Well, if I were a boy my parents would have recycled the boy name choice from when my mother was pregnant with my older sister, which was Jacob Alexander. It would have been that since Jacob is a family (last) name on my Mother's side, and Alexander is the name of a certain property my family used to own. However, pretty soon after she found out she was pregnant, my mother said she dreamed that my name was Katherine Elizabeth, so that's where my name came from. I wouldn't mind being a Jacob if I had been a boy, but I like my name as it is. I like that Katherine means "pure", as it makes me think of... cleanliness, simplicity, and being happy, somehow. :>