GIVEAWAY: The Story Behind Your Name

Our little man is named after his Great Grandpa, whom he has never met, but they share a strong bond. He was a Pearl Harbor survivor & one day we can hand down the actual shoes he wore as he swam to shore on that horrible but heroic day!

We found out at the end of May we are expecting our first child. When it came to baby names, we tossed around several ideas, but it came down to blending family names with special names from our past. For a girl, we picked Christine Rebecca in honor of my husband’s great grandma and my grandma who passed away right after we got engaged. The Christine also comes from one of my favorite broadway characters names (the phantom of the opera). For a boy we are thinking Thomas Randel in honor of a family name on my dad’s side and my husband’s middle name. Thomas also comes from both of us growing up as fans of mighty morphing power rangers thus the nickname would be Tommy. We look forward to our child falling asleep to music we loved.

My mom really liked the name Anastasia. She was super into the Tsar of Russia and the mystery behind his family’s execution and Anastasia’s alleged “escape” . . . So they chose Anastasia but in the end my mom figured it would be hard for me to spell haha so instead she named me Stacie Ann

I was named after my great grandpas nick name.His actual name was Hubert but everyone called him Sam. Samamtha isnt an unusual name but how I came to have the name is fun and different.

We couldn’t fully agree or commit to a name for our son who is now one. We both liked Lucas . Long story short Mick Jagger named his son Lucas and I thought well if it is cool enough for Mick,it’s cool enough for me. Haha and he totally rocks his name!!

Our son’s name is Halen, as in Eddie Van…the name came to us at a Van Halen concert in 2007…my wife and I were their with a friend, a huge Bob Dylan fan, who recently found out that they were having a boy…we were teasing him that their baby’s name would be Dylan…that got us talking about cool rock-n-roll baby names…as a joke, someone said “Halen”…it actually sounded awesome, so that was the name we chose when our son was born 3 yrs later. We are now expecting a little girl in September, and her name will be Hannah, after Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill.

I am named after my grandmother. It’s not an interesting story but I’m proud of my name as it’s quite unusual. Biggest problem is people thinking I’m called Louise!

My daughter, Hazel Yoshimi, was just born on 7/21/14 (what a luck birthday!). She’s named after my great grandmother Hazel and Yoshimi from the Flaming Lips album. My great grandmother was an amazing woman and Yoshimi saves the earth from the pink robots, so she’s named after two pretty big bad asses. :)

Our first child has the middle name Robin. My Aunt Robin had passed away a year before my wedding to my wife and My uncle Jim came to the wedding about a year after we found ou we we having a baby and decided on using Robin for the middle name if it was a boy. We were still well away from telling and I had a feelin I should tell my uncle we chose Robin…I called him and talked with him. he was over joyed. The next day he passed away….it was unexpected but we felt they were together talking about aus using the name…

Well, the story behind MY name (Christina) is fairly lack-luster. My mom just thought it sounded pretty.
But my DAUGHTER has a little more to it. I first saw “Caillean” as the name of a sweet yet strong character in a book I was reading in college and it stuck with me. I loved the sweet simplicity of “my precious girl” as aname. Even when I was in my “I never want kids!” phase, there was still the niggling in my mind of “but IF I were to have a daughter, I would name her Caillean.” I would regularly use the name for characters I created in D&D and video games. And then, when I got the surprise news that I would be having a baby in 4 weeks (yes… I had no clue I was pregnant until the end of my 3rd trimester)both my husband and I agreed that Caillean was a perfect handle for our little princess. I’m still convince we pronounce it wrong (it’s a name that was more or less dead for 500 years before recently resurgin in popularity) but that’s OK. It’s still as beautiful as our precious girl.

Because my parents liked it, blah!

Most people would think I’m named after Alexander the Great or something like that, but I am actually named after my mother’s pet squirrel, Alexander, who is named after Alexander the Great. >.<

I am named after my grandfather. My husband is named after his father and grandfather. Our son is named after his dad, grandpa, and great grandfather. Our daughter is a different story. We couldn’t agree on a name and went back and forth for weeks. Finally one night my husband suggested Laila. I liked it but I wasn’t for sure until I remember the Eric Clapton song, that sold it for me.

My son, Nathaniel, was named after Nathaniel Hawthorne – reason was at the time, my wife was working on her teaching masters degree, and she was just finishing up her thesis on Nathaniel Hawthorne when she found out she was pregnant. At that time, if it was a boy, we both decided that Nathaniel was going to be the name… if it was a girl, well… we might still be looking for names! :)

I was 8 days old and my parents didn’t know what to name me. My father took me over to introduce me to my uncle and he took one look at me and said “he looks like a Jesse”. 9 times out of 10 people spell it wrong (Jessie) or they say its sort for Jessica. I say to them “its like Jesse James”

Later I found out that my name is in the bible, “The Jesse Tree” known as the Tree of life. The tree from which all other life sprouted. The biblical meaning of my name is “God’s Gift”

I can live with that.

My name was partially from my grandfather and father(David) and Daniel was biblical…

I was named after the eldest daughter Tzeitel from the Play/movie Fiddler on the Roof. My parents really loved the movie and the name but when it came time to naming me they had forgotten how it was spelled, so Dad just came up with the spelling that sounded similar. I like the name however not many people know how to pronounce it correctly! ( Si-dul)

I’m going to be honest here, my mom was a hippie. She wanted me to have the most original name she could think of, giving no thought to how many times in my life I will have to tell this story. The winning name was Taymerai (tae-mer-ay). Oddly enough, the doctor that delivered me happened to know a meaning, he said it was Polynesian for love song. Although I haven’t been able to confirm if that is true. What I do know is if you punch my first name into Google I am the only thing that comes up. Which is rather creepy if you think about it.

I was always a fan of name songs. I always wanted there to be a song with “Teresa” in it.Anyway, when I was pregnant with my first child, I listened to every name song I could find. Her name is Sarah (“Sarah Smile” by Hall & Oates) Elizabeth (“Beth” by KISS). I did the same with my younger daughter. She is Melissa (“Sweet Melissa”by the Allman Brothers)Noelle. She’s my Christmas baby !

As a kid, my mom was friends with two sisters. They used to argue about about who would name their daughters after who. So I was the first daughter born. My mom named me after both. Sarah & Beth hence Sarah-Beth (hyphen creates crazy issues with vital records, motor vehicle, and social security)

My mom heard the name Jessica after Jessica Lange (the actress from Tootsie and American Horror Story). She thought it was a pretty name and hadn’t heard that name anywhere else. Of course after she named me that EVERYONE born in the 80’s was named Jessica!

My mom couldn’t come up with a name for me until one night she had a dream about a little girl named Renee. At least that’s the story she tells me.

We named our baby boy Rohan after the Kingdom of Rohan in Lord of the Rings. Both his parents are proud geeks and here’s hoping he’ll turn out to be one too :) In case he doesn’t and he hates his name, he has a normal middle name, James. A good back up we thought!!

I was named after the female gelfling in the dark crystal, my father wanted to call me Zara Zinya after some 80’s chick in a movie, my mam wanted kira from the dark crystal, so they finally decided on that and then put their own spin on it, but spelling it keira :-) and I absolutely love it x

My son, Luca Falkor is named after the movies The Godfather (Luca Brasi) and The NeverEnding Story (Falkor the Luck Dragon.) My daughter Prudence Moon was named after the infamous Beatles song and the movie The NeverEnding Story (The childlike empress, MoonChild.) I think those are more than enough reasons for me to win.

My mom had seen a psychic for years and everything the psychic predicted had happened. Except when I was born a girl. Trying to figure out a name while playing her mandolin, it came to her. My name is Amanda Lynn.

Just in time! My parents just picked mine out of a baby book. Matthew means gift from God and they liked it. However, my parents gave all of my siblings and me middle names with vowels so our initials all spelled little words.

My name was originally Nicole but with my dad’s accent it came out “nickel” so it was changed to Abbie from Knots Landing.

My Mom was at the mall, walking around, when she started to go into labor. A kind older lady helped her call for a ride to the hospital, and as she was leaving the lady said, “I hope your baby has a beautiful destiny.” And so, Destiny it was!

I was literally born to shop. Lol