Are you named after anyone?

RichN95.

I was wondering if anyone here - real names - is named after anyone? First name, middle name, famous person, family member - it doesn't matter.

I ask this as I'm named Richard after the largely boring, anti-semitic, opera composer Richard Wagner, which I've never really been happy about. My dad is a huge fan and slipped that one passed my mother. By contrast my brother is called Alistair because it was the first name in the A-Z of baby names that neither of them disliked (despite the 5 year old me lobbying hard for Paddington).

finchy

I was named after George Best.

Lagavulin

Wagner plus a battery sapping Nokia. Respect.

Pokerface

My Dad is a life-long Manchester City fan. I was named after Colin Bell.

Mr_Cellophane

My maternal grandfather

RichN95.

Lagavulin wrote:

Wagner plus a battery sapping Nokia. Respect.

Not quite. N is the intial of my surname and the 95 was my locker number at school.

shouldbeinbed

I'm 4th generation eldest son to have my middle name and my eldest is 5th gen to have it.

Next son's middle name is Ford as in Prefect from Hitch Hikers guide - and it goes well with his first name.

Got 1 dog called Dante after Alighieri and another called Barnstoneworth after an episode of Ripping Yarns. Mrs wouldn't let me call a child Barnstoneworth.

fleshtuxedo

shouldbeinbed wrote:

I'm 4th generation eldest son to have my middle name and my eldest is 5th gen to have it.

Next son's middle name is Ford as in Prefect from Hitch Hikers guide - and it goes well with his first name.

Got 1 dog called Dante after Alighieri and another called Barnstoneworth after an episode of Ripping Yarns. Mrs wouldn't let me call a child Barnstoneworth.

And we have a winner in the 2010 "most middle class post" category

richk

Winston Churchill 8)

rick_chasey

The rule in our family is that the first name must not be name used in the previous 2 generations, and the middle name is a name from the previous generation.


Having said that, my name isn't actually Rick Chasey.

That would be a rubbish name.

fleshtuxedo

My middle name is Frank after my grandad. I was very embarrassed as a young chap but I really like it now.

shouldbeinbed

FleshTuxedo wrote:

shouldbeinbed wrote:

I'm 4th generation eldest son to have my middle name and my eldest is 5th gen to have it.

Next son's middle name is Ford as in Prefect from Hitch Hikers guide - and it goes well with his first name.

Got 1 dog called Dante after Alighieri and another called Barnstoneworth after an episode of Ripping Yarns. Mrs wouldn't let me call a child Barnstoneworth.

And we have a winner in the 2010 "most middle class post" category

:shock: which bit? if only you knew my ancestry, country houses all the way

Unfortunately only servants and delivering to the places, nearest we get to posh is one interesting census bit in the mid 1800s my great x? Granny getting knocked up by by 'unknown son of a gentleman' doesn't seem to have ended well for her and the child disappears v quickly.

Getting back up to speed with the family tree stuff my dad left when he died. Quite intetesting stuff.

TLDNMCL

The window cleaner

izza

On the right is my son Obi, on the left is his brother Lucas (pronounced Luke-S). I've hidden their faces to protect them.

They've just got a baby sister but couldn't get the wife to agree to Leia.

Ollieda

My middle name is taken from one of my dads friends who is a big hotel owner in Sri Lanka, bit random but does mean we get cheap hotel rooms when on holiday!

RichN95.

izza wrote:

They've just got a baby sister but couldn't get the wife to agree to Leia.

Try Yodanna or Hannah. If people shorten them, then so be it.

I know someone with the surname Walker, and his son's name is Luke, middle name Sky (really)

nottscobb

My gran always believed my middle name was chosen because it was her dad's name. My folks never had the heart to tell her it was purely coincidence, it was actually so that I had the same initials as my mum. If I was born a girl I would have had the same initials as my dad. It wasn't until I pointed it out in my teens that they realised that I could actually pay some cheques actually mean for my mum into my bank account

Apparently when I was just a bump my dad, who is very much into classic cars, used to tell people I was going to be called Austin Morris and no-one knew if he was serious or not.

Pross

My surname and nickname are the same as the greatest rugby union coach of all time but that's just coincidence

Our dog was called Rosie after the rag doll of Rosie and Jim fame by our then 3 year old daughter. My first dog was called Bruce after Bruce Wayne!

Skeltron

I wasn't named after anyone, but it so happens that I have the same name as the last court jester in England, Thomas Skelton of Muncaster Castle, Cumbria. Apparently he was a friend of William Shakespeare

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid ... as+skelton

zippypablo

I was named after a footballer!

Stewie Griffin

FleshTuxedo wrote:

My middle name is Frank after my grandad. I was very embarrassed as a young chap but I really like it now.

Frank is my Dads name and he wanted that to be my middle name, Mum said no so they settled on the closest sounding Saints name and re my first name they argued over it until settling on the closest Saints day to my Birthday.

bobtbuilder

johnfinch wrote:

I was named after George Best.

My dad wanted to name me after George Best, but my Mum vetoed it. So, I got his second choice, Robert (Bobby) Charlton.

seemunkee

Jerry Lee Lewis
The only record I have that was my father's is the original picture sleeve 45 of Great Balls of Fire.

takethehighroad

I'm named Michael after my uncle, but at the time of my birth my name was the most popular one in Ireland, as my surname's Ryan.

I didn't breast feed, just had Guinness pumped into my veins

Mettan

RichN95 wrote:

largely boring, opera composer Richard Wagner

Yeah, he can drive one potty after a while (after 30 mins, never mind hours ) - he is a genius of the highest order though. It's going to be along time before anyone matches him in that field.

My family name originates from Northumberland 1200-1250 approx (apparently) - first name - same as a Saint.

RichN95.

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

I'm named Michael after my uncle, but at the time of my birth my name was the most popular one in Ireland, as my surname's Ryan.

It's not such a popular name where I come from, about ten miles from Hungerford.

takethehighroad

RichN95 wrote:

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

I'm named Michael after my uncle, but at the time of my birth my name was the most popular one in Ireland, as my surname's Ryan.

It's not such a popular name where I come from, about ten miles from Hungerford.

Scary thing about that is that it happened on 19 Aug 1987. The reason I know of the top of my head? My birthdate is the 18th Aug 1988.

Ginjafro

NO....

SteveR_100Milers

I was named after several million other Western caucasian males.

fungus_the_muffin_man

My middle name is Daniel after my great grandad. So my boys have got warwick and Leslie after their great grandad.

I've named my border collie Thomas so when he was out with the kids I could shout out Dylan Thomas it was time to come in for tea

AndyF16

Don't think I'm named Andrew after anyone in particular, no middle names and neither has my sister as my mum has 3 and dad apparently said that was enough :?

The missus insisted we give our youngest (of twin boys) the middle name Gunson, her mum's family name, as it will die out with her uncle who's 70 odd and only had a daughter - he'll get some pain for that in future years, a lot of it from me