I was supposed to be 'Michael Loyd Franklin'.
My Daddy was a country boy. The Nurse told him to put last name first so he put the whole name as 'Franklin Loyd Michael', putting the whole name backwards. On my Birth Certificate it's 'Loyd Michael Franklin'. I've been Mike my whole life.
When I worked for the City of San Antonio they insisted that I must be called Loyd. When I retired I signed everything as Mike.
My new Boss as no trouble calling me Mike.
I'm 57 now so there's likely no point in changing it.
I do just want 'Mike Franklin' on my headstone.
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I was named after my dad, Thomas Howard Cunningham, my brother was born about two and a hlaf years after me, and my Dad chose the name Colin, so our entire young lives we were known as the "Tom Collins" boys, as in the drink. The funny part was that my dad had a drinking problem at the time though he swears he didn't plan the names that way!
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My first name is the same as my dads so nobody ever called me that. My middle name is what I've always gone by(LaVelle). It came into the family in the 1700's when one of my ancestors married a woman from Paris France. It was her surname and has been passed down every two or three generations. It's kinda freaky to have an unusual name and see it on a headstone from the 1800's. The only other living relative that has it is an uncle that was born in the 20's.
I was supposed to be named Zechariah Daniel, as in the biblical prophets, but being that I was the first child to a young couple, my parents succumbed to my grandparents wanting me to have the more "normal" name of Zachary Daniel...
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I was named after my dad (Robert) and my uncle (Joe. So when I was very young my parents called my by my middle name to distinguish between the two Roberts. Anyway, now when people call and ask for Bob my wife knows it's a salesman. One time early in our marriage she actually told the person on the phone that "Bob didn't live here" and hung up.
My last name is FLY, not smith, jones or adams. Just plain old F L Y like in the insect and people all the time ask me "How do you spell that?". And of course all my Mexican buds call me Mosca.
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Weird timing. I just explained this to AH on another thread: my first and middle names are Troy Warren; I was named after both grandfathers. Apparently my dad lost the argument (or coin toss, or whatever) over whether it would be Troy Warren or Warren Troy. He called me Warren for eighteen years, while the rest of the family and the whole world called me Troy.
He started calling me Troy after I'd been away from home for a while, and it took me a long time to get used to it.
When I was born, my birth certificate read Edwin Hayward Freedman.
But the Certification of Birth Information form filled out by the guy married to my birth mother (who was not my biological father) said Edward Christopher Tyndall.
However, when I was 9 months old, he died of alcohol-related complications (liver failure) and I was summarily abandoned into the NYC foster-care system.
I was, after a few years, adopted by the family of the guy who died, and they had my name listed as Eddy Christopher Tyndall.
Took me until I was almost 25 to get it straightened out to where I wanted it. Right now, all legal docs I have and use (driver's license, etc) say Edward Christopher Tyndall. If I get mail addressed to an Eddy, I know it's not anyone I do business with because they're using outdated info.
There was a period in there, early 20s, when I essentially had 3 legal aliases.
Made me kinda particular about what I'm called, too. Nobody shortens my name or applies a nickname, and I call 'em on it if they so unbidden.
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Hahahaa...
I may have you all beat.
Currently, my name is Edward Christopher Tyndall.
When I was born, my birth certificate read Edwin Hayward Freedman.
But the Certification of Birth Information form filled out by the guy married to my birth mother (who was not my biological father) said Edward Christopher Tyndall.
However, when I was 9 months old, he died of alcohol-related complications (liver failure) and I was summarily abandoned into the NYC foster-care system.
I was, after a few years, adopted by the family of the guy who died, and they had my name listed as Eddy Christopher Tyndall.
Took me until I was almost 25 to get it straightened out to where I wanted it. Right now, all legal docs I have and use (driver's license, etc) say Edward Christopher Tyndall. If I get mail addressed to an Eddy, I know it's not anyone I do business with because they're using outdated info.
There was a period in there, early 20s, when I essentially had 3 legal aliases.
Made me kinda particular about what I'm called, too. Nobody shortens my name or applies a nickname, and I call 'em on it if they so unbidden.
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so ,
eduardo is out huh?
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I was semi named by a nurse. Originally I was going to be named either Martha Julia or Julia Martha (names of my parents' moms). Actually, considering the doctors swore up and down I would be a boy, my name was suppossed to be Douglas, but mom insisted on picking girl names because she just knew I was a girl. Anyway, when I was born my parents decided the names didn't fit me and the nurse quickly made the comment that my name should be Irish in origin since I had "the map of Ireland" all over my face. So I got stuck with Erin, a name that apparently no one on Earth can pronounce.
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I was semi named by a nurse. Originally I was going to be named either Martha Julia or Julia Martha (names of my parents' moms). Actually, considering the doctors swore up and down I would be a boy, my name was suppossed to be Douglas, but mom insisted on picking girl names because she just knew I was a girl. Anyway, when I was born my parents decided the names didn't fit me and the nurse quickly made the comment that my name should be Irish in origin since I had "the map of Ireland" all over my face. So I got stuck with Erin, a name that apparently no one on Earth can pronounce.
ERIN IS A GOOD NAME.
it's better than douglas.....
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thomas is a family and biblical name i guess.....its kinda annoying, every time im in valdosta, at the baptist church my grandmother goes to they all make the same joke when they meet me. "hey your not a doubting thomas, are you?" and then they chuckle like its funny....its not, im sick and tired of that one joke...it was at first, not now
stone was my grand-dads last name, so my parents through that in there
and walker is my dads last name....thats it, nothing unusual
Try playing in the sandbox with a middle name of TORSTEN !! Thor's Stone or Thor's Hammer !! My nickname, given by my bastard older brother, was T-bone !!
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My birth certificate says "Baby boy" Paulson. It was ammended 4 years later on the back with my name. My parents just couldn't settle on a name. But four years?
