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My name has very simple meaning. Marina - marine,
sea, the water.
It means I am attached to ocean and everything that relates to it.
How my parents choose my name?
They never give me a strong argument to answer this question.
I think, the name just came it self.

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While my first name doesn't have any particularly sentimental meaning (99.999% of babies born in the early 90's were named Caitlin/Kaitlyn, etc.), my middle name (Christine) does.  It's a bit of a dark story, so buckle up....Back in the 1940s, my grandmother had a stillborn daughter who was born on Christmas Day.  They named her Christine after the date of her birth/death.  My Grammie went on to have four boys, and always lamented not having had the chance to raise a daughter.  In honour of my grandmother's loss, and her lifelong wish to raise a little girl, my father named me after her stillborn daughter. While it's a rather grim way to be named, I love the idea that (in some small way) I've helped my wonderful grandmother heal.

The pic I've included is of my Grammie (who was a teacher) showing me painted turtles at Wye Marsh. Note my very stylish Hercules hat.

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My dad wanted to call me Kimberly....my mom didn't like that name and chose the name Kristie instead! Anne is my mother's middle name and I have carried on the Anne tradition with my daughter as well.

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Well this is a long story...My mother was admitted into the hospital when she was five months pregnant with me, she has an autoimmune disease called Lupus and it became really difficult for her to get pregnant. When she did get pregnant unfortunatley she had several miscarriages. Finally, she became pregnant with me and her Doctors recommended to terminate her pregnancy because of her kidney function was at 30% and she had to start dialysis. Her doctors asked her many times to terminate her pregnancy but she really believed that I would be strong enough to make it through… I was born premature because one Doctor told her that I would have a better chance if I came out early for some reason. Anyways, when I was born, apparently I stopped breathing for two minutes and then she started praying for me to breathe. She said right at that moment she changed my name to "Angel" because I was her "miracle baby" she was "not supposed to have". After my birth, it took a huge toll on her body, her kidney function was at 10%. She had to do an emergency operation to save her life so my grandmother donated her kidney to save her life.

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Vanessa Renauld
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Brettelle Ellerton
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My name was my great-grandma's maiden name. 
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Victoria Butler
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My parents both liked the name Victoria, despite no family connection, but I like to think that I'm named after the Queen. 
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Katie was my mom's favourite name. As I was her first child, this was always going to be my name.  
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Devon Sidwell
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The story of my name was that my mother loved Cornwall in England. I was named after Devon the place.  👋 ✌️ 
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Asmaa Hagi
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My name means "High" 
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Weris Habbane
Weris Habbane
My parents really wanted their first daughter to be named after my grandmother. The meaning of my name is “Flower in the desert”
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Mackenzie Robert
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When i was born my parents still were indecisive on what to name me. My dad was reading the newspaper in the hospital and stumbled across the name Mackenzie. They both agreed they liked the name.  
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Zuha Mohammad
Zuha Mohammad
I was born around 5 am, so my parents named me Zuha because it means 'morning light' in Arabic.
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Melissa Delossantos
Melissa Delossantos
My name is one that my parents spent hours looking through a baby book before deciding on. Its a name I cherish yet lacks any real meaning:)
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Tyler White
Tyler White
My parents could not decide on a name and while at the hospital, my dad talked to a woman who had just named her son Tyler. In 1988 every second child wasn't named Tyler so they liked it and thought it was unique at the time.
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Brooke Luscombe
Brooke Luscombe
I have two older brothers with names that start with B, so Brooke was the name that followed the pattern that they liked the best 
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Kory Anne Pernitzky
Kory Anne Pernitzky

I was born before using ultrasounds to determine the gender of your baby, so my parents had no idea if they would have a boy or girl. The two of them were absolutely certain they were going to have a boy and therefore only had a boy name prepared. They were going to name me Beau, my father wanted the name Beasupheus. My mother hated it and only liked the sound of Beau. But they had a girl and I went without a name for a week. The only other name they had was Cory, but felt it was too masculine and changed the spelling to have a K.

As a toddler they got into the habit of calling me by my first and middle name Kory Anne. (Anne is after my abuela). And when I was tiny I thought my name was Kory Anne.

Fun fact! Kory is Latin for spear and my father’s name Gerard means spear wielder.
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Alyssa Traves
Alyssa Traves
 My mother is a teacher and had a hard time picking a name based on past students she had taught. I was nameless until the moment I was born and then she said it “just clicked” 
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Amy Booth
Amy Booth
My parents chose between Amy and Emily. I grew up always having another Amy in my class, so I was used to writing Amy B on all my work.
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My mom wanted to name me Caroline because she said it reminded her of a princess name. My middle name is Neda which represents my mom's Persian heritage. My grandmother on my mom's side is Italian and likes to call me Carolina for the Italian pronunciation of Caroline. Other members of my family and some of my friends also call me Carolina. Although, having the name Caroline means that I have heard the song Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond many many times. 
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My parents liked the name Rachel which means “lamb” in Hebrew
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Caroline Millest
Caroline Millest
When I was born the plan was to name me Emma, but at the last second they decided I looked more like a Caroline. The name Caroline has lots of history behind it dating back to Charlemagne. I am NOT named after the song Sweet Caroline. Please don’t sing me that song. 
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Lauren Kremer
Lauren Kremer
Lauren was the only name that my parents both liked
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Ashley Abbott
Ashley Abbott 
My dad chose my name because he likes it and wanted something he could spell. My mom WARNED my dad that Ashley Abbott is a character on the young and the restless, but he didn’t care. My middle name is Joanne, my grandmother’s name. 
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Julia Farella
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My parents were deciding between two names; Hannah and Julia. My mother was the one to decide to call me Julia, because she loves the movie ‘Pretty Woman’ starring Julia Roberts. 
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Holly Broderick
Holly Broderick
My mom got my name from her best friend in grade 2. My grandfather was in the Air Force, so as a child my mom moved to a new city/country every year or two years and she found it difficult to make friends sometimes, because she constantly was moving. Holly, her grade 2 best friend, was very friendly and kind to her and that just always stuck with my mom and she decided to name me after her. 
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Marissa Ferras
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My dad chose my name. In Latin it means “of the sea”, he found the name while studying Latin in university. I was going to be named Molly, but when I was born my mum insisted I “did not look like a Molly”. 
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Ethan Nodwell
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When I was born, my parents were choosing between two names, Carter and Ethan. Ironically, they went with Ethan, and not Carter, (popular at the time because of Joe Carters home run in the 1993 World Series). Ethan they just liked. My middle name, Thomas, for the majority of my life I thought was after my uncle. However, this year on my birthday, I found out it was after the doctor who delivered me. 
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Tessa Boyington
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My mom, who is a teacher, taught a girl named Tessa when she was pregnant with me and thought that it was an interesting and unique name.
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Suwannarat Nganbe
My dad 's name is Supak and my mom's name is Sriwan. My name, therefore, a cocktail:Suwannarat. It means Gold and Crystal.

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Although my name is French I stopped speaking French at a young age. Now I spend a lot of time looking confused when people speak French to me. My name means butterfly in Greek - although I'm sure my mother didn't know that until later. My grandmother helped my mom choose the name because she had no idea what to call me.

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My parents chose the name Samantha because the short form Sam is both a girls and boys name, and they thought it was cool. My middle name was chosen to honour my Dad's great aunt. My Dad wanted Margaret to be my first name though my mom VETO'd it as my Dad would have called me Margy and she was not for that. That is the story behind my name!:)

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My name was my great-grandma's maiden name.

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My parents both liked the name Victoria, despite no family connection, but I like to think that I'm named after the Queen.

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Katie was my mom's favourite name. As I was her first child, this was always going to be my name.

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The story of my name was that my mother loved Cornwall in England. I was named after Devon the place.  👋 ✌️

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My parents really wanted their first daughter to be named after my grandmother. The meaning of my name is “Flower in the desert”

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When i was born my parents still were indecisive on what to name me. My dad was reading the newspaper in the hospital and stumbled across the name Mackenzie. They both agreed they liked the name.

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My name means high, exalted, great.

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My name was born out of my young single mother's love of the movie Cocktail and her homage to the era of Michael Jordan. Though dismayed by my mother's motivations, my grandparents were pleased that, at the very least, my name would be biblical.

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I was born around 5 am so my parents named me Zuha, which means 'morning light' in Arabic.

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My first name was chosen by my grandmother.  She wanted to signify the union of my parents. To do so, she combined their names to create my name. My mother's first name is Christine, and my father's first name is Marcus.  I was given the first syllable of both their names, hence the name Chris-mar.

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My name is one that my parents spent hours looking through a baby book before deciding on. Its a name I cherish yet, lacks any real meaning:)

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My parents could not decide on a name and while at the hospital, my dad talked to a woman who had just named her son Tyler. In 1988 every second child wasn't named Tyler so they liked it and thought it was unique at the time.

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I have two older brothers with names that start with B, so Brooke was the name that followed the pattern that they liked the best

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Kory Anne Pernitzky

I was born before using ultrasounds to determine the gender of your baby, so my parents had no idea if they would have a boy or girl. The two of them were absolutely certain they were going to have a boy and therefore only had a boy name prepared. They were going to name me Beau, my father wanted the name Beasupheus. My mother hated it and only liked the sound of Beau. But they had a girl and I went without a name for a week. The only other name they had was Cory, but felt it was too masculine and changed the spelling to have a K.

As a toddler they got into the habit of calling me by my first and middle name Kory Anne. (Anne is after my abuela). And when I was tiny I thought my name was Kory Anne.

Fun fact! Kory is Latin for spear and my father’s name Gerard means spear wielder.

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My mother is a teacher and had a hard time picking a name based on past students she had taught. I was nameless until the moment I was born and then she said it “just clicked”

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My parents chose between Amy and Emily. I grew up always having another Amy in my class, so I was used to writing Amy B on all my work.

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When my mom pregnant she was sure I was going to be a boy and really wanted to name me Liam. She asked my dad, thinking I’d be a boy, that if the baby was a girl he could choose the name and if it was a boy she’d get to pick. When I was born, turns out I was a girl, and my dad with no reasoning decided on Jessica Ashley. I don’t not identify with Jessica Ashley at all and have only ever gone by Jess.

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My mom wanted to name me Caroline because she said it reminded her of a princess name. My middle name is Neda which represents my mom's Persian heritage. My grandmother on my mom's side is Italian and likes to call me Carolina for the Italian pronunciation of Caroline. Other members of my family and some of my friends also call me Carolina. Although, having the name Caroline means that I have heard the song Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond many many times.

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My parents liked the name Rachel which means “lamb” in Hebrew

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When I was born the plan was to name me Emma, but at the last second they decided I looked more like a Caroline. The name Caroline has lots of history behind it dating back to Charlemagne. I am NOT named after the song Sweet Caroline. Please don’t sing me that song.

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Lauren was the only name that my parents both liked

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Carolyn Brooker

My parents came about my name because my father wanted to call me Helen and my mom wanted to call me Carley. Carley is an Irish name, which connects my mom's routes. At the time when I was born, we were living in Toronto. My family is from Montreal. My parents were concerned that if we moved to Montreal, people would call me Élenne, instead of Helen. They compromised and called me Carolyn. And I ended up growing up in Montréal!
Actually I Googled my name and it means Songs of Happiness, which is perfect because music makes me happy! :)

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My dad chose my name because he likes it and wanted something he could spell. My mom WARNED my dad that Ashley Abbott is a character on the young and the restless, but he didn’t care. My middle name is Joanne, my grandmother’s name.

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My parents were deciding between two names; Hannah and Julia. My mother was the one to decide to call me Julia, because she loves the movie ‘Pretty Woman’ starring Julia Roberts.

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My mom got my name from her best friend in grade 2. My grandfather was in the Air Force, so as a child my mom moved to a new city/country every year or two years and she found it difficult to make friends sometimes, because she constantly was moving. Holly, her grade 2 best friend, was very friendly and kind to her and that just always stuck with my mom and she decided to name me after her.

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My dad chose my name. In Latin it means “of the sea”, he found the name while studying Latin in university. I was going to be named Molly, but when I was born my mum insisted I “did not look like a Molly”.

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My older brother Kyle wanted a name that was a also four letters like his. My mom wanted to call me Mia and my dad liked the name Lydia. They all came to an agreement on Leah

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When I was born, my parents were choosing between two names, Carter and Ethan. Ironically, they went with Ethan, and not Carter, (popular at the time because of Joe Carters home run in the 1993 World Series). Ethan they just liked. My middle name, Thomas, for the majority of my life I thought was after my uncle. However, this year on my birthday, I found out it was after the doctor who delivered me.

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My mom, who is a teacher, taught a girl named Tessa when she was pregnant with me and thought that it was an interesting and unique name.

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