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My family doesn't have many stories about names that I am aware of. My parents are no longer living so I can't ask them. I do know that my middle name Rose was my grandmother's middle name and my mother's first name. My mother never liked her first name and legally changed her middle name to her first name and was no longer Rosie, but she still gave me that name as my middle name. That was what she hated and so became Irene. I have no idea where the Carolyn came from. I was always thankful that I was not named after female ancestors on my dad's side. The possible names were Hulda and Botilda. WOW! Am I glad neither of those were my names either first or middle name! My brother Ken received my dad's middle name for his first name and my brother Stan has the middle name of my dad's father. There is an interesting story about the Ekenstam name. The story is that so many Swedes named Swenson came to Texas that they couldn't get their mail, so it was decided that the loser in whatever contest they had would have to change their name and the Swenson in Fred's family tree lost. However, he decided to pick fancier, more upper class name and picked Ekenstam which is supposed to be the stem of an oak. Don't ask me how that is more upper class? At least, the Swedish tradition was dropped and no one became Ekenstamson! When it came to naming my children, I don't actually remember how we picked Erik's first name. I do know that the Charles was a variation of my name or one of the many Carls in the family or either side. When it came to Karla, she was named after Fred's dad who was Carl and my grandfather and great grandfather both of whose names were Carl Carlson with different middle names. Her middle name is Irene which was my mother's name from the beginning. We teased her that she could have become Lesterene Cordelia after my dad and Fred's mom. Hopefully, no one would do that to their child. She is not very thankful for the “K” at the beginning of her name. It means she has to spell it often. --Carolyn
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