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ilanarama1. What does your first name mean?
It's the poetic form of the word for tree in Hebrew.
2. Middle?
It means ewe, or lamb.
3. Last?
It means star. Or the back of a boat. Or unyielding.
4. Put it together?
Take your pick.
5. If I were a boy?
I dunno.
6. Other oddities?
My parents chose this name at the last moment. I was going to be named 'Tamara'. My mom misspelled it on my birth certificate, and later corrected it.
7. Do I like it?
Now I do. I went through phases of liking it and not liking it when I was younger. I can't imagine being named anything else.
8. What do I like best?
I meet very few others. Most people think it's pretty.
9. What do I like least?
Nobody who sees it written first pronounces it correctly, and nobody who hears it first spells it correctly.
10. If I had to change it?
See #7. I can't imagine it. But I guess I'd take Ariel, or Lila. And I have a sneaking fondness for the name Jane, although I can't picture myself as a Jane at all.
It's the poetic form of the word for tree in Hebrew.
2. Middle?
It means ewe, or lamb.
3. Last?
It means star. Or the back of a boat. Or unyielding.
4. Put it together?
Take your pick.
5. If I were a boy?
I dunno.
6. Other oddities?
My parents chose this name at the last moment. I was going to be named 'Tamara'. My mom misspelled it on my birth certificate, and later corrected it.
7. Do I like it?
Now I do. I went through phases of liking it and not liking it when I was younger. I can't imagine being named anything else.
8. What do I like best?
I meet very few others. Most people think it's pretty.
9. What do I like least?
Nobody who sees it written first pronounces it correctly, and nobody who hears it first spells it correctly.
10. If I had to change it?
See #7. I can't imagine it. But I guess I'd take Ariel, or Lila. And I have a sneaking fondness for the name Jane, although I can't picture myself as a Jane at all.