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HelpDo you have a made-up, mashed-up or diminutive name?
My birth name is a diminutive name with an "H" added to the end, while my middle name is a mash-up of two maternal relatives. I can't quite remember off the top of my head if it's a mash-up of Laura and Eileen or another "-een" / "-ene" name. It is also my mother and grandmother's middle names, so this is a mash-up name originating in the late 1940's.
I'm curious how many people have first AND middle names that are not the "full" version OR are made-up or hybrid names.
Like, Sam Jaylen, instead of Samuel OtherMiddleName, or Talia Annalise, etc.
I'm curious how many people have first AND middle names that are not the "full" version OR are made-up or hybrid names.
Like, Sam Jaylen, instead of Samuel OtherMiddleName, or Talia Annalise, etc.
This message was edited 11/9/2021, 11:37 PM
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No but I'm pretty sure I met one before: as a teenager when I worked in a bakery I heard some odd and eccentric choices for birthday cakes. After like 7-8 years since since I worked there last the one that still stands out in my head is: Candelier. I was a little more immature and rude then so I kind of jokingly asked the mother if it was a combination of Candle and Chandelier and she unironically got super excited and said "that is EXACTLY what it is supposed to be! Oh mygoodness you are the very first person to get that right I'm so happy!!" And I was half amused and half ashamed to have been trying to knock her feelings & instead received unbridled joy at guessing correctly lmao!!
This message was edited 11/11/2021, 4:35 AM
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Nah. My middle name is from a surname that is from a nickname. Also, my last name is from a nickname.
Is your name Norah Laurene?
Is your name Norah Laurene?
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Nah, it's Tiah (Tee-uh) but you got my middle name right.
This message was edited 11/10/2021, 7:48 PM
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Everyone in my family has a "full" legal name, but many nicknames that start in childhood that follow them throughout adulthood. Most of the nicknames are not even related to their real names! It makes me wonder where some of them came from. However, it is a common tradition to be named after a relative. Someone could be called Joseph, but nicknamed Bob. Everyone knows its not his real name, but no ever calls him Joseph. Not even Joey, nothing that makes sense.
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My first name is Starla. My mother didn't make it up herself, and it does appear on top 1000 lists before and around the time I was born, but it probably did start out as an elaboration of Star, or maybe a jazzed-up variation of Carla? She can't remember where she got it from, she thinks it might have been on a soap opera.
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I've noticed that I use two different vowel sounds for that "a". If I think of Starla as "an 80's style name like Carla", I say the a with my mouth more closed and my tongue further back. But if I think of the fact that it has the word "star" in it, I say the a like I would in "star", which is apparently different from how I'd say it in Carla -- more open mouth, longer syllable, more AH. I have no idea how to write the difference phonetically but it's definitely a thing and I wondered if you've noticed differences in how people say your name.
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Starla is one of my favorite girl names.
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Unless you consider anglicized forms of names to be made-up, no. I never had a nickname, since there isn't much to play around with when you have a given name that's only 4 letters long in the first place.
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