???? How Did You Get Your Real Name and/or How Did You Pick Your Name On Here ????

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  • disneyfan2008
    disneyfan2008 Member Posts: 6,583 Member
    #42
    Not much of an explanation
    Not much of an explanation for me...I LOVE DISNEY...go as often as I can. IT gets me though bad times (when I am looking forward to trip during bad times) I have been going since it opened in 1971. (started out camping with my parents, then with my family, then value resorts and now we belong to DVC (disney vacation club) WE own a piece of WDW-now we can go more often.

    Denise
  • Angie2U
    Angie2U Member Posts: 2,991
    #43
    mamolady said:

    My parents didn't have a
    My parents didn't have a girls name picked out. I was going to be a boy! I was also late, so my dad had to deploy before I was born. My mom just picked the most common name at the time, Cynthia. I am kind of glad I was suppose to be Darrick Earl.
    My name on here is because of my job. I am a Mammo Tech. It just seemed easy to remember.

    Cindy

    Angela is my birth name,
    Angela is my birth name, but, everyone has always called me Angie, which I like better than Angela. Angela sounds so formal and that really is not me.

    This post is fun! Thanks Susie!
  • Angie2U
    Angie2U Member Posts: 2,991
    #44
    Rague said:

    Isn't it amazing
    Isn't it amazing how many of us 'older' one's parents were told we were going to be a boy in the days before testing..

    My Mom used to talk about
    My Mom used to talk about how if they were carrying the baby low that it would be a boy. Or, if you carried it high, it would be a girl. Has anyone else heard of that? I don't think it worked, but, I remember her talking about that.
  • Angie2U
    Angie2U Member Posts: 2,991
    #45
    susie09 said:

    I am loving reading these
    I am loving reading these posts! Thanks my wonderful pink sisters for sharing this!


    Love you!

    I do too Susie. Your posts
    I do too Susie. Your posts are always so great!
  • missrenee
    missrenee Member Posts: 2,136 Member
    #46
    disneyfan2008 said:

    Not much of an explanation
    Not much of an explanation for me...I LOVE DISNEY...go as often as I can. IT gets me though bad times (when I am looking forward to trip during bad times) I have been going since it opened in 1971. (started out camping with my parents, then with my family, then value resorts and now we belong to DVC (disney vacation club) WE own a piece of WDW-now we can go more often.

    Denise

    My mom was a movie buff
    and saw a film in the early 50's with a French actress named Renee. She liked it so much, she named me Renee. Renee was not a very common name the whole time I was growing up and I loved it for being so different from all the common girl names of the day.

    Now, of course, Renee is much more common, but I still love my name. Evidently mom saw another French actress in a film named Yvonne. Guess what my sister's name is?!!

    By the way, we're not French.

    Hugs, Renee
  • carkris
    carkris Member Posts: 4,553 Member
    #47
    missrenee said:

    My mom was a movie buff
    and saw a film in the early 50's with a French actress named Renee. She liked it so much, she named me Renee. Renee was not a very common name the whole time I was growing up and I loved it for being so different from all the common girl names of the day.

    Now, of course, Renee is much more common, but I still love my name. Evidently mom saw another French actress in a film named Yvonne. Guess what my sister's name is?!!

    By the way, we're not French.

    Hugs, Renee

    My screen name is a combo of
    My screen name is a combo of my daughters who are my mainstay in life. My real nameis Penny, my mother named me after a skier at the time because she liked the name. I cant say I liked it as my maiden name means something too. i was never wanting to be the center of attention, so it made me self concious. Now i like there is rarely anyone named that. I like unusal things but kept my kids name "normal" because of how I felt going up.
  • jnl
    jnl Member Posts: 3,869 Member
    #48
    SIROD said:

    For Mel
    Melanie,

    Good thing your mom didn't realize right away that your eyes were going to be green. Didn't Scarlet have green eyes in the novel?

    I have known several women with the name Scarlet's in my life time. One knows immediately what book was being read at the time of their births. One woman used her middle name for years, then after her divorced went with her first name.

    Best,

    Doris

    My parents wanted to name me
    My parents wanted to name me Lisa, but, they wanted it spelled differently, so, they came up with Leeza. I've always liked it, so, I guess I should thank them someday for my name. lol
  • TraciInLA
    TraciInLA Member Posts: 1,994 Member
    #49
    missrenee said:

    My mom was a movie buff
    and saw a film in the early 50's with a French actress named Renee. She liked it so much, she named me Renee. Renee was not a very common name the whole time I was growing up and I loved it for being so different from all the common girl names of the day.

    Now, of course, Renee is much more common, but I still love my name. Evidently mom saw another French actress in a film named Yvonne. Guess what my sister's name is?!!

    By the way, we're not French.

    Hugs, Renee

    LOL, Renee!
    "By the way, we're not French."

    You almost made me choke on the leftover Thanksgiving pumpkin pie I'm sitting here eating!

    Back then, all those cigarette-smoke-enveloped actors in French films were considered to be terribly glamorous and sophisticated -- I'm sure your mom knew her daughters would grow up to be just as beautiful!

    Traci
  • SIROD
    SIROD Member Posts: 2,194 Member
    #50
    missrenee said:

    My mom was a movie buff
    and saw a film in the early 50's with a French actress named Renee. She liked it so much, she named me Renee. Renee was not a very common name the whole time I was growing up and I loved it for being so different from all the common girl names of the day.

    Now, of course, Renee is much more common, but I still love my name. Evidently mom saw another French actress in a film named Yvonne. Guess what my sister's name is?!!

    By the way, we're not French.

    Hugs, Renee

    To Renee
    I am French and had an uncle name Rene (the male version of that name - he was born in 1916) and knew so many Yvonne's (my mother's generation) that I can't count them. I remember when the name Renee came on the scene, I always liked it, a beautiful name.

    I don't know if Doris is a French, it was my godmother's name and she was French too. That of course is my middle name, not first name.

    Best to you Renee and I hope you are doing A-OK.

    Doris
  • Noel
    Noel Member Posts: 3,095 Member
    #51
    Rague said:

    OOPS!
    Double post!

    I really hate to put the
    I really hate to put the same old boring post up, but, it is also just my name. I wasn't real clever when I joined as to make up something really cool. Interesting post!
  • 24242
    24242 Member Posts: 1,398 Member
    #52
    Interesting
    My parents both readers and Gone With The Wind I guess a fave why my name is Tara after the Hall.

    2 and 4 my favorite numbers on my sports jersey so there they are...

    Tara
  • lizzie17
    lizzie17 Member Posts: 548
    #53
    I was supposed to be a boy, or so they thought!
    Instead of Michael James, I became Carol because I was born near Christmas.

    My screen name, my first rescue kitty.
  • Double Whammy
    Double Whammy Member Posts: 2,832 Member
    #54
    lizzie17 said:

    I was supposed to be a boy, or so they thought!
    Instead of Michael James, I became Carol because I was born near Christmas.

    My screen name, my first rescue kitty.

    I have no idea!
    I just know that I didn't get a middle name because my parents thought Suzanne was long enough and sort of like 2 names anyway. My last name was 10 letters and it was a lot to write. Now I use my maiden name as my middle name because my last name is only 4 letters. I don't like to be called Sue or Susan simply because they're not my name. Most people call me Suzanne. Some of my friends call me "Suz" as does my husband.

    I chose my screen name "Double Whammy" because I was diagnosed with 2 primary cancers (endometrial and then breast) 4 days apart - a double whammy indeed!

    It's fun to learn how others chose their screen names.

    Suzanne
  • DebbyM
    DebbyM Member Posts: 3,289 Member
    #55
    debsweb18 said:

    Didn't everybody
    Didn't everybody name their daughters Debbie in the 50s? Probably because of Debbie Reynolds. There were 7 Debbie's in my 2nd grade class. Always hated it! When I started using the internet and had to pick a name for the web page I set up, I came up with debsweb. I started using it for a lot of my user names and when I found it taken I added the 18 for the day of my birth.

    Susan- My best friend in 8th grade is named Susan and hated Sue or any version. She said her name is SuSAN. So I started calling her Zan.

    This post is so fun and so
    This post is so fun and so interesting! Love it!
  • chutzpah
    chutzpah Member Posts: 2
    #56
    Double Whammy said:

    I have no idea!
    I just know that I didn't get a middle name because my parents thought Suzanne was long enough and sort of like 2 names anyway. My last name was 10 letters and it was a lot to write. Now I use my maiden name as my middle name because my last name is only 4 letters. I don't like to be called Sue or Susan simply because they're not my name. Most people call me Suzanne. Some of my friends call me "Suz" as does my husband.

    I chose my screen name "Double Whammy" because I was diagnosed with 2 primary cancers (endometrial and then breast) 4 days apart - a double whammy indeed!

    It's fun to learn how others chose their screen names.

    Suzanne

    I picked my nic as chutzpah
    I picked my nic as chutzpah cause everyone needs some. Chutzpah is a yiddish word with many meanings the way I use it is to mean supreme self-confidence : nerve, gall.
    Like others on this board my parents were looking forward to having a boy, so I wound up with the feminine version of Charles
  • DianeBC
    DianeBC Member Posts: 3,881 Member
    #57
    disneyfan2008 said:

    Not much of an explanation
    Not much of an explanation for me...I LOVE DISNEY...go as often as I can. IT gets me though bad times (when I am looking forward to trip during bad times) I have been going since it opened in 1971. (started out camping with my parents, then with my family, then value resorts and now we belong to DVC (disney vacation club) WE own a piece of WDW-now we can go more often.

    Denise

    I have enjoyed reading how
    I have enjoyed reading how everyone got their birth name and how they picked theirs on here too. I wondered about a few on here how them came up with theirs here. Thanks Susie for another interesting and fun post! I don't know how you come up with these, but, keep them coming.


    Hugs, Diane
  • Different Ballgame
    Different Ballgame Member Posts: 868
    #58
    Janelle & Different Ballgame
    1. Janelle: I was named after my father's dancing partner who was the best dancer that he ever had for a partner. (I always said that my mother was not a jealous woman.) I do believe that my mother chose the name. Back in the 1930's, there were many dance halls that also sponsored dancing contests with the winner getting money and a trophy. My father and his partner won many contests.

    2. Different Ballgame: I ended up getting a recurrence on the scar of my mastectomy (0 stage DCIS) three years after the initial breast cancer. People (other than some close friends and family) did not know what to say to me or how to react when they found out that I had a recurrence. Things were different with the second cancer. Hence, it was a different ballgame.
  • jnl
    jnl Member Posts: 3,869 Member
    #59
    Different Ballgame said:

    Janelle & Different Ballgame
    1. Janelle: I was named after my father's dancing partner who was the best dancer that he ever had for a partner. (I always said that my mother was not a jealous woman.) I do believe that my mother chose the name. Back in the 1930's, there were many dance halls that also sponsored dancing contests with the winner getting money and a trophy. My father and his partner won many contests.

    2. Different Ballgame: I ended up getting a recurrence on the scar of my mastectomy (0 stage DCIS) three years after the initial breast cancer. People (other than some close friends and family) did not know what to say to me or how to react when they found out that I had a recurrence. Things were different with the second cancer. Hence, it was a different ballgame.

    Janelle, that is so
    Janelle, that is so interesting about your name. I don't know another Janelle and I love the story behind how you got it. I am sorry how you got your screen name here..

    Leeza
  • AngieD
    AngieD Member Posts: 493
    #60
    jnl said:

    Janelle, that is so
    Janelle, that is so interesting about your name. I don't know another Janelle and I love the story behind how you got it. I am sorry how you got your screen name here..

    Leeza

    Suzanne, I don't have a
    Suzanne, I don't have a middle name either. My parents named me Angelyn and thought that was long enough. It caused much distress for the Registrar's Office in college and they kept calling me in to complete my records. Apparently the workers there did not get "NMI". Like you, I now just use my maiden name for a middle name.
    When I met my husband, he started calling me Angie. So, no creativity with my screen name.
    Angie
  • Ritzy
    Ritzy Member Posts: 4,381 Member
    #61
    lintx said:

    My name came from Dad
    He wanted me to have the same initials and by giving me his middle name, it worked. I don't like it, so am just Linda. I chose lintx for the site because I'm Linda from TX!

    A simple story lol
    I am obsessed with Ritz crackers. Well maybe not obsessed, but, I love them. So, that's why the name Ritzy on here. Come on, doesn't everything taste better on a Ritz cracker?!


    Sue :)

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