1. Is the name you have now the same name that’s on your birth certificate? If not, what’s changed?
It is exactly the same. Olavia Kite was a later addition, or rather than that, an alternative.
2. If you could change your name (first, middle and/or last), what would it be?
I would be called Jessica or Brittany. HAHAHAHA GOTCHA!!! By no means I would change my name… except if my family name were to change to Honda.
3. Why were you named what you were? (Is there a story behind it? Who specifically was responsible for naming you?)
Okay, here it goes. My mom was a diehard fan of Little House on the Prairie, and her favorite character was Laura Ingalls. Don’t laugh. It’s serious. I found out many years later that Laura Ingalls Wilder was a writer, so I’m proud of that. On the other side, my paternal grandparents always wanted to have a daughter named Camila, but they didn’t have another daughter after my aunt, I think, so I got to be Laura Camila. I love my name.
If you want to know why I’m Olavia as well,… it just popped up in my mind. I was going to use it for a character on the next story I wrote, but I ended up adding the last name Kite after the Beatles song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! , and I liked it so much I adopted it for myself. I even have a fountain pen with the name engraved.
4. Are there any names you really hate or love? What are they and why?
I met people with super cool names in Dubuque, Iowa. Here are some examples:
Minori Honda, Kotaro Takizawa, Foo Chi Tao, James Pollock, Brian Ellis, Mary Ask, Kaoru Maeda, Yusuke Kanaguchi, Yoichi Shimizu, Ryan Hanlon, Andy Rosenbaum, Matthew Parsons,… I’ll keep adding if I remember. Some of these people weren’t really nice (like Mary Ask), but the names are still cool.
Oh, and I hate the name Carlos.
5. Is the analysis of your name at kabalarians.com / triggur.org / astroexpert accurate? How or how isn’t it?
Well I don’t believe in that stuff…