When your name isn't your name..........
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His real name is LeRoy. Which I just so happened to discover while my uncle Bub was visiting this weekend. *snort* He's the child my great grandmother had in her 50's.
Hound dog
Nana's are Beautiful
LOL Mary. Imagine discovering that at age 40. sheesh
Oh, when I was pregnant with Travis, I had a neighbor (also pregnant/due any day) ask what boys names I had picked out. I told her I hadn't decided between Brandon and Travis. Next thing I knew she had her baby and had named him Travis. But couldn't come up with a middle name so it was just the letter J. lol
Oh, when I was pregnant with Travis, I had a neighbor (also pregnant/due any day) ask what boys names I had picked out. I told her I hadn't decided between Brandon and Travis. Next thing I knew she had her baby and had named him Travis. But couldn't come up with a middle name so it was just the letter J. lol
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flutterbee
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Devon's friend's middle name is W. It was supposed to be William, but his mom thought all they wanted was a middle initial (this wasn't her first kid - she must have been on drugs LOL). So, his official middle name is W.
amazeofgrace
A maze of Grace - that about sums it up
well my Uncle John went by Jack, and I have a friend named Fantasy.
MyFriendKita
Active Member
My paternal grandfather was named John, but his brother couldn't say "John," so he called my grandfather "Don." And he went by "Don" his entire life. I didn't know until recently that his name wasn't really Don. Even Social Security had him listed as "Don." My dad was supposedly named after him, but my dad's name is Donald, not Don or John.
Abbey
Spork Queen
This is too funny. I still have a birth certificate that I am Gertrude Arvid Uhrmacher. Fortunately, it was legally changed, but much of my family still calls me Gertie.
I LOVE that.
Most of my adult years I've been called Abbey. It's just easy. When they find out my real name is Deborah, they all ask...is it Deb, Deborah, Debra, Debbie? Just Abbey is fine.
My dad's name is Sherwood Dixie U, but has been known as 'Dick' (sorry for the snicker) for most of his life. He grew up being called Sherry. To the day my grandmother died, she always called him Sherry. Imagine that for a guy. Who would name their kid Sherwood???
Abbey
I LOVE that.
Most of my adult years I've been called Abbey. It's just easy. When they find out my real name is Deborah, they all ask...is it Deb, Deborah, Debra, Debbie? Just Abbey is fine.
My dad's name is Sherwood Dixie U, but has been known as 'Dick' (sorry for the snicker) for most of his life. He grew up being called Sherry. To the day my grandmother died, she always called him Sherry. Imagine that for a guy. Who would name their kid Sherwood???
Abbey
Big Bad Kitty
lolcat
Sherry! OMG.
You'd think she would have given him a more masculine name.
You know. Like Alice.
You'd think she would have given him a more masculine name.
You know. Like Alice.
DammitJanet
Well-Known Member
abbey is really a Gertie? OMG...lmao. Lord the things we do to kids.
Tony...bless his heart...is named after his grandfather. Now thankfully his mom and dad had some decency in them because his grandfathers name was Hobston Theodore H. Tonys name is Anthony Theodore M. His grandmother wanted him to be named Hobston Theodore M. Thankfully saner heads prevailed. However, Grandmother called her husband Hob and the rest of the family calls Tony Theodore but when I met him I told him I simply couldnt call a grown man a chipmunks name and asked him if he had a middle name...the story came out and I called him Tony from there on out. We can tell "my/our" friends from "his" friends by what they call him...lol.
Tony...bless his heart...is named after his grandfather. Now thankfully his mom and dad had some decency in them because his grandfathers name was Hobston Theodore H. Tonys name is Anthony Theodore M. His grandmother wanted him to be named Hobston Theodore M. Thankfully saner heads prevailed. However, Grandmother called her husband Hob and the rest of the family calls Tony Theodore but when I met him I told him I simply couldnt call a grown man a chipmunks name and asked him if he had a middle name...the story came out and I called him Tony from there on out. We can tell "my/our" friends from "his" friends by what they call him...lol.
trinityroyal
Well-Known Member
Yup.
All of this has reminded me of my uncle, my Grannie's 8th and youngest child. I guess she was tired of thinking up names, because she gave her older children permission to name the youngest.
(NOTE TO ALL: Don't ever let your older children name your youngest!)
They were reading an adventure story, who's hero was called Blaydud the Great (or something like that), so they decided to name their baby brother Blaydud.
On the day of his baptism, when the priest was told the baby's name, he said, "You can't call him that!" The priest picked a name off the top of his head, which was entered in the registry.
My uncle has been known as Wilberne ever since
All of this has reminded me of my uncle, my Grannie's 8th and youngest child. I guess she was tired of thinking up names, because she gave her older children permission to name the youngest.
(NOTE TO ALL: Don't ever let your older children name your youngest!)
They were reading an adventure story, who's hero was called Blaydud the Great (or something like that), so they decided to name their baby brother Blaydud.
On the day of his baptism, when the priest was told the baby's name, he said, "You can't call him that!" The priest picked a name off the top of his head, which was entered in the registry.
My uncle has been known as Wilberne ever since
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flutterbee
Guest
I'm so confused. 
I can't keep up with all the different names and nicknames and and and...
I went to school with a girl who's grandfather's name was William William Williams. Just....why?
I can't keep up with all the different names and nicknames and and and...I went to school with a girl who's grandfather's name was William William Williams. Just....why?
mrscatinthehat
Seussical
I have an uncle Butch. His real name is Harold. Not sure how that name came about. I had a friend in high school whose name was Margaret but she was Marty. And of course when my dad was alive my name was Fred.
Beth
Beth
My great gma was a bit resentful of her mother in law, because mother in law took one of the babies to the Church (Catholic Church) to be baptized while mom was still recovering from childbirth - and named her something totally different! So aunt Esther was NOT Aunt whateverIcan'tremember. Heer mother in law atually tried to have one of her other kids re-baptized to change the name also.
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flutterbee
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My dad's name is Jack. My uncle married a Jackie. My grandmother always called my dad "Jackie" (gag, puke, choke). So, then we had Big Jackie and Little Jackie. My dad was Little Jackie. Again, gag puke choke.
donna723
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My English sister-in-law had her name changed too, by her older brothers and sisters. She was the youngest of nine kids, very spread out in age, some grown by the time she was born. At the time you had to go to some type of government office to register the birth of a child and get a birth certificate. Her parents had picked out a really awful, horrible name for her and sent some of the older siblings to the registry office. On their way there the brothers and sisters decided that they couldn't allow an innocent baby to be given such an awful name, so they conferred and picked out another name that they all liked and registered her under that name. Her mother had a fit when they came home and showed her the paperwork with a completely different name than what she had picked out! But it was too late to change it and she soon got over it.
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