Why did you choose your name?

Hi, first post here

cosafina your name in Spanish does indeed mean something fine.
Cosa= thing, item
Fina= fine, delicate, refined

Cosa fina is a colloquial expresion to depict something as excellent, exquisite
(although sometimes may be used sarcastically)

My name is from the book A Girl of the Limberlost which I read when I was around thirteen. I felt pity and admiration for the main character, Elnora Comstock.

Where I live everyone who has a baby girl seems to refer to her as their princess and dress her in pink.
While I am certainly not a baby girl anymore I had a stupid thought that I would love to be a pink princess and be spoilt.
It was the same time as I joined Gransnet so I thought I will be called that on here.
I have changed my mind about being spoilt and never wear pink as it does not suit me.
I still would like to be a princess though, so I will stick to it.

My cousins used to call me this when we were all children. No idea why. I was also called Pudding by my family. I was always small and slight not at all pudding-like. I rather like the ring of my username now, though I hated it then!

PS I am still quite small, but not as slight

Yes, I realise now how boring mine is!

I like butterflies and Purple Hairstreak is the name of one. There's also a Green Hairstreak and a Brown Hairstreak butterfly, but the Purple was most appealing - as well as having a slightly "oddball" image!

Because of my grand daughter's love of all things Peppa Pig - and because I really am very silly. I do the daftest things.

Mine is the fact that I was a beekeepers wife !!!

A very descriptive name Grannyactivist. Mine is pretty ordinary. Nan obviously and the mixed up names of the two GCs I see daily.

This is the first forum I joined (only one actually) so I had to think up a name on the spot. I have always been passionate about books and been very involved in campaigning for various things. My grandchildren called me Grannybook and one of my children jokingly called me Mummyactivist: so I combined the two.

I am an ELderly RELative! Simples too!

I'm Ben's nan -simples!

I chose my name HappyNan1becausebi was so happy at becoming a nana. Of course I'm still very happy at being a nana but don't like the name I chose as I think it sounds twee, a bit goodytwoshoes and I'm frequently not a happynan

ana don't be so nasty as you usually are, I don't mind my name being abbreviated to ethel but I just don't like anyone missing my 't' out.
Stop always finding fault with my comments.

Nocherrytree59 Im not having an off night its just that people like ana make me sick. Nit pickers

Sounds etheltbag1 like you might be having an off night Perhaps things will look better in the morning.

I used my favourite colour and pushed the first letter of my name to the last!!

Oh FGS ethel tee bags 1 give it a rest! Change your name to something else if you don't like people abbreviating your username.

I wish that I had chosen something clever and would change if we could. Mine is from a great,great,great grandmother. I thought it quite an unusual name for a daughter of a farm labourer.

I have noticed that some people call me ethelbags I don't like it, I am ethel tee bags. I thought they were being nasty.

You must be another one.

Have you always had that 't' in there etheltbags? I've never noticed it before. Always thought you were ethelbags!

I thought ethel sounded unusual these days and I like tea so I became ethel t bags, they wouldn't let me just be etheltbags so I| had to add a number1 hence etheltbags1. easy.

Mine should be 'gillyogg' (my daughter created it for me ) but for some reason it always comes up with the y missing! My user name is 'knittingnana' because its what I do!

A great thread, as I am sure that many of us wonder - both at the personality behind the name (or is it just me?!) and the derivative of the name itself. Some G'netters are v clever with their nom de plumes!

Mine is very boring - my husband's name begins with C and mine with an L. Says it all really!

Thanks, Gammon for starting the thread.

I chose my name Sillynanny because whenever I do something to make the grankids laugh they always say "silly nanny"

Think there was a thread on this recently, but here goes. I put it together on one of those sites where you answer favourite? Questions to get a user name. Oddly I like purple, but am not that keen on daffodils, but perhaps it was spring when I answered the questions. I prefer the interesting ones other people have. Would change it, but CBA.