aunt so I was saddled with a name that I considered truly vile and that was mocked at every opportunity.

Thank God there was a bland middle name so I paid for a change of name deed.

Years on the name I hated and despised so much actually regularly appears in the top ten baby names list.

I have a two name name, first part is a little common and was due to a very pretty girl my mother knew, fortunately my father stepped in to give me the second part of my name which makes the whole thing more palatable.

My parents were living in the US when I was born and called me an old Irish name which they thought was beautiful and original and uncommon and credited themselves with reviving it.

Only to arrive home with me and find every other Irish couple who had a dd in 1968 had called their dd the same name.

Am named after a not very well known Blues singer who had 'her time' when my mum was young and she just liked a her name and always said that's what she's going to call her DD.

My Mum wanted Jessica, my Dad wanted Zoe and my name was the one they could agree on.

Also they're Welsh, and it is the name of some uprisings which happened in Wales in the early 19th century (giving my name away to anyone who know their Welsh history!)

I like it because there are a fair amount of nickname variations.

I was named after a ship my Dad sailed on in the Merchant Navy. My middle name is after my paternal Grandmother and is also my Mum's middle name.
I used to hate my name but I actually quite like it now.

My name used to be quite unusual. My parents wanted a non trad name as my elder sister has a very trad name. My name was invented by a writer.

Lots of people used to spell it wrong, but it never bothered me and I like having a name thats a bit different.

My DD also has a relatively unusual name.

I like my name and it was a joint mum and dad decision after my dad's suggestion that I be named after his favourite Alfa Romeo car was thankfully rejected...I can just imagine how well 'Guilia' would have been received in 1970s Yorkshire ;)

I was named after the winner of the 1982 Eurovision song contest, my mum being a bit of an enthusiast. The name wasn't especially popular in this country then but there are a lot of little girls with my name.

By sheer coincidence my first car was a Renault Clio, the adverts for which had plagued me during my early teens.

I am also named after my grandfather. Story goes my G Grandad was saved in the war by a man called Victor, then G Grandad called his son Victor, then his son Uncle, then his son, Cousin....cousin had a girl and didn't use name....my Mam called me Victoria and I used it as a middle name for my daughter thus keeping it going for 4 generations so far x

Named after a character from the avengers, middle name (misprounouced) from a Georgette Heyer novel. I like my name, it's rare and pretty.

Poor sis (older) got the most common name of the year, cos mum was too "scared" to use something different - which she regretted - hence me. SIs middle name is my mums best friend from junior school who was murdered by her dad :(

DD is just pretty names but 1 middle name is after my cousin who died aged 2

My Gran heard the name in some 1930's film and loved it, so 'gave' it to my Mum when she was pregnant with me. She had 2 other Granddaughters at this point from her DS, but thought that the unborn (and sex unknown!) child my Mum was carrying would be 'perfect' for the name! It's a good job that I was a girl. I love the name as it?s really unusual. I have the obligatory 'Louise' as a middle name though (Dad picked that!)

My middle name is Louisa, after both my Grandmothers.

One grandmother was Louise Mary and the other Louisa Kate

First name is because my parents liked it, second name is in memory of my uncle's labrador dog that my mother loved as a child.

I have the same name as my Mum, but because her parents and brother/sister were deaf, they called her by a middle name, she is still known by that name today. She found out when she was 16 about her real first name and that it was from a family friend.

When I came along, my parents settled on my name, it's very unique. Then, I gave it to my DD1 as a middle name. So as far as we know (and we've researched it lots!), there are only 4 of us in existence, one of which sadly passed away a few years ago (the family friend).

If I google it, it comes up with a sea molusc lol!! Apparently it's Irish and derives from the name of a county but we don't know anything else... Do I say what my name is on here? Have only read OP...

I have a nice story behind mine - at the end of WWII, my Gran took in a Holocaust survivor refugee and they became best of friends (my Granddad was made to stay in Europe to help with rebuilding, etc., as he was v good with languages). He returned in 47, my Mum was born in 48 (9 months later ). The family friend lived with them until @1954 and absolutely doted on my Mum. Because of her experiences, she couldn't have children and never married. On my Mum's 9th birthday, she remembers picking some flowers for her 'Aunty' and deciding that when she grew up, she would have a little girl and give her Aunty's name.

And she did! Lucky my Dad loved the name too and his father was Jewish, so he liked that link and thus my parents didn't discuss any other names. I love it as well (is uncommon but everyone has heard of it).

My middle name is Louise, because it was the law in the 1970s that all girls had that as their middle name, including girls with Louise as their first name too - I bet Getorf's middle name is Louise too!

My DP's little brother has Oliver as a middle name because when he was born, my DP apparently became obsessed with Oliver Twist and kept having meltdowns about wanting his little brother to be called Oliver Twist! They gave him DP's middle name as his first to try to placate DP.

My youngest brother was born the same year that Back to the Future came out. His name? You guessed it; Marty. Which, unfortunately, when said in a southern English accent sounds incredibly camp and out of place.

My own names have no interesting story; my Dad simply said to my Mum "I've always wanted a daughter called x" and she agreed. So dull.