Albert was named after his grandfather.

name someone after someone/something to give someone or something the same name as someone or something else, especially the same first name as a member of your family

Listen to 4 people talking about their names. They answer the following questions:
1. What's your name?
2. How do you spell it?
3. Why did your family call you that?
4. Are you happy with your name?  Why/why not?
5. Would you like to change it?

Now it's your turn to answer the same questions.

Answers:
Speaker 1. Layla. My parents were both big fans of Eric Clapton and one of his famous songs is called Layla.   On the one hand she thinks it's an exotic name so she likes it. The problem is that everyone associates it with the song and when she says her name, people always make a comment about it or even sing a bit of the song. She gets really fed up with it. She wouldn't like to change it.

Speaker 2: Brian. His dad was called Brian and he wanted him to have the same name.
To be honest he's not happy with his name. Nowadays it's considered to be an old-fashioned name. People think that somebody called Brian must be a really boring person even before they meet him.
He would like to change his name. He'd like to have a more glamorous name.

Speaker 3: Ghislaine. Her mother chose it because it was the name of her best friend at school.
She's happy with her name now, but as a child she hated it. It's a French name but not even that common in France and in England nobody's ever heard of it. She's had to spend her whole life spelling it and that's really awful. She wouldn't change her name now but she'd never give it to a child of hers. That's one of the reasons why she called her children Ann and Tom, nice, short, easy names that everyone can spell and pronounce.

Speaker 4: Kenneth. He's not sure. He was named after an uncle, his father's brother. He's happy with it.

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