Middle Name Pride Day

This week is International Celebrate Your Name Week. Today, March 10, is Middle Name Pride Day. Today I am supposed to share my middle name with three people who don't already know it.

My middle name is.....

That's right. I do not have a middle name. Of course, no one at school ever believed that. They figured that I must have had a really awful middle name and just didn't want to share it with them. My mother never gave me nor my little sister a middle name because she figured when we got married our maiden name would become our middle name.

I understand her logical completely. It is sound. However, it didn't help me to avoid getting picked on over my middle name or, rather, lack thereof.

I more than made up for my lack of a middle name with our daughters. Our two surviving daughters have a first name, two middle names, and their surname, for a total of four names.




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Discover What Your Name Means Day

This week is International Celebrate Your Name Week.   Today, March 8, is Discover What Your Name Means Day.

My name is Suzanne. Suzanne is of French origin and means "Lily". I love the meaning of my name! Flowers are one of my most favorite things to photograph. If I were in charge of deciding what my name means, I wouldn't change its meaning at all. In that a flower is multi-petaled and I am a multi-faceted person, I think my name is a good reflection of who I am.

Do you know what your name means? Does the meaning of your name reflect who you really are? If you could decide the meaning of your name, what would you have your name mean?




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Namesake Day

This week is International Celebrate Your Name Week.  Today, March 5, is Namesake Day.

My daddy loved his paternal grandmother Annie Black Gunter more than life itself. So, when he became the father of a baby girl, he wanted to honor his "Big Mama", as he called her, by naming his baby girl after her and her sister Suzie. He wanted to name his daughter Suzie Annie. The mother of this child had other ideas. She didn't think that her daughter needed a middle name, so blended the two names to create the name "Suzanne".

For years, I was happy that my mama intervened in regards to my name. However, for several years now I have wished that my daddy had won this one and they had named me "Suzie Annie". I love the name Annie. I never got to meet my great-grandmother, but my daddy loved her so very much. She must have been a wonderful woman.

If you look up in the blogger header, you will see a picture of "Big Mama" and baby Suz.

How did your parents choose the name they gave you? Were you named after a friend or loved one? Do you like your name? If you could have chosen a different name for yourself, what would you have chosen?


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