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HOW UNIQUE IS YOUR FIRST NAME?
My real name is Plaridel. I could say it is unique because not too many people have this name in the United States. It might be a little more common in the Philippines but I think even back home very few people have this name. I used to hate it because it is unusual, long, and most of all, many people have a hard time saying it. I have wished that my parents should had just named me Larry which is the name that people use to call me since it is shorter and easier to say but as I get older I’ve learned to love and embrace my real name for I realized that this is the name that my parents chose for me when I was baptized as a baby many moons ago. I’ve thought of changing it before especially when I changed citizenship but I am glad that I didn't for it is truly a unique name catered just for me and it is the name that I am used to since almost birth, and I also do not want to disrespect my parents’ name choice which probably took them a lot of time and thinking to come up with such a name for me. Most Filipinos know that Marcelo H. Del Pilar (one of the national heroes of the Philippines) used Plaridel as his pen-name. There are also a few towns in the Philippines named after the pen-name of Marcelo H. Del Pilar, and the most famous one is Plaridel, Bulacan but in my case I was not named after the national hero del Pilar but I was named after a good friend that my mother had before she married my father. Her name was Pilar. My mom and Pilar were best friends and roommates for many years when they were assigned to teach in the mountain provinces in the Philippines. When my dad who is from Candon, Ilocos Sur got assigned to the mountain provinces to work as a district engineer or engineer for the dept. of public highways, she met my mother and I guess they fell in love and eventually my mother left Pilar to be with my father, and this was very devastating to Pilar or Larry as their friends used to call her because my mother was her only family in those cold and lonely mountain areas and she and my mother were together for many years. So when my mom gave birth to me as her first baby boy, both of my parents decided to name me Plaridel in honor of their friend Pilar. Now I am treasuring my name even more because of the story and the people behind it. Pilar passed away several years ago in the Mt. Province. May you rest in peace Auntie Pilar. I love you and I’m sorry that I didn’t get to see you before you left us in this world. These days my parents who are both retired and in their seventies are managing Seaside Park so just to keep them busy in their senior years. I would like to thank my mother for telling me the story on how I got my name.
Gratias... (NT) -- Eleni, 01/ 2/05 5:26pm
Aloysius, Eutropia, Nomencia, Plaridel...names that are very extraordinary. Rare! (NT) -- Twister, 01/ 3/05 8:28pm
Evangeline and Elena.... runner ups (NT) -- twister, 01/ 4/05 3:18pm
Donatila ... another unique name. (NT) -- twister, 01/ 5/05 11:48pm
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