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[Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 454
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Why did your parents choose your name?

My parents still hadn't chosen a name for me until I few days before the deadline ran out for me to be registered. They were in a bookshop one day and came across a book with my name as the title and both decided they liked the name so called me that. None of my siblings could pronounce it, so I've ended up being called something completely different for my entire life!
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    j4the1j4the1 Posts: 664
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    I'm named after God.
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    dengie dudedengie dude Posts: 823
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    j4the1 wrote: »
    I'm named after God.

    After god ? was jn4the his middle name
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    HaloJoeHaloJoe Posts: 13,283
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    I'm named after Mary.
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    misslibertinemisslibertine Posts: 14,306
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    I was named after a combination of 'For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her' by Simon & Garfunkel and 'See Emily Play' by Pink Floyd.
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    BastardBeaverBastardBeaver Posts: 11,903
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    Well my brother is called David, named after David Hasselhoff, and I'm called Michael, named after Michael Knight a.k.a David Hasselhoff in Knightrider!

    It's all a bit embarrassing really :o
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    HazzaGrazzaHazzaGrazza Posts: 2,134
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    Named after Hayley Mills the Actress.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 454
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    Well my brother is called David, named after David Hasselhoff, and I'm called Michael, named after Michael Knight a.k.a David Hasselhoff in Knightrider!

    It's all a bit embarrassing really :o

    :D

    I have a cousin named Rodney.
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    Plant_PiePlant_Pie Posts: 3,947
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    Eric Claptons Layla
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    patsylimerickpatsylimerick Posts: 22,124
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    I was my mother's 9th child. I once asked her why I was called what I'm called. She told me they'd run out of names and she only thought of it on her way into the Church the day of the Christening. :(:cry:
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    HaloJoeHaloJoe Posts: 13,283
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    :D

    I have a cousin named Rodney.

    Do you call him Dave?
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    HaloJoeHaloJoe Posts: 13,283
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    Plant_Pie wrote: »
    Eric Claptons Layla

    My ex was named that too, for the same reason :)
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    SexSex Posts: 44,161
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    I'm
    Named after beer:)
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    HaloJoeHaloJoe Posts: 13,283
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    Sex wrote: »
    I'm
    Named after beer:)

    Stella?
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 454
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    HaloJoe wrote: »
    Do you call him Dave?

    Haha no!
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    scorpio manscorpio man Posts: 4,960
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    I'm named after a battleship built mid 1920.
    Plus Del's bro was named after me.
    If you didn't already guess it's Dave. :D
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    edExedEx Posts: 13,460
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    Named after a saint. Bit boring really.
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    dengie dudedengie dude Posts: 823
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    Well my brother is called David, named after David Hasselhoff, and I'm called Michael, named after Michael Knight a.k.a David Hasselhoff in Knightrider!

    It's all a bit embarrassing really :o

    No. come on .admit it its not its excruciatingly chronically shameful
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    James FrederickJames Frederick Posts: 53,184
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    I was named after one of my Mum's Uncles and because she wanted to call me Jim or Jimmy but that didn't work as I hate been called any of those
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,880
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    My mum wanted 'Angelique' which like the first poster was the title of a book she was reading.

    However dad wasn't having that ( too fancy) so I was named after my gran Christina.
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    cjsmummycjsmummy Posts: 11,079
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    Marc Bolan and T Rex song. :rolleyes:
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    cjsmummycjsmummy Posts: 11,079
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    Sex wrote: »
    I'm
    Named after beer:)

    Special Brew?:D:p:o
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 25,366
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    I was named after a combination of 'For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her' by Simon & Garfunkel and 'See Emily Play' by Pink Floyd.

    What's your name then? Art or Pink?
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    BastardBeaverBastardBeaver Posts: 11,903
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    No. come on .admit it its not its excruciatingly chronically shameful

    It gets a bit worse. By the time I was 2 my mum had nicknamed me Mitch a.k.a David Hasselhoff in Baywatch!

    And now that is what has stuck. Although I spell it Mich to try and distance myself from the shame.
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    mcg3mcg3 Posts: 11,390
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    cjsmummy wrote: »
    Marc Bolan and T Rex song. :rolleyes:

    Deborah
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    albertdalbertd Posts: 14,361
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    Indirectly, I am named after Queen Victoria's husband because my grandad was named after him, and I was named after my grandad.
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