Down the Rabbit Hole

Honey Sweet One

30-Day Blogging Challenge
PROMPT January 11th
Tell us the story of your name. How and why was it chosen? You can choose to talk about your real name, your WDC username, or even your handle if you like!

Since I already covered why my "handle" became my handle in a recent prompt, I won't bore everyone with repeating the reasoning again. As far as my real name, I have no idea why my parents picked Melissa. I was supposed to be Jennifer, but they decided against that at the last minute because there was already a Jennifer in the family, a daughter of one of my mother's cousins. It was most likely as last minute decision as my parents were in their early twenties, young and newly married. I'm sure they were shell-shocked and it must have seemed like a good, solid second choice. It certainly wasn't because they googled it...my birth predated anything like that...because had they, they would have found it was Greek in origin and neither one of their families hailed from Greece. Apparently, my name means "honey bee". I've seen it loosely translated to mean, "honey sweet one", which is prob not very fitting for me.