My sisters blog on Tuesday told how everyone in her family got their name. It was interesting. And something good to journal (since I plan to one day print my blog and put it in a journal). So here it goes.
As some of you know I grew up in a family of R and M names: Robert (Dad), Marilynn (mom), Russell, Melisa, Robynn, Michelle, Ryan, Megan, Rebecca. My name obviously needed to be an M name. I remember my Mom telling me one of her other choices was Meredith but other than that I'm not exactly sure how she ended up with Megan. She'll have to finally comment and tell me.
So Cameron and I started our family with Collin Dean. Cameron wanted to name him Dean and I wanted Collin so that is how we ended up with that name. Everyone thought he should have a family name but Cameron didn't want to name him Collin Cameron. Dean is his brother Kerry's middle name and my uncle Carls middle name (but he is definitely not named after Carl). Looking back now we realized we should have named him Cameron Jr. because he couldn't be more like Cameron. Morgan came next and I had a long list of names and out of the list Morgan was the one Cameron liked so we stuck with that. We named her Morgan Rebecca after my twin sister. When it came time to come up with a name for Chelsea again I had a list I think narrowed down to about 3. The other names were Chloe or Savannah. Anyways, I told Cameron if he choose a C name we'd have to stick with the pattern of C M that we had accidently started (like my parents accidently started R M). Cameron choose Chelsea and I picked Lynn as her middle name. I wanted it to be after my mom, Marilynn but I thought that sounded way too long so I just used the end of her name. A few of my good friends in high school (Jen and Christie) both had the middle name Lynn and I thought it sounded cute with Chelsea. Mia was pretty easy to pick. It had to be an M name at this point and that was my favorite. Really I began liking the name after watching the disney movie "Princess Diaries" so many time with the girls since the main character played by Ann Hathaway is named Mia in it. Since we had used Rebecca and Lynn middle names from my family we decided Mia's middle name should come from his side and named her Mia Jane after his Mom. The girls name in my family growing up did not have a middle name (mine is now my maiden name). I didn't like not having a middle name so I gave my girls one. Oh I forgot to tell how Cameron got his name. The story that I've heard as that his name originally was Clyde after his paternal Grandfather. He was called that for the first few weeks of his life until his baby blessing were Val (his Dad) was inspired to instead name him Cameron. He said that name instead of Clyde during the blessing and that has been his name ever since. I'm glad because I'm not sure I could have married a Clyde. Sounds like an old mans name to me. I'm not sure how he got the middle name Lon. Guess Jane will have to fill me in on that one.
So that is how our names came to be.
2 comments:
Very interesting...I was under the wrong assumptions about some of the names in your family!
That's cool that you guys named your kids like that- I didn't know. We can't do that however, because really, how many Y names are there? (Good ones, I mean.)
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