Vonita

Vonita

The second time my mother fell pregnant, my parents already had a ninth month old baby girl, and were not too overjoyed with the thought of another baby right away. A birth control fail that worked in my favor! Though perhaps I would be a boy they wondered, and they would name me Peter. But in the event of a girl, my parents had overheard the name Juanita somewhere, and my dad (I think) suggested Vonita. So when I popped out a girl and not a boy that’s the name they used. And no second name because they had already given my mother’s name Linda to my sister. And going up the chain would have given me Marion or Alma, but they just left it at Vonita.

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  4. If your dad didn’t change it, your name would’ve been “Juanita”. Just a thought, would you know the origin of the name “Vonita” and what does it mean? It sounds russian, I think… 🙂

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