Who were you named for?

Question

Were you named after anybody?

Answer 1

My mother knew this little girl, (mother was a teenager at time...) this little girl was very sickly and pale, but like a little doll, very pretty, other kids didn't play with her and she thought nobody liked her, poor things mother was a drug addict, anyway her name was Amber. My mother promised her if she had a little girl she would name her Amber too, after her, because she was a special little girl.

Answer 2

A French pianist named Noelle Adams.

Answer 3

I was named after the little girl my mom took care of as a teenager. Her name was Jackie. My mom wanted Jacqueline but she couldn't come up with a middle name she liked, so she split it up - Jackie Lynn.

Answer 4

A Jewish waitress my Dad had a crush on. If I was a boy my Mom was going to name me. I would've been Tim. My Dad got to name the girl. That was the deal.

Answer 5

I have been told that my Yiddish name is for a great aunt (the sister of my grandmother's mother). I knew my great-grandmother and her brother, Joe, but I never knew this aunt I'm indirectly named for.

Answer 6

The Leprechauns.

Answer 7

My mom said she named me after some kind of perfume. I hate my name.

Answer 8

My father, who was named after Saint Christopher...

Answer 9

Sir Edmund Hillary.

He became famous several years after my birth-- then my parents changed my name to match his.

Answer 10

After my Great-Grandma