My middle name was Jane but I didn't like it and I was going through pen names and the like in mid-high school with writing (that will never see the light of day, mainly because apparently I just can't finish anything) and I really liked the name Jade and the stone at the time (was my first exposure to Mesoamerican stuff plus Chinese and I had dim memories of the Cities of Gold cartoon as a kid) and it sort of evened out into Jayden because I liked the name and this was prior to every five year old boy being called it but then I added the extra y for symmetry and changed my name back in 2000 officially. :)
As to Emma, Mum was reading the book at the end of her pregnancy and liked it so I got that. I did actually turn out a wee bit like her, so that worked out well. I love the name Emma but the problem with my life? Everyone has a nasty habit of calling me Em, even when I correct and correct them, so in 1999 when I started using Jaydeyn as my online name, I started introducing myself as Jaydeyn too and it sort of spiraled from there.
Interestingly, my Welsh name if my father had his way (he got the little bro to name - Gareth Glyndwr - pronounced glyn-dell but sort of swallow the 'e') would have been Myfanwy. Given that this is the name of the pterodactyl on Torchwood? I'm seeing it a lot more now!
... huh. Where did I get healer or river from? Emma apparently means 'universal' or 'whole'. Whereas Myfanwy means... what? WHAT? My Woman? WHAT? Dude.
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Date: 2008-06-09 01:27 am (UTC)My middle name was Jane but I didn't like it and I was going through pen names and the like in mid-high school with writing (that will never see the light of day, mainly because apparently I just can't finish anything) and I really liked the name Jade and the stone at the time (was my first exposure to Mesoamerican stuff plus Chinese and I had dim memories of the Cities of Gold cartoon as a kid) and it sort of evened out into Jayden because I liked the name and this was prior to every five year old boy being called it but then I added the extra y for symmetry and changed my name back in 2000 officially. :)
As to Emma, Mum was reading the book at the end of her pregnancy and liked it so I got that. I did actually turn out a wee bit like her, so that worked out well. I love the name Emma but the problem with my life? Everyone has a nasty habit of calling me Em, even when I correct and correct them, so in 1999 when I started using Jaydeyn as my online name, I started introducing myself as Jaydeyn too and it sort of spiraled from there.
Interestingly, my Welsh name if my father had his way (he got the little bro to name - Gareth Glyndwr - pronounced glyn-dell but sort of swallow the 'e') would have been Myfanwy. Given that this is the name of the pterodactyl on Torchwood? I'm seeing it a lot more now!
... huh. Where did I get healer or river from? Emma apparently means 'universal' or 'whole'. Whereas Myfanwy means... what? WHAT? My Woman? WHAT? Dude.
:)
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