Friday Five Thingummy

[revena]

1. Are you named after anyone? If so, explain.

Robyn is sometimes understood as a diminutive of Robert, and so in that way I am kinda named after my dad. My middle name, Claire, is after my mother's youngest brother, Clair (which is a common boy name in Utah).

2. Do you have your children's names picked out already? If so, is there any significance?

I often think it'd be cool to name a kid something like Thorvald or Hero - Norse sagas and English lit can provide oodles of awesome-sounding names. But I probably won't inflict anything like that on my kids. Well, maybe a middle name...

Mostly, I just use the cool names I come across for fiction characters. I hope there'll be some left by the time I'm ready to have children!

3. If you were born a member of the opposite sex what would your name have been?

I dunno. I can't remember if my parents had specific boy names picked out.

4. If you could re-name yourself what name would you pick and why?

One of the other names that Mom and Dad considered was Reeve, which I've always kinda liked. It sounds a little bit more exotic, and I often wished as a kid that my name was more unusual. I like Robyn, though. And when I'm feeling more mysterious, I can always just use "R".

5. Are there any mispronunciations/typos that people do w/ your name constantly?

Robin is very common (understandably). I once got on a mailing list for a college recruitment department as Rybin, and then every other college I was interested in sent duplicate paperwork - to both Robyn Fleming and Rybin Fleming. That was laaame.

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[gothy-dork.livejournal.com]

1. Are you named after anyone? If so, explain.
I was named after my mother's brother's wife, Mary.

2. Do you have your children's names picked out already? If so, is there any significance?
Son David was named so because we wanted him to have a name that wasn't too "big" for a child or "kiddy" for an adult. Daughter Allison was named after my grandmother Alice.

3. If you were born a member of the opposite sex what would your name have been?
I dunno either. I can't remember if my parents had specific boy names picked out.

4. If you could re-name yourself what name would you pick and why?
I don't know...probably something less "white-bread" than Mary.

5. Are there any mispronunciations/typos that people do w/ your name constantly?
People always want to spell Hayden as Haydn. My husband finds it hysterical that I once had a piece of mail addressed to "Marv" instead of "Mary."

[revena.livejournal.com]

Marv is pretty funny. Heee.

[gothy-dork.livejournal.com]

I also had a "Mart." :P

[snarkypants.livejournal.com]

Does your family have Utah roots? LDS roots?

(The mention of Utah, plus the fact that AZ is teeming with Mormons prompts me to ask)

If so, me, too. I'm the black sheep of a good ol' TBM family.

[revena.livejournal.com]

*nod* My parents were both raised in the Cache Valley area, and my mother's family has been there for ages (Dad's comes from Montana, more originally). I think we kinda noted in passing how weirdly similar some of our demographic information was around Thanksgiving. Don't we both have relatives who died in plane crashes on the way to family events in Utah, or something?

[snarkypants.livejournal.com]

Oh, geez, that's right. Duh.

Sorry, the synapses weren't firing reliably!

[bbcaddict.livejournal.com]

for #5?
OH HELL YEAH.

[revena.livejournal.com]

Boy, I can imagine!