What was the reason your parents named you what they named you?

Answer 1

the doctor could hear me creaming be for he could see all of my head. so my mother knew i was not going to be Angela cause i was no angel. the next name she had picked out was something that meant warrior but she said i did NOT need another reason to fight so no to that name. the last name was bonnie, her mothers name. she said it when she was finally holding me i looked around and shut up so bonnie it was and is. my middle name is LeAnne she combined my late great-grandmothers Anne's name from her side with Leroy from my fathers side and here i am Bonnie LeAnne.

Answer 2

I Was Named After My Father & Given His Full Name, Jr~

Answer 3

Named me after a song

Answer 4

My dad knew a family that had a daughter with the same name as me. It was something different, and the middle name was the same as my grandma's, and the same as my great aunt's first name. Killed a couple birds with one stone in that shot.

Answer 5

I was named after an Aunt.

Answer 6

I was named after a character on a soap opera

Answer 7

I was told I was named after my moms favorite movie star Stephanie Powers.

Answer 8

They saw an historical documentry and thought that that person had a nice name... and it was the only one my parents could agree on

Answer 9

My answer to that is I changed my name years ago.
I'm a profesional entertainer and it would have looked simply
grusome up in lights.
Why did they.Hmmmm I guess when they named me it wasn't such a wierd name.

Answer 10

I was named after my grandmother, than passed away before I was born.