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Archiveswanting to know the origin of my name
(and my family for that matter)
I posted a question asking about the origin of my first name back in december and there were a few answers that seemed somewhat futile to me, anyways my name is Arenda...and whenever I type my name into Facebook or something like that i always get a bunch of hispanic or especially malaysian peoples with my name. I AM NOT MALAYSIAN or asian in any way...not that I wouldn't like to be, just I think its strange that there are so many asian people with my name.
I am named after my great grandmother Arenda, she was from llanelly (sp?), wales. But I know as an american i am surrounded with white people all the time and that means plenty of people with a welsh background. I have never met anyone with me name and have plenty of people to remind me that they haven't, either.
Nobody in my family (including my mother who named me this, and besides my great grand mom is dead) can tell me where this name is from. I CONSTANTLY MY WHOLE LIFE have had people butchering it and I don't even understand why, its not hard to say my name, but they treat it like its exotic enough to mispronounce.
So sorry for explaining myself, but I should've mentioned in the first place i want to know what this name sounds like to you all and where you think its from??? there are some websites saying it is dutch or germanic meaning 'eagle bold' but to my knowledge i am not dutch or german. also in polish it literally means 'to rent' (lol)
I posted a question asking about the origin of my first name back in december and there were a few answers that seemed somewhat futile to me, anyways my name is Arenda...and whenever I type my name into Facebook or something like that i always get a bunch of hispanic or especially malaysian peoples with my name. I AM NOT MALAYSIAN or asian in any way...not that I wouldn't like to be, just I think its strange that there are so many asian people with my name.
I am named after my great grandmother Arenda, she was from llanelly (sp?), wales. But I know as an american i am surrounded with white people all the time and that means plenty of people with a welsh background. I have never met anyone with me name and have plenty of people to remind me that they haven't, either.
Nobody in my family (including my mother who named me this, and besides my great grand mom is dead) can tell me where this name is from. I CONSTANTLY MY WHOLE LIFE have had people butchering it and I don't even understand why, its not hard to say my name, but they treat it like its exotic enough to mispronounce.
So sorry for explaining myself, but I should've mentioned in the first place i want to know what this name sounds like to you all and where you think its from??? there are some websites saying it is dutch or germanic meaning 'eagle bold' but to my knowledge i am not dutch or german. also in polish it literally means 'to rent' (lol)
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