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Dia Jones
Lynn Raymond
English 1103
15 July 2014
The Name Game
The way one is named is all based upon what the parents decide. Names could be
a single sex name or a unisex name, depending on the parents preference. The mother
and father can decide whether or not they to pass a name down and keep it in the family
or to keep the name tied within their culture. I know personally, that my father is named
after his father, Albert Rudolph Brown, but upon my grandmothers next marriage, my
father changed last names from Brown to Jones. Now my father is names, Albert
Rudolph Jones instead of Albert Rudolph Brown Jr. With my father changing last names,
he lost his title of being a jr and continuing on his fathers name. This is an example of
not passing down a name to keep it within the family and to make it a tradition.
My mother devised a different plan for naming my brothers and I. To begin my
mothers name is Karen Denise Jones. Her maiden name was Karen Denise Gorman until
she married my father. When deciding what she wanted to name us, she knew she wanted
to go in alphabetical order. By this I mean, A,B,C,D, in that order. When my oldest
brother was born he was named Chaz. When my second oldest brother was born he was
named Aric, and then Bryce came along. My mother truly only wanted a girl, but she
kept getting boys and she said, If this is not a girl, I am done trying. Then, I came along
and she named me Dia, which completes the alphabetical order.
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My mother also knew what she had in store for our middle names. Since my
mothers middle names is Denise, she decided to make sure our middle names began with
a D, just like hers. Chazs middle name is DeAndre, Arics is Dior, Bryce is Delanie, and
mine is Danyelle. So, the pattern of our name is quite unique. Our names are in order
alphabetical as well as our middle names begin with the same letter. My parents gave us
names that they thought would fit us. They decided on breaking the tradition of keeping
the name in the family and creating their own tradition.