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Baby names

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What's the story behind your name?

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LetThereBeRock · 11/01/2011 11:57

Were you named for a relative?,a celebrity?,a character from a novel? or did your parents just like the sound of the name?

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ningthemerciless · 12/01/2011 16:39

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!

smokinaces · 12/01/2011 17:13

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!

SoupDragon · 12/01/2011 17:26

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

edam · 12/01/2011 17:34

SoupDragon · 12/01/2011 17:41

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

Timbachick · 12/01/2011 17:44

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.

edam · 12/01/2011 17:46

darn it!

eurocommuter · 12/01/2011 18:16

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.

glittery · 12/01/2011 18:39

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!

glittery · 12/01/2011 18:41

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!

eurocommuter · 12/01/2011 18:48

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

clumsymumluckybaby · 12/01/2011 19:07

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

loobyboo · 12/01/2011 20:12

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.

Lotster · 12/01/2011 20:35

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.

Lotster · 12/01/2011 20:35

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

2posh2post · 12/01/2011 20:44

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......

MaskedInvader · 12/01/2011 20:48

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

Thinkofanumber · 12/01/2011 21:35

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 .

MrsThisIsTheCadillacOfNailguns · 12/01/2011 21:45

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

DownyEmerald · 12/01/2011 21:57

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.

lifeinagoldfishbowl · 12/01/2011 22:32

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.

BoffinMum · 12/01/2011 22:36

Pop star and a Nazi rebellion
Now that's got you thinking, I bet.

firstforthought · 12/01/2011 22:56

chaos I too was named after a great aunt and have never met or heard of any with the same name. You seem sad about it? I love being unique and know that once someone has met me they will at least remember me because I had an unusual name and they could not pronounce it.

greenfanta · 12/01/2011 23:20

dh named after the sexy 60's actor, so we have to keep correcting people when they start to use stephen...

dd2's name quickly changed when no one could say it (my mum is from the far east and can't do r's despite being here 40 yrs!)
luckily 2nd choice name was a success and she looks like one, although she's not keen on my nan's popular victorian name for her middle!

mentioning my nan...somehow she managed to give my aunt my grandfather's name as a middle name!

hackneybird · 12/01/2011 23:28

My Dad was from a Scottish family who had moved to England.

My name is very very unusual - am named after a small Scottish island, and my brother is named after another nearby island, but which is a more common name.

When DH and I first met we went on holiday to Scotland and he took me to the island that I was named after as a surprise. Only it's so small there is only one boat there a week, so we just camped on the shores of the mainland and I would look at 'my' island every morning.

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