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My mom wanted to name me Cassie but my dad didn't like that, so they decided on Calli. My last name, MacNeil, shows my Scottish cultural heritage.

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My parents let my older sister, who was 7 at the time, pick my name. She named me after her best friend in grade 1, they haven’t been friends since grade 1.

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My parents originally thought I was going to be a boy, and they were going to name me Joshua. Then, when they ended up having a girl, they didn't know what to name me. My sister ended up being the one to pick my name, and she chose Sara based on a mean character from a dinosaur cartoon.

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My last name is from my Father, it means quagmire or swamp in Italian. My father immigrated from Italy when he was 2, and my mother immigrated from Portugal when she was 9. Her last name means snow in Portuguese, which is why I have a snowflake tattoo. Natasha is my aunt's name who is my godmother. Sofia means wisdom, but besides that my mom thought about naming me Dulce... thank goodness my Dad vetoed it.

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My name is Tomasso because I was born a few days after St. Thomas day (January 30th). I am Italian so they changed it from Thomas to Tomasso.

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This of a saint named thomas who is catholic and italian

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I am named after my grandfather who's name was Jake. My last name Steringa, is dutch and where my grandparents are from.

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My name is Nicole. My mom named me after one of her mentors when she was in school to become a nurse. She said this women was the reason she stayed in nursing, and was a big inspiration to her.

My last name is Trevisani which is Italian. My grandfather immigrated from Italy when he was 7 years old.

My middle name is Marie which is my grandmothers middle name.

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My parents are from two different countries (Denmark and Italy), so they wanted a name that was easy to pronounce/is popular in both of their cultures.

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Also...the name sara means "princess." :D

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My name is Caitlyn Grace Hellard.

My first name my parents both liked. They also really liked the name Kayla. They ultimately decided on Caitlyn because they liked the "lyn" sound. "The name Caitlyn means "pure" and is an Irish and Greek name." They also chose a unique spelling. My middle name is Grace and I am named after my great grandmother on my dad's side. I never met her but the name Grace is used a lot in my family.

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My dad wanted to name me Sky, but my mom did not like that and wanted something longer, so, she added three more letters and they decided on Skylar. Most of my friends and family just call me Sky. When people are spelling my name they generally ask Skylar with a or with an e? I love my name and I also love sunrises and the physical sky so I like that my name matches that.

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My first name comes from a book in the hospital as i was born 9 weeks early and my parents hadn't decided on a name yet. My two middle names come from my great great grandpa and the David part comes from a name my older brother came up with the day I was born. My last name is Scottish in origin and has a raven crest.

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My dad wanted to name me Emma. My mom said it wasn't French enough, so they landed on Émilie. She's very proud of her Franco-Ontarian heritage, so it was important to her for my name to reflect that. My last name is Hollingsworth, and it is of Irish origin.

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A biblical name, as my family is Catholic.

All my siblings' names also begin with the letter C.

Schyvenaars last name - dutch from my grandparents who immigrated from the Netherlands after WW2.

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My name was almost Elanor; my Dad is a big Lord of the Rings fan and wanted to name me after a character named Elanor from the series. Unfortunately, a few months before I was born, his cousin had a daughter and named her Elanor! So they went with their second choice, which was Emily. They say they "just liked the name," but I have always complained to them about how basic it is! Picture is of the character I was almost named after :)

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My mum wanted a name that wasn't very common and she didn't know any Maya's at the time or place where I was born. Ironically now it's popular. My last name is from grandpa who is from Turkey. He moved to the UK for uni where he met my grandmother.

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My name is Abigail (Abby) Walsh! Both of my parents named me and my parents had my name picked out but I would have been names my brothers name (Benjamin) if I was a boy. I do not have an interesting story regarding my first name. However, my last name comes from my grandparents who adapted my dad from birth! My last name means a lot to me because it comes from my grandparents who raised my dad:)

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My name is Kayleigh. My last name is Uppal, which is Indian. My dad's whole family was born in India. Since I have an Indian last name, my mom really wanted me to have an Irish first name. First, my parents wanted to name me Paige, but then they realized my initials would've been P U, so they made that my middle name. My parents ended up going with Kayleigh in the end because they liked the name and it's Irish.

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My first name was inspired by my dad's favourite singer, Steven Tyler. His nickname for me was "T-bird" from the car.

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The Origin of my first name is Xristo. My name is the Greek version of Christ. I am named after my late grandfather. My middle name is Theodoros after my dad, who goes by his English name Terry. My Papou always pulled my ear on Christmas because it is my name day, and in the Greek culture, your name day is a big deal. So Christmas was my name day, and the birth of Christ

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I think my parents chose my first name simply because they liked it, but coincidentally or not, my mother's name also starts with an H, so we have the same first/last initials. My last name is probably English - there's a similar name "Davies" from Wales, but my paternal ancestors seem to be mostly from a part of England near Wales.

Both my first and last names have alternate spellings, so I'm used to spelling them out over the phone, but in Canada, at least, that was never a problem. When I lived in Germany, however, my first name was CONSISTENTLY spelled wrong ("Hanna" instead of "Hannah"). People would type in my email address, which contains my full name, and still spell my name wrong in the body of the email. They'd respond to text messages clearly showing my name and still spell it wrong. They didn't really pronounce it right either, but I didn't care so much since it was more of an accent thing, but the constant spelling errors did bug me.

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My parents are Tamil Sri Lankans and Tamils often use numerology to name their kids. My brother was named after a past king and my parents wanted a name that rolled off the tongue similarly while being unique. Using numerology and my brother's name, they found a unique sounding name that is similar to Tamil names. I am yet to meet someone with the same name as me but have met a few people with names that are quite similar.

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My parents are born and raised in Croatia and they immigrated to Canada when they were 30 years old. They named me after a famous Croatian singer named Doris Dragovic! My first name means "gift". My last name means "Christmas" in Croatian.

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My name is Jacob Victor. I'm pretty sure my dad chose my first name for me. Not too sure why he chose it, but he and I both have the same initials now. Both of my names have British heritage to them. I have quite a few nicknames like Jake, JV, Vic, and a couple of others that are short versions of my full name.

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My Full Name is Jeffrey Austin Yee.

My parents tell me that the most likely name they would give me was James. But at some point during my mom's pregnancy they met a Dr. Jeffrey. (as a last name). They didn't have any particular familiarity with this doctor, but they decided they liked the name.

My middle name (Austin) is the same as my Dad's, which is allegedly the name of a man who helped my Grandmother come to Canada in the 60s.

And my last name (Yee) is Chinese, I don't have any short story behind my family name, because it would become my family story.

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My parents named me together, I believe my dad was the one who made the final decision. The popularity of the name Jennifer was going down at the time but they was still a decent amount of known singers/celebrities with the name Jennifer at the time so it was just commonly around still, and my sister who is a year older is named Jessica and they liked the 2 "matching" names.

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When my parents were thinking about what they were going to name me, my dad proposed Drew, after Drew Bledsoe who had just been drafted to the NFL by the New England Patriots. My mom thought that a more complete name would be better so they named me Andrew. My nickname is Drew but most people call me Andrew. Andrew comes from the Greek which means strong, manly and courageous.

My last name Wing comes from the county of Buckinghamshire in England. My great grandfather, Maurice Wing, immigrated to Canada from England in 1920, and settled in Saskatchewan.

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My name is Yvonne and my dad was the one who named me. As soon as he learned that my mom was pregnant, he told her, “You’re having a girl and her name will be Yvonne.” My mom was shocked and said, “Why do you get to choose?” and his response, “Yvonne was my mother’s name.” My mom said, she couldn’t argue with that, so I was named Yvonne after one grandma, and my middle name is after my other grandma.

My name means, Yew Tree and it is the feminine version of the Yvon. My dad always told me it meant archer because yew used to be used for bows. It is a French name, my grandmother was Acadian French, my grandfather on my mom’s side is Quebec French. I have a lot of French in my name and everyone expects me to speak French but I speak very minimal French.

I don’t have a nickname and I prefer it that way. I always liked my name because it was different, at least in Ontario. People sometimes mispronounce to “Evan” or “Ivan.” That’s ok, I won’t be offended.

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Screenshot 2025-09-11 at 12-36-41 Country diary The ancient yew hard as iron yet flowing like water Trees and forests The Guardian

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My mother chose my name. She said that she named me after a city in Palestine. My last name is Hagi, which is the title given to someone who goes to Mecca to perform Hajj. Hajj is a holy pilgrimage that Muslims make. My grandfather made the pilgrimage by boat and on foot from East Africa to Saudi Arabia.

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My dad wanted to name me Jennifer, but my mom hated the name so they named me Mackenzie. After a quick google search, however, it appears that it is Scottish. This makes sense because I am Scottish and my last name has its own clan and crest. The crest is red and green, and its slogan is "touch not the cat bot a glove".

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My parents liked the name Alexandra because they thought it was a strong name. Although my full name is Alexandra, most people call me Alex.

My last name Henshaw is a name that comes from England.

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My great grandfather on my moms side who’s name was William died in a car accident, and my grandfather on my dads side name was William (Bill) and my dads name was also William but goes by Jeff now. So from what I understand they wanted to continue to pass down the name. The Manley name os Scottish (dads side) and Morris name is Irish (moms side).

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My parents couldn't agree on a name for me, but a couple weeks before I was born my mom found my name reading a baby names book and loved it, and my dad did too.

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My name is Jillian which means "youthful", however I am not named after anyone in particular. My parents both liked the name so I ended up as Jillian. My middle name is Leah and that name came from a very good friend of my parents.

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A painting of me, done by my friend Isaac MacDonald in 2019

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My parents came across Noah while looking through baby names and they both liked it. But they struggled to agree on a girl's name they both liked, and were relieved when I was born a boy. When they told my great-grandmother my name, she told them that Noah is actually my great-great-grandfather's name, and she gave me his pocket watch (with his name engraved on it) as a gift.