Birchbox April 2013

[lexxies22]

With all of the history/significant meanings behind names. I'm Alexis. Many people asked my mom whether if I was named after that Alexis Carrington Character from "Dynasty". NOPE, I was born 4 years before the show started. Originally, my parents thought I was gonna be a boy since my dad had a son. They were pretty set on Alexander but then my mom didn't like the girl's version since it's so long along with a long last name so she shorten it. 

Speaking of the AHHNN-Drea and ANNNYY-Drea, my mom was fet up with that misprounications so she went with "Andy". She and her sister are baby boomers but did not have classic names. Her sister's name is Gavin; does not pronounce like YYAAA-VEEINN. It pronounces GAY-VEIN. When she went to college, the office of admission placed her in boys dormitory. 

I better go check on my Birchbox acct to see if they ship my box yet... 

 

[mariahk83]

LOL your poor mother!!  These are the reasons I didn't name my daughters something "normal".. They are going to be the "it's AHN-drea not AN-drea" girls.. hahaha.. Just can't win /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

My middle name is Meagan - I get frustrated because people say it the same as Megan, and it's not! It's may-gen ...funnily enough my first name is Mariah; it irritates me less when people pronounce that wrong!

 

[kawaiiwoofs]

Clicky truck! .5019 or something. .5109? I don't remember but it'll be here on the 10th!

 

[Dots]

I like how "clicky truck" has become a technical term on MUT. I always think it sounds cute. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[wildsp187]

Originally Posted by lexxies22 /img/forum/go_quote.gif

With all of the history/significant meanings behind names. I'm Alexis. Many people asked my mom whether if I was named after that Alexis Carrington Character from "Dynasty". NOPE, I was born 4 years before the show started. Originally, my parents thought I was gonna be a boy since my dad had a son. They were pretty set on Alexander but then my mom didn't like the girl's version since it's so long along with a long last name so she shorten it. 

Speaking of the AHHNN-Drea and ANNNYY-Drea, my mom was fet up with that misprounications so she went with "Andy". She and her sister are baby boomers but did not have classic names. Her sister's name is Gavin; does not pronounce like YYAAA-VEEINN. It pronounces GAY-VEIN. When she went to college, the office of admission placed her in boys dormitory. 

I better go check on my Birchbox acct to see if they ship my box yet... 

Ohhh I like that name for a girl!  The only Gavin I knew grewing up was a boy too.. Poor Aunt "Gay-vein" with the boys dorm.. although.. that could have been fun too for a bit!

 

[wildsp187]

Originally Posted by lexxies22 /img/forum/go_quote.gif

With all of the history/significant meanings behind names. I'm Alexis. Many people asked my mom whether if I was named after that Alexis Carrington Character from "Dynasty". NOPE, I was born 4 years before the show started. Originally, my parents thought I was gonna be a boy since my dad had a son. They were pretty set on Alexander but then my mom didn't like the girl's version since it's so long along with a long last name so she shorten it. 

Speaking of the AHHNN-Drea and ANNNYY-Drea, my mom was fet up with that misprounications so she went with "Andy". She and her sister are baby boomers but did not have classic names. Her sister's name is Gavin; does not pronounce like YYAAA-VEEINN. It pronounces GAY-VEIN. When she went to college, the office of admission placed her in boys dormitory. 

I better go check on my Birchbox acct to see if they ship my box yet... 

Oh, and I always wanted to change my name to Alexis or Alexandra so that I could be called "Alex" .. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[JessP]

Originally Posted by usofjessamerica /img/forum/go_quote.gif
My friends called me JP in high school! To make me feel like a special snowflake my mom called me "Jes" - one s- which I still go by but I don't correct people. "Um excuse me, I only use one s. please take the other back"

Lol yes, please take the other back hehe! Too funny /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> Ahh the joys of being a Jessica!

 

[lolas]

I'm a Lola and I really enjoyed my name until Lola Bunny in Space Jam came out. Now that people barely remember that movie things are a lot better. I still get people singing and dancing to copacabana though. I'm used to it.

 

[Beeyutifull]

OK so here's my name story, my name is Emily....last name starts with a T. I am sure you all know where I'm going with that one--- ET phone home!!! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Got that all through elementary and highschool....now it's great cuz the younger than me kids have no idea what I'm talking about when I make fun of my name. I kinda miss it.

But anyways, on my name, I like it- but have always wanted to spell it differently. Emalye is my favorite spelling, or Emmalee. I would love to change it to that spelling.

 

[lovepink]

I can relate to this!  My name is Jennifer and my maiden last name was something super common (think Smith).  In high school there was a freshman, sophmore, junior and senior Jennifer Smith.  Our HS was weird and had different prinicpals for letters of the alphabet.  one day I got called to the office for allegedly being spotted smoking by the football coach.   I was terrified!  I was a straight A, honors society member.  I went in the principals office, and he was like "What are you doing here?"  I told him and he opened his door and told the secretary "wrong Jennifer Smith, call the senior one. (who also had red hair, mine brown).

No clicky truck from me but mine usually does not ship until the 10th.  Le sigh.  At least boxes will load and I can sneak some peaks while waiting!

Originally Posted by meaganola /img/forum/go_quote.gif

I was named Meagan (Irish spelling. My mom found it in some trashy romance novel) several years before _The Thornbirds_ made Megan (Welsh spelling) one of the most popular names in the '70s. It was pretty much unheard of when I was in grade school. Then that book came out, and it just *exploded*. By the time I hit high school, every store had at least three eight-year-old or younger Megans getting yelled at. As a side note, I think I have encountered more Meagans with that spelling on this forum than I did in my entire life put together.

My brother had a similar problem. His name is Ryan (after Ryan O'Neal). No Ryans when he was an itty bitty, scores of them being yelled at in malls by the time he hit high school. He had the added fun of being in kindergarten with another Ryan with almost the same last name. If our name has been Willis, that kid's last name would have been Wills. That caused many, *many* problems for everyone. The other Ryan was a little hellraiser who was always getting suspended, so our mom was constantly getting called to pick up her son, but it was never her son. The school would think was in denial about her baby getting in trouble, but it really was never her kid.

 

[lexxies22]

Originally Posted by wildsp187 /img/forum/go_quote.gif


Ohhh I like that name for a girl!  The only Gavin I knew grewing up was a boy too.. Poor Aunt "Gay-vein" with the boys dorm.. although.. that could have been fun too for a bit!

EXACTLY! 

 

[beautymadn3ss]

no clicky truck D:

But on names, the bf's name is Vadim (he's russian) and I love it! It's super common there, but not at all in the US(or at least I think so), I;m so glad it's not Vlad or Sergei or some typical eastern european name, lol! Also most people pronounce it with the accent on the first syllable, I do(the correct way), with it on the second one XD For short I call him "dim" ^^  

 

[OiiO]

Originally Posted by beautymadn3ss /img/forum/go_quote.gif

no clicky truck D:

But on names, the bf's name is Vadim (he's russian) and I love it! It's super common there, but not at all in the US(or at least I think so), I;m so glad it's not Vlad or Sergei or some typical eastern european name, lol! Also most people pronounce it with the accent on the first syllable, I do(the correct way), with it on the second one XD For short I call him "dim" ^^  

It's funny, but my best friend's name is Vadim too /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> 

Now, my name is Anastasia, which is also very common in Russia, but when I moved to the US I often get compliments on how pretty it is. 

But I bet after the 50 Shades movie comes out we will see a lot more Anastasias around /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[JamieO]

Soooo....I caved and resubbed. I couldn't help it. I miss BB!! No clicky truck yet though...

As for all this name stuff, please, for the love of goodness, don't name your child Jamie when her Dad's name is James. I am 27 and really tired of getting things from AARP in the mail...

 Seriously though, I have the most uninventive name ever. My dad's James, mom's Susan, so I get Jamie Susan....I guess it could be worse...

 

[Kristen121]

My oldest DD is Emma, which ended up as the #1 girls' name in 2008 (the year she was born), so I'm sure she'll have a bunch of other Emmas in school with her. I have loved the name Emma for years, I didn't choose it because it was popular. Her middle name is Marie, which I choose because it is the same as my middle name, but it's a pretty common middle name so she ended up with two common names. My younger DD is named Hadley. I read the name in an article about uncommon names that are gaining popularity and fell in love with it. It is unusual, but not so unusual that it makes people say "Your name is what?!?!" which is exactly the kind of name I wanted. My name is Kristen, which is common but not so common I run into someone with the same name everywhere I go. There are two other Kristens at my place of employment which can get confusing if we are working the same shift.

On Birchbox news, no clicky truck yet for me /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[audiophilekate]

Originally Posted by Jamie P /img/forum/go_quote.gif

On the name subject... I didn't want my son to have a common name... but nothing too hard either so we chose Corbin. I love it... but people have to ask me to repeat it 100 times and act like it's the strangest name ever. Blah. I'm Jamie and my husband is Brian. Boring! LOL I dated someone named Lendil before... that's an odd name! LOL

There are a few kids around here named Fenway.  I don't think I could name a child after a stadium, no matter how much I was really into that sport.

 

[VanessaC]

Originally Posted by wildsp187 /img/forum/go_quote.gif


Where I live in Southern California, we are so diverse now that there are so many different names floating around out there.  I think it would be hard to pick on just one person with an unusual name. If all of the unusual named people got together, they could bully the people with ordinary names! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

I like your name as well, even the nickname of "Eva".. reminds me of Wall-E!  Timeless! 

YAY for twins!  If you are fraternal twin look out!  I'm a fraternal twin that had fraternal twins.  I didn't even think about it really but I guess it's genetic.. no skipping a generation with genetics (of course it could appear that way though.. )

I live in Southern California as well /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> my full name is Chrystian Vanessa.i always hated my first name growing up because its a boy's name and would get made fun off and to top it off it would always get misspelled... as i grew up i learned to accept my name.

 

[Eva Papoutsi]

Originally Posted by audiophilekate /img/forum/go_quote.gif

Wow!  I've never heard that name before!  How is it pronounced?  I'm kind of mentally pronouncing it "Ehv-lamp-ee-ah," but I doubt that's how it's really pronounced.  Eva is such a beautiful, timeless name.

Your sister has a nice name too.  

Thank you! You are right, it is pronounced exactly like that (with the accent on the syllabus -i-)

In Greek it is written "Ευλαμπία" and means: the one that sounds beautifully (everything in Greek has to mean something, right?

)... it sounds really flattering, but kids often make fun of it! Anyway, it is such a rare name.. I've traveled a lot all over Greece and many other countries and I've never met anyone with my name in my whole life (except my grandma because I was named after her)! So that's one of my goals in life.. to meet someone with my name!

 

[JamieO]

Originally Posted by audiophilekate /img/forum/go_quote.gif

There are a few kids around here named Fenway.  I don't think I could name a child after a stadium, no matter how much I was really into that sport.

That's so weird! No way could I do that. Funny weird name story: My mom works for Girl Scouts, and she had a little girl registered in a troop in one of her areas whose name was Pantera Wombledorf. Not even joking. Poor kid. She was doomed from the beginning with the Wombledorf, but then her parents had to name her Pantera. That's just mean! 

 

[lexxies22]

Originally Posted by Kristen121 /img/forum/go_quote.gif

My oldest DD is Emma, which ended up as the #1 girls' name in 2008 (the year she was born), so I'm sure she'll have a bunch of other Emmas in school with her. I have loved the name Emma for years, I didn't choose it because it was popular. Her middle name is Marie, which I choose because it is the same as my middle name, but it's a pretty common middle name so she ended up with two common names. My younger DD is named Hadley. I read the name in an article about uncommon names that are gaining popularity and fell in love with it. It is unusual, but not so unusual that it makes people say "Your name is what?!?!" which is exactly the kind of name I wanted. My name is Kristen, which is common but not so common I run into someone with the same name everywhere I go. There are two other Kristens at my place of employment which can get confusing if we are working the same shift.

On Birchbox news, no clicky truck yet for me /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Speaking of that, my daughter's name is Ainslie. The name Ainsley is getting popular. I get that all the time like you said,"What's her name what?". We changed 'ly' to 'ie' because when I practiced to sign her name along with last name. It's faster. We picked it because it has Scottish ancestory on my dad's side. Her middle name is Sarai (It's a hebrew name.  Her great grandmother's name was Sara.) 

No clicky truck, yet..... Maybe MonDay?