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Help[Opinions] Origins and Meanings that parents insist upon
So I'm sure it's not uncommon to hear about how a parent came up with their kid's name only for it to be vastly different than what is found on BehindTheName. Or for a parent to insist upon a specific meaning for the name, yet that's not what is found on this or any other site. At all.
My younger sister for example; Our father, Richard, wanted to name her after himself. He figured the creative way to do it was to remove two letters and alter one letter by removing/bending its stem depending on what font you were looking at, thus winding up with Chara. I have doubts he even knew it was Greek in origin [according to this site, at least], as his family history is generally Anglo-Saxon.
Of course, I'm not sure about the popularity of the name until a certain video game brought it to light, but the media has that effect on the populous.
How about you? Have you heard clever or unusual ways that parents wound up naming their kids?
My younger sister for example; Our father, Richard, wanted to name her after himself. He figured the creative way to do it was to remove two letters and alter one letter by removing/bending its stem depending on what font you were looking at, thus winding up with Chara. I have doubts he even knew it was Greek in origin [according to this site, at least], as his family history is generally Anglo-Saxon.
Of course, I'm not sure about the popularity of the name until a certain video game brought it to light, but the media has that effect on the populous.
How about you? Have you heard clever or unusual ways that parents wound up naming their kids?
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