How did you get your name?

Hazel Mae Bagarinao · Post by **Hazel Mae Bagarinao** » 12 Jul 2023, 01:23

The Keeper Jr wrote: ↑12 Jul 2023, 01:15
Hazel Mae Bagarinao wrote: ↑11 Jul 2023, 16:32
What a beautiful name, Keeper/ Abdullah!
Keeper actually isn't my name. It's just my username here .

I thought so

Shilpy Bhasin · Post by **Shilpy Bhasin** » 24 Sep 2023, 01:40

I was named by grandfather after he saw my long and slender fingers when I was born. "Shilpy" in Hindi is a sculptor, basically a creative person. I am still trying to search for my creative niche....

oceanqueen7 · Post by **oceanqueen7** » 30 Apr 2025, 17:21

Daccari Buchelli wrote: ↑02 Jul 2017, 06:35 I actually changed my name when I turned 20 for personal reasons.
It came to me in a dream and it simply fit my personality.

-- 02 Jul 2017, 06:38 --

I changed my name when I was 20 for personal reasons.
The ideal name came to me in a dream and fit my personality perfectly.

Same here, since I hated my birth name (Sheila). People always made fun of it, including someone in middle school with the very same name, so if she kept it, that's punishment enough. I got my current name (Lisa) from the movie Dirty Dancing (Baby's sister, not Patrick Swayze's widow), even though my cousin Lisa had it first, since she was born in 1985 and the movie came out in 1987. If you think about it, I actually got my present name from my old name, since you just take the "he" out and reverse the "s" and the "l" and you get Lisa.

I learned later that it wasn't what my Mom wanted to originally name me. She wanted to name me Nicole and call me Nicki for short after a relative named Nicholas (but the feminine version). My biological father didn't like that and wanted to call me Cheryl, which my Mom didn't like since it reminded her of someone she used to know and didn't want me turning out like her. I knew a Sheryl in high school, but she spelled it with an "S" instead of a "C".

I also had a friend named Lisa and she never got teased for her name, so that might be another reason I always liked the name. I ran into her not that long ago and had to correct her, but she easily forgot and introduced me with my birth name instead of my new name (old habits die hard). My cousin Lisa seemed to be okay with it when my Mom asked her about it (I got it more from the movie than her, it was just a coincidence that my aunt and uncle liked the same name, but she has a middle name and I never did. My eldest aunt is the only other person in the family without a middle name), so now there are two Lisas and two Peters (was three when my grandfather was still alive), but we have different last names, since my cousin Lisa has my mother's maiden name and I have her first married name (she's remarried and has a different last name).