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My birth name is Tweed, and I was named after my mother's friend's grandmother who was from Scotland. She passed when I was young, so I never got to ask her how she got her name. I've heard it as a last name, and there is a Tweed Roosevelt, who got his name from a maternal last name, but I am still baffled about how it became a first name unless it was because someone liked the sound of it. I have actually visited the town Tweed in Scotland, which is a border town next to England, separated by the River Tweed. The word Tweed comes from the word Twith which means Between, which made it an appropriate name for the river that separated Scotland and England. The notoriously mean, self-appointed border patrol family were the Tweedies. And then of course there was the corrupt Boss Tweed in New York's early days.
But still, how did it become my first name?