RodeoSchro said:

shorttrini said:

My mom did not name me, a nun did. To make a long story short, I was very sick as a child and the doctor's did not know, if I was going to make it. I was born in a nursing home, that was run by nuns. It was one of those nuns, who named me Michael, after the arch angel. I found out years later that, my birthday, (Sept 29th) is "The Feast Of St. Michael's" day. He was a fighter so, and my mom says that I fought like hell to live. I guess the nun, knew what she was doing. My mom was going to name me, Keith after an actor that she liked named, Brian Keith. She said that she named my older brother, Brian and was going to name me, Keith...THANK GOD!, the nun beat her to it....

Oh man, that is an AWESOME story!

Thanks!

My parents made it up ~ they wanted something very unique

Boy did they get it !

Mach said:

My parents made it up ~ they wanted something very unique

Boy did they get it !

Actually, one of my daughter's good friends had your name...spelled differently through.

ZombieKitten said:

Shortrini's story reminds me that for the first 3 months of my life I had no name! On my birth certificate it says "no name given" What happened was that I was born in Stockholm while my dad was in his final exams in Freiburg. My mum wanted my dad to meet me before they decided on my name together. She developed peritonitis so we lived in the hospital for a couple of months and the nurses all called me "dockan" the doll. My mums infection was massive and she nearly died as they tried one antibiotic after another

WOW! and like me, both you and your mom were destined to be here...

I was born in Kittery, Maine in a blinding blizzard. My mother almost didn't make it to the Naval base hospital. She said she wished it was spring so badly she named me April. As for my middle name, Celeste, my dad was Catholic so I was named after St. Celeste.

my first name is the same as my uncle. he passed away way before he should of, and my mom wanted to honor him. and my middle name is my aunt's middle name as well.

My mom always liked the name Stephanie and my middle name Celestine was after my great aunt who died the day I was born in the same hospital.

nammie said:

My mom always liked the name Stephanie and my middle name Celestine was after my great aunt who died the day I was born in the same hospital.

I love it...but I am partial. It's close to mine.

noimageatall said:

nammie said:

My mom always liked the name Stephanie and my middle name Celestine was after my great aunt who died the day I was born in the same hospital.

I love it...but I am partial. It's close to mine.

I go by Celestine, more often than not people call me Celeste. I Love both names

nammie said:

noimageatall said:

I love it...but I am partial. It's close to mine.

I go by Celestine, more often than not people call me Celeste. I Love both names

Celestine is very pretty!

my day of birth named me different from what was planned..tho named after my grandma.. my middle name is elizabeth, as her first name is..i was (first) named patricia for missing st patricks day by 2.. hence the real 319. (patricia elizabeth) tho many nickenames...and they always celebrated my birthday on st patricks day.. until the year i turned 8.. i was in a foster home, and found out my real day of birth was the 19th of march not the 17th..

My mother had a good friend she was fascinated with because the friend was from Boston and white, my mother wanted her children to be very "American" so she let her American friend come up with a name for me.

Her friend named me Sandra....

now only me and about 20,000 other Latino women have my first and last name in the USA -Sandra Rodriguez.

paintedlady said:

My mother had a good friend she was fascinated with because the friend was from Boston and white, my mother wanted her children to be very "American" so she let her American friend come up with a name for me.

Her friend named me Sandra....

now only me and about 20,000 other Latino women have my first and last name in the USA -Sandra Rodriguez.

But YOU are more special-er...

noimageatall said:

paintedlady said:

My mother had a good friend she was fascinated with because the friend was from Boston and white, my mother wanted her children to be very "American" so she let her American friend come up with a name for me.

Her friend named me Sandra....

now only me and about 20,000 other Latino women have my first and last name in the USA -Sandra Rodriguez.

But YOU are more special-er...

There may be 20K other Sandra Rodriguez'eseseses in Amerida...but there's definitely only ONE paintedlady

I am not really sure. The story goes that she heard Poison Ivy on the radio the day I was born and another story goes she named me after the movie For the Love of Ivy. The only story I've heard about my middle name is I was named for Cesar Romero.

ZombieKitten said:

nammie said:

I go by Celestine, more often than not people call me Celeste. I Love both names

Celestine is very pretty!

Thank you

I'm a "flip-flop".

My first name is my dad's middle name and my middle name is my dad's first name.

PurpleJedi said:

noimageatall said:

But YOU are more special-er...

There may be 20K other Sandra Rodriguez'eseseses in Amerida...but there's definitely only ONE paintedlady

and make no mistake, that is EXACTLY how everyone I know (including myself at times) says my last name in plural form

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My parents could not agree over a name for me. My Maori father wanted to call me Waka Nathan after a famous All Black (Rugby Player), my White mother wanted to call me Timothy after the name of her stillborn brother. My Dad thought that name was too lilywhite and girly (Me too for that matter), and my mother did wanted me to be branded as an exotic marabou for the rest of my life. So they reached the more tame Maori name of Tane, which means god of the forest in Maori. My Dad was pleased as it happened the captain of the All Blacks at the time (1976) was called Tane Norton.

Needless to say I hate the name as its hard for people to pronounce and unfortunately has become a prefix for many ghetto names like Tanedra, Tanisha, Taneshiqua etc.

The name is also gender ambiguous (It may mean man, but there was a female Tane at my school and theres an actress in the USA called Tane McClure), and I am sure its one of the reasons I am passed over in job interviews. Plus I can't stand rugby.

My mother and my grandmother loved Andy Griffith.

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Mach said:

My parents made it up ~ they wanted something very unique

Boy did they get it !

That's interesting because I have known people with your name.

PurpleJedi said:

Mach said:

My parents made it up ~ they wanted something very unique

Boy did they get it !

Actually, one of my daughter's good friends had your name...spelled differently through.

Really ?

Pronounced as Ma_Shell_Lay ?

Cool !

JustErin said:

Mach said:

My parents made it up ~ they wanted something very unique

Boy did they get it !

That's interesting because I have known people with your name.

Cool ! With the same pronunciation ?

Mach said:

PurpleJedi said:

Actually, one of my daughter's good friends had your name...spelled differently through.

Really ?

Pronounced as Ma_Shell_Lay ?

Cool !

Oh...no. I wasn't aware that's how you pronounced it.

I assumed it was "mack-ale-ah"

My daughter's friend is McKayla

PurpleJedi said:

Mach said:

Really ?

Pronounced as Ma_Shell_Lay ?

Cool !

Oh...no. I wasn't aware that's how you pronounced it.

I assumed it was "mack-ale-ah"

My daughter's friend is McKayla

That's my God-daughter's name as well...The spelling is the same as above.

Mach said:

JustErin said:

That's interesting because I have known people with your name.

Cool ! With the same pronunciation ?

No, but spelled exactly the same way.

PurpleJedi said:

Mach said:

Really ?

Pronounced as Ma_Shell_Lay ?

Cool !

Oh...no. I wasn't aware that's how you pronounced it.

I assumed it was "mack-ale-ah"

My daughter's friend is McKayla

Almost everyone assumes that ... but No

always been pronounced Ma_Shell_Lay

JustErin said:

Mach said:

Cool ! With the same pronunciation ?

No, but spelled exactly the same way.

Oh I am certian !

There wernt many Machaela's in the mid 60's though