Do you know any interesting stories of naming children?
The events can be of naming your own children or those of other people.
About a week before our last child was due, my then wife and I realized we had not really talked seriously about names. I had a flash of inspiration and opened my copy of The Iliad to a random page. There were only two names on it. Thank heavens the child turned out to be a girl. If she had been a boy, we would have been “stuck” with Hector, which did not appeal to us at all. The girl’s name on the page was much more to our liking.
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My mother picked my first and middle name out of a newspaper announcing local births. Not sure how interesting that is.
My husband’s middle name is Craig. His mother wanted it to be Gregory, but his father went against her wishes. She called him by her preferred name until he was an adult. Now, most of his family has no clue what his middle name really is.
My Mother named me “Lon”. asked her why Lon? And she said that she couldn’t remember. HA!
I am named after Bob Dylan’s version of a song. My middle name is after a model my dad liked.
My mom named me for the month I was conceived because it was a magical time for her.
When I was expecting my daughter, we had decided on the name Emily. After she was born, we agreed that she just was not an Emily, and had to pick another name. Ok, maybe not all that interesting…
How about this fuel for controversy?
@ccrow, that’s exactly why I wasn’t named Sylvia.
I read of a girl baby being named Female (Fem-a-lee) because that’s what it said on her birth certificate. Told as true, but it may just be an old joke.
@Sunny2 Is that like the woman who had fraternal twins, a boy and a girl. She left it up to her brother to have them christened:
When he brought them back she asked what he had named them.
He said he had named the little girl Denise.
When asked about the little boy, he looked quizzical and answered “Denephew”.
Ba-ding!
I can’t find it now, but I recently read a news report containing some stats about how many babies born in the past year (perhaps in the U.K.?) had been named Noun, Verb, Comma, and, I think, even one Semicolon.
I promise you, I didn’t do it.
My daughter came perilously close to being named Strawberry Pitaya and my son Ernst Tinaja. Fortunately for them we were not hip enough.
I love your story, @Hawaii_Jake!
My mother’s first and middle names: Elizabeth Antonette. Mine: Lisa Anne. She swears she never saw the connection (just in case you don’t see it, either, my names are nicknames of her names) until I commented on it when I was a teenager.
My first daughter is named after the mermaid in the movie “Splash”. My middle daughter has an uncommon middle name: Yorke. When we were getting ready to have our third daughter, we wracked our brains trying to come up with a name we liked, getting nowhere. We finally found it in a Walmart ad, of all places.
@augustlan, that makes me think of a woman I met briefly along with her daughter. The woman’s name was Ina (pronounced eye-na), and her daughter was Sheena. I immediately heard “I” and “she,” and indeed there did seem to be a too-close bond between the two, which I doubt she ever intended to reveal by her choice of name.
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