Who gave you your name and why? Did you have a family nickname? How did you get it?
I feel like I have told my name story a hundred times, since I talk about names so often online... :)
I was the third child, the second girl. My mother wanted to name me Alexandra Rose or Alexandra Renae. Renae is her middle name. Alexandra is the feminine form of Alexander, meaning "Defender of Mankind". Mom wanted to name me this so that she could call me Alex. She liked unisex names on girls--another name she liked was Dusty Rose.
While in labor, my biological father Tim said he did not care for the names Mom had picked out. He didn't want me to be called by a boy's name, so he wanted to honor a family friend with my name--Andra. The funny part is, Andra is a Scottish male name that means "manly, virile".
Tim won out, and I became Andra Renae, which has been a bit of a headache--no one can pronounce it or spell it correctly, which means I am forever correcting people. But I grew to kind of like it. I rarely am called Andra, but you know...still there for important documents and such.
My Aunt Cindy decided to nickname me Andie, getting inspiration from Andie McDowell, who was a 1980's actress/model. It still gave me the unisex name that mom wanted. The nickname stuck--I go by Andie most of the time :)
Interesting note: if I had been a boy, Mom was thinking that my name would have been Chesley Vallon or Michael Craig.
~Andie~
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