Margaret Ann

Most people call me Maggie, but my full first name is Margaret. I was named Margaret after my mother's grandmother. I know little about her, as she died when I was quite young. My grandmother on my mother's side shares a middle name with me, Ann. Although I know little about my heritage, I do know that my last name, Hornick, is a Czech word for "miner" or "mountain-dweller."
The name Margaret is derived from the Greek word for pearl. I didn't feel much kinship with such a lovely object until I thought about how pearls are created. When something irritates an oyster, it smoothes over the irritant with layers of mother-of-pearl. So I suppose my name means something a bit irritating with a deceptively shiny cover. I'd say (as would my roommates) that that is rather accurate at times.
I've always thought my middle name was a horrible name for me because Ann means grace, and I am immensely clumsy and generally socially inept. I wondered if there was more to the name than that, so I looked it up and found that it actually comes from the Biblical name Hannah. It means grace, yes, but not "grace" as in physical or social ease; it means "grace" as in the grace of god. Not being a religious person, I still don't think it suits me.