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My parents loved the name Sarah, and they didn't know anyone by that name.
(Surprising...)

Sarah is Hebrew and means "princess".

Daniel is also Hebrew, meaning "God has judged."  Not a very happy name,
really, but the Biblical Daniel kicks enough butt that I don't mind.

They were going to name me Milo, after the guy in The Phantom Tollbooth, but
my mom thought it would get me teased.  I got teased anyway.  It would have
been damn cool to be named Milo.

I don't know why they called me Daniel instead.  I think they just liked the
sound of it.  I've got an uncle with the same name, but I wasn't named after
him, really -- I think they just got uncreative and recycled it.

i was named after 2 dead relatives, and when you take the first 3 letters of
one, and the last 3 of the other you get carrie

Richard Jay Root

My mother's father's name was Richard.  My dad's name was Jay.

I'm not sure where "Scott" came from.  Oh well, it's the same as my login,
so it's easy to remember.  

My middle name is "Andrew", which comes from my renowned ancestor Andrew Boss,
who was a student and then researcher at the University of Minnesota, and who
was responsible for a great deal of significant agricultural research.  I've
also got the same nose as him, for better or worse.

My father's name is Glenn, you can guess where my came from.

Damon and Staci were just because we liked them.  Staci was suggested by
STeve's great aunt Bertha but we got no explaination why.

My parents named us all after kings and queens of England. 

My name is Phil Green, after Tom Green and Phil Hendrie.

my name was picked out of a baby book.  my dad liked how it sounded.

My mother never said Why they chose my name.  No one in either family has ever
had those names as far as I can determine.  Naybe I should call dad and ask
him if he knows why?

Okay i got the name i did (Mary) because my parents were going for a theme
when they named my other two sisters (Rebecca,Rachel). If you know your bible
well, then you should recognise these bibical names.

Which queen was "Katie"?

I was named in memory of my maternal grandmother, who died less than a 
year before my birth.  I share her first initial.  

Jonathan-- "YHWH gives."  I think my folks just liked it.

Roger is my father's name.

baby Sarah's name stuck out above all the rest: "Sarah Lynn." michaela 
gave the meaning of Sarah, of course-- Lynn means spring or 
waterfall.  Somehow, all the other names just melted away and this one 
seemed right.  It felt right, and this was long before conception.

Say what you will, but we have felt her presence for quite a while 
before she was even conceived.  Took us long enough =)

That was just the alien infestation.  You should have that looked at.

Erika = Norse meaning the Royal

Leigh = French origins I think meaning of the Meadow

Lee/Leigh is a family name (first born child of the first born child 
has the middle name).  Erika came out of the blue.  My parents thought 
I was a boy and would have been Jonathan Lee, then I turned out to be a 
girl so they were thinking of Jessica and Montana (dad's name is Montie 
and Montana is the closest to a female form of his name they could get) 
but when it came to it they just picked Erika out of the air it seems.

Brooke - the feminine of the Old English Brook - but I'm named for Brooks
Robinson.

Christi - because it sounded good with Brooke - not because my mother is a
latin freak with a Jesus complex.

I don't know why my folks picked the names they did, but I do know that 
if I'd been a girl, I'd be "Patricia".

My parents named me Lynne because they liked the name. I guess my dad 
had a girlfriend in high school named Lynn who he really liked but 
mostly they just liked the name. They added the 'e' at the end to make 
the name more feminine. The problem with the name though was that there 
just wasnt a Russian equivilant and my Russian grandmother insisted 
that I have some proper Russian name. Stephanie is the english version 
of that name. I dont know why they picked it other than they had a 
friend named Stephanie that they liked and I think they thought it 
sounded good with Lynne. They never calld me Stephanie and always 
called me Lynne. Later on, I was sometimes accused of being pretentious 
because I used my middle name instead of my first name. And some people 
wonder about that good old first initial. I kind of like the whole S. 
Lynne thing but initially it was only because it really confused people 
when I would just sign Lynne without the S. When the S was there, they 
usually were able to figure out that I was the Stephanie on their list. 

My name is Paul Timothy. My older brother is John Mark. My younger brother
is Joel David. I grew up thinking my father, a United Methodist minister, had
named us for the various prophets and writers, but I mentioned that to him
in the course of a conversation about something rlated this last Christmas,
and he looked at me stupidly, as if it was the first time the pattern had been
pointed out to him. I couldn't believe he'd never noticed before, but he
claimed he hadn't, and that our mother had picked out the names.
 
I still don't know if he was being weird, or if he honestly never noticed.

Don Carl = Don Carlos, the Mozart opera my mother liked.

I imagine if you ask a minister for six names off the top of his head, you're
pretty likely to get six biblical names. 

I suppose so, but my own name (an epistle writer and the common recipient of
his epistles) is a pair, so it seemed deliberate.

Twila was rather a last-minute choice, as my mother explains it. She and my
father had picked out a very fifties name, Deborah Anne, or Deborah Sue, and
then when she was in labor, in the emergency room, this older woman asked her
what names she'd picked out, and commented that she'd always liked Twila. So
my mother picked that. It's somewhat more common in Zanesville and in the
South than anywhere else, so I usually go with H. L. Mencken's explanation
that it was a slave name meaning "born at twilight". 

Mae is because my grandmother's middle name was Mae, and my mother's middle
name was May. It's a family thing, which I broke with glee when I named
Rhiannon. 

Valerie (my wife)'s name was picked by her inebriated father in the delivery
room. She was supposed to be Katherine, but her merry drunk father had the
drinking song stuck in his head -- val-de-ree, val-de-rye -- and thought it
was "Valerie, Valerye." Hence Valerie. By the time her mother found out what
happened, the birth certificate was already completed.

My older brother was named after my father, so he is Herbert Jr. My
parents planned on naming their second child, me, after my mother.  But I
turned out to be male, so they made my name an anagram of my mother's
name. (I don't know if they were drunk at the time.....)  What is my
mother's name? 

Rena?

No. It was a common name in my mother's time.

Erna might be a name, but I think that's only because it sounds like Irma.

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It's one of these:
Aren, Arne, Anre, Nare, Aern, Aenr, Aner, Naer, Earn, Eanr, Enar, Near, Raen,
Rane, Rnae, Nrae, Rean, Rena, Rnea, Nrea, Eran, Erna, Enra, Nera
 
But I don't have many guess which one. =}

heh i like Enar.

my partner's name calum was chosen by his scotish mother and is the name of
some famous folk singer. i forget who - maybe krj knows. and his brother was
named darren after the character on bewitched. how silly.

i like his name - he was almost named Ringo after the beatle.

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My middle name is Ann.  I think it means "full of grace".  I'm a graceful
princess.  ;-)

My nickname is Randy. I have been told that it means "horny". 

Erna is correct. It is hardly used today, but was not uncommon in the
19th century.

        I went out once with two girls who were friends, one whose name in
Gaelic meant, roughly "black" or "blackie", and the other whose name meant,
in in an older Nordic language, "fair".  It about summed up their
personalities.

Re 13:  I am actually Anne Catherine. Other sibs are Margaret Elizabeth
and James Stuart.

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