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That little blue penquin by my picture!!
My middle name is Adele!!!!!!
My Mother had this thing when choosing names for her 7 children. She would use actors and actresses, so I received my name after some French actress named Denise Darcel... Don't have a clue who she was and we siblings still laugh about our names and how they came to be!!
Just thought I'd share that!
I'll bet that naming influence is more common than you think. My first name was also my father's, but my middle name, (the one I go by), came from the fact that my mother was a John Wayne fan. LOL.
Love,
Tex
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Ok, how many times have I heard the song "My Little Margie"??????? About a billion or so..............
My mom was a HUGE John Wayne fan - prolly a good thing I'm not male! hahahahahah
Love,
Mars
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." -- Buddha
and my middle name Noela---was my dad's favorite *nun* teacher when he went to school--
Barbara is after my Babci----
It was a toss-up---either I be Noela Barbara but my mom won out---thus I am Barbara Noela Joan---Joan being my confirmation name--and my best friend in elementary school ---
DEE----I remember Denise Darcel----she was a french actress--
Wow---seven kids--U must have some big family get-togethers--
Margie Im always thinking of U Margie
Barbara
the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness and self-control
And Louie's birth name is Luciano named after the gangster Lucky Luciano--
He was head of the Mafia,in NOO YAWK, in the 40's and then deported back to Italy.
While in the Navy--Lou went to Italy--and was in a bar when Lucky Luciano bought all the guys a *round* of booze----and U DRANK weather U liked it OR not!!!
Interesting, huh--
Dah MOLL--Barbara
actually 3 of the male cousins were all named after the grandpa-don!!--he was Luciano but Lou did meet the BIG DON--in Italy---
Can U imagine the 3 cousins in a room and calling *hey Louie* and 3 of them say *WHAT*!!!
the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness and self-control
Everyone thinks my name is Carol because I was born so close to Christmas when, in fact, Carol was my moms` best friend when she was young. I remember Denise Darcel very well...she was very beautiful and I always loved the name Denise. Love, Carol
I always thought I was named after Shirley Temple. Kind of disappointing to find out that Shirley was the name of someone my Mom knew. I could have been Shirley Ann which would have been fine (my paternal grandmother was Annie) but Mom wasn't happy with her at that time so I ended up Shirley Nell after my Aunt Nell (short for Nealie). I've often wondered why Mom didn't name me Shirley May after her own Mother. That would have been OK.
I've always hated my middle name and even today use my maiden name initial in place of it - except for drivers license - They insist on the entire name - maiden and middle.
There were at least 3 Shirley's in my school from grade 1 through 12. They called me Shirley Nell all the way through. Lord, how I hated that!!
The name seems to have fallen from favor quickly though since I've never met a Shirley that wasn't close to my age.
It's really interesting how we got our names.
Love, Shirley
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber"
-- Winston Churchill
Ha HA! My family needed to get more creative like all of yours! I was named after my grandmothers...Katherine Elaine. Elaine is a bit weird and my mother really wasn't happy with it, but like Katherine and couldn't name me after grandma K without naming me after her mother too. I don't mind it so much, especially as I've gotten older, so I think I'm dropping my maiden name after I get married and keeping my original middle name.
Why I say they needed to be more creative is because there are 6 Katherine's in my family (2 are Catherine) and only 1 married into the family! My youngest cousin got the shortest stick on grandparent names...she is Katherine Cornelia. She goes by K.C. and her grandma Cornelia goes by Connie!
Just catching up on some old posts. I'm in the camp who hates my name--don't have any clue what old book they drug Wendy from. I always thought that if I could be movie star or something I'd change it to something more glamorous. Somehow I think that's not going to happen!
We did name all of our kids after family in some way. Rebecca Ann's middle name is both grandmother's middle name and my grandmother's middle name. William Alexander is for his father (Bill), and turns out my great grandfather was Alex, though we didn't know that at the time we named him. Nicholas Joseph just came to us one day and it stuck...Joseph is my FIL's middle name. Sure beats my father's name of Raymond Marshall.
Margie 
I always thought I was named after Shirley Temple. Kind of disappointing to find out that Shirley was the name of someone my Mom knew. I could have been Shirley Ann which would have been fine (my paternal grandmother was Annie) but Mom wasn't happy with her at that time so I ended up Shirley Nell after my Aunt Nell (short for Nealie). I've often wondered why Mom didn't name me Shirley May after her own Mother. That would have been OK.
