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babynamesDoes 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...
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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Date: 2006-06-23 11:58 am (UTC)I have an elder cousin Claire, whom my parents were very fond off. So they felt it would be a great middle name for me. Though my father in his infinte wisdom decided that they needed to change the spelling so it'd be 'my name' ergo not to cause confusion or something. So my mn ended up being Clair.
Apparently that particular spelling was used because dad had got it into his head that was 'the authentic English spelling'. Which may be true, but have also discovered it's technically a boys name, and the French word for clear. Oh and it took me twelve years to spell it right.
Three years later they had my brother, which was great because they actually had a name picked out this time [Richard]. Just the one though, which meant he was middle nameless. So they let me choose one for him; Thomas ... after the tank engine.
My best friend's dad was reading the paper, saw the name of the 'page three girl' so said 'what about Janine?', and obviously her mother went along with it ... nothing like being named after a topless model to set you up for life :)
My other good friend is named Davis, which means 'son of David' ... and yeah he actually is.