Kind of a long story: My name is Emma Louise. My mom has loved my name since she was a little girl. She named every doll she had growing up Emma lol. And in college she even named her pet rat Emma. My great grandmother was named Emma Louise (however, her dad hated that name so he called her Peggy and it stuck lol). She was an incredibly strong, intelligent woman that broke gender norms at the time. So I’m named after her. I’m also named after my great aunt who passed away as a child who was named Louise. Plus Louise has been passed down to every girl in my family since. So basically my name is just a huge family name.
My dad didn’t really have a say when it came to naming me. As soon as my mom found out I was a girl she had already named me.
It was just a huge bonus that my name has a cool meaning (universal, renowned warrior)
My brother really wanted to name me [name_f]Emily[/name_f] after a girl in his class he had a crush on! He refused to call me by my real name until I was about 6 months old!
My great grandfather, [name_u]Sol[/name_u], passed away shortly before I was born. In the Jewish tradition, parents are supposed to use the first initial of deceased loved ones to name their children. [name_f]My[/name_f] parents were all set to name me [name_f]Stephanie[/name_f]. [name_f]My[/name_f] mom had serious name doubt, & didn’t even like [name_f]Stephanie[/name_f]. And she thought that it was too hard to say & spell. At the last minute, she justified MicheLLe honorning [name_u]Sol[/name_u]. That’s the name that she really loved. Because she likes [name_u]French[/name_u] & is a huge Beatles fan. [name_f]My[/name_f] middle name, [name_f]Renee[/name_f], is after my great grandma, [name_f]Rose[/name_f].
My parents have extremely different name styles so they picked the only girls’ name they both loved. [name_f]My[/name_f] dad liked it in part because it was the name of his childhood next door neighbor and playmate: I wasn’t really named after her, but it was a positive association. (I actually found an old story he’d written in high school while we were going through his pack rat hoard in the attic a couple years ago featuring a character named [name_f]Julia[/name_f], so it seems like he always was drawn to the name, which is sweet). [name_f]My[/name_f] middle name is after my mom’s deceased older sister who died in a car accident when they were teenagers.
My name was one of the only names my parents could agree on that they both liked. However, my mum thought adding a double letter would be a lot better, I have to agree. Same with my middle name, my parents liked the name, my mum changed it from the traditional spelling (which puts a slightly different emphasis in pronunciation) and it flowed well altogether. At the time they did not know that my first name was my cousin’s middle name. And a few years after I was born, a second cousin of mine, was given my middle name as her first name.
My paternal grandmother died while my mom was pregnant with me and her middle name is now my first name it makes me feel close to her even though I’ve never met her. [name_f]My[/name_f] middle name was just a name that my parents liked.
My family just liked my dead first name, dead MN #1 id the feminine form of my uncle’s name & my dad liked the grounded feel, dead mn #2 is H0p3 because my dad was really sick at the time he had me.
Well, my dad had been married once before my mom. His wife was much older and had kids already. Anyways, by the time I was born, my dad’s first wife (she passed away while they were married) had a granddaughter named [name_f]Jennifer[/name_f]. So my mom first heard the name [name_f]Jennifer[/name_f] from this girl who they went to visit one time in [name_u]Texas[/name_u]. [name_f]My[/name_f] middle name is [name_u]Lynn[/name_u], which was my mom’s middle name.
I don’t know where my middle brother’s first or middle came from, but my youngest brother’s middle name is [name_m]Alan[/name_m], after one of my dad’s good friends from elementary school.
My mum liked to watch The Waltons and loved the name [name_f]Erin[/name_f] from there. But she was following a Y theme so changed [name_f]Erin[/name_f] to [name_f]Eryn[/name_f]. [name_f]My[/name_f] middle name is after my mum’s grandmother. I was meant to be [name_f]Jasmyn[/name_f] though, but I supposedly didn’t look like one. So they used the ‘back up name.’
My mom used names she liked for first names, but with my older sister, she found out after the birth that the name ([name_f]Stephanie[/name_f]) had become very popular that year. When I came around, she liked another name that was rising in popularity so she looked in a name book and found a close alternative. Now I am cursed to forever gently remind the world that I am [name_f]Kirstin[/name_f] not [name_f]Kristen[/name_f].
My mom did not like that there was no meaning behind her name so she gave my sister her sister’s middle name, and I have my mom’s middle name. I don’t think that ever felt very meaningful to us because my mom isn’t very close with her sister, and she doesn’t even like the middle name she passed on to me😆 it’s been on the list for my kiddos, but it sounded like a mouth full with my daughter’s name and a little too southern-general with my son’s. It’s on the shelf for now.
I had no name until I was 12 days old. If I remember right, they were certain I was gonna be a boy, and then I wasn’t. They called me dandelion in that time, because I had a tuft of red hair that stuck straight up. Anyway, as a late [name_u]Valentine[/name_u]'s day present, my dad brought home a basket of [name_f]Violet[/name_f] candies and Violets. They couldn’t believe how perfect it was.
I might be a little late to this but my name is Vered Eliana Magnolia. Rose is my dads grandmothers name and he was very close to her. Rose in Hebrew is Vered so that’s how I got my first name. My mom wanted my middle name to be Sugar Magnolia after the Grateful Dead song but my dad decided against it and shortened it to Magnolia. Eliana is my Hebrew name although it was only ever used at my bat mitzvah
My brothers name is Judah Dov. Judah after the twelve tribes of Israel and Dov means bear.
Not pronounced like “Dove” it’s pronounced like “Dough-ve”
[name_f]My[/name_f] mom and dad were originally going to name me either [name_f]Ana[/name_f] (my dad liked this name) or [name_f]Hana[/name_f] (after a place in [name_u]Hawaii[/name_u] called [name_f]Hana[/name_f] that they went to for their honeymoon before I was born). In the end, my mom decided to use the first two letters of my dads name - Mi, and the first two letters of her name Na - to form the name [name_f]Mina[/name_f] together. She wanted my name to honor both my dad and her, so using the first two letters of their names together was to show I’ll always be a part of my parents, and symbolizing togetherness from what my mom told me :)) as well as a way to honor my Serbian heritage as both my parents are from Serbia. for clarification, my dads name is Milija and my moms name is [name_f]Nada[/name_f] :)))
Years ago, my mom showed me a list of all the names they were thinking of naming me. They eventually chose [name_u]Riley[/name_u]! I was almost named [name_u]Avery[/name_u], [name_u]Addison[/name_u], [name_f]Ella[/name_f], and a few other things. For the middle name, they went through the list and picked the name that flowed the best. That’s how I became [name_u]Riley[/name_u] [name_u]Addison[/name_u]!
[name_f]My[/name_f] middle name, [name_f]Renee[/name_f], is after my great grandma, [name_f]Rose[/name_f].
