*** 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.
Brandi Hinton says
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My real name is actually Brandon – my mom who is a pharmacist had a favorite patient and his wife’s name was Brandon. Aside for everyone thinking I’m a boy when they read my name, I like it because I’ve never met another female Brandon!
Kirstin says
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My first name my parents just liked, my middle name, Leigh, is my grandpa’s.
Azwa says
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My name comes fron my uncle actually.Its his (then) girlfriend. I think.
katy says
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My name means Pure one. I don’t know about all that but I have always liked my name. I was one of 13 Katies in my graduating class of 120 or so but I was the only Katy with a Y.
Gabriella @ Our Life In Action says
FABRIC ME! No meaning other than my father loved it and won an argument with my mom so he got to pick my first name and my mom got to pick my second name (Giulietta – sounds like Julietta). :-)
Olivia says
Fabric me! My parents named me Olivia Joy because my mom wanted to call me Liv. My dad started calling me OJ in the hospital and it stuck. It wasn’t until I went to college that I started going by Olivia and eventually people started calling me Liv. Which is why I named my blog peoplecallmeliv!
Lindsey says
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Think I was named after a soap opera actress…
Sara E says
Fabric Me. My name means “princess” and it pretty much fits me to a T.
Joy says
Fabric Me! I was supposed to be Sally but at the last moment, my mom named me Joy after a soap opera star’s baby, her little bundle of “joy”. How lame!!!!
Jen J says
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My name is Jenell. My mom wanted to call me Jen but didn’t like the name Jennifer so she changed the spelling of Janelle to Jenell so she could call me Jen.
(This giveaway would be PERFECT for me to win right now, I’m trying to pick out new fabric to make curtains for my bedroom) :)
alexis peck says
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i was named after the mean lady on some 80’s soap..lol so im Alexis :)
Laura says
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I don’t think my name has particular significance, but I was nameless for a few days because none of the ones they’d come up with felt right. Then my dad suggested Laura out of the blue and that was that!
Also, I always used to tell people that I was named after Laura Ingalls Wilder. Loved those books.
Ilze says
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I dont really love my name, but never wanted a different one. Though I do have several nicknames I feel very comfortable about and each is very special :)
Kate says
FABRIC ME! No significance to my first name, but my middle name has been the same for the first born daughter in our family as far back as anyone knows.
Amanda Smith says
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My parents planned to call me Mandy, but the nickname wouldn’t stick. I’ve always gone by Amanda. Seems like TV shows always make the “Amandas” mean or hateful, but the name means lovable, so I like to think I’m that.
My middle name, Susan, is a spin off of my mother’s name, Sue. It’s special to me.
Carolyn says
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I was named after my mother’s aunt, who had passed away the day before I was born. They were very close and I am honored to have her name :)
Anita Boeira says
Yes, please, FABRIC ME! I sew like craaaazy, and would really love that prize.
My name is Anita, and there’s not a lot of meaning behind it, except that my parents wanted a very unusual name, and one that people couldn’t come up with nicknames for (a challenge that was widely embraced by my friends while I grew up).
But my last name has a cool meaning: Boeira comes from the word Boieira, which in Portuguese means the people that would herd cows, and they’d guide themselves by the brightest star in the night sky, Venus, which in Portugal (at least a long time ago), was named Boieira. See, that’s a better name story!
Heather L. says
FABRIC ME! There is no exciting/special meaning behind my name. Just that my parents liked it.
Joscelynne says
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Nothing special to my name but we gave our daughter a very special name. My husband and I both fell in love with the same girls name at a very young age (he was 4 and I was 6 when we both heard it in different books read to us). When we found out we were having a girl it took no time to decide to name her Adelle. Her middle name is Pulelehua (meaning: BUTTERFLY) which combines my husbands family tradition of Hawaiian middle names with my mothers love of butterflies.
Kelli from LittleCottageOfMine says
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Kelly spelled with a “y” supposedly is a boys name and Kelli spelled with an “i” is a girls name.
Who really knows?!
Laurin says
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Oh goodness, my name. My mother wanted to name me Dorbett Rae after my grandmother’s (Doris and Betty.) My father despised Dorbett and said that he would call me by my middle name, Rae. But my mother said no because ‘Rae’ was too masculine for a first name. So, I became Laurin, with an ‘i’ because an ‘e’ was too common. I’m so glad that I am Laurin with an ‘i’ and not Dorbett.
Ashley says
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I just got a sewing machine for Christmas so I’m anxious to make some things.
My first and last were the lead male actors name on “Gone with the Wind”…living in the South, my mom wanted a little southern belle.
Meghan says
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My name is Meghan and I’m not sure where my parents came up with the name, but I have a twin named Rian so we always joke that we were named after Meg Ryan
Caroline says
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My name Caroline was my paternal great-grandmother’s middle name. She was not a fan of it (she went by her first name Ruby) but my mom loved it. Caroline is my middle name as well but I have always gone by it. I love the name much more than my first name, so I’m glad that I go by it. I actually wanted to make Caroline my first name and adopt my maiden name as my middle when I got married, but I was told I would have to get a court order. Boo legal process!
Diane says
FABRIC ME! My parents just liked the name Diane. I always wanted to change the spelling to Dian. lol If I were a boy they would have named me Doug or Dennis and I ended up marrying a man named Dennis.
Casey H. says
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I have no cute naming story :(
Christa says
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My dad wanted to name me “Christian” and my mom said it was a boy’s name so Christa was a compromise. My middle name, Carter, is my uncle’s first and great-grandmother’s last name. I used to hate it growing up but now it’s also my son’s middle name and I love it :)
Stephanie says
FABRIC ME! I am named after my father, Stephan, and also share his initials.
Megan says
FABRIC ME! No special significance behind my name. My mom always knew she would name her first daughter Megan just because she liked it. And she did :)
Kristy O says
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emily says
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Named after a neighbor of my mom’s when she was growing up!
Janet says
FABRIC ME: sometimes my mom tells me I am named after Janet Leigh (Janet Lee is my first & middle) – I think she just liked it. The name books say janet means “God’s gracious gift”, which is eh – I’m not particularly religious.
As a child I hated it (thought it was an old lady’s name) – me and my girlfriend “changed” our names to Juliet & Zoe in middle
school. I forget who was who. We gave ourselves surnames like rosdale – pretending mid 90’s rock stats were our husbands.
Anyway – now I like that not many people around my age have my name. (I imagine guys named Mike or John don’t like being “big mike” or “little John” or mike d)
Darnetha says
FABRIC ME! My name means from the hidden place.
Trina says
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My name is a variation of Katherine which means “pure.” Nothing too exciting about my name, or how I got it, but I like it.
Shelby says
FABRIC ME! No real meaning behind my name.
Chelsea says
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I’m named after the Joni Mitchell song “Chelsea Morning” — which I think it awesome, but I wish I actually liked the song better! :)
Lori says
FABRIC ME!!! I was named after my moms college friend!
Helena says
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My initials before I was married used to spell HER.
Penni McNamara says
FABRIC ME! My parents let my 5 year old brother name me. He named me after Penny Robinson, a character on his favorite tv show “Lost in Space”. No lie.
Amy says
Fabric Me!! I’ve got a new apartment with lots of windows in my immediate future. I need to make some FABULOUS curtains!!!
The meaning behind my name is one of the best stories I have. My name is Amy, and I was named after my grandfather Walter. Doesn’t make sense does it? When my grandpa was little he had a crush on the chubby girl down the street named, you guessed it, Amy. His older brothers, started calling him Amy, and it stuck. Everyone calls him Amy, so when I’m with family, I’m Amy Lee.
If you want to be really technically about it, I’m named after the chubby girl down the street.
Melissa says
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My name means honeybee(in Greek). Without knowing that, my grandpa always called me “bzzt”. Also, I am the youngest in my family and my two older siblings both have names that start with “M”, so my name had to start with “M” too. :-)
Amy says
Fabric me! My mom loves the French language and my name means love and friend and French.
Christine says
Fabric me! I wasn’t named after anyone, but I was always grateful to be the only Christine in my grade in school!
rosalie says
Fabric me! I was named after the woman who owned the house I was born in. And I love my name immensely.
Kathy says
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No significance to my name…4th child so they were running out of favorites, I guess. My mom wanted to name me Lesley but my dad said everyone would call me Les…so my name is Kathy and everyone in my family called me…wait for….it….Kat!!!
shannon c. says
FABRIC ME! My name is shannon, no special story or anything, but when my little sister came along, my dad really wanted to name her Schunen (apparently a German name he liked). Luckily my mom talked him out of it- I don’t think Shannon and Schunen would have been a very good pair.
Amy @ Elephant Eats says
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I was named after my great grandma Anna. In the Jewish tradition, you name a baby something starting with the same first letter as a deceased relative you’re honoring. I never really wished my name was different. It’s not too unique, although I’ve never had a class or job with another Amy, so that’s been good! :)
Jessica says
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My parents picked two names they liked. My brother and sister were named after other people, but my name is all my own.
Jessica says
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My dad liked Jessica and my mom liked Leah. Dad won with the first name and mom got runner up with the middle name :)
Holly Light says
FABRIC ME! I get the joy of having a birthday 3 days after Christmas, therefore Holly came from holly berries at Christmas time. I almost got Noel as a middle name but instead got Holly Ann.