My mother's family is Italian and they follow the same tradition. Only the oldest sister of any generation is called some form of Mary (Maria, Marie, Mimi, ect)carpecaligo said:Coming from a 100% Irish family - All the girls have the first name Mary.
We all go by our middle names, But It's a generations old tradition that hasn't been broken yet (With the exception of a couple Reginas and Maries, which mean the same thing) This seems fairly old-fashioned to me, and Mary is a timeless name.
Yeps said:I actually have an opportunity to change my name as far as the public is concerned, as stage names are rather common practice, and I have given it some thought.
My first couple names are rather vintage sounding, John Thomas, if bit boring, though they do go well with my surname (I don't think I have said it here, so I don't think I shall at the moment.)
I have thought about changing my surname, which is scotch-irish, from my father's side, to one of the Italian names from my mother's side. (the Italians were the most recent immigrants in my family and being an opera singer, one is expected to be italian [grins cheekily]). If I go back a couple generations maternally, I get a great name: Vasti.
However, I don't plan to take a Italian given name, so people don't think that I am trying to pretend that I am actually from Italy. I think that "John Vasti" has a nice ring to it, and if I do take a stage name, that will probably be it.
lol lol lolbunnyb.gal said:I would be a bit careful with John Thomas, as it is slang for something (heard not-so-famously in The Road to Wellville)...vintage slang, to be sure, but slang nevertheless...