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Do you know why you were named whatever you are named? Like after a grandparent?
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Names are weird. Annoying how every name is a world hash. Every time a new parent announces a baby name you get a glimpse of a world they’re seeing.
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My own: I was supposed to be named after my paternal grandfather following the family formula but for whatever reason that default was rejected. Then my mom picked ‘Rahul’ which my grandmother vetoed on the grounds that it was a Buddhist name. Landed on family deity as compromise
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I was supposed to get a family name from my dad’s side. When he wouldn’t marry my mom, she rescinded on that & realized her favorite women relatives didn’t have names she liked (eg Bernice) she took her sister’s names (Lynda & Rubae) & halved & combined them
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