Do You Know How Your Parents Chose Your Name? My Name Was Inspired by Actress Anouk Aimée

Name quest circa 2000, when I was 22 years old

Image of the author in the early 1990s, around 13 or 14 years old. Author’s personal collection.

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This weekend, sitting on the new-to-us blue couch from the university, I asked my mom about my name. Later, I called my dad from our living room in Oklahoma to his home office in New Mexico. I imagined…