Hey Pandas, What's The Story Behind The Name Your Parents Gave You?

My first name is Seth, and my middle name is Osiris. My parents named me and all my siblings after god's of different cultures

No first for you! But my middle name is Jolene. You know Dolly Parton's song Jolene. Yeah, that is where my beautiful Middle name come from. I love my middle name 🙃

My name is Anna, i was named after my grandmother who died a lil over a year before i was born... i think i fit her name perfectly hehe😁

Not me, but my best friend was named Danielle after her father's favorite band Twisted Sisters lead singer Dee (Daniel) Snyder. Even better, few years later, her father, Twisted Sisters number one fan had another child, a boy. That they name Daniel after Dee Snyder.

My name is Caroline and my middle name is Elissa. My mom and aunt made a deal that they would name the middle name of their first child their name. So my cousin's middle name is my mom's name and my middle name is my aunt's name. I got my first name because my mother's college roommate's name was Caroline, but I like to think it's because my great-great-great-great grandma's name was caroline too.

My family and I live in the most north county of the Netherlands, Friesland. This is the only county in the Netherlands with its own language.
I was born in august and my parents named me the Frisian word for summer: Simmer :)

My mom tells everyone in named after the Bible. But no. One night while we were drinking she told me that my first and middle names are from people on a soap opera she used to watch in 1988. Joshua Brent.

My parents had an index card they used as a bookmark when looking at baby names and each of them wrote names they liked on their respective side of the notecard. Bethany was the only name on both sides.

Twist ending: they just thought it was pretty, and didn't think much about it. My brothers both got meaningful names, not much concern for aesthetic. Meaning of my name: house of affliction. I feel afflicted alright

My mother always wanted a girl. She was determined to have her little Abigail May. She had me via C-Section and while she was knocked out Dad filled out birth certificate. Not giving y'all my real name but its not Abigail May. Mom was a bit pissed when she woke up and got a little girl who's first name started on the other end of the alphabet! I can't complain though - I'm not an Abby May - nope I fit the name he gave me pretty well.

My Dad said he'd always wanted to know someone with my name, so he wrote it on my birth certificate while my mother was recovering at another hospital. She'd told him she hated the name. They're divorced now.

My mom wanted me to have my dad's name, but my dad didn't want to place a burden on me - that I would have to live up to his legacy. There was also a desire for me to have a biblical name.

One day, while my mom was doing dishes, my dad walked into the kitchen and said "Ezekiel Edward". Mom said that she loved it. Ezekiel is my dad's favorite prophet in the Bible, and Ezekiel 37 is one of my mom's favorite chapters in the Bible. Also, my middle name is my dad's first name! So it all worked out :)

Fun fact: my nickname "Eze" came from Denzel Washington's character's nickname in "Devil in a Blue Dress."

A mix of an actress my parents like to watch and my great aunt that I never meant.

My brother was to be named in deference to the granddads. Olyn and Andres. My brother was born (1956) and my parents thought Lynn Andres or Andres Lynn basically put him on a Boy Named Sue life path. He got Jon David. A nod to our dad. I pop up in 1964 and I get Andrea Lynn. We both lucked out. Younger brother is named after moms ob/gyn. Stephan Andrew is a fine dudes name. Still references my dad's dad.

I was named after my Dad's highschool girlfriend.

I was supposed to be a boy.. Daniel. Dad heard the song "Aubrey" by the band Bread earlier in the day and went with that.

Little did he know that Aubrey was mostly considerd a "boys name" in the 70's so I got a lot of free Gillette "mens" razors in the mail when I hit my teens along with free subscriptions to sports mags and the like.

The origin of the name is "Keeper of the Elves"... I definitely live up to that. I have a tendency to be overly protective of my kids and fam.

My middle name is Darling. 5 generations ago my grandfather served under Stephen F. Austin and Captain R. Goheen. And later serving under Sam Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto.

“ Among his other land transactions was an act of philanthrophy and benevolence which was supportive of higher education and religion when he donated 320 acres of his Bastrop County land to the President and Trustees of Baylor University in 1852, while it was located at Washington before moving to Waco. By this act, he demonstrated his vision into the future needs of a developing Texas, and provided his personal endowment to aid in their fulfillment.”
Here’s the website link if you want to check it out.
http://www.fourhorsemenofthetexasapocalypse.com/john-socrates-darling.html

I'm semi-named after a tennis player (my parents were watching tennis and liked that name so they named me that). My middle name is the same as my mom's (named after her great-grandmother, I think).

My grandmother basically picked out my name and my parents liked it and went along with it.

My name was meant to be a combo of my mom and dad's name, but if you combine the Greek (Lord/Lady) and Irish (little thing of darkness), i am the Dark Lord. My parents unintendedly named me Voldemort.

MY legal name is the same as my dads. I’m a girl. But my nickname is made up of the same letters of my moms name!