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Topic Started: Jul 27 2006, 11:32 PM (853 Views)
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OK, Discussion about Olen's middle name inspired me to make this thread. Do you like your name? If you could change it, what would you change it to? Whats the heritage of your surname? Do you have any nicknames? Do you have any names in mind for future kids? Why did you name your kids with that particular name?

Discuss NAMES here..

As you guys know, My names pronounced the same as "Emily" but my parents decided to substitute the Y with EE. This might've been cause my mums name is Lee, but im not entirely sure.

My surname is McDermott, which is of Irish heritage B) I sometimes get Macca as a nickname, but only by certain people - and when im playing sport :P
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Interesting thread!

As most know, I am Fiona. My first and last name are Scottish and there are still some people who have never heard the name 'Fiona' over in America but the release of Shrek resolved most of that! :P My dad was from Scotland and my mother really liked the name of the host of NPR's The Thistle & Shamrock - Fiona Ritchie - so that was that! However, if I was to end up a boy she wanted to call me Tyree! :o I do hope no one here is called that because I am very glad I am a girl for that reason. (And the fact that getting a date from Andy would've been hell.)

But anyway, I'm pretty happy with my name and I still have no ideas for what I would like to call my children. Nothing I hear seems quite right, but I think I have plenty of time to sit on that one. ^_^
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My name is Barbara Ann.....pretty much reflects the decade in which I was born. :)

There are better names, but I'm sort of used to it and besides, my Pop named me and he was a hell of a guy!

Family nicknames for me have always been MotorMouth, Babs, Barbie, and Bobbie.

Bar names include Roxy, Lola, and Stella.

Road name is Thelma.

My kids call me Mombo.

And everyone knows me as BeatleBarb. :D
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I quite like my name. I was very nearly called Christopher (I would have been if it had have been up to my Mother) and I'm very glad I wasn't because there were two Christophers at my school and they were both very nasty bullies also, later in life, a woman I was once very close to got raped by a guy called Chris. Apologies to anyone called or related to a Christopher, but I just don't like the name.

The reason I was called Andrew was because my Dad didn't like Christopher that much and was hesitant enough to ask the midwife what she thought. Her reply was that I "looked like a little Andy-Pandy" and so they called me Andrew. :P

My first name is Scottish, my middle name is Welsh and my surname is Irish... and I'm English. Go figure. :D
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Jul 28 2006, 01:00 AM
However, if I was to end up a boy she wanted to call me Tyree! :o I do hope no one here is called that because I am very glad I am a girl for that reason. (And the fact that getting a date from Andy would've been hell.)

I'm very glad you weren't a boy either. Tyree... when I first heard that you were going to be called that if you were a boy, it conjured up images of some kind of bowel disease.

"Sorry boss, I can't come to work today... yup, I've got a really horrible case of Tyree... haven't been off the toilet all night..." :P

Again apologies to anyone called or who knows anyone (they like) called Tyree. ^_^
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My first name's Thomas. I have no problem with that. Lots of great people called Tom - Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, Thomas the Tank Engine. My middle name's Karl, which is traditionally my family's name for the oldest brother's oldest son. I broke the chain, but that's what my son's going to be called if (God forbid) I ever have children. :P ^_^ My last name gets misspelled a lot, which is a little grating, but I can live with it. All in all, the moniker with which I got stuck with in this life hasn't displeased me too much over the years. B)
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You all know me as Clare, which gets mis-spelled more times then you'd think. I get Claire, Clair, Clear and once I got Klare! How difficult is it - seriously?? My name is of Welsh origin, and means "Bright and clear".

My middle name is Elizabeth, which is the same name as every second woman I run across. Booooring.

My surname originated in Yorkshire, and was originally a male Christian name. I hate having to constantly spell out my last name and am in the middle of legally shortening it to Dale.

If I had been a boy, I would have been Paul. Half my luck!
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Jul 28 2006, 10:00 AM
Interesting thread!

As most know, I am Fiona. My first and last name are Scottish and there are still some people who have never heard the name 'Fiona' over in America but the release of Shrek resolved most of that! :P My dad was from Scotland and my mother really liked the name of the host of NPR's The Thistle & Shamrock - Fiona Ritchie - so that was that! However, if I was to end up a boy she wanted to call me Tyree! :o I do hope no one here is called that because I am very glad I am a girl for that reason. (And the fact that getting a date from Andy would've been hell.)

But anyway, I'm pretty happy with my name and I still have no ideas for what I would like to call my children. Nothing I hear seems quite right, but I think I have plenty of time to sit on that one. ^_^

Cool. I think I was going to be either James (the name of my younger brother) or Brian if I was a boy - so i guess thats not too bad. I friend of mine was going to be named Bernard if she was a boy... So I guess its a good thing she's a Caitlin.
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Jul 28 2006, 01:56 PM
My name is Barbara Ann.....pretty much reflects the decade in which I was born. :)

There are better names, but I'm sort of used to it and besides, my Pop named me and he was a hell of a guy!

Family nicknames for me have always been MotorMouth, Babs, Barbie, and Bobbie.

Bar names include Roxy, Lola, and Stella.

Road name is Thelma.

My kids call me Mombo.

And everyone knows me as BeatleBarb. :D

A friend of mine's name is Ellen and her family nickname is Smellbucket :lol:
I wished I could save her in some sort of time machine.
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Jul 28 2006, 06:22 AM

My middle name is Elizabeth, which is the same name as every second woman I run across. Booooring.


My name is Sher. ( Suprise, Suprise)

I like it. It has obnoxious points. . . like "Sher Bear!" Or people who ask where Sonny is. (acutally I had a friend named Sonny for a while and we tried to get him to start spelling it Chonny. . . but he wouldn't go for it).

There are 47 other people in the phonebook with my last name, and I'm not related to any of them, however, I still love it.
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Being born in an Irish Catholic family, I got a very popular Irish name for a girl, sadly but also luckily, only really popular in Ireland and the UK. My full name is Bridget Mary Butler, how more Irish can you get!! Bridget comes from St Brigid, the female patron saint of Ireland, and Mary is my maternal grandmother's first name. My mother choosed to give me Mary as my middle to make up the fact she named me Bridget to her mother. Turns out my grandmother abosutely hated my name because my grandfather had a girlfriend before grandma named Bridget and wanted to name my mom Bridget. A shame he never knew that he's a got a granddaughter with the name he so wanted in the family! And yes, in the whole family of Irish nuts, I am the only Bridget! I love my name, it's unusal in the States, though everyone butchers it when they spell it and annoys the hell out of me (but there was one teacher I had who spelt Brigid all the time, I never corrected her because I loved that spelling!). I'm just glad I didn't get named after a county like my sister! Her name's Kerry and when I was little, to annoy her, I'd yell, "Hey County Kerry!"

Had I or my sister been a boy, one of us would of carried on the family name, Francis Xaiver. Soooooo glad we weren't boys! One of us would of been the fourth one in the family to carried it, being it's our great grandfather's, grandfather's, and father's name. Like my mom said to us, "oh there was no dissucion when it came to a boy's name, you were going to be Francis Xaiver IV, and that was it." That also meant the horrible nickname that my grandfather and my father had growing up would of been passed down, Mickey. I asked my dad as a kid if it was from Mickey Mantel and my dad's love of the Yankees, he said he wished. As I grew older, I saw it was from Mick, the slang for Irish and hated it ever since.
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My name is Danielle but most people call me Dani.Whats worrying about my name is technically I was named after my mum's dog Danny,but oh well.
Initially I was meant to be called Natasha but a few days before I was born my mum was watching the TV and saw a horrible women who was called Natasha so they had nothing for me as she changed her mind(my little sister later got given the name).When I was born dad suggested Guenivere :whistle: but now claims it was just to annoy my mum and granny.I dont think he got much say actually :lol:

My last name is more interesting because its a Scottish name.It is never spelt correctly, actually when I moved to England it was a nightmare trying to spell it because they couldnt understand me either so couldnt win at all.
Anyway my family name is part of the Campbell of Cawdor clan and we have our very own tartin and the normal clan things

I appear to have loads of nicknames but the most common is Doodle,why I dont actually know.There was a time when it was Doodlebugsnuff but discovered that a Doodlebug was a slang term for a flying bomb so didnt sound to cool and the snuff part is from the Beach Boys song Heros and villians.
Although the Doodle is slowly converting into Diddle as a result of the Paul McCartney song Hey Diddle
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Jul 28 2006, 12:50 PM
My name is Danielle but most people call me Dani.Whats worrying about my name is technically I was named after my mum's dog Danny,but oh well.
Initially I was meant to be called Natasha but a few days before I was born my mum was watching the TV and saw a horrible women who was called Natasha so they had nothing for me as she changed her mind(my little sister later got given the name).When I was born dad suggested Guenivere :whistle: but now claims it was just to annoy my mum and granny.I dont think he got much say actually :lol:

My last name is more interesting because its a Scottish name.It is never spelt correctly, actually when I moved to England it was a nightmare trying to spell it because they couldnt understand me either so couldnt win at all.
Anyway my family name is part of the Campbell of Cawdor clan and we have our very own tartin and the normal clan things

I appear to have loads of nicknames but the most common is Doodle,why I dont actually know.There was a time when it was Doodlebugsnuff but discovered that a Doodlebug was a slang term for a flying bomb so didnt sound to cool and the snuff part is from the Beach Boys song Heros and villians.
Although the Doodle is slowly converting into Diddle as a result of the Paul McCartney song Hey Diddle

Cute story Doodle! Too funny about being named after the dog.

My dad use to name his animals after me. He must have had a dozen "Bobbies"
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My name is Elizabeth Anne Eason and when I married Bunn got added to it. Now I have always been called Betsy, because nearly every woman in the family had the name Elizabeth. My great grandmother was called Bet, her daughter was named Mattie Elizabeth and always went by her first name, my mom is Elizabeth too and the only family member that is called Elizabeth, but the nieces and nephew called her Bissy because when they were little couldn`t pronounce her name and it stuck. I have another aunt named Elizabeth who is called Betty, a cousin named Elizabeth who is called Beth and then there is me. The name Eason is a gaelic name from Ireland and the translation meens Mckee. I have no idea what Bunn is because when I google it I always get, international maker of commercial coffee machines.
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John came to me in a dream and this is what he said. "I had a vision of a man on a flaming pie, and he told me that Betsy with a B not Lisa with a L is the biggest fan of mine". John trumps 'the boss' !

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I don't know exactly why my parents chose my name! Well I do up to a point. My father wanted to name me after his deceased mother, Margaret, but my mother didn't care for it (me either!), so she suggested "Mary", which my dad felt was too common and she decided on changing the spelling, so here I am.

I won't even go into my middle name, I don't care for it one bit, and it took me up until I was in my teens to get most of my family members to not call me by both. To this day, if anyone who doesn't know me calls me that, I cringe and feel I have been reduced to my childhood all over again. Not that it's a bad thing, I had a great childhood, but I just don't care for the name.

My maiden name was Scottish, much better than the one I have to drag around with me now like a dead carcass. :lol: It's misprounced on a regular basis and my ex actually says it differently than I and my two sons do. His grandfather was hearing impaired, so how it's pronounced is up to the interpreter, I guess. But we follow the rest of my ex's family that way, while he has stubbornly clung to the other way.

Wherever I go, I have to spell out both my names. It gets tiresome, and whenever I meet someone they of course assume I am "Mary". But I guess mine is unique, so overall I like it. I like to be a little "diffferent"! ;)


:) Merry


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Betsy & others - I love the name Elizabeth. My best friend was named Elizabeth and she was always called Beth. There are so many nicknames for Elizabeth, but never heard Betsy as one of them. I think Betsy is an adorable name as well. Eliza would be nice too. I think Elizabeth is a strong female name and I was tempted to name my daughter after my friend who died, but I picked Alexandra Sarah instead. As beautiful is the name, we call her Al. Terrible!
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My first name is "Natalie", I think that's French no Latin and which means in Latin "the Lord's birthday" and my middle name is Jayne (not sure what that means or comes from) - Blue Meanie help me out :P and my surname is Edge and that is an English name (which I am very proud of - hence why i'm keeping it when i'm married) :)
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I've said this before, but I'll say it again. I hate my first name and would change it in a heartbeat. Do I look like a Michelle? That is my middle name
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You hate 'Tassy'? I love it! I'd name my kid that. ^_^


Name Meanings - should someone not know theirs. Mine is 'fair, white, or vine.'
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Jul 28 2006, 09:16 AM
You hate 'Tassy'? I love it! I'd name my kid that. ^_^


Name Meanings - should someone not know theirs. Mine is 'fair, white, or vine.'

Surprise Surprise Surprise! Tassy was not found! Hayden wasn't either. Hannah means "Grace Of God". Funny enough, Paul means "Little One"
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Perhaps it's not the best site. :P Sorry about that!
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Jul 28 2006, 09:50 AM
Perhaps it's not the best site. :P Sorry about that!

No Fiona. My name is NEVER on any of those things. I think my name is German for "your parents were high when they named you"
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Jul 28 2006, 09:50 AM
Perhaps it's not the best site.  :P Sorry about that!

No Fiona. My name is NEVER on any of those things. I think my name is German for "your parents were high when they named you"

Be greatful that they didn`t name you Emmaline Elvira or Faniliza Jane, like two of my great aunts were.
You say you want to save humanity but it`s people that you just can`t stand
John came to me in a dream and this is what he said. "I had a vision of a man on a flaming pie, and he told me that Betsy with a B not Lisa with a L is the biggest fan of mine". John trumps 'the boss' !

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Jul 28 2006, 09:50 AM
Perhaps it's not the best site.  :P Sorry about that!

No Fiona. My name is NEVER on any of those things. I think my name is German for "your parents were high when they named you"

Be greatful that they didn`t name you Emmaline Elvira or Faniliza Jane, like two of my great aunts were.

Yeah, it could be worse. My mom's aunt Bertha wanted them to name me after her! No offense to those who may be named Bertha, but most of the time when you hear that name you expect the word "Big" to come before it.
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Jul 28 2006, 09:50 AM
Perhaps it's not the best site.  :P Sorry about that!

No Fiona. My name is NEVER on any of those things. I think my name is German for "your parents were high when they named you"

Be greatful that they didn`t name you Emmaline Elvira or Faniliza Jane, like two of my great aunts were.

Yeah, it could be worse. My mom's aunt Bertha wanted them to name me after her! No offense to those who may be named Bertha, but most of the time when you hear that name you expect the word "Big" to come before it.

ROFLMAO, I have an Aunt Bertha Jean too. Guess what? She is big. hehehehe

I also had a grandmother name Eunice and my mother in laws name is Mazelle. She has a sister named Bessie and one named Lessie, I always thought her mom should have named her Messie just to keep the rhyming thing going.
You say you want to save humanity but it`s people that you just can`t stand
John came to me in a dream and this is what he said. "I had a vision of a man on a flaming pie, and he told me that Betsy with a B not Lisa with a L is the biggest fan of mine". John trumps 'the boss' !

I WAS ROBBED BY THAT DEVIL WOMAN

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Jul 28 2006, 03:56 AM
My name is Barbara Ann.....

Ba...Ba...Ba...
Ba...Ba...bra Ann (bet you've never heard that one before)
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Olen = suppose to be French. My grandmother's middle was LeOla. She was called Ola. When my dad was born she gave him the name Olan, but it was misspelled on his birth certificate. They never changed it.

Hollywood = From Holly. Probably AngloSaxon, but All American!
:P

Goble = German. Although the first Goble to come to America (my ancestor) was from Sussex, England.
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Emilee - variation of Emily: (Old German/Latin) industrious, eager.
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Jul 28 2006, 11:16 PM
Emilee - variation of Emily: (Old German/Latin) industrious, eager.

I love your name hun ;)
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Jul 28 2006, 11:16 PM
Emilee - variation of Emily: (Old German/Latin) industrious, eager.

I love your name hun ;)

Thanks. I'd probably prefer to just be Emily, to be spelt with two ''ees" is kinda weird to me. But I guess there are so many other plain Emily's out there :blush:
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Do I look like a Michelle? That is my middle name

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Oh, what you mean to me.
Until I do I'm hoping you will
Know what I mean...my Michelle.
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Aparently, Sher is Iranian for lion. . . :huh: :hmm:



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Do I look like a Michelle?  That is my middle name

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I need you, I need you, I need you.
I need to make you see,
Oh, what you mean to me.
Until I do I'm hoping you will
Know what I mean...my Michelle.

Awww :wub:

Actually the Michelle part did come from that song.
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My name Sandra this is the only name I'm known by, no nicknames. It is Greek in origin and means helper of mankind. My middle name is Anne named after one of my mums's sisters and my surname is Irish.

Some other names I might have been called were
Denise
Fiona
Shirley
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Derek
David
Gary

I like Sandra fine it's what I'm used to. :)
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MaccaByrd
Jul 28 2006, 12:00 AM
Interesting thread! 

As most know, I am Fiona.  My first and last name are Scottish and there are still some people who have never heard the name 'Fiona' over in America but the release of Shrek resolved most of that! :P My dad was from Scotland and my mother really liked the name of the host of NPR's The Thistle & Shamrock - Fiona Ritchie - so that was that!  However, if I was to end up a boy she wanted to call me Tyree! :o I do hope no one here is called that because I am very glad I am a girl for that reason.  (And the fact that getting a date from Andy would've been hell.)

But anyway, I'm pretty happy with my name and I still have no ideas for what I would like to call my children.  Nothing I hear seems quite right, but I think I have plenty of time to sit on that one. ^_^

The only Tiree I know is this place

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The Island has beautiful beaches it is one of the sunniest places in Britain :blink: and it has a very moderate climate due to the warm air from the gulf stream.... Shhhhh! don't tell anybody else.
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I wasn't really named for family. I always get asked if I was born around Christmas since my name is Holly. Truth is my father is such a music buff he decided to name me after one of his favorite musicians Buddy Holly.

If I would have been a boy, then it would have switched over to sports and I would have been named Bryan which is Bart Starr's real name.

I am happy with my name. My family is a mix between Italians and Finlanders. If I would have gotten a family name then it could have been pretty scary :lol: Just to give you a little preview - some of the Finish family names: Kaisha, Sylvia, Ino, Eno, Uno, Erma and Ano. The italian side names were: Guido, Egilio, Gino, Frank, Teresa, Grace and Dominic. Sylvia and Grace were my grandmothers and both asked that their grandchildren weren't named after them for some reason. I wouldn't have minded either, they are both beautiful names.

I am 3/4 Italian, yet was named Holly, but thats ok with me because Buddy Holly was pretty damn cool! :D
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I was named after my mother, more or less. My name is a variation of her name. Everyone mispronounces it, but it is the name she gave me, so who am I to complain.

My original last name is either French or Jewish, depending who you talk to. Everyone always misspelled it. My mother lived in France for a large chunk of her life and part of her family was French, and only distant relatives from generations since gone were Jewish, but she and everyone else pronounced the name the Jewish way.

My current last name is very English. My father’s side of the family is English/Irish. No one ever has a problem spelling or pronouncing it, so that was something of a change. I was quite resistant to changing it, but I think in the end I made the right decision.

My name was not on the name origins website, but I think it means "awesome chick" in Urdu. My mother’s name is listed as "N/A", so that was pretty useful.
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Well lets see Anthony is my first name and is latin/greek for priceless, flourishing, flower. Tony is a variation of that and means worthy of praise.

My middle name is James and according to the site provided by Fiona is Hebrew and means supplanter.

Last name is german.
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Clare - English - "Clear, Bright"

Elizabeth - Hebrew - "Consecrated to God"

Bernadette (my confirmation name) - German - "Bold as a Bear"



My little girl:

Charlotte - French - "Petite and feminine"

Mary - Hebrew - "Bitter" :huh:
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See what your name is according to the NATO Phonic Alphabet B)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet

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The Island has beautiful beaches it is one of the sunniest places in Britain :blink: and it has a very moderate climate due to the warm air from the gulf stream.... Shhhhh! don't tell anybody else.

Hey, what d'ya know? I looked it up on the baby names site and it said 'Island off of Scotland.' Thanks for that!

Isn't anyone else's middle name Marie ('Bitter Sea')? I thought it was the most common middle name I'd ever heard!
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Chad is English for "battle".
Eric is Norse for "ruler".
Book is the Ellis Island whoring of "Bach".

Even though Book is an English name, I'm of stout German heritage.

Mom's a Phelps, very British. Plus I have Craig and Sellmer from Ireland. Also I'm 1/16 Cherokee Indian.

I wouldn't change a thing about my name, but when I get drunk, I want to take over the world.

Thank God I was a boy. Pop swears my name would've been Rita Book. :wacko:
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Also I'm 1/16 Cherokee Indian.


B) I'm 1/4 Cherokee. My grandfather is listed on the Guion-Miller roll.
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:huh: ...right, I thought this name business got cleared up in the "New Members" section.. AND my signature! ... hmph!


Names.. Elizabeth, people call me Beth, Liz, Lizzie

I PREFER... Lizzie & Liz, just not Lizzie Liz, haha. :blink:



So yeah.. Re-Hi
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Well, I am named after my grandfather, Daniel, a communications officer from WWII. He died a while before I was born and my mom made my grandmother a promise that she'd name her first boy after him.

Anyway, my last name is Levine, which is about as Jewish as you can get! (Pronounded Le-veeen, not Le-vin)
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Do you like your name?

Yes. (Patricia)

If you could change it, what would you change it to?

Something fairly traditional, and with decent nicknames, like Catherine (my confirmation name), Alexandra, or Susan.

Whats the heritage of your surname?

Spanish

Do you have any nicknames?
Patty

Do you have any names in mind for future kids?

No kids, but I like these names:

Dylan
Christopher
William

Michaela
Artemisa
Julianne

Why did you name your kids with that particular name?
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My name is Olia. It is a variation of Olga.

Olga is a Russian form of 'Helga', which is derived from Old Scandinavian
'heilagr' meaning 'holy; blessed; successful'.
Usage: Russian, Scandinavian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian.
Olga has 5 variant forms: Elga, Helga, Ola, Olenka and Olia.

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As I have written in another thread, the greek pronunciation of my name rhymes with the greek word for 'beans' and that can be silly, but for Greece it is an unusual name so many people like it. I am not too fond of it, but I do like the way russians say it. It sounds sweet.

My last name is very russian. It is the typical one that ends in -ova. I don't know what its origins are. Where can you actually look that up?

I would like to have a son called James. I think James is a beautiful name. If I stay in Greece that will be impossible. I could use the greek equivalent but it's boring. I actually don't want children so a lover named James would do. :P If I do have children I am using ancient Greek names, some of them are really nice. I don't want any christian names, which are the ones used more often here in Greece.
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Olia - I love the name Demetris :) use it all the time when I'm with my parents in Greece because my dad's name is James
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My name is Olia. It is a variation of Olga.

Olga is a Russian form of 'Helga', which is derived from Old Scandinavian
'heilagr' meaning 'holy; blessed; successful'.
Usage: Russian, Scandinavian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian.
Olga has 5 variant forms: Elga, Helga, Ola, Olenka and Olia.

What you can learn on the internet...

As I have written in another thread, the greek pronunciation of my name rhymes with the greek word for 'beans' and that can be silly, but for Greece it is an unusual name so many people like it. I am not too fond of it, but I do like the way russians say it. It sounds sweet.

My last name is very russian. It is the typical one that ends in -ova. I don't know what its origins are. Where can you actually look that up?

I would like to have a son called James. I think James is a beautiful name. If I stay in Greece that will be impossible. I could use the greek equivalent but it's boring. I actually don't want children so a lover named James would do. :P If I do have children I am using ancient Greek names, some of them are really nice. I don't want any christian names, which are the ones used more often here in Greece.

You might be able to find the origin of your surname here http://surnames.behindthename.com/
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Dimitris is a nice name, but it is very common - like George (Giorgos), John (Yannis), Costas, Nikos, etc... Everybody is called that! Dimitris is the nicest of the lot, though, I have to admit. Maybe because it's James :wub:

Edit: Thanks Emilee! The name was not found in the database, though. I am not surprised :P
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Dimitris is a nice name, but it is very common - like George (Giorgos), John (Yannis), Costas, Nikos, etc... Everybody is called that! Dimitris is the nicest of the lot, though, I have to admit. Maybe because it's James :wub:

Don't mention the name Nikos to me lol :P you know why :P :whistle:



My dad loves his greek equivalent name :) he says he would change it if he wanted to :)
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