Name Essay

Some People Are Just Different What defines you? The one thing that defines me is, my name. My name to me is special, unique, different, and the person I am and will forever be. How many people do you actually know with the name Sopriya? Not many im sure. Considering there are 316,719,944 people in the United States of America and there are very few people with my name. You will probably never meet anyone else with my name, and if you do then that's pretty unique its self. My name has become a big part of me, even though not many people know how to say it correctly. Sometimes I never really know when someone is actually trying to get my attention or not because they dont say it right. People mis-pronounce my name because it is spelled so differently and it's an Indian cultured name. A lot of people have definitions to their names but if you look mine up, it will tell you it is not defined yet. Which to me that just means i can be whoever i want to be and i dont have to live up to a name i can make it my own. The cool thing I like about my name is that my dad named me after a girl he went to high school with (Supriya Sawack). My dad tells me he named me Sopriya because he heard her name and thought it was just so beautiful, and knew from then on out he would name his daughter Sopriya. Notice that her name is spelled with a "u" and mine is spelled with an "o". Thats because my dad wanted it to be different and not the same as most. Which makes my name even more me, "different". I can honestly say I love my name not only because its so different but because it reminds me of my culture and where i came from in Guyana which is in South America. Some people say my name reminds them of an Indian princess, I like that because I call myself a princess. Why? because I am Princess Sopriya! I also love my name because its so rare that there is only one of me in all my classes. Unlike some names like; Ashley, Briana, Courtney, Kaitlynn, etc. There will never be a