First Names
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lozzy_girl.
My source of information is the Baby Name Finder at www.ivillage.com. I recommend it for it's comprehensiveness and ease of use.
What does your first name(s) mean? "Bright; distinguished." Latin origins, English/Welsh ethnic background, which is a little weird when you consider that there's a county in Ireland called Clare. I've also read in other places that it means unique. I'm named after St. Clare of Montefalco, which is in Italy. She was very religious, had a closed convent I think and when she died, they found the instruments of the passion engraved on her heart. I think. Don't quote me, ask a priest.
What does your middle name mean? Marie means: "The perfect one; bitter; with sorrow." My Croat grandmother (who died 10 years before I was born) was called Maria but I don't know if the name is after her or not.
What does your last name mean?: No idea. We have our own crest thing, which is up in the attic but on the wall at my granddad's flat.... I'm told it's from the North of England in some manner. Us common Cockneys changed the pronunciation, an' all.
So what does your name mean when put together?: The bright, distinguished, perfect and bitter one with no idea what the last bit means.
What would you have been named if you were the opposite gender? Well, my mum and dad knew that they were getting a little girl- my mum came to see me in the hospital and everything. My brother, on the other hand, was going to be called John Paul but the nuns at the adoption agency begged her not to inflict yet another Catholic baby called John Paul on the world. George Ringo wasn't really viable so my godfather came up with Michael. I think he came up with Clare Marie too. If I were a boy I'd like to be called Dean or Flynn, for obvious reasons.
Any other name oddities? It wasn't the name I was born with. My birth mother had to give me a name, so she called me Laura Mary. SO glad my parents decided to renname me- do you know how many bloody Lauras I know?
Do you like your name? I'd like it a whole lot more if people spelled it right. After seven years at Stanborough, they still spelled it Claire on my a level envelope. Bloody typical, really. And nobody ever pronounces Worley right. Or they spell it Wirley. It's wur-lee people. Not whar-lee or woor-lee. OK? Good.
What do you like best about it?: That nobody else has a name like it. Although gazillions of people have Marie as a middle name, nobody has the Clare and Worley combo around it. And one day, mark my words, everyone will know my name. :D
What do you like least about it? That I have to spell both my names to people in offices or for appointments or... anything. I once corrected the Head of PE in front of my entire year when he mispronounced Worley. Normally I wouldn't have minded but I'd been in the school for five years already and my brother was his year 8 footie marvel. He was a twat anyway.
If you HAD to change your name (witness protection program, whatever), what would you want it to be?: Ava, maybe. I'd pick a movie related name. Hello, my name is Sugar Kane, how may I help you? Ummm... I'd probably pick something Irish and obscure. Grainne O'Coilean or something like that. Or perhaps something really un-obvious with roots in Egypt or Greece or something nobody would ever suspect. Helga Christianssen maybe. I mean, if it's witness protection, I'll want to disappear, right? Am I looking too much into this?
lozzy_girl.My source of information is the Baby Name Finder at www.ivillage.com. I recommend it for it's comprehensiveness and ease of use.
What does your first name(s) mean? "Bright; distinguished." Latin origins, English/Welsh ethnic background, which is a little weird when you consider that there's a county in Ireland called Clare. I've also read in other places that it means unique. I'm named after St. Clare of Montefalco, which is in Italy. She was very religious, had a closed convent I think and when she died, they found the instruments of the passion engraved on her heart. I think. Don't quote me, ask a priest.
What does your middle name mean? Marie means: "The perfect one; bitter; with sorrow." My Croat grandmother (who died 10 years before I was born) was called Maria but I don't know if the name is after her or not.
What does your last name mean?: No idea. We have our own crest thing, which is up in the attic but on the wall at my granddad's flat.... I'm told it's from the North of England in some manner. Us common Cockneys changed the pronunciation, an' all.
So what does your name mean when put together?: The bright, distinguished, perfect and bitter one with no idea what the last bit means.
What would you have been named if you were the opposite gender? Well, my mum and dad knew that they were getting a little girl- my mum came to see me in the hospital and everything. My brother, on the other hand, was going to be called John Paul but the nuns at the adoption agency begged her not to inflict yet another Catholic baby called John Paul on the world. George Ringo wasn't really viable so my godfather came up with Michael. I think he came up with Clare Marie too. If I were a boy I'd like to be called Dean or Flynn, for obvious reasons.
Any other name oddities? It wasn't the name I was born with. My birth mother had to give me a name, so she called me Laura Mary. SO glad my parents decided to renname me- do you know how many bloody Lauras I know?
Do you like your name? I'd like it a whole lot more if people spelled it right. After seven years at Stanborough, they still spelled it Claire on my a level envelope. Bloody typical, really. And nobody ever pronounces Worley right. Or they spell it Wirley. It's wur-lee people. Not whar-lee or woor-lee. OK? Good.
What do you like best about it?: That nobody else has a name like it. Although gazillions of people have Marie as a middle name, nobody has the Clare and Worley combo around it. And one day, mark my words, everyone will know my name. :D
What do you like least about it? That I have to spell both my names to people in offices or for appointments or... anything. I once corrected the Head of PE in front of my entire year when he mispronounced Worley. Normally I wouldn't have minded but I'd been in the school for five years already and my brother was his year 8 footie marvel. He was a twat anyway.
If you HAD to change your name (witness protection program, whatever), what would you want it to be?: Ava, maybe. I'd pick a movie related name. Hello, my name is Sugar Kane, how may I help you? Ummm... I'd probably pick something Irish and obscure. Grainne O'Coilean or something like that. Or perhaps something really un-obvious with roots in Egypt or Greece or something nobody would ever suspect. Helga Christianssen maybe. I mean, if it's witness protection, I'll want to disappear, right? Am I looking too much into this?