Fab Freebie: What’s In A Name?
*** This giveaway is now closed – see who won below! ***
After 10,000 interesting name origin stories, random.org has selected our winners as… Beth (who says “my dad picked it out and to this day I’m whole heartily a daddy’s girl.”) and Chelsea (who’s name story is: “My parents got my name from the 1981 movie, On Golden Pond. ‘Chelsea’ was played by Jane Fonda”) Congrats!
I realize from the name Online Fabric Store, you might have trouble guessing what this online store sells, so allow me to solve that mystery for ya. Fabric! And seemingly every kind of fabric – like upholstery, decor, quilting, apparel and even garden fabric. Which means that this week’s two winners (who are each getting $250 to spend there) could tackle anything from sewing some pillow covers or making a duvet to redoing the curtains in an entire room. And the cool thing about their system is that the more yardage you buy, the cheaper each yard gets – and once you get over that $50 mark, your shipping in the US is free.
- PRIZE: A $250 gift card to Online Fabric Store
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “FABRIC ME!” and tell us…
- BONUS QUESTION: …what’s the meaning behind your name? Does it carry some special significance within your family? Or is there a cool story behind how your parents picked it? Have you always wished it was something else?
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: Two
- PRIZE SHIPS: Wahoo, this giveaway is available worldwide!
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winners will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday as an update to this post. That’s right, come right back here on Thursday for the announcement of our winners. Good luck…
- ***COMMENT ISSUES? If you’re trying to enter but keep getting a “duplicate comment” warning, click here to see how to solve it!
Note: We aren’t paid or perked for hosting these giveaways, we just do ‘em to thank you awesome folks for stopping in. See our Giveaway FAQ page for more info. Pics courtesy of Online Fabric Store.
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Jack was my grandfather’s name and Lyn is my mom’s middle name. And my middle name, Melissa, is from the Alman Brothers song.
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My dad sat next to someone on an airplane who had just had a baby with my name –
FABRIC ME!! My aunt wanted to name her daughter Tiffany, and when my mother found this out while she was pregnant she bought the name off of her for a Taco Bell burrito.
FABRIC ME! There is no particular meaning behind my name, my parents just liked the name I guess.
Fabric me! My name means beloved, and my parents picked it because every Amy they had ever met had been super nice, so they went with it hoping I’d fit with the trend.
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I have an especially long (and complicated) last name that almost no one pronounces correctly. No biggie! My parents decided my siblings and I were to have simpler first names to balance things out. So there ya go…
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My knew I was going to be a boy, or so they thought. My name was supposed to be Bryan Wesley. They came up with my name on the spur of the moment.
FABRIC ME! My mom just liked the name Jennifer. My middle name, Marie, is my grandmother’s name.
Fabric Me! My full name is Geneva which is a combination of my two grandmothers’ names, Gen (short for Genevieve) and Neva. My nickname is pronounced like Jenny and I wished when I was younger that mine was spelled more conventionally because I hated it when people pronounced it like genii.
Fabric me! My name means worthy of love. My parents told me they were going to name me Jennifer until my mom saw me for the first time and said, “there’s my Amanda Sue”.
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My first name has no special meaning – Amy was just very popular in the seventies! My middle name, however, was given to me to honor my maternal grandmother and paternal great-grandmother. They both had the name Katherine, but spelled different ways, so my mother combined the spellings to pay tribute to both. (Kathryn + Catherine = Katherine) I did the same for my first born daughter, and combined them a different way (Kathryn + Catherine = Cathryn).
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There seems to be no significance, but I always wanted a “fancier” name like Clarissa (Anyone remember that show Clarissa explains it All?!?!)
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My name means “fair one” in Gaelic.
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Fabric Me! My mother was so undecided as to what to name me right up until the moment I was born and actually had the name Caitlin originally on my birth certificate. When my grandmother came to the hospital to visit she said “she is a ‘Tara’ after my favorite movie Gone With The Wind” and so my name was changed!
Fabric me! Even though Jessica was a pretty popular name for the early 80’s, my parents especially loved it after the Allman Brothers song.
FABRIC ME! My given name was Diana Davis, but I’ve always been called Dede because of the first letter of my first and last name.
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My first name is Susan, nothing particularly cool about why my parents picked it other than to agree that Lisa, the name they had chosen during my mom’s pregnancy, did not seem to suit me once they met me.
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My dad wanted to name me after the country he served as a sailor. My parents are Puerto Rican but they both had dreams of living inland. My mother learned how to speak English by watching All My Children and her favorite character was Erica Kane. They removed the “Am-” in America and replaced the C with a K and there you go, that’s how they figured out my name.
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My name means truth, but the name doesn’t have particular significance to my parents. My dad says he wanted something short!
Fabric Me! I am named after my great-grandmother and my great-grandfather.
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My dad picked it :)
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My name is a variation of my mom’s name, Alice. Alice is also my grandmother’s name.
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My name was going to be Briedt – from a relative in the netherlands – but then my parents decided to change it to Brienn – and I”m VERY THANKFUL! People struggle with saying my name that I can’t even imagine the struggles with the first one! I always remember growing up my parents describing my name as “It’s like Brie cheese with 2 N’s to make it feminine.” I would repeat that all the time! :)
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Christine is a family name on my mother’s side.
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