Originally Posted by buslady
Originally Posted by craftyone27
Had a family name bestowed on me that noone could pronounce. At 12 I started using my middle name, my father was not happy. When I married, I dropped my first name completely and kept my middle name and took my maiden name as my middle name. I tried to be nicer when I named my own kids!!
can i ask what it was? mine is onalee, my mom says her mom named her that and her dad couldnt pronounce it, so he told everyone it was shirley. thats the one they kept. i always liked having a different name. i actually use it without my last name since i never here "onalee who"?.
It is a Norwegian name - spelled Olda - but pronounced like Alda.. Got really tired of being called "old-a" and made fun of by kids named Jenny and John. Just had enough of feeling so different and decided to use my middle name which is Christine. Made the change at 12 and though I sometimes miss the novelty, I didn't pass family names on to my kids.