https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:26:54 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-478479 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:54:11 +0000 abbydabbydoodlebug 478479@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My Mom loved Abigail Adams so I was named after her. I loved reading her letters with John Adams in Am. Lit. class. She was such an influential and strong woman! Plus, Abigail means joy, so I love that part about my name too. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-478375 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:24:20 +0000 fussygal 478375@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom liked that it was old fashioned and wasn't too popular at the time. Although it's been on the top ten girls names list for the past 7 or 8 years now... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-478352 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:18:34 +0000 alayaya 478352@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My name was number one on the list the year I was born... I've never asked about it but I assume they just heard it and liked it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-478291 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:57:46 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 478291@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents heard my name on a McDonald's commercial and decided they really liked it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469777 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 10:27:29 +0000 runsyellowlites 469777@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The only explanation I've ever gotten was she "Had alot of time on her hands". Seriously, how do you come up with Amnysti? lol</p> <p>(I'll edit my easily searchable out in a bit) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469773 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 10:24:40 +0000 MediaNaranja 469773@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was named after the first ancestor of mine who emigrated from Ireland. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469692 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 08:47:03 +0000 luckypenny 469692@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was my maternal grandmothers name </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469690 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 08:43:38 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 469690@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My first name comes from a retail store and soap opera character that my mom and her friend thought sounded "rich, luxurious," but it is spelled differently. My middle name is the female version of my dad's. I really like the way my first and middle name sound together, although I loathe my first because, to me, the name never grows up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469679 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 08:17:07 +0000 BananaPancakes 469679@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love all of these stories. </p> <p>@oliviaoblivia: This is beautiful. </p> <p>@shopaholic: My sons name is Rhett. :)</p> <p>@mrsjazz: Awesome story. Your dad's crush. </p> <p>@mrbee: I absolutely think people were tougher in the past. You would have to be. Your mom's story is amazing. I can't imagine what she felt when you were born alive. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469653 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:55:51 +0000 SugarplumsMom 469653@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My name is Greek. I was told they picked it by combining my mom's nickname with my day's first initial. I guess they chose a name that was close to it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469642 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 03:34:49 +0000 mrbee 469642@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: I asked Bee's mom about it, and she said it's not that she thinks about complaining but doesn't do it... it just honestly occurs to her to complain.</p> <p>It was a paradigm shift for me, and it's totally changed the way I live my life! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469628 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 02:15:44 +0000 Sweet T 469628@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm named after the actress who danced on the hood of Whitesnake's car. ;P My name ends in -ee instead of -y. I hated it growing up because people never knew how to pronounce it. I guess the ending confused them. I love it now though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469625 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 02:02:11 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 469625@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: people were tougher in the past. That's an interesting sentiment. Do you think people are more emotional now? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469624 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 02:00:35 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 469624@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom and dad were middle school/high school sweethearts. They were home ec partners, and had to take a "baby" (robotic doll) home one weekend to take care it. They named the baby the name I have now! So when I came around, my mom said the choice was simple! I'm named after the first "baby" they had together. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469519 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:44:52 +0000 mrbee 469519@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@REESE: I think that people were tougher in the past... she was sad but just moved on! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469512 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:42:06 +0000 Reese 469512@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: wow... I can't imagine how that must have been for your mother. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469505 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:38:55 +0000 shopaholic 469505@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@oliviaoblivia: That's so cool! I love a lot of hippie names, but I'm not a hippie!</p> <p>My mom loved the movie "Gone With The Wind" and so I was named after the actress Vivien Leigh. But spelled with an "a". I wish it was spelled with the "e" but never bothered to change it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469480 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:13:35 +0000 Grace 469480@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@oliviaoblivia: Oooh, that's an awesome idea!</p> <p>I think my mom just liked my name from when she was little. Not sure where it came from. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469468 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:57:38 +0000 mrbee 469468@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In her 8th month of pregnancy, my mom got a sonogram overseas and they told her that she was pregnant with twins... but that one of them was dead. When the second twin (me) was born and turned out to be alive, she chose a name which she felt expressed the miracle of that life. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469466 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:56:03 +0000 X0X0X0 469466@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Actress in a Spanish soap opera </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469465 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:53:52 +0000 heffalump 469465@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nowhere in particular. My Hebrew name is after a deceased relative though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469434 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:24:05 +0000 lil owl 469434@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom read about someone in the paper and told my dad that she really liked the name... then she realized she remembered it wrong. They went with the “wrong” name because they liked it better. For a long time I thought I would have had preferred the name they had picked before (Florine). But my dad preferred an old-fashioned name over a French one... he thought everyone would get it wrong...<br /> in my family the middle name is always the grandmothers/grandfathers name... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469410 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:12:11 +0000 mrsjazz 469410@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was supposed to be Jessica (mom's choice). But at the hospital my dad decided that they should name me after his kind of crush, who at the time had a good reputation: one of the Jackson sisters. Not Janet. And not Rebbie. Yeah, the one who posed in Playboy and had a psychic network.</p> <p>I hated my name for most of my life because I don't like her. I got over it though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469406 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:11:00 +0000 oliviaoblivia 469406@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents named my sisters and me after stars so that we would remember that the universe is greater than us. They were hippies, but it worked out well as we all have beautiful names. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469403 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:05:34 +0000 Smurfette 469403@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not sure where they got it from, pretty common. It was the only name they could agree on but Mom just wanted it spelled differently. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469397 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:59:38 +0000 Mrs. Oyster 469397@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom always tells the story that she and my dad couldn't agree on a girl's name for anything. I guess my mom (and everyone else) was "positive" that I was going to be a boy, so they hadn't even thought of girl's names. As they were arguing back and forth they got to the name Kristan - which the doctor who delivered me insisted was the right name. I think he may have come up with the alternate spelling as well haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469105 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:45:50 +0000 JoJoGirl 469105@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents wanted my name to start with the same letter as my grandmother's sister since she died right before I was born (Jewish tradition). My actual name comes from a pretty famous book (which I'm not even sure my mom ever read). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469102 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:45:05 +0000 LuLu Mom 469102@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My dad really liked the nickname Jessie but my mom didn't want the increasingly popular "Jessica" (i'm a mid 80s baby) so they decided to just go with Jessie instead of the fullname. Middle name is the same as my aunt's. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469046 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:17:22 +0000 Reese 469046@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was named after 3 other babies in the hospital nursery. My father nixed my planned name last minute and they went with my 'now' name (which was painfully common for the time, obviously).</p> <p>It is a not-so-hilarious anymore (to me) , long story, that my family tells about twice a year. sigh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-did-your-name-come-from-why-did-your-parents-choose-it#post-469036 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:14:25 +0000 polkadots 469036@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>rock the cradle of love video-by Billy idol. : /. Not after the actual girl, they just liked the name. </p>