My names and their history

I want to share something interesting how and what people called me with different names. I would like to share various names i was referred by and their history(Not huge lessons of Social History..Lol).

Starting with my original name VIDYANAND, this name was given by my parents (if i'm not wrong its my dad). My name is a combination of two words (Vidya[studying] + Anand[Happy/Enjoy]) which means a person who enjoys studying. Yes i do enjoy studying. But i was never the topper of the class but consistent and good enough to survive. Even parents wouldn't expect me to be the topper in the class but would be happy if i'm in the list of top 10-15 in the class :)..Hope i didn't disappointed them too often !!

My second name by which most of relatives refer me is TINKU. It literally has no meaning, but i know how i got this name. When i was born, there was an advertisement on TV where a cute n chubby boy used to appear in that ad. His mom called him tinku in the ad, that little cute boy was looking similar to me (this is something you guys need to believe me..i was cute..lol) it seems. Hence the name Tinku[:d]!!!

Both names mentioned above were named before my remembrance. Those names were given when i was less than 1 year old. All that stuff is what i heard from others(my parents and relatives) and not what i have gone through.

My next name was KIFFU (hahahaha, even this has no meaning)...probably not many people know about this. Only couple of my cousins used to call me for a while. I had a very good Red-Colored T-shirt which says KIFFU on it. Thats why they used to call me so. I was about 5-7 years old then !!

When i was about 13-14 years old (8th or 9th standard), a new hero was introduced to TOLLYWOOD (Telugu Indian movies) named Vadde Naveen. My friends (Chandu and Srikanth) started referring me as VIDDE from that time. This is one name by which most of my friends refers me. As usual no meaning to this name too[:P]. People who are lazy to call my BIG name VIDYANAND started calling VIDDE from then.

My friends and colleagues in US had a challenging task of pronouncing my complete name. I don't mind if they misspell my name. But they don't want to do so. So my boss at work took the first 3 letters of my name and made it as VID. This is the shortest name of all my names. Hope it don't get short any more[:P] !!

My friend reminded me few other names in my schooldays which didn't last long though, they are 420 and Dabarlal Chyawanprash [:d] !!!

I wanna add the name VIDYA (first part of my first name) to the list of names. Some of my friends refer me with this name too !!

Another name referred by one of my First American friend was Mr.V !!

FINAL NOTE : I don't have any preference to my names because I go by people's choice[:)]...VIDYANAND, TINKU, VIDDE,VIDYA,VID, Mr.V ....names goes on!!!