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...

Comments

[ferretiger.livejournal.com]

My parents were getting really hard pressed for a name as my due date approached. My mom was flipping through a baby name book and decided to look at Cecilia (my grandmother's middle name) and Sheila was listed as an alternate form. She looked up Sheila and it said "An Irish form of Cecilia" and she was sold. (We have a verrrrrrrry Irish last name)

When I was almost a year old, she stuck an "h" on the end for no apparent reason. She's claimed various reasons throughout the years, including and not limited to: It looked 'unfinished' without it; Sarah can have an 'h' on the end, why can't Sheilah; F. Scott Fitzgerald's mistress was Sheilah Graham; she didn't like the way two vowels looked next to each other (our last name starts with O).

Still without the H on the birth certificate and passport, but I have the H on everything else. I've gotten accustomed to it being spelled that way, and I kinda dig it.