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maderrSo a friend yesterday got her name off parenting.com. Amused by the rather snotty definition with lots of opinions given, I looked up mine.
MEGAN. Surely one of the most popular Welsh names to come to these shores in recent years (if we don’t count Jennifer), Megan caught on like wildfire in the early eighties with parents who liked its "Irish" sound and spirit. And although it has been so widely used — it’s still in the Top 20 — Megan retains some degree of spunk. The short form MEG is more closely tied to the original Margaret, and carries with it the charm of all the Little Women characters. Keeping it in the contemporary spotlight is actress Meg Ryan. For some reason parents are often tempted to vary Megan with"creative" spellings, but we warn against deviating so much that people aren’t sure whether the name is mee-gan or mayg-han or what, exactly.The best, clearest, easiest-to-understand spelling is the original one:Megan.
And that just strickes me as rather stupid, in the end.
Irony of ironies, my mother named for a character in a book, about a girl who liked to read. I think it was a bodice-ripper, but do not recall for certain.
So what was everyone else named for? Any reason at all?
MEGAN. Surely one of the most popular Welsh names to come to these shores in recent years (if we don’t count Jennifer), Megan caught on like wildfire in the early eighties with parents who liked its "Irish" sound and spirit. And although it has been so widely used — it’s still in the Top 20 — Megan retains some degree of spunk. The short form MEG is more closely tied to the original Margaret, and carries with it the charm of all the Little Women characters. Keeping it in the contemporary spotlight is actress Meg Ryan. For some reason parents are often tempted to vary Megan with"creative" spellings, but we warn against deviating so much that people aren’t sure whether the name is mee-gan or mayg-han or what, exactly.The best, clearest, easiest-to-understand spelling is the original one:Megan.
And that just strickes me as rather stupid, in the end.
Irony of ironies, my mother named for a character in a book, about a girl who liked to read. I think it was a bodice-ripper, but do not recall for certain.
So what was everyone else named for? Any reason at all?
