My mother called me Julia just seconds after I was born. She always said that they hadn’t discussed a name, her and my dad, seems like they never even thought about it, which I always find strange. But she says that as soon as she saw me she knew that I was Julia.
I can’t remember what the name means, although I must have looked it up when I was younger. Maybe something about being strong or a stony field or something. It didn’t make any sense to me anyway, but now I guess that it’s a name I like, even without any family connections, not named after anyone like most people are.
Budge, Boole, Julie……I never really had nicknames, I was always just Julia to my friends.
Only my family called me Boole or Budge, actually only my sister and my mum , not my dad. I don’t know where that came from, but I was the younger sister so maybe it’s from some mis-pronounced name when I was tiny. I really should ask about this.