My Name

The origin of first name Daniel is not very complex. My parents weren’t very attached to any boy name before I was born. They didn’t know my gender before the birth so they were prepared with both boy and girl names. The name that really stuck with them was Leyla. This was a name they had picked out if they had a girl, so it got passed on to my sister, who was named Leyla. My parents liked the name Daniel because it was normal and my dad liked that it was a little bit Hispanic. He wanted me to have a Hispanic name because he is from Honduras. 

My dad was born and raised in Honduras and moved to the United States when he was a sophomore in high school. He also attended New Trier. The most interesting part of my name in my opinion is my middle name: Eduardo. This part of my name is obviously Hispanic. This is something that both of my sisters have in common with me. My dad chose it because it is similar to the middle name that him and my grandfather share: Edgardo. My dad didn’t want to give me the same middle name because he is a junior. He shares the same name as my grandfather. He always disliked the fact that this created confusion so he chose something that was similar but not the same so that it didn’t seem like we had the same name.