What's in a name?

[HouseofWool]

DD - I can see how the moniker Jesus Christ would have only improved your potty mouth

[Sheherezade]

I ended up with a very Italian first name even though I was a melting pot American with no Italian heritage. Went on to marry Italian -- so now I've got a name good enough to make my own spaghetti sauce and market it. My mom was going to name me Diedre but backed off because she didn't like the nickname Dee Dee. Thank goodness. If she hadn't, I would have been Dee Dee DePastino. LOL She never told me what my boy name would have been.

There is a lot of power to names. I went to a Bradley family therapy conference with my mom when I was a teen (she's a family therapist) and I was amazed by some of the stories. Being named a variation of Angel could have had something to do with me turning out to be a "good girl" for most of my life. Often, people try to live up to - or react to - their name particularly if they are named after someone within the family. It's very interesting....

[scrub-jay]

There is a lot of power to names. I went to a Bradley family therapy conference with my mom when I was a teen (she's a family therapist) and I was amazed by some of the stories. Being named Angela (and implying that I'm an Angel) could have had something to do with me turning out to be a "good girl" for most of my life. Often, people try to live up to - or react to - their name particularly if they are named after someone within the family. It's very interesting....

So... if I have a boy, I should probably avoid "Loki" ??

[diggitydot]

DD - I can see how the moniker Jesus Christ would have only improved your potty mouth

Pretty much. Can you imagine Jesus Christ Anderson? Granted, it would be more like "Jesus Christ, Anderson!"

[HouseofWool]

So... if I have a boy, I should probably avoid "Loki" ??

Are you trying to tie with DrK and Dr13 for worst boy names ever? Seriously, I wouldn't name my pet those names!

[Auspicious]

If I was a boy I was going to be Dirk! Whaaat? My brothers are Drew and Kyle--I don't know how they thought Dirk fit in there! I was extra relieved to have avoided that when Boogie Nights came out in college.

As much as I can't picture myself as a Dirk, I was also almost named Megan, which I think would have suited me fine. My mom liked Meg because of Little Women (though Meg is of course short for Margaret in the book). I ended up with Beth as one of my middle names, mostly because of my grandmother Elizabeth, but also because of Beth from LW.

[scrub-jay]

Are you trying to tie with DrK and Dr13 for worst boy names ever? Seriously, I wouldn't name my pet those names!

Don't worry, I was joking.

[diggitydot]

I don't think any baby names will ever beat DrK's suggestions. Seriously, Rasputin? You can't make that shit up.

[Curegirl]

Dad named me while Mom was still passed out after labor. Surprise!

[Curegirl]

Pretty much. Can you imagine Jesus Christ Anderson? Granted, it would be more like "Jesus Christ, Anderson!"

[HouseofWool]

I don't think any baby names will ever beat DrK's suggestions. Seriously, Rasputin? You can't make that shit up.

Um, some of Dr13's suggestions were out there too.

[Thirteen]

He still won't let Sequoia die. He talks about it all.the.time.

He is not going to win.


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[Cinderella]

My Mom picked my name from a very popular musical movie six months before I was born. It's a classic and one of her all time favorites. She said no matter how many times she watched it every time the lead actress would sing I would dance in her tummy so she started calling me little ______. Everyone at her work started calling me by that name too and they would greet her and her baby tummy by my name without even knowing if I was a boy or a girl. She said she never picked out a boys name because of it but she did pick out another girl name for me and that was Nicole. So I guess I could have been a Nick or Nicky. Ironically as a child in elementary school I remember I wanted to be named Nicole. I grew out of that by middle school where I wanted my name to be Juliette (like Romeo and Juliette) or Julianna or Julie. That lasted through high school I think.

My middle name is my paternal grandmother's first name and I never liked it. It wasn't until my late 20's right before marriage that I came to accept my full name as who I was. Then after marriage my husband didn't want me to change my last name because in Islam the wives keep the father's name to show their genealogy. That's why it seems like they have six first names. Example: Mohammad Saied Ahmed Ali Sabry Hany Waleed. They just keep going back in history with the father's father. So Mohammad would be the first name, Saied would be Mohammad's father's first name, Ahmed would be Mohammad's father's first name, ect. My husband has counted back 7 generations of names for me before, but on their official documents they go back six names, and in their airport they go by three names, and in the States you get to pick your last name with you Naturalize even if it's totally made up. The name thing also gets very confusing because of the spelling. There are no english letters for some of the arabic letters so there can be different spellings, and sometimes they use numbers for letters in the transliteration. So you may see a word spelled like Fe3lan? and that means Really? in Arabic.

Anyways I changed my name to one of the last names he put on his immigration paperwork. We had to have a lot of discussion about it to decide on which name to use. He thinks it's weird that my last name is his 5th grandfather's first name, but it's also his last name here now too. Also in the middle east and north africa they call doctors by their first name there and not their last name. So that has taken some getting used to on his part here. Anyways I tell him he is still a Dr. A.

[hanginginthere]

My dad chose my name- it means giver of sweetness/honey bee- he said I was his little sweetheart...yep, total daddy's girl
I named baby girl after a Jane Austen character- hubby got to choose between 2- so I gave him some say...

[diggitydot]

Holy balls, I had totally forgotten about Sequoia. I still don't think it's as weird as Rasputin or Frankenstein, though, but he def gets a buttload of weird name cred.

Immigration makes for odd name decisions. My maiden name is Anderson, but only because my Finnish great-grandparents Americanized their names. Between US immigration officials' inability to reconcile that a husband and wife would have different surnames. (Finnish women don't take their husband's surname after marriage), and the ridic spellings and over abundance of N's in their names, "Anderson" was the lesser of evils.

Names fascinate me. Probably because all of my family (on both sides) have had names changed or misspelled during immigration.