What's in a Name?

Well I guess I have to start with my name on this, so here it is, my full name is Natasha Carol Carpenter. Pretty much all parts of my name were handed down to me from the generations before me. So to start off I will start with my first name, the NAT part comes from my uncle Nathan on my mom’s side, and the ASHA part comes from one of my mom’s friends that she had after she got out of high school. CAROL comes from my grandma on my mother’s side, and my grandma got it from her grandma, so it’s one of those every other generation names. Then lastly CARPENTER come from my mother’s side again because it is our last names of course. To me my name does not truly have a very symbolic meaning besides the fact it was the name my mother changed my name to when she found out I was a girl instead of a boy. My name was supposed to be Jonathan Michael Carpenter, because my mother wanted a boy so bad opposed to a girl. I feel like my name somewhat suits me, but not very much. This with that being said I can honestly say I would have chosen a different name for myself, something more like Nariko Carol Carpenter. When it comes to my actual name though, it does set me off a little when people don’t say it right because like our biology teacher who says it wrong it is actually pronounced a different way than what he says it is. It does get aggravating at times when my own family members get it mixed up but I get used to it and just go with it. Our biology teacher is one of the only teachers in the school that can pronounce it wrong and get away with it. . .only because it’s not worth arguing over. To be honest it is sometimes hard to live with a name like mine because hardly anyone can spell it right, some teachers I have had, has spelled it wrong or just completely wrong (something that doesn’t even look like my name). For example a principle at Monett elementary spelled my name NOETOSHO…..like Neosho and Natasha Mixed together. It’s also hard to live with because some people can’t pronounce it right. I have learned to just ignore it and correct it when people mess it up.