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Sad but true, I was called Wendy after Peter Pans sidekick Wendy. Got my mom to blame for that one! To think my dad wanted to call me Jackie.

bec, try these names............from 1881 census, The Diamond family..............from my town James Diamond..........65....miner Ann .. 58 Napolean..................28..........miner Constantine.................20........miner Hannibal.......................18...........clogger Julius Caesar................14............clogger ------------------------------------------ I bet they got in some fights !! poor sods

Cos they had no imagination lol

Nobody ever wrote a song entitled 'Dierdre' :*((( Dee x

Have not a clue why I was named Margaret my second name Mary was after my g/grandmother and Audrey was after my mum so my name Margaret Mary Audrey. Margaret

I wasn't named after anybody in the family, but a great aunt of mine thought I was named after her as we shared the same 1st name of Sarah. I've since found out, with doing my family tree, that I have ancesters who also had my first & middle names. Sarah, xxx

I was named after Carolyn Jones, the actress who used to play Morticia (?) in the original Adams Family. Apparently, my mum saw her name go up on the credits and decided that was what she would call me. Carolyn

my parents could not agree on a name for me to save their live, so one nite in the pub, the song Claire by Gilbert O Whathisface came on any my *lovely* uncle mick said 'What about Claire' and that was that! and of course whenever I meet someone new they think they're ever so funny by singing the bloody song like they're the first one to do it! GGRRRRRR!!! c x

I named my son after a character on TV. I had decided on a girls name whilst pregnant but couldn't decide on a boys. Stood watching an Australian soap and in walked a character Curtis ... I just happen to make a remark ' thats different ' and his Dad says ' yeah I like that ' ... then I realised that my favourite Great Aunt Joyce was Joyce Curtis, so I agreed immediately to name a boy Curtis James (James being my Grandad ... and my partners name as well) ...Then I couldn't be bothered to keep saying Curtis all the time, so from the day he was born he's been called CJ. !! Elaine :-)

My mother liked the name Cherry until she met my father who had the last name 'Stone'!! I'm Felicity because she liked it, Margaret after her (that might have been my father's suggestion) and Mulhern because that was her mother's maiden name and then Stone. Quite a mouthful!

I was named after my Granny.. Marion Scoular Lockhart. When I started to do my tree, I decided I would do it till I found out where the middle names came from. I have found the Scoular.. it was my 3xg Granny who was.. Marion Scoular. I am still working on other names lol. I now wish I had given my kid's some family names,how sad is that? lol Marion :))

my dad named me kathleen as he was forever singing the song i'll take you home again kathleen according to my mum suppose should be grateful it wasn't daisy or ramona or something kath west

Hi again Dee, I hated my name as a child but quite like it now. Your mention of typist initial troubles reminded me of my very best friend who died some time ago through breast cancer. Her name was Patricia, known as Pat. Her second name was Ann & her last name began with a T, she was always getting told off for putting her name. She also without thinking embroidered the back pockets of a pair of jeans with her & her husbands names! lol Vivienne

I was supposed to have been Jennifer Maud - Maud was my paternal grandmother's middle name, don't know where the Jennifer came from, haven't discovered one so far in my research. This would have been my father's choice, but Mum decided she couldn't let me go through life with that, so, because a registrar visited the maternity hospital where I was born she shuffled off down to see him. Mum had been reading a magazine story with a character called Lisa in it. She thought it sounded nice in combination with Jane, but not wanting me to be a plain Jane, stuck a 'y' in the middle of it, hence I'm Lisa Jayne!

My mother wanted to call me Angela until she found out that every other baby in the maternity hospital was called Angela. So she decided on Jessica, which my father didn't like. She also wasn't sure about it being shortened to Jessy. So my dad chose Helen and my middle name, Ruth, was after my mum, although it was also my dad's grandmother's name. They thought Helen was a good name and not very popular, though as you can see on these boards there are lots of Helens. I once worked in an office with 3 other Helens. As I had started there first I was called Helen and the others all had nicknames! nell

Hi Bec - interesting question! My birth name was Suzanne, a name which I like. However, because birth mother didn't want to keep me, she didn't bother giving me a middle name. Adoptive parents were encouraged to choose new names - new start etc - and I actually agree with that. I was then called Mandy Denise. Was going to be Amanda Jane but Mum thought that Amanda would get shortened to Mandy anyway, and my grandma said that my Dad should get to choose a name lol. So he chose Denise which sort of went better with Mandy than Amanda. Now guess what? Yep - Mandy often gets lengthened to Amanda!! Mandy :) xx

Susan Louise - Susan because they believed neither side of the family could claim it as 'their' family name and Louise after an intrepid Frenchwoman they knew! Since researching my family tree I've discovered that Susan and Susannah appear in every family of every generation on my paternal grandmother's side since at least 1670. So they got that one wrong didn't they? Really like the idea of living up to the intrepid Frenchwoman though! Daisy (whose name, for those of you who didn't know it, is not Daisy! lol)

I forgive you Vivienne...but how I would have liked a name like yours - or Madeleine - or any name remotely pleasant!! I suppose the only good thing about it is my christian and maiden names are quite a unique combination, and people on Friends Reunited instantly remember me! 'Spose it'll come in handy for any future family historian to track me too! Another problem was my initials - in my secretarial days it was the practice to reference a letter with the typists intials followed by a slash and the initials of the person whom the letter was from. My initials (my middle name is Ann) were therefore DAF. On those occasions when I made some typographical error on a letter, my boss would send the thing back for retyping with a flippin great T inked in after my intials!! Perhaps we should start another thread, on the subject of what do your initials spell out??? Dee x

I was apparently going to be Belinda Kaye, but my Father preferred it the other way around. He also decided to put the 'e' on the end of Kay - just because he thought it looked nicer! Kaye x

My mother is Scottish so I was names after her mother Jeanie McDougall Brewerton. I still get people saying 'Don't you mean Jean?' or 'Isn't that rather childish?' If I had been named after my fathers mother I would have been Ethel Wilkes Brewerton, so it was a bit of an escape!!