Giving the Baby a name is one of the most exciting moment that each Parents could ever encounter.
Most of the First Baby boy is always named after their Father and Some Parents named their child after a popular celebrity, the Saints in the Bible, a Hero, a politician, and from their Grandmother or Grandfather. But me, I was named differently, by the way my name is Wendel Mae Lacandazo Neri, my Grandfather calls me Momoy, when I was in highschool my Mom, some relatives and friends calls me Mumay, in College some calls me Wendy, Mae and Wendel. Our theater Director calls me Keri, and i don't know why.
I am not named after anybody, my Parents were so creative that they combined their name for me to have a name, quite confusing right? So here it goes.
-Wendel is a combination of my Mom & Dad's first name, my Mom's name is RoWENa while my Dad's name is NeriDEL. Wen plus Del is equals to Wendel.
by the way, my little brothers also have Wendel in their names,( Mark Wendel, Martin Wendel and Matthew Wendel) I think that my parents put it because it is our trademark, so that people will know that we are the sons and daughter of Rowena and Neridel.
-Mae, since I am born in the month of May they made it as my second name, they only changed the Y to E.
Even though I know the reason why I was named Wendel Mae, my curiosity won't let me sleep, so I decided to check the meaning of my name in http://www.meaning-of-names.com. According to this website the name Wendel originated from Germany which means Wanders, and it is commonly used as a boys name, while Mae in Hebrew means Bitter, in French it means May as the month, which comes from the Roman Mythology named Maia the Goddess of Spring Growth, and it is commonly used as a girls name.
Imagine, I have a name both for a girl and a boy, it is so cool.
Anyway, most of the people I met thought that I was named after Wendell Ramos an actor here in the Philippines, that is why when I was in Elementary when my Teacher calls me Wendel all of my classmates will say "Hahaha Wendel Ramos" the funny thing is that I never felt ashamed.
Some of the people who heard my name without seeing me thought that I am a boy.
I could still remember that there is this one friend of mine who asked me "Di ka ba napapangitan o naiilang sa pangalan mo?" I simply told her "Why would I? Through the Help of God my parents decided to name me as Wendel Mae, they gave this to me, it is like the first gift ever that my parents gave me, ikaw di ka ba napapangitan sa pangalan mo?".
So there we go, that is the reason why my Parents named me as Wendel Mae.
I don't care if some people are making fun of me because of my name, I don't even care whatever they say, I love my name, this is what my parents gave me, and I am so proud that I have Wendel Mae as my name.
PS: Love the name what your Parents gave you, it may sound funny, it may suck, or not appealing but for them it means a lot. :)
