My Name Is

My name was given to me by my parents after a long and hard debate about what to name me. My father wanted to name me after his father Jack, my mother did not like this idea because she said that the name was too simple and mundane. Eventually after many months of high pressure arguing they settled on a compromise, my first name was a compromise name of Nathaniel and my middle name was for my dad’s father Edward. They liked this idea especially because it gave me a plethora of nicknames ranging…

Some people are lucky enough to be passed down a family name or a name of any significance, I am not one of those people. After interviewing family members and questioning how the idea of my name and how it came to be I found out that my mom wasn’t very creative, at all. Despite the lack of creativity from my mom creating my first name I found out more about the meaning of it along with the origins of my last name, the year 1999 was filled with important and memorable moments that have shaped…

My Name (Samia) My name, a lot people have it and it 's mine. In Arabic it means to be placed at a high level. Maybe that 's my future or maybe that 's what my parents expect from. Will I disappoint? Will I rise up to the challenge who knows? I want the successful life, the one people get handed to them or the one some work for. I don 't want my parents life for me, I want to succeed but what if I don’t live up to their standards. I was named after my great aunt she was noble and found success,…

From the section “My Name” the reader learns the main character’s name, Esperanza, for the first time, as she characterizes her name. She explains that her name comes from her great-grandmother and namesake, Esperanza. Esperanza describes her grandmother by saying, “She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow. I wonder if she made the best with what she got or was she sorry because she couldn’t be all the things she wanted to be. Esperanza. I…

themselves I subconsciously block out their names. This is quite a problem, especially now, when starting fresh and independent at BYU, am left wanting friends, and am constantly finding myself in the position of meeting countless new people. I do, however, remember conversations, moments, unique personality traits, personal thoughts, as well as connections I made with that person. When it comes to recalling names however, I go stupid. My brain doesn’t remember names or dates very well, and that…

Names are an important part of a person's identity when it is a reflection of their own heritage. Tom Rosenberg discusses how his choice of changing his last name as a child and back to the original as an adult emulates a person's identity because names have a significant power. It has helped shaped our identity in the world and in many ways form us into who we are, but without them we will feel a sense of loss. Name, by definition is a word that is commonly used for identification. “Changing…

“Ooohhhhhh your name is Tatum? You mean like, Channing Tatum?” I smile whenever people make that comparison. I find it amusing, although to be truthful it’s very likely that the only thing that I share with the guy is the name. Even though we have the same name, that doesn’t quite indicate the same personality. Our individual names may have a meaning all on their own, but we, the people who claim them, can warp that definition to match our own unique selves. They are just labels we recieved by…

My parents didn’t plan on naming me Amari Navaeh. They had picked a few names and couldn’t decide from them. They had thought of Makayla, Mackenna, or Mackenzie. Then, my parents realized they didn’t like those names and had settled on the name Chase. They had thought for sure that Chase was going to be my name, but in the end, they decided against it. Then, they moved onto middle names. They heard the name, Nevaeh, which is “heaven” spelled backwards, from a close friend and fell in love with…

The Story of My Search The only thing that cannot be taken away from oneself, no matter the circumstances, is your name. This is why I think it is important for one to know what his or her name means. When I began thinking about my name, I started by interviewing my parents. I knew that I was named after my grandfather and my mother, but I did not know the origins of their names. I researched my first, middle, and last names using the Internet, interviewing my mother, and utilizing the…

the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word “name,” is defined as a word or phrase that refers to or that can refer to a specific person. Almost everything in the world has a name, including people, places, and everyday items. Most names have deeper meanings, but some do not, which made me curious about my own name. My parents named me Madison Elizabeth Hooper on August the twenty-eighth of the year 1998 and I have always wondered what made them choose the names that they did, so I started to do…