What’s in a name?

What’s in the name? Each and every one of us has a name for us to be recognized. But where did it come from? Did you ask your parents how they arrived at your name? For sure some get it in the calendar…the old way. Some get your name to their favorite artist whether local or foreign artist. Mine? My mother told me that my name came from Steve McQueen. Well, now I have children…5 kids!!! We all know that number 13 as what superstitious belief was “malas” or not good. But all of my kid names have 13 letters. And they are all a blessing to me. Now these are the stories behind their names:

GRETCHEN ESLEI = Gretchen came from my father-in-law’s name Graciano. While the “es” came from the start of my name “Steve” and the “lei” came from my wife’s name “Emilie”. I didn’t want it to be “Eslie” so I made it as “Eslei”.

ROCHENN GEYNIS =Rochenn came from my father’s name Nestor. If you will read Nestor backward it will be “Rotsen”. Geynis came from all the initial letter of my parents and parents-in-laws. The first 3 letters came for my parents-in-law. G is for Graciano, E is for Elilia, Y is for Yabut, the maiden name of my mother-in-law, the 2nd 3 letters came for my parents, N is for Nestor, I is for Ilaya, the maiden name of my mother and S is for Salome.

GRACIEN STEVIE =Gracien is so much understood that it came from my father-in-law’s name Graciano while Stevie came from my name Steve. He he he…I don’t want to have a Steve, Jr.

ROSSEIN YVETTE =Rossein come from her mother’s name Rosemarie. Got surprised? My first wife died so I got married again. If you spell backward my name Steve it will be Evets and that’s where I got Yvette without an S.

CHRISTIEN ROSS =To be more religious Christien came from Christ while Ross again came from my wife’s name Rosemarie.

If you will notice all of their names end with a sound of “yen” but it was purely accidental especially on my first 3 children. But when Rossein and Christien were born my first 3 kids wanted their name to sounds like their names. So…What can you say about the names of all my children? They are all unique in their own way. By the way I just found out that my German name is ETTIEN.