Pregnant woman gets grandma's approval on her daughter's name–then uncovers a surprising truth about it
Parents try to name their baby after someone or something that holds significance in their lives. A close friend or family member's name could be one such thing. However, when a mom tried to name her daughter after a family member with her grandmother's approval, things took a weird turn. The woman, u/-Scorpia, shared the story of her eldest daughter's name and how she remembers it as a funny incident now.
"So no one is bitter about this and my daughter is now 8 years old," the woman began. She was pregnant with her first baby when her grandma began her "very long" at-home hospice journey and experienced memory loss and dementia. "I was happy to share with her that we were considering 3 different names. Lydia, Olivia and Sophia. My grandma f***ing gasped about the name 'Sophia' and it sealed the deal." The grandmother was excited that Sophia happened to be her grandmother's name and thought it was really beautiful. "I absolutely loved that it was also a family name and there was no question after that," the mom recounted. "Well, when Sophia was 3 months old, I brought it back up and said I loved how we were able to use a family name we loved."
However, the entire thing turned out to be a mistake. "My grandma looked at me in horror and yelled, 'My grandmother's name was Sara!' So fast forward a couple of years and I'm pregnant again." The woman took a deep dive into her ancestry around this time and made an "extensive" family tree. "This showed me clear as day that my grandmother's grandma was not Sophia or Sara and her name was Anne." She added, "I just lost my s*** cracking up. We ironically chose Ann as a middle name for Sophia, though. It just kept getting funnier and funnier, lol." Many people took to the comment section to share their name stories.
u/Mzmouze wrote, "My grandmother was Myrtle Anna. I'm Anne. She hated her name until I bought her a carving made of myrtle wood. She cried and said it was the first time in her life Myrtle was associated with something beautiful." u/shammy_dammy commented, "Don't feel bad. My older child's middle name is the name we thought was my father-in-law's first name. We recently got a hold of a copy of his legal birth certificate in Mexico to work on my husband's citizenship paperwork and...no. It's not his first name. Not even close. So, for the 35 years of my son's life, we thought we'd named him after his granddad, only to find out we named him after the fake first name that granddad did all of his US paperwork with."
u/AdLong6512 remarked, "My name is the opposite! I was named Sara because my mom thought she was picking a name that no one in the family had. When she announced it, her grandma burst into years of joy that she had a namesake. My mom was totally confused. It turns out that her grandma was named Sarah but always went by Sally, lol. So I became the accidental namesake." u/kiwigirlie shared, "Could be worse. My German husband’s middle name is Japanese and he was told it’s because he’s 1/16 Japanese. He’s not, his dad was just trying to impress a Japanese businessman."