What's the story behind your name?

According to my mother I'm not named after anyone...

However my first name is, an admittedly anglicised, diminutive of my maternal great grandmothers name. She was Irish.

My middle name just happens to be my mother's favourite aunts name.

I'll let you draw your own conclusions.

The story for my sister is similar. Her first name is the a diminutive of the name we used for my mother's (first and very precious) car. It is a proper name. She isn't called datsun or something really wacky. Her middle name is the proper form of my father's favourite great aunts name.

Don't know what happened with my brother. His first name is biblical and has no family connections and the middle is terrible and has sexual connotations that my mother didn't know about. My father let her use it because he thought it was funny ;-) Poor brother.

Interestingly he has "allowed" most of his friends to think his name is something quite different. An imperial roman name (shortened to his "real " name) and a very trad scots name. It is really quite funny. My mother likes the new version better now that she is aware of the connotations behind his middle name.

My sister who was 6 1/2 got to name me, I hate my name.

lol itsonly - Marie is MY middle name too

(and at my wedding in Zim the vicar prouncouned it "maaarreee"..........which is actually a Shona word for "money" haha)

My mum wanted to call me Marie but my Dad being a Scouser pronounced it 'Maarreee' which she hated, so Marie became my middle name and they went with a scottish name they both liked (scottish surname so it went better and I hate Marie tbh).

My mum wanted to name me after her best friend, but Dad said that no child of his was going to be named after a nut (Hazel).

My brother (aged 9) chose my middle name.

Apparently I wasn't named for a couple of weeks (my mother had told nobody she was pregnant, so I was a surprise to say the least)

My name was plucked out of that week's TV Times. Shows what a lowbrow household I came from. My middle name is the same as 96% of girls born in 1978.

I was very nearly named Regan after the possessed child in the Exorcist. Groovy.

My Mother was named after the heroine Grace Darling (Darling being her middle name) My eldest daughter was named after a yacht! My next daughter was named after a character from a Russian Novel, and we just liked my youngest daughters name. I have the middle name of my maternal grandmother who died many years before I was born

vintage, is your name Miss Tiggywinkle? Or Nutkin?

I was going to be called Lydia (a name I really like) but my parents said people would keep saying "lid of ya dustbin"

I was named after a Beatrix Potter character(well, the spelling of my name was)and also the middle name of a famous illustrator.

Friend of mine was named after an elephant. Apparently in 1969 the Russians sent an elephant over from Moscow Zoo to London Zoo, it was in all the papers, and her parents just liked the name. (NOT Nelly, btw!)

I have no clue why my incredibly staid parents picked the name they did for me. Just grateful they added a nice boringly common middle name so I could switch when I left home.

DH also uses his middle name for totally different reason - there were four with the same first name in his first school class and they ran out of variations so he switched!

DS has a well-known Biblical first name we just liked (nobody else in family is called it) with a family surname as a middle, which is also his grandad's middle. between them he could be called by six variants so will hopefully find one he likes!

dead russian girl whose diary recounting the deaths of her fmaily during ww2 was in a museum which my parents visited in moscow or somewhere in russia

My mother tells me I'm named after one of the geese in The Aristocats. The cartoon film from 1970. Yes, named after a goose! My middle name is my maternal grandmother's name. She died a few years before I was born.
I like both names very much.

*the man in my life got to chOOse, sorry.

I'm boring, my name was chosen because my Mum liked it.

I do have a friend whose brother was named after a brand of childrens' vest though.

The man in my life got to chose his daughter's name. He chose to call her after one of his ex-girlfriends. No prizes for guessing that he never dared admit that to his wife!

My DM's mother decided that I should be called Jo-Anna before I was born, and as DM was so sure I was going to be a boy called James, she let her run with the idea after a very long labour and assisted delivery, she apparently took one look at my very squashed wee person and said 'oh my God, Helen' and it stuck. She has no idea where the name came from, as she knew no one with that name, and it wasn't 'popular' at the time (Early 1980s)
My DB born 2 years later was called James.
My DD's middle name is the same as her Godmother/ my best friend from school, I have no idea how I choose her 1st name - it wasn't on any lists before she was born lol

I am named after my granny (maternal). Except no-one ever called her by her real name, she was known as Bunt for some reason. I like my name even if it is a little old-fashioned and I like the link with my granny who I miss.

wuggle, lovely that your parents kept your original name as a middle. My mother was adopted and it was only when she finally got hold of her original birth certificate that she realised her parents had kept both the names her biological mother used - she'd always wondered why she had two middle names. Still a lovely thing for them to do, especially as in those days there was a hell of a stigma about adoption (because of being born out of wedlock) to the point where they never told her she was adopted.

I'll agree to disagree with you the bitching. I like your first name very much. I don't know your middle.

I was named for both my grandmothers. Except my parents decided to give me the Latin version of Nanny and French version of Granny's name. They were IRISH FFS!!

Still, my middle name is a damn sight better than my sisters. Smug

I was named after my mother's bridesmaids - she just liked the combination of names, then looked up their meanings and realised that they make a nice sentence too: "Rejoice, a pearl, son of the chief!" (Although the gender's wrong that's surnames and patriarchy for you...)

I hate it - always have done - especially with my maiden name (you know that as you have my brother on your FB from the gaming days ) - god never was I so glad to lose THAT name.......just a shame I can't lose the first and middle names too

As first DD in family I was named after my mother and both grannies. ( Names all put together ) I've always kind'a liked that!