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my name is Adrian, after my mom’s soccer coach’s daughter Adriana. my last name has a crazy (French) number of vowels so my parents opted for the simplest version which happens to be the male spelling. i’ve seen many variations (Adrien, Adriane, Adrienne) but i like my no-nonsense version. i think it’s a strong and pretty name, unique without being too unfamiliar. not as cool as my brother lucius though 😒
my parents called me Adri when i was really little and only my closest friends call me A. i get a little thrill of delight when y’all call me Capy 🥹
if i were to change my name it would be tough to adjust, but i’m partial to ones drawn from nature: Ivy, Fern, Iris, Rosemary, Sage…
Jun 8, 2024
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never liked my name growing up because most of elementary school was spent in florida. it was a huge culture shock coming from the north then being one of like two or three kids of color in my class at any given time. i wanted a stereotypical “white girl name” with a middle name like marie or rose. spent a lot of middle school going by daisy.
i also am greatly tired of the “deja vu” jokes.
my mom got my name from tyra bank’s character in “higher learning”/a tony! toni! toné! song. i guess that’s cool. she just spelled it very phonetically, which didnt help people’s mispronunciation of my easy name but (to me) looks very dumbed down on paper (day-JAH) and then people pronounce the j really hard idk.
most of my friends call me day ☀️ i like that at least. i wouldn't have minded the name raven, and i think my mom’s other name contender was tia (like sister sister) but that would have kind of rhymed with my last name so im good on that.
Jun 8, 2024
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My parents picked Aidan instead bc they believed in nominal determination. That is, name driven outcomes and the hypothesis that names influences outcomes.
My name began with A as did my siblings because my parents thought: names beginning in A are kindergarten line leaders -> at the top of lists for classroom attendance -> at the top of the class as far as success and high achieving when we graduate.
This mindset put a lot of undue stress on me and my siblings but I do love my name and don't think I’d have anything different, Aidan suits me well
Jun 7, 2024
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I initially had an indifferent perspective on my name. First seeing it as something entirely boring and a little old fashioned in a family full of “classically named“ american folks, then to seeing it as surprisingly over played the older I got.
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In recent years I’ve essentially truncated my last name to Sage because my surname is difficult to spell & pronounce. I love that many adult acquaintances don’t know my real name and I have this built in botanical association I’ve *chosen*.
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No matter how common the name is in the real world, and I’m no longer the only Caroline like the small town I grew up in, I do find it undeniably sweet.
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I love that many people have positive associations with my name, and there’s a certain joy associated with it because of countless songs in pop culture. For the past few years one of my go to social media bios is “the one all of those songs are named after.”
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No nicknames stuck much as a child, besides being called “C” here and there, with my sibling called “B.” But in recent years my best friend started calling me *Care*, hence the username, and it’s the first nickname I’ve connected with and felt loved through. Sorry to all the Caro-s and Carols out there, I always felt frumpy when I was called either growing up.
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My mom causally claims that God, yes God, told her to name me in a dream way before her pregnancy. I like to affirm I was given the name because it’s *in my being to care* but I can‘t wait to see what nicknames I collect with the more people I meet, love, and am known by <3
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P.S.
always loved the name Virginia as well, and Chrysanthemum because of the children’s book.
Dec 24, 2024
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