Funny stories behind names/spelling of names?

[tinylittlestars.livejournal.com]

Does anyone have a funny story behind the name, or the spelling of their name?

A friend of mine, Mathew is missing a T in his name. Mathew is also an accepted spelling, but he was supposed to be Matthew. His dad was drunk when he filled in the birth certificate form, hence he became Mathew!

Nothing exciting about mine - except that I was named after punk-pop artist Cyndi Lauper, who, in 1984 (the year I was born), won a Grammy for Best New Artist and selling nine million copies of her album She's So Unusual.


EDIT: Might be good to post these as comments, rather than new entries/posts, as I've seen my friends page majorly clogged with these "family names" post over the last 48 hours...

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[dreemerr.livejournal.com]

originally back in 84'-year i was born- ultrasounds werent as advanced as they are now, so they were told i was going to be a little boy. so my parents picked the name Jerimiah Joseph. the only part of that name i know why they picked it was Joseph,after my dad...

but the day i was born, i was delivered, 'aww congratulations,it's a girl'..my parents were a tad o_O.lol. so they picked Jessika Lyn as my name. Jessika was after a redhead my dad was IN.LOVE.WITH. back then,lol. and Lyn was after my grandmother:-)