Write about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc.
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Meaning & History
Originally a medieval short form of Germanic names containing the element lind meaning “soft, flexible, tender”(Proto-Germanic *linþaz). It also coincides with the Spanish and Portuguese word linda meaning “beautiful”. In the English-speaking world this name experienced a spike in popularity beginning in the 1930s, peaking in the late 1940s, and declining shortly after that. It was the most popular name for girls in the United States from 1947 to 1952.
i was always in a crowd of Lindas, Glendas,Brendas, Belindas, and even one unfortunate Bewinda. Should a girl in my age group miss out on one of those trendy names, she had a good chance of being Janice, Janis, or Patricia. Even so, I was glad not to have the name my dad tried to saddle me with, Clothilde. (Clotile)
Nutsrok 
Where in the world did your dad come up with that name? My three-years-older sister was a Patricia. What’s your middle name? Mine is Jean.
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I just posted about that!
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Okay. I’ll check it out later today! :)
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I had the opposite problem. For the first twenty years of my life my first name was Zara. I couldn’t exactly use my middle name instead, either, because that was Friedman.
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I knew a woman named Frederick.
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You did??
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I am called Janet because of a lovely Scottish women my parents knew and my middle name Christine – after my grandfather Christopher. Weight is my maiden name and Reed my married name.
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I’ve never known anyone named weight.
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It is unusual – When I was growing. up my nick name was ‘Weighty’. Thank goodness I was a skinny little thing:)
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No kidding. That could have been torment!
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So do you like your name?
I like my name but some people do not like theirs, such as my grandchild Sam who legal name is Leo
If you want to know about my name you can go here: https://jo-annemotherandnanna.blogspot.com/2016/09/jo-anne-not-joanne-just-saying.html
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Knowing my dad wanted to name me Clothilde made Linda pretty good.
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no, I do not like my name and decided to choose another! My birth name is Sharon, but dumped that. Decided to call myself SAM,, a name made from the three letters of my birth name. It felt more energetic!
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Excellent solution
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I will only say that since I was born on Pearl Harbor Day, my Dad wanted to name me ‘Pearl’ but my family said “NO”!
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I went to school with a girl named Nona pearl. A cousin recently named her baby Edith Pearl.
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I would rather be “linda” too
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Thank goodness I didn’t grow up with Clothilde.
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Oh, some of the names in my Grandparent’s family.
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There were three Lindas in my grade at school.
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Yep. I bet there was at least one Linda Sue and one Linda Ann.
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I heard John and his sisters chortle about the name Christine was almost saddled with. Their father really wanted her to be named Priscilla Hepzibah.
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That would’ve been torture. Can you imagine what kids would have done with that?
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I’m glad she was spared that awful name.
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Close call.
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