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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 8:14 am
My mom's favorite color is Kelly Green. My uncle said (back in the 70s) something about it being such a generic name, and so she changed a few letters, and it ended up as Kali. Years later, we find that my name is the Hindu Goddess of Destruction and Rejuvenation. 1st middle name is my grandfather's name, in the girl version. 2nd middle name is my great-grandmothers name.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 8:47 am
Yes, Mary for the Blessed Virgin Mary (no comments please) and Helen for my mother's name.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 8:47 am
I'll be kind to my (estranged) father and say he had a thing for unusual names. He suggested a few names for me and insisted my mother choose among them. (A trait that led to their divorce.) Here were the names he picked: Lackawanna (after a RR nearby) Mercedes (more common for girls, but still . . .) and Dale (just cuz he liked it; have NO idea why) So my dear Mom chose Dale, the least offensive in her mind. But to feminize it a bit, she added a particularly frilly middle name I am only revealing because it underscores my parents' madness: Victoria. The two names do not go together! And together with my last name, Weiss, well, it was pure disaster. Never mind that my one-syllable first name was an easy rhyme for kids at school or that it had all the flair and charm of a pig pen. Sigh. I guess I should be thankful I am not Lackawanna, huh? I'd have hated Mercedes, too. (I dislike names that are shortened badly. Mercy? Uh-uh.) But, to this day, when my dh wants to tease me, he utters my name in a 2-syllable, West Virginia twang style. With that, I feel I am automatically tranformed into someone wearing boots thick with mud or pig poop. (Apologies to WVA residents and Skootzy's dh.) Sigh.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 8:49 am
It was either Courtney, Sidney, or Schelli with the unique spelling. I liked neither.
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 9:26 am
They just needed another girl "D" name as they named all 6 of us with "D" names. I named my youngest after the weather in Oregon but spelled it a little different- Rainie - I was living in Okla and missing Oregon.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 9:50 am
you just had to ask that one lori, didn't ya??? okay... here goes my name is Landileigh Lee Maria Theresa Angelina diMilani James-Pastorini Nelson Landileigh: Landi is my great grandmother's mother's last name. my mother added on "leigh" to make it feminine and it came from her liking Janet Leigh the actress. Lee: I got stuck with this one when i was 16 as we found out when i went to get my driver's license permit that when my mother was telling the people my name they had written it down as "Landi Lee" not "Landileigh" and so we went and petitioned the court to get it fixed, and he said it would be easier to just fix the one name. so this one stuck. Maria Theresa Angelina: Mother Mary of the Angels to guide and watch over you. All of the women from my great-grandmother to me (I discontinued this practice with my own daughter) were given this. diMilani: my Great Grandmother's last name and the family name as it was the first family of Milan. (I am Milanese by birth) James-Pastorini: my father's last name and my mother's last name. i was the only child with a hyphenated last name growing up. what a pain in the ass! Nelson: my husband's last name. sure makes life easy! and that is why my friends call me Gidget. <smile>
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 9:55 am
Well I was supposed to be Carrie til I popped out with Rondald McDonald orange hair. Mom said she had visions of teasing and nicknames like carrot top and went with Sandy, not Sandra instead. Ok, so the flaming red hair, freckles, and speech impediment occassionally made me a target for teasing anyways, but I was spared the carrot top nickname, LOL!
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 10:10 am
Lets see, by the time I can around my folks were pretty much out of names, so they asked my uncle what he thought was a good name, his response was his sow just had a litter and the one they were keeping was going to be named fred, so my folks figured that was a fitting name for me.
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 10:13 am
I was named after figure skater Barbara Ann(e) Scott.
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 10:25 am
Yay Landi! I was anxiously awaiting you today! 
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 10:31 am
My greatgrandmother's name was Mary Louise, my Grandmother's name is also Mary Louise, but she went by Louise. She named her daughter Mary Lou, probably so as not to be so confusing. When she was a toddler Mary Lou was standing in the kitchen next to the stove near her mother. At the nearby mine, iron ore cars collided with such intensity that it shook the house. The coffee pot tipped over, scalding Mary Lou. She died a few days later. I was named after her. Wink! I love that you were named after a figure skater. When my first daughter was born I got to choose her name. I named her Karen after Karen Carpenter, Karen Valentine, and Canadian figure skater Karen Magnuson. My second daughter was born on the day Dorothy Hamil won her gold medal. I wanted to name the baby Dorothy in her honor, but it was hubby's turn to name the child. She is forever grateful to him!
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Adven
Member
02-06-2001
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 10:51 am
Wanting a girl, my parents intended to name me April Fern. Had we been plants or paint colors, this would have been acceptable. When I turned out to be male - all male, ladies <wink, wink, leer, leer> - my mother disgruntledly went with the first boy's name she thought of. My father wanted to stick with April Fern thinking it would help me build character on the schoolyard.
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 11:05 am

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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 11:21 am
From what I understand my name was picked out a book of names. At the time there were very few Nicole's around. My middle name is the same as my mother's.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 11:27 am
Adven, my son's middle name is Alan. I like the name! But the endless needling starts now, you know that don't you? 
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 11:31 am
Adven, I see you more as a May Cactus.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 12:04 pm
My first name came from my grandma, who was named after her mother and her mother before her and so on. It goes back a long way. My second name, which is the name I have always been called, came from my aunt. I usually go by the nickname for my name, as I don't like the "plain" version of it..LOL
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 12:09 pm
hey, landi, i am a nelson by birth! maybe your dh is related to me in some way????
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Lobster
Member
04-13-2001
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 12:47 pm
Hukd! You're not gonna believe this! LOL My legal name is Lorraine, after my mother, but I've been called Lori my whole life.
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Irishtxgrl
Member
12-07-2005
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 1:33 pm
Well it was the 70's and I was originally gonna be named April Dawn which sounds like a dish soap or Melody Star which sounds like a porn star but I was given Heather (flower in scotland since we are scotch irish) and Ann for a middle name after my mother's bestfriends' middle name and her mother's middle name.
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 3:19 pm
my middle name is the same as my aunt's.
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Shadoe
Member
11-04-2004
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 3:19 pm
I can explain my middle name. I was named Gail but that form would be tough to shorten so they changed the spelling to Gayle, just in case I wanted a short form and could go with Gay. My middle name is Susan because with my relatives being in the Ukraine, my grandmother needed something to call me when she wrote to them and there is no such name as Gayle. That's how I got the Susan one. Any relatives I have in the Ukraine know me as Susan.
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 3:43 pm
My aunt choose my first name, Sherry and my middle name is the same as my dad, except spelled different. Gene and Jean.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 4:06 pm
so, is kaili pronounced 'kylie' or 'kaylee'? one of my sister's 5 husbands was named kai, but it was pronounced to rhyme with 'sky'. i have always said, "kaylee" in my head when i read kaili's posts! correct me as needed. i was named for my grandmother's best friend in ireland. now there are zillions of michaela's although most of them sound it out and it looks hawaiian "makayla". well, i pronounce mine with a short "i", so it's like "mick-ay-la", accent onthe middle syllable, not "muh-kay-la". the marie as a middle name is because my parents liked the flow, i guess!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 4:12 pm
herck, if your name was A. dale Weiss, it would make a cool song! mamie, i swear my dh worked with a gal named virgin mary alotta. now, you either are or aren't a virgin, as far as i know. how can you be 'a lot of' virgin?
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