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1. Is the name you have now the same name that's on your birth certificate? If not, what's changed?
Same.
2. If you could change your name (first, middle and/or last), what would it be?
I don't know! I don't love my first name, because it got so popular after I was born (though I was ahead of the curve--and born a year before Dynasty premiered, thank you). My surname I hate because it's invariably mispronounced (it's ROSE-off, thank you again, long o and the s is pronounced like z) and when I say it on the phone, no one ever spells it right. I have no idea what I'd change it to, though--and I think changing it at all would be weird! Even changing it if/when I get married will be strange.
3. Why were you named what you were? (Is there a story behind it? Who specifically was responsible for naming you?)
English name (Alexis): My mother liked the name, and it was similar to my paternal grandmother's name, Alice.
Hebrew name (Rachel): Named for my great-grandmother (maternal grandmother's mother).
Middle name (Danielle): After my maternal grandfather.
(My family is Ashkenazi Jewish and follows the naming-after-dead-relatives principle, though we're only strict about it in Hebrew--it was partly coincidence with my English first name.)
4. Are there any names you really hate or love? What are they and why?
I hate stupidly trendy or deliberately misspelled (in an effort to make them "original") names. I like fairly traditional, Hebrew/Biblical names, though not ludicrously old-fashioned (e.g. Moses).
5. Is the analysis of your name at kabalarians.com accurate? How or how isn't it?
N/A. kabalarians.com works on the same principles as a lot of these sites, where it uses vague statements that anyone can see themselves in. (I forget the technical term.)
Same.
2. If you could change your name (first, middle and/or last), what would it be?
I don't know! I don't love my first name, because it got so popular after I was born (though I was ahead of the curve--and born a year before Dynasty premiered, thank you). My surname I hate because it's invariably mispronounced (it's ROSE-off, thank you again, long o and the s is pronounced like z) and when I say it on the phone, no one ever spells it right. I have no idea what I'd change it to, though--and I think changing it at all would be weird! Even changing it if/when I get married will be strange.
3. Why were you named what you were? (Is there a story behind it? Who specifically was responsible for naming you?)
English name (Alexis): My mother liked the name, and it was similar to my paternal grandmother's name, Alice.
Hebrew name (Rachel): Named for my great-grandmother (maternal grandmother's mother).
Middle name (Danielle): After my maternal grandfather.
(My family is Ashkenazi Jewish and follows the naming-after-dead-relatives principle, though we're only strict about it in Hebrew--it was partly coincidence with my English first name.)
4. Are there any names you really hate or love? What are they and why?
I hate stupidly trendy or deliberately misspelled (in an effort to make them "original") names. I like fairly traditional, Hebrew/Biblical names, though not ludicrously old-fashioned (e.g. Moses).
5. Is the analysis of your name at kabalarians.com accurate? How or how isn't it?
N/A. kabalarians.com works on the same principles as a lot of these sites, where it uses vague statements that anyone can see themselves in. (I forget the technical term.)