Why do I have this name?

[genjen]

Apparently I was named after two nurses in the maternity ward. 

That has just reminded me that my first name has something to do with the midwife who delivered me. It wasn't her name but I think she possibly suggested it or something of the sort. So there will now be dozens of women in their fifties and sixties, in the Middlesbrough area, all wanting to stick pins in the midwife who named them!

[toni*]

my auntie who died in February was named after the doctor who delivered her!

my eldest daughter i wanted to call Selina but my Nan told me she would get called Semolina at school  so she wasn't named Selina !

i think though if you know someone with the name already and you dont really like that person you are unlikely to call your child it !

[noxas]

Hi all,my ancestry is Irish,my christian name is Diarmuid after an early Irish king,my second name is Francis after my father,so that  is why i have these names.
            Regards Diarmuid.

[bodger]

noxas, like me you have the courage to give your name, why is there a reluctance of posters to give their name ? after all we all use a log in name

[sootyjunior]

Some of you were named after famous people. My aunt taught a class who were born the same year as Princess Margaret. Seventeen of the girls were called Margaret, eleven of them Margaret Rose. What a nightmare for the teacher.

[blodwen]

I know that when I was given my name, my parents thought it was quite unusual (for the time 1960), but when I went to Infant school, there were three of us in the class.....

Vivien

[Kevinshouse]

I is lovely to hear all your stories of why you have your name. Keep them coming, but I think that we must all agree that most people could not imagine having any other name than the one they have,we sort of grow into our names.
Kind regards Susan

[IgorStrav]

There were 8 people in my class who shared my name.  Very very fashionable at that time, and no, I'm not going to be telling you what it is.  Just call me Igor 

I hate being called by my full name for some reason - it really does upset me (weird, I know) - and have called myself by its shortened version since I got to university, when I decided that I would henceforth be known by the name I chose.

My parents aren't here any more, so there's no-one left to call me by my full name.

But I think you should be called what you want.....  I once assisted at an event where people had to wear name tags, and the request was to ask for a tag showing "the name you like to be called". 

There was a lady called Angela, and I asked her what she wanted on the name tag, Angela or Angie, or something else?

And I saw her think that Angie was the name of a quite different person, and she was quite taken by the idea that she COULD be that person, at least for the evening.  She thought about it just for a bit, and then said no, she thought she would have Angela.  She did look a bit disappointed, though.

My children have names which I liked - my daughter has a very unusual name of Italian derivation -
Alessia - and though she once said that she didn't like it, now she really enjoys it being uncommon.
 

[Finley 1]

One of my daughters refuses to use her given name... but thats her choice... dont know why???

the name I chose was Suzanne... I still quite like it, but the name we are given is not the one we have to live by... I prefer to use the name I chose for myself as well.. But I love the name my father chose.. Mom wanted Pauline.. but Dad decided - and that makes it special to me.

I imagine it is who you know who has the name... I am often influenced by people with the name, as to whether I like the name or not..  depending on the character of the person...

jumbled up post.. sorry brain non functiona..

  as per
XINIA