what's in a name?

just a side note: i'm sorry to the few of you who actually read my blog. i recently decided to nix internet to save money but have recently started "borrowing" my neighbors occasionally to check various accounts but i haven't felt like i should "borrow" the internet long enough to blog, well, i'm going to post a few as exceptions because i have a few things to say.

so, what's in a name....
have you ever thought about how you got your name? is it a family name? or was it your parent's favorite superhero, or maybe a once famous singer or actor? i know many people that hate their names, while others love their name because it ties into their roots or is unique.
for instance, my name is jamie sue. i love my name and i always have. jamie is a play off of james(which happens to be my dad and grandpa's name). i was supposed to be a boy(duh) and my name was supposed to be james richard beckley the 3rd. i'm proud of who my family is and i'm proud of my first name, my middle name, sue(after my korean grandma's name) and beckley. you can trace our eastern european roots back to the old days, but take my sister who was supposed to also be a boy(john dean or something close) hates her middle name and while she hates it i love it. it is our grandma's middle name(hence mary lou). i guess it's all in how you view it.
anyways,
i digress....
so what's in your name? where do you come from/ how did you pick out your children's names?
i have two amazing little men. seth aaron is the older sibling, while daylee james is the younger of the two. i really wanted seth's name to be dylan, and looking back i'm glad shane strongly disagreed and seth ended up being seth. aaron(his middle name) is also his dad's middle name, so they both have the initials s.a.h. i've always been a little off and i wanted uncommon names but not too crazy and weird. when i was pregnant with d i loved the name daley or dailey. it's irish and not very common, but i hated the spelling of it. too dull, too boring, just not my style. my grandma mary lou had a beloved brother raymond lee and he was a very sick child, so when my grandma was 14 she had to drop out of the 8th grade temporarily to help her mother care for him. he died at the age of 8 months. for years(since i can remember) i could see how much my grandma loved and missed her baby brother, so i thought as a tribute to one of the most important people in my life, i'd spell daley-daylee in honor of raymond lee. so that is how my name came to be and my children as well.
but what about the names that are so off the wall you wonder if the parents were drinking when they signed the birth certificate making that name official.
i sometimes see yahoo ads claiming top ten best baby names, followed by top ten worst names. well, yahoo, i have my own idea of bad names.
my top names are all horrible. either names of possible future strippers or earth loving hippie kids(no offense to anyone who reads this and thinks i'm a narrow minded jerk). it's my opinion and you have your's.
1. destiny(too much of a stripper, hippie and there's this stupid chick i know with the same name)
2. jennifer(too plain)
3.serentiy
4. hope
5. baley(close to daylee but overused)
6. jayden, hayden. cayden(quit rhyming people)
7. neveah(heaven spelled backwards)
8. bella and edward(your children will be ridiculed for the rest of their lives)
9.chris and brian(sorry to all the chris' and brians' i know. it's too plain)
10. megan(i don't know why megan, i know a few of them and have no qualms but i hate this name)

you may have your own best and worst name list and you probably disagree with most of mine and that's okay, but i hope you take a few moments to discover how you got your name or to share with your kids how they got their name(because one day they will ask, especially if they get teased at school).