The Daily Question From A Blogfriend

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Mr. Althouse wants to know.....

Who were you named after?

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[kenju]

My first name wasn't after anyone special, but my middle name was also my mother's sister's name.

[Marisa]

One of my fathers ex girlfriend, so he told me.

[Mamacita]

I was named for my paternal grandmother and one of my mother's high school friends.

[michelle]

I wasn't named for anyone.

[sister AE]

two characters in Little Women

[Jennie]

We lived on the beach and my mom chose a name that meant the wave's crest in her name book. Not a who, but a what.

[Keith]

First name was for my Mother's favorite poet, middle name for friend of my Father

[Linda]

I was named after my Aunt, my Godmother, then given a "sweet little American name (Linda), and named after a saint...because I have 5 freakin' names.

[carli]

My great-grandfather Charles, and my great-grandmother Fanny. Jewish thing. You can use the first letter of a name instead of the whole name.

[Charmarie]

A moon off of Pluto...j/k actually my mother made up my name however she did not realize that my name actually means something.

[barbie2be]

i was named after my mothers stepmother and my fathers mother.

[Bev]

My aunt, who died 2 weeks ago (I was named after her long before that, though)

[rosemary]

my godmother Rose and my mother Mary....all put together...rosemary

[gemma]

Well, there are three of us, make that there were three of us in the family and I was the youngest so first they named my oldest brother, then my older brother and then they named me!

[Becky68]

My mother wanted a family name, she was thinking Jemima, which goes way back to a mother & daughter during the 1770's & further, my uncle who was the family historian told her not to saddle me with that name, and suggested Rebekah, who was some later descendant of Jemima, or Mima, as she was referred to.

[Lia]

My mom's grandmother.

[ableanna]

Both of my grandmothers! (My first name is from my Father's Mother, my middle is from my Mother's Mother)

[Sol]

My dad's mother. I called her Grandma G. It was a bit unsettling the first time I was called Grandma G!!

[Daphne]

I was named after the author Daphne du Maurier and my second name Laura is from Saint Laura

[omykiss]

my mother .. and she was noamed after her mother ....

[Erin]

Erin Partridge on The Patridge Family.

I wasn't really named AFTER her, but that's where my parents got the name.

[flleenie]

I was named after my parent's good friend & my sister's God Mother, Eileen.

[david]

i am named after the great King of Israel, the shepherd boy who became a slayer of a giant, a leader of the army, and father to Solomon

I like my name.

[Diana]

no clue

[annie]

Erin Partridge on The Patridge Family?
That was my favorite show when I was little, and there is no Erin.
Or am I forgetting something?

[Shephard]

I was named after my great great uncle Barnabus Walcott Carrington Bathtub III. Which is very strange... because he wasn't named Shephard. And he wasn't my uncle.

[Nepharia]

I was not named after anyone in particular. Mom just liked the name.

[Robin]

I was named after a foreign exchange student from Australia

[belle]

oh my! I was called after the niece of the chap that introduced my parents and my maternal grandmother. The trouble was that made my initials DIC so they swapped the names around to IDC. I hated the D and changed to I when I went to art school.