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Answer these questions yourself first. Then ask a friend, or an older person, parent or relative and see if you get the same answers.

• Do you like your name? What do you like about it?
• Do you know what it means? What language it comes from?
• If you donít like your name, why not?
• Who named you, and why? Were you named for someone else? In honor of someone else?
• Is there a history to your name in your family? Are you a Junior, Senior, the II, III, IV? (One king of England was Henry the VIII!)
• Are there any stories in your family about your name?