Was it family? Was it made up?

My name is Meredith Marie Kathleen

Meredith = named after Meredith Baxter (actress from "Family Ties") because my dad had a crush on her

Marie = named after Marie Osmond (the singer) because my dad had a crush on her

Kathleen = name after my great-grandmother, because my mom didn't want me only named after celebrities my dad had crushes on

My name is Lisa Michelle

It was going to be Julie Marie until a month before I was born and one of my moms cousins named her little girl that.

Lisa is the name of my Dads one and only other girlfriend he ever had (my parents met when they were 14)

Michelle just because they liked how it sounded together.

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Sara Jo

Sara- From I don't know where... They just pulled it out of their butts...

Jo- The first name of my mom's best friend.

I'm ultimately happy with my name, since they thought I was going to be a boy until I popped out and surprised them. I was supposed to be Dusty Jo(e) in that case..

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Cassie Jo

Mom wanted to name me Casey, but dad said no, so she said how about Cassie...Ok he said. I don't know where the Jo came from. I know I had a great grandpa Jo ... so maybe? Oh and Cassie was from a Soap Opera she used to watch.

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Lisa Gaye (Yes my middle name gets laughed at a lot)
Lisa - Mama was watching Beat The Clock and loved the contestant on the show, her name was Lisa. When I was born the nurse told Mama, she didn't know if they had a name picked out, but if they didn't I looked like a Lisa. So since Mama already was thinking that, Daddy and her said that is what it will be.

Gaye - is from her name Gaynell.

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Well i was supposed to be John Thomas...mom had no girl name picked out so when i was a girl she named me after karen Valentine (actress in the 70's) and Sue after my aunt her only sister.

Cassie and Sara- not sure which of us sounds more COUNTRY. hahah

Cassie Jo or Karen Sue or Sara Jo

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Karen - I guess we are just a bunch of little country bumpkins!!! I'm continueing the "country" if I have a girl with Rhylee Jo. But I'm still thinking it's gonna be a boy! See I even get to suprise all of you with the sex of my baby. It's going to be as exciting as the day I annouced my BFP, well probably a little more exciting.

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I was going to be named Natalie, but my mom was told by a few friends that they knew a Natalie that was a "whore" lol, so my mom changed her mind. Then both my parents decided on Alejandra. When the nurse, or whoever, wrote my name on the certificate, she spelled my name with an X. So my name is Alexandra. My dad was pissed, and wanted the X to be changed to a J, but my mom liked the way the X looked better.

Alex

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Lynn Rene...
Lynn is my mothers middle name...i dont know where Rene came from.

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Rachel Autumn

Rachel after my greatgrandma and Autumn because I was born in October, but i was supposed to be Eric John. I was pretty impressed with my name since they had no girls names picked when i was born

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Yeah they wanted me to be a boy, but I was the 3rd and final girl. My name was going to be Joshua Paul

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I was supposed to be Darren Matthew Alexander.

But my mom said she "knew" I wasn't a boy.

It sounds like a lot of us were supposed to be boys!


Oops.

My ex wanted to name my son after Walter Payton. NOT! So my ex's next fav. sports player was Ryne Sandberg. I like Ryne, not crazy about the spelling. I did some research and my husband's family is Irish with an Irish last name. The Irish spelling for Ryan is RYNE so I gave in.

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Wtsparkle -going for 3!

My ex husband, if we had kids, wanted to name our boy HAT....fortunealty we didnt have kids together....

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OMG...Meredith I can't stop laughing about your dad!

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My mother told me that she wanted to name me Jennifer, but a neighbor across the street had a baby and named her that, so they had to choose a different name. They actually didn't have any other name picked out for a girl, so one of the nurses suggested my name - and helped out with my middle name, too. If I was a boy, I would have been Jayson because everyone called my dad Jay - even though his name is John (after his father). Interestingly enough, my dad told me a few years back that he has always hated that family members called him Jay. He always introduces himself as John. My mother told me that my dad said the day I was born, "G*d d*mnit, woman, you can't even have a kid right!" I guess he really wanted a boy. When he saw me, though, he changed his mind and liked me after all. My mother is one of those people that twists the truth of things (or outright lies) so I'm not really sure if my dad sad that even. I asked him about it and he said that he doesn't remember saying that. Of course he might have been drunk, so who knows. Okay, that was all TMI.

My mom wanted to name me Cheyanne, but too many people told her it was an ugly name. So she ended up with Sarah (which she swears NO ONE was using that name until after I was born. Of couse, I know a lot of Sarah's who are older than me so I know that she is wrong!)
My middle name is Jennifer. She told me she was going to make it Jennifern b/c Fern was my grandma's name, but for some reason she didn't.
So basically I ended up with the all-american girl's name: Sarah Jennifer (I am pretty sure those were the two most popular names in the early 80's.)

If I were a boy I was going to be Simon. When I HATED that name, so I was always thankful I came out a girl! But now I think Simon is really cute. Hmm... maybe another name for my name list...

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