What does your name say about who you are?

[azmouse]

Quote:Researchers say our names have long affected how people perceive us, but trends and traditions around names - and what they say about our gender, age, race and ethnicity - are changing.

Jessica Simpson announced yesterday the birth of her new little one, Maxwell Drew – a 9 pound 13 ounce girl. She’s not the first to grab headlines with a nontraditional name: Tom Cruise and Kate Holmes have a daughter, Suri, Jay Z and Beyonce have their Blue Ivy bundle of joy and there’s no forgetting Gwyneth Paltrow’s daughter, Apple. Celeb chef Jamie Oliver has four little ones: Poppy Honey Rosie, Daisy Boo Pamela, Petal Blossom Rainbow and Buddy Bear Maurice.

During the last half-century, parents from all racial and ethnic backgrounds have turned to less popular or traditional names and more believe it’s important to find distinctive names for their children, said Hannah Emery, a sociology doctoral student at University of California Berkeley, who spent years researching naming practices.

“The parents I spoke to didn't want an ‘Apple,’ but they didn't want an Isabella or Jacob, either,” she said, referencing the most popular names for girls and boys in 2010. “In the few cases where parents I spoke to had inadvertently chosen a Top 10 name and found out about it after the fact, they were almost apologetic, as if they thought they had somehow done a disservice to their child by choosing a common name.”

http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/0...?hpt=hp_t2

I once heard if people tend to give you a nickname, your name doesn't suit you. My first name is Wendy but I've always been called by other names from my dad calling me "Pebbles" (after the cartoon character), to being called "Gwendolyn" in HS, to my husband calling me "Mouse". I'd have to guess that for whatever reason I don't look like a Wendy.
I'm mostly ok with my name, but if I'd had the chance to choose I wouldn't have chosen it.

[JuniperLea]

It’s My Name!

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
I was always called Juniper or June Bug when I was a kid. Mostly Juniper. When I started school, the teacher tried to get a sense of what we knew, so one by one she sat next to us and wrote our names on a name card that would stay at the desk. She wrote June. The horror! I still remember!

"But, where is the rest of it? The iper part?"

"Well, June, J-U-N-E is what your mother wrote on the card she gave me, so that must be how you spell your name."

I was crushed. June? Come on! JUNE??? How bland is that? How ordinary? It's a doggone month for crying out loud! Sure, it's Mom's middle name, and Aunt Barbie's middle name, and my cousin Edith's middle name, and my cousin Rebecca's middle name... and it was cool for them, but I'm JUNIPER! Grandma said so! That's all she ever called me! Well, except for "Doll"... Grandpa called me Juniper too! They would never, ever lie to me!

NEVER!

I don't think I ever got over that day.
So, if anyone asks, I'm JUNIPER!
That's my story and I'm sticking to it! Doggone it!

A good hippie name\

Juniper is a bush and a berry (makes your gin smell nice too), and Lea comes from a Middle English word for grassland or meadow or pasture... and my last name is an herb... Woodruff. Also Middle English for a Feudal forest dweller who would warn the king in advance should bad guys wander onto his land.

All natural... all herbal... smells nice... fiercely loyal and very grounded. Oh yeah. That's me.

[Peacetrain]

(05-02-2012 03:51 PM)JuniperLea Wrote:  It’s My Name!

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
I was always called Juniper or June Bug when I was a kid. Mostly Juniper. When I started school, the teacher tried to get a sense of what we knew, so one by one she sat next to us and wrote our names on a name card that would stay at the desk. She wrote June. The horror! I still remember!

"But, where is the rest of it? The iper part?"

"Well, June, J-U-N-E is what your mother wrote on the card she gave me, so that must be how you spell your name."

I was crushed. June? Come on! JUNE??? How bland is that? How ordinary? It's a doggone month for crying out loud! Sure, it's Mom's middle name, and Aunt Barbie's middle name, and my cousin Edith's middle name, and my cousin Rebecca's middle name... and it was cool for them, but I'm JUNIPER! Grandma said so! That's all she ever called me! Well, except for "Doll"... Grandpa called me Juniper too! They would never, ever lie to me!

NEVER!

I don't think I ever got over that day.
So, if anyone asks, I'm JUNIPER!
That's my story and I'm sticking to it! Doggone it!

A good hippie name\

Juniper is a bush and a berry (makes your gin smell nice too), and Lea comes from a Middle English word for grassland or meadow or pasture... and my last name is an herb... Woodruff. Also Middle English for a Feudal forest dweller who would warn the king in advance should bad guys wander onto his land.

All natural... all herbal... smells nice... fiercely loyal and very grounded. Oh yeah. That's me.

June is my Moms middle name.. I think it is just lovely.. makes me think of summer, swimming.. all the good things ..

[JuniperLea]

(05-02-2012 04:48 PM)Peacetrain Wrote:  

(05-02-2012 03:51 PM)JuniperLea Wrote:  It’s My Name!

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
I was always called Juniper or June Bug when I was a kid. Mostly Juniper. When I started school, the teacher tried to get a sense of what we knew, so one by one she sat next to us and wrote our names on a name card that would stay at the desk. She wrote June. The horror! I still remember!

"But, where is the rest of it? The iper part?"

"Well, June, J-U-N-E is what your mother wrote on the card she gave me, so that must be how you spell your name."

I was crushed. June? Come on! JUNE??? How bland is that? How ordinary? It's a doggone month for crying out loud! Sure, it's Mom's middle name, and Aunt Barbie's middle name, and my cousin Edith's middle name, and my cousin Rebecca's middle name... and it was cool for them, but I'm JUNIPER! Grandma said so! That's all she ever called me! Well, except for "Doll"... Grandpa called me Juniper too! They would never, ever lie to me!

NEVER!

I don't think I ever got over that day.
So, if anyone asks, I'm JUNIPER!
That's my story and I'm sticking to it! Doggone it!

A good hippie name\

Juniper is a bush and a berry (makes your gin smell nice too), and Lea comes from a Middle English word for grassland or meadow or pasture... and my last name is an herb... Woodruff. Also Middle English for a Feudal forest dweller who would warn the king in advance should bad guys wander onto his land.

All natural... all herbal... smells nice... fiercely loyal and very grounded. Oh yeah. That's me.

June is my Moms middle name.. I think it is just lovely.. makes me think of summer, swimming.. all the good things ..

You must be a cousin... I always figured we were related! HUGS!!

[pappy]

My given name is John, after my Grandfather.

For some reason my family always called my Jackie but nobody could explain how that got started or why it stuck. I hated it. I had a friend whose given name was Jackie but everybody called him Jack.

To make things more ....umm...interesting, it wasn't until I was an adult and needed a copy of my birth certificate that I learned that my name was, officially, Dwight until it came time to enroll me in school and my Mother had it changed to John.

Never had a nickname other than Jackie (unless you count some of the less than flattering things my ex called me) until my last job before I retired when a guy there that nicknamed everybody gave me the moniker "pappy" and that seems to have stuck.

[jaxx]

My name is Pamela....but I'm Pam. When I was little they called me Pammy, which I hated because some of them forgot I grew up.

My grandsons have very unique names. Out of the 7 there are 2 that might pass for normal. Funny thing is, their names fit their personalities.

[KonaKane]

Names are a funny thing. When I was little, my dad had a lot of them for me. For years, I didn't know if I was named "Goddammit" or "Jesus Christ". (apologies to Bill Cosby)

[pappy]

(05-03-2012 02:28 PM)KonaKane Wrote:  Names are a funny thing. When I was little, my dad had a lot of them for me. For years, I didn't know if I was named "Goddammit" or "Jesus Christ". (apologies to Bill Cosby)

I always wanted to get a dog and name it Dammit. Dammit come here. Dammit sit.

I always let myself get talked out of it though.