Gah, my name is so average, and common. You want to hear something that’s ridiculous?! When I was in six grade I once had a class with 7 other girls with the same name as me! Granted, the class had 60 or so people, but that’s really crazy! My name was also the number one girl name chosen the year I was born, GO FIGURE.
After researching my name, Brittany, and looking for its meaning, it’s been slightly a disappointing search. I once read somewhere that Brittany meant daughter of God, but I have been unable to find any further documentation or proof. My name is a derivative of a town in Britain. So basically it means to be from Britain. How boring is that? But further reading led me to the discovery that the name Brittany in Latin terms also means strong and beautiful. I’ll take that!
I then began researching my middle name, Ann and I actually expected to receive a good response, merely because Ann just seems to have more meaning behind it, or it could just be because Brittany is so common, and I really kind of don’t like it. Ann means favored grace. At first I didn’t really understand what that meant, but it relates back to Hebrew which led me to believe that it has a biblical reference to it. My second name basically means a gift of God's favor full of grace. :)
I’ve always been curious as to why my Mother named me Brittany Ann, it’s very similar to my older sister’s name, Tiffany Lynn. People often thought we were twins when I was in Elementary school, although she was almost two full years older than me. It confused me though because we don’t even really look alike and I was two grades behind her. I guess that would make me the dumb twin.
Even though I don’t know why my mother named me Brittany, I do know why she chose my middle name as Ann. I was named after my mother’s eldest sister, Carol Ann. :) Knowing that makes me extremely happy, Carol is a very kindhearted, genuine woman.
It's fun to think of what I will name my children one day. I guess I will never truly know until I get to that point. When I was younger I would always name my dolls Elizabeth Michelle, I always said that I would name my daughter that one day... then about ten months later I got a cousin named that! So I guess that name's out. I want something more unique and meaningful anyways. I don't want my child to have a name that's so common that they could possibly have a class with 7 other kids with the same name. That doesn't necessarily mean I want to give them a name that will ridicule them either, there's already enough Tommy Pickles in the world!
I'm actually rather a hippie at heart, so I am very tempted to one day name my child more on the "earthy" side, if that makes any sense, but no where near as hippie as naming my child Green Leafy Meadows. That actually did happen. My mother works in pediatrics and they have a patient named that! (They also have a Tommy Pickles too!)The craziest one they have that I can remember is a foreign family that had two kids. The first name Abcde. Not even kidding. You pronounce it Ab-C-dee. The second one they named Fghi, and you pronounce it Figi. Crazy right?
At least their children can learn their ABC's and how to write their name at the same time!
I will more than likely name my child something biblical, you can't really go wrong with that. A name that is beautiful, AND has meaning. :)
BUT that is many, many MANY years from now!
Until Next time!
"Today, my friend and I went to use the bathroom in my school.
On the mirror someone had written with a Sharpie 'Don't worry. You're beautiful.'
The person who wrote that GMH"
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