What's your real name?
 

I just got this idea for a thread from the second page of the Saddam Hussein Captured page... We all actually have names! like, actual ones! so we could write them down, eh? and then they would be written. So I was thinking that maybe everyone could say their name, and maybe a little back story on why they were named that and what crazy and groovy events led up to their naming!

I'll kick it off:

Me name's Ben Karon. My mom wanted to name me Sal but my dad was like, "No." some other names they tried were (I am not kidding) Cecil, Cyril, Irah, and Harvey. (thank god they settled on 'Ben'!)

Ben means 'beloved of the gods' which is just plain wrong, because if there is a god he/she is prolly real pissed at me for not believing in him all this time!

Oh, and yeah. This is how my name would look if you were to write it in supa-crappy MS paint.

UMMM my Name IS Kurt=) <------

umm.... I'm not really sure what my name means but my real name is Emil .... not a popular name and maybe that's why I like it but i hate it when people think it's Emily and the y is cut off... lol

-Emo (< that's a nickname off Emil )

My name is... uh... oh right... Danny Ngan. :D

lol @ Kurt and Danny

*sigh*

You mean I gotta type all that again? :D

btw: Danny. How is your last name pronounced? I keep saying it like Ing-an. Or is the first N silent, like Gan?

My name is Israel, but I hail from York, Pennsylvania USA.

I was born on a US Air Force Base in Madrid Spain.

My bone marrow was replaced with Adamantium when I was 18.

When I get mad, I burst out in a fit of.... well... Rage. hehe...

3 of the above are true:)

My last name is pronounced "Non". The G is just there to confuse everyone. :)

Andres

Origin: about 100 years ago my greatsomethinggrandfather came to America (the continent, not the country) and his name was Andres, and well, my parents happen to like it. (good thing they didn't picked the actual italian version of that name :-p, anyone knows why? LOL)

Huh? :confused:

Christopher Daniel Watts but people call me Chris.

Well... Björn Fredriksson :)
Björn = bear in Swedish.

Michael J. McKinley, but you can call me Mike.

Heh, I'm lucky with the name thing as all the previous male McKinley's got stuck with what is considered the ancestral name for all of us or something which is "Fremonce." My older brother has it for a middle name, as does my father and grandfather. My dad hated it though, and finally broke the mold with me and my younger brother and gave us fairly normal names.

:D

Em, Zoran Petrovic, but they call me zoki or zorro.
Zoran is pretty popular name where I live. I can't remember what was the name mom wanted for me, but fathet wanted zoran.

Howard Porter :D

actually Howard Porter the third. dad and grandfather all had the same name too.

Jason Earl 'J' Man 'Earl The Pearl' Whateva'

mtmckinley = Michael J. McKinley


Hrmmm... So what's the t for?

z1mmnd14. Dont belive me, i'll go scan in my birth certificate.

Zimmndia?

Mt. Mckinley (Denali)....the mountain in Alaska.

ahhhhh... :D

My real name is Tamara (Tam for short). The name is russian but I am not. My moms favorite babysitter for my older brothers was named Tamara and she loved the name. So now it is mine as well. I beleive the name is derived from the hebrew name Tamar which means palm tree, the symbol for fertility. (don't go there guys LOL)

What's confusing about that????

Funny, I always thought they were one in the same. :D

But then again, there's North America and South America.

Tyler.

im not that fond of it, whatever. Parents wanted to name me a unique name. At the time, neither had ever known anyone named Tyler. That didnt last long did it? lol

Correct. :)

Mt. McKinley was named after the American President William McKinley who was in office around 1900. He's a relative and I thought it'd be a cool moniker. :)

Kari Brown. My first name is finnish (close to Gary;)) and the rest english. My dad's a brit and thus the english names...

Well, here in US people use "America" to refer to United Stated Of America, but that's just it, it's "of" America. America is the name of the continent in which USA is located. So normaly when I say America I am talking about the continet, but because I know Americans could get it wrong I usually specify which I'm talking about.
In this case I am living in "America" the country. but my ancestors moved from the continent known as Europe to the continent known as America, but none of them went originaly to the country (USA).

See, it's not that complicated :p

Pete.

Mario Dominic Celli III

Italian... obviously.

Origin= I bilieve the name means several things depending on Area, ive heard it mean Sailor, Soldier, Special as some deffinitions among others.

Italian tradition states you should name your child after your father. But my grandfather didnt want to name his child Guliano after his father, he didnt want his kid growing up in buffalo with the name "Julie". So he names his child, my father after himself. Mario jr was born. But to apeas our reletives in italy when i was due, my father names me mario after his father(couldnt name me Guliano because it would upset the balance or something). So there for im mario the 3rd.

I havent heard from my italian relevitves if i should name my first born male mario or guliano... but i guess its upto me.

Um... yeah

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Rick Stefani Haha

Hey Rick, you're not related to Gwen Stefani, are you? :D

Ok it may be hard to figure out my name but here we go

Joe Thompson

3DJoe:p

or wife calls me (*** Hole):D

Nice one PonysGirl :) I see al the boys are behaving themselves, hihi. My name is Sarah from the old testament. Was going to be called Rebecca, thank god my dad won that row!

Hey, Becky is a fine Southern name. :D

*cue banjo*

*gets his banjo*

Oh... you... were joking...

uh...

*sheepishly leaves*

;)

<- southern

*grabs guitar - prepares for a bout of dueling banjos*

Hmmm... I wonder why it's called dueling banjos when one instrument is a guitar?

No, I am not related, but I grew up in OC also. :D Sarah, Somehow you and religon just does not seem to fit, haha. We were only nice to Tam because her boyfirend is learking around here somewhere. haha.

Dave, you play a mean Banjo.

I would like to boast about a specific body part of mine is how I got my name but the fact of the matter is that I just shorten my name down from Ron Tillery to R-Tillery,, ;) :D