Yesterday, my 2yo asked me why my first name is my name. I told him that my name is [MrsK] because that's what my mom named me. Just like his name is [K2] because that's what I named him. Then this got me thinking that perhaps I should have told him about the grandfather and great-grandfather for whom I was named, and about the grandmothers for whom he was named. And how it's such an interesting question knowing how much I agonized over naming my children and I know that other parents do also. I've wondered about the origin of my friends' names but never asked them. So, I'm asking. Why is your name your name?
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I'm named after my grandmother. My dad picked my middle name. Funny story: my married first and last name is actually the same as my grandmothers first and middle name. So while I was originally her namesake, my married name makes me doubly so even through the dementia when I visit her and tell her my full name she says "oh! That's MY name too!!"
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkWife, support system, and partner-in-crime to PGY-3 (IM) and spoiler of our 11 y/o yellow lab
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My mother let my Godmother pick my name, because I was her 5th child (4th daughter) and she couldn't come up with a name!!!!Luanne
wife, mother, nurse practitioner
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." (John, Viscount Morely, On Compromise, 1874)
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I was named for a childhood friend of my mom's. Unfortunately they chose my full name (same as hers) so that they could use a nickname (also same as hers). By third grade I decided that the nickname was juvenile and I hated it, so I switched to using my full name, which was never my parents intention.Wife of PGY-4 (of 6), cat herder, and mom to a sassy-pants four-nager.
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My mom wanted my name, my father wanted another. So, she got her choice as first name and he picked the spelling and my middle name was his choice.Wife to Hand Surgeon just out of training, mom to two lovely kittys and little boy, O, born in Sept 08.
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My mom was 16 soooo I was named after a soap star and an Olympic volleyball player ... Our baby E will be named after a motocross rider who had a sweet name lol I'm no better than my mom and I don't have the "I'm 16 and pregnant" excusesigpic
buckeye born, raised, and educated... thankfully, so is my wonderful med student husband...
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My parents saw it in a book and liked it. My twin sister was supposed to be Kristin, but I guess she didn't look like a Kristin when she was born, so they named her Lauren.Allison - professor; wife to a urology attending; mom to baby girl E (11/13), baby boy C (2/16), and a spoiled cat; knitter and hoarder of yarn; photographer
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