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Named after my uncle, decided by my mom and dad. Background is Ukrainian (on my dad’s side), Italian on my mom’s. Nick is my nickname (go figure). The origins of the name is Greek! Last name is difficult to read.

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My first name comes from my mom's Irish roots. My middle name is Xiao Na. It is a version of my Chinese name, Chang Xiaona (常晓娜) given to me before I was adopted from China. My parents wanted to include some on my Chinese identity in my name so I could carry it with me everyday. My last name is my dad's family name. I believe it is Welsh or Scottish. My name is a combination of both of my cultural identities!

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Im not sure why my parents named me Bradley but I believe it originates from the old English word for broad field. I also go by the name Brad which people think is funny because its a basic name that they often lump together with Chad or Kyle which seems to be an inside joke amongst young people these days. My middle name is Dylan which I like because it reminds me of Bob Dylan who is a musician that I enjoy. My last name James has English origins.

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So, my name is Louis Denes. I am also from Hungarian decent. In Hungary Denes, sounds Like danish -which i love to eat- I think my dad read a lot of three musketeer books, and named after King Louis of France. Nickname: Lou...which a lot of people call me

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My first name is Madison which was taken from a baby book, so no interesting story there. I go by Madi which isn't the typical spelling, normally if I meet others with the same name it's spelled Maddie or Maddy. It wasn't until recently that I met another Madi with the same spelling which I thought was pretty neat!

My parents gave me my middle name Jane as it was the name of my dad's grandmother.

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My name literally translates to re-born, however my folks wanted me to have a unique name and to honour our french Canadian roots they wanted me to have a french name. My middle name is Elisabeth (in my opinion, the most common middle name for a 90's kid), but it's spelled with an S and not a Z as my aunts name was Lisa.

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I am the one wearing a hat, this is my sister and my puppy the first day we got him. 

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My parents wanted to name me Leah but in a less traditional english way so they took the name Mia and switched out the M with an L. My middle name is Justine, which doesn't have too much of a story behind it, but at my undergraduate convocation the announcer thought was supposed to be Justin instead of Justine, which all my close friends and I had a good hearted giggle about. My last name is Heard as my mom (a teacher) decided to take my father's last name to avoid having a her maiden name become a mean nickname, otherwise I would have had a hyphenated last name (Cundy-Heard). As far as we know they were both British last names, but I am 6th or 7th generation Canadian on the one side (Heard).

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My maiden name was O'Brien. I have Irish on my Father's side and mostly English/French/Portuguese on my Mom's side.
I find Helmer (German) tough to pronouns, so I'll likely go my Mrs. H in the class room.
My mom love the move "Gone with the Wind" but though "Katie" was too common, so improvised with "Casey" a nickname of her friend growing up.
I got a lot of "Casey at the bat" from the famous baseball poem from the 1880s.

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My parents could't agree on a name for me and on the way to the hospital they passed 'Emma Street.' It was the street right next to the hospital. My Dad asked my Mum what she thought of it and she said 'fine.' She said later that she was on a lot of pain killers and wasn't thinking, so she probably would have agreed to anything. I'm grateful that Emma was what they settled on!

My Dad liked that it was a classic name. My middle name is Grace, from my great-grandma on my Mum's side.

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My mum loved the name "Chloe" and its connections to Greek mythology and history (it is connected to "Demeter", the goddess of agriculture).

My father had recently immigrated to Canada from Northern Ireland where "Chloe" was a popular name. I was born on Canada Day and my father actually had to leave the hospital as mum was in labour as he was becoming a Canadian citizen that day!

My close friends and family call me "Coco" though, the story behind that is not very interesting.

My last name "Squance" comes from my father's family in Northern Ireland though it is not a popular name in either the north or south so we are not entirely sure where it came from. I often have to spell both my first and last names for people.

Here is a serious picture of my cat, Hazel Grey, and I.

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My name is Jessica and my story is short and sweet. My family is bilingual (French & English), so they chose Jessica because they wanted a name that could be easily said in both languages. 

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My name is Jessica and my story is short and sweet. My family is bilingual (French & English), so they chose Jessica because they wanted a name that could be easily said in both languages. 

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*My mom is a "Chantal" and hated the way her name sounded in English

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I don't have much of a story for my name. My parents both have a history of their families using the same few names over and over so they wanted something "unique" to them. As my mum is Irish they went with Shane. My middle name is Nicholas and this is quite simply because my due date was meant to be on Christmas and they went with St. Nicholas for that. (I was born a few weeks too early)

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My mother named me after her favourite character in the soap opera Guiding Light. She loved how her name was Melinda but that everyone called her Mindy. My middle name Renée, comes from my great-grandfather Irené but my mom thought his name was weird so removed the «I».

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My parents have always liked unique names. My mom liked the name Shae and my dad liked the name Lynne, so they ended up combining the names to create Shaelynne. I usually go by Shae, however i'm not sure how they came up with the spelling. My name is always mispronounce because of the spelling, which is why I go by Shae. My middle name, Sakuna was given by my grandma. In the Laos religion, grandparents are the one in charge of choosing the middle name. This name was given because I reminded her of a baby bird, which is also a representation of goodluck.

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My parents chose my name since they liked bird names, and wanted their kids to "be free and able to spread their wings". My name doesn't really have any personal / historical etc. meaning behind it. However, middle name is Olivia since it's a family name after my great grandfather Oliver.

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My mom named me after someone she knew in high school - just because she loved the name. There are so many different ways to spell my name (Michaela, Micaela, Mikhala, Mikaila, Makayla, etc.) so people spell it wrong pretty often. Some people pronounce it wrong: "Mik-eye-la", I had a gym teacher who did this a lot, but it does not happen often. The historical meaning of my name is "one who resembles God", which is interesting haha.

My last name is very special to me - it's Irish/Gaelic in origin, and I have always loved it. I just think it's cool haha. I had a teacher in the UK who used to play the "I got the power" song during attendance sometimes. I am getting married next month so my last name is going to change to a Dutch last name. But I think I will hyphenate, or just keep using Power for teaching - because it's fun to tell younger students that I have super powers or magic powers :)

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In the Sri Lankan (Tamil) culture, it's pretty common to go to a numerologist to help pick out a name. They sort of told my parents how many letters the name should have and what letters should the name include/start with in order for the child to have a "good" life. My name is not spelled how it's pronounced but I love it because I'm the only that has my name and it shows my culture and the language I grew up with. The name means cuckoo and singer, it said people with this name have a beautiful voice (I can assure you I don't XD). I have many nicknames which include, Khoogs, cokes, cookie, etc. As you can guess everyone finds my name difficult to pronounce and spell.

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When my parents were thinking of what to name me, my grandmother suggested my name which is actually Madison but I prefer to go by Maddy. However, I am not sure about the origin of my last name so I just found information online and added it to my Padlet!

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This surname of English origin with variant spellings Stroude, Strood, Strode, etc., is a locational name from Strood in Kent, Stroud in Gloucestershire, or Stroud Green in Middlesex, deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century "strod" meaning "marshy land overgrown with brushwood". The surname dates back to the early 13th Century (see below). Further recordings include Thomas de la Strode, and William Strodde (1230) in the Pipe Rolls of Devonshire. Church Records show one Susan, daughter of Roberte Stroude who was christened on June 18th 1598 in St. Dunstan's, Stepney, London, and Gilbert Stroud who married Mary Loveloy on October 22nd 1622 in St. Stephan's, Coleman Street, London. William Stroud, aged 40 yrs., a famine emigrant, sailed from Liverpool aboard the "Sardinia" bound for New York on May 21st 1847. A Coat of Arms granted to the family depicts a silver wivern on a black shield, and a red crescent on a canton ermine. A wivern is an imaginary heraldic animal, the wings and upper part resembling a dragon, the lower part resembling an adder or snake. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Aluina de Strodes which was dated 1206, in the "Feet of Fines of Kent", during the reign of King John, known as "Lackland", 1199 - 1216. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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Last name meaning Stroud: This surname of English origin with variant spellings Stroude, Strood, Strode, etc., is a locational name from Strood in Kent, Stroud in Gloucestershire, or Stroud Green in Middlesex, deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century "strod" meaning "marshy land overgrown with brushwood"...

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My name derives from the Sanskrit word Siddharth, which was the original name of Gautama Buddha before he attained renunciation. Siddharth essentially breaks down into two Sanskrit words, namely "Siddha", pronounced as Siddh meaning achievement, and "Arth" meaning purpose. It was given to me by a family Guru.

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My parents wanted another "K" name (I have one older sister). They liked the "ring" to Karlee and the fact it was spelled uniquely. My middle names are named after my grandmothers.

A lot of online websites state my name means "strength" and "free".  I'm not sure of the history of my last name, but a lot of people like it because it reminds them of "Reese's pieces" (despite mine having a C instead of an S).

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I don't have any fun stories about Tyler, but my middle name (Wesley) came from my great grandfather, who delivered milk by horse & buggy in Ottawa for a living.

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A quick google search reveals that my name is derived from Greek origin, meaning crown. This is news to me. All I do know is that my mom chose the name Stefan back home in Serbia as she really liked it and it was not super common. Upon moving to Canada and meeting other fellow countrymen, there seems to be plenty of Stefan's in Ontario lol. I do like my name though. It's easy to pronounce and works well across many languages and cultures.

Just googled my last name and apparently it means 'King' from an Arabic background. Ties into my first name meaning but there is no way my parents would have known this.

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My parents thought they were being super original naming me Emma... turns out everyone thought it was a great name as well. In high school, there were 7 Emmas in my grade of only 52 people.
My middle name Laurence was chosen by my dad who liked the French-ness of it and had a good friend named Laurence. As a kid I never liked my middle name, but I've come to embrace it. I met a Laurence when I was in France this year which was cool.
My last name is Dutch, since both my parents were born in the Netherlands. People often pronounce the J, even though it is supposed to be pronounced as a Y. I've heard a ton of different pronunciations of my last name and will pretty much respond to anything at this point :)

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My mom wanted to name me Abigail. My dad suggested Gabrielle. They liked it because it was biblical (the angel Gabriel). My mom's older sister (my aunt), suggested Gabriella so I wouldn't be called Gabriel which they thought was masculine. They loved it because it reminded them of the tennis player Gabriela Sabitini and it was easy to pronounce. My middle name is my grandmother's middle name (my mom's mom).

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Garance is from the Revolutionnary calendar (1789), it's the name of a rose whose roots are used to produce a deep red dye since the Middle Ages. My parents heard of this name because a distant cousin in the family also has it. I have both of my parents' last names because their marriage is as equal as they can make it, that includes me. Sadly, Lamiable, my mother's name couldn't be put officially at the time (thank you patriarchy...) so it's only my "using name", the one I use everywhere.
However, I intend to make it official soon as the law changed and we are now allowed to have our mother's name (we = French citizens).

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I was the first baby in my family for a really long time, so they wanted me to be completely different from anyone in my family! So they were watching Gabrielle Reece play volleyball and thought it was a nice name lol! My middle name (Renee) is also completely unique.

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My first name has interesting spelling and different pronunciations depending on who says it. My mom intended for it to be an easy name for others to say in Canada, said more like "Anita". Yet, amongst my family who are Sri Lankan, the "h" in my name is actually included since it works with the phonemes of our language Tamil. When I searched the meaning of my name it showed up as "gracious".

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I don’t have a big story with my name. My mom always wanted to name me Charley but my dad refused. Samantha is a name they could both agree on. It’s not a family name and didn’t have any meaning for them. I don’t love my name but I don’t hate it either. Most people call me Sam. I now have a dog named Charlie.

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My name is Tristan Temple-Murray, I have both my fathers and my mothers last name, it was just easier than picking one of them, supposedly. My parents didn’t have many reasons for my name other than they liked the way it sounded. They weren’t big fans of the Opera Tristan and Isolde by Wagner, but that's what most people associate my name with, or just the fairy tale. I believe it’s a Scottish name? Not 100% sure. I don’t really have nicknames, T-”noun” is normally it, such as T-money or T-pain. I never really thought about my name much except that I haven’t met many adults with the name Tristan, maybe some of you have?

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Paige means a page boy or peasant boy. Beautiful meaning... I do not know where my Mother got this name from. I remember having the same name as the woman from TLC show Trading Spaces, Paige Davis, who married a man with the last name Paige. She became Paige Paige if she took his last name. Caroline is from Caroline Kennedy. Not sure why, but I think she is one of the few surviving Kennedy's so maybe it is good luck? I don't know. I think my Mother just liked certain names.

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The only Italian name my dad liked !

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I was called Stephanie because my mom had a classmate named Stephanie in elementary school, my name was fairly popular at the time, easy to say and easy to spell. The name also is Latin and comes from the word "stefanus" meaning "crown".
McKeen is an Irish last name because I have Irish heritage. It means "son of Keen" (whoever "Keen" was ;D).

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I do not have any interesting stories on how my parents named me but growing up everyone asked me if I was named after Mike Tyson. I can safely say this is NOT the case. When he bit Hollyfield's ear, it wasn't a great day for Tysons around the world!

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My first name was chosen by my dad's mother. She was sick with Pancreatic cancer when my mom was pregnant with me. I'm now 29, and back then they really didn't do ultrasounds for gender but they wanted my grandmother to know if the baby was going to be a boy or a girl so the doctors accommodated and were able to tell my parents they were having a girl.

My parents told my grandmother they were having a girl and asked her if her name should be Alexandra or Jessie.

My dad's side of the family, both his mother and father, are Scottish - tried and true all the way through!

Anyway, in her very strong Scottish accent she chose "Jessie".

She passed away a few weeks before I was born, so I never met her, but she chose my name *insert heart emoji*. I have her first name as my first middle name as well.

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My father is Portuguese which influenced this decision, but my parents named me after Brazilian F1 driver Ayrton Senna.

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My name was chosen out of a baby book, so nothing too exciting. My mom chose it just because she thought it was a pretty name. I think it's Spanish in origin. My name's always mispronounced or written incorrectly but after 24 years, it doesn't really bother me anymore. My name always made me feel unique as a kid because you couldn't find it in any souvenir shop.

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I don’t have any idea why My name was chosen lol. My last maiden name was lavictoire which I hated. It’s hard to spell and pronounce by anglophones. But my kids’ names are autumn and hunter because I love the season and I love hunting. !

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I don't think there's much of a story to my name. My parents never told me anything about it other than it was almost Gregory. My middle name is my grandfather's. I associate my name with the Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great. I like my name but I'm not in love with it. In high school people called me by my last name instead of my first.

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