"What's in a name...?"

To start off, my full name is Katie Margaret Kasaras. Like most of you, the first thing I did when we were assigned this journal entry topic was to jump onto google and figure out where my name came from. This was my first research source! Now technically, according to my google source, the name Katie comes from Celtic or Gaelic origin, meaning "pure" or "virginal". I have a feeling most of you are asking if my real name is Katie because there are many variations of the name Katie (examples include Katherine, Kathy, etc)...and the answer is yes! My birth certificate states that my name is simply Katie.
The second source I used to figure out just what the heck my name meant was the one woman who had everything to do with it: my mother. I always thought my mom named me after my dad's sister, whose name was Katherine. When I asked her if this was true, she totally suprised me and said no. The story she told me was a bit strange. She liked the name Katie because before I was born, there was a commercial on tv. A father was in the pool and he was trying to persuade his little girl to jump in so he kept saying "come on Katie you can do it!" She insists that she liked K names anyway because they went well with Kasaras, but I think she knew as well that the story was a bit odd...
My middle name and last name don't really have a story to go with them. Like most names, they just happened to be in the family. My gram's name was Margaret (hense my middle name) and my last name is, well, my father's last name. My Papu (Greek for Grandfather) and his family moved here from Macedonia, Greece and brought with them this family name. To end this fabulous story of my name, I would like to share with you a coincidence I came across. While googling, I found out the Katie and Maragaret are also names that come from Greece, but my parents had no way of knowing this. To sum it all up, I am a complete Greek girl :)