Definition Essay On My Name

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Ever since you were born, your name has in some way made you the person you are. You may not notice it, but a name has a lot to do with who you are. When you grow up, your name can make or break a lot of opportunities that you could possibly come across in the future. People constantly judge one another off of first impressions. First impressions are thought of as at first sight. But what if you were being described to someone, without them seeing you, and all they have to go off of is your name? Growing up, it can be pretty obvious that a name can make people assume who or how you are as a person. First and foremost, let’s start with how you could assume genders by a name. Me, being a girl named Parker, constantly get assumed that I am …show more content…
A name is supposed to represent how you are as a person and I didn’t think that anything about me screamed Parker. Once I got older I realized that my name truly does match me. The way I justify it is the fact that a girl having the first name of Parker is pretty rare, just like me. That’s pretty corny, but it’s the truth. Finding another person with my rare and unique personality traits is not likely, just like it would be uncommon to find many girls with the name Parker. Now that I’m older and can truly analyze my name, I value it more than I did. I now think that my name represents me and does me …show more content…
When my mom was pregnant with me, she was actually told that she was going to have a boy. My name was actually going to be Jacob, or something really typical like that. When I was born, and it was brought to everyone’s attention that I was missing a vital piece of a boy’s anatomy, my dad decided to name my first name after Parker Posey, the head cheerleader on their favorite movie Dazed and Confused. My mother and father could not agree on a middle name, so they both decided to compromise and stick me with both. As for last names, I got my dad’s because my parents had planned on getting married, but then separated when I was six months