My name is Domonic Drozd and I've always liked my name because not many people have it so it makes me feel unique or different. It means "of the Lord", which of course helps strengthen the ego. There's something about being "God-like" has always made me feel superior. A lot of saints and cardinals were named Domonic and when I was a young child, my grandfather always played the music box of three nuns who sang a melody called "Dominque" which is the feminine version of me.
One interesting fact that I only recently learned about my last name is that after all these years of have claiming to be Polish, I am actually in fact half russian. Within the last few years, I've met a couple people of Russian heritage and as soon as I told them my last name, they recognized it to be Russian. So I then began to do some research and what I found out is although my father's parents came to The United States on a ship from Poland, their parents came to Poland from Russia. So even though the name Drozd is now considered a Polish name, the original form of the name is Drozdinski which is a Russian name.
So the name might not be completely interesting and has no remarkable stories to it, but it is my name and is special to me due to that fact alone. There is a sense of pride that I've always had and so eleven months ago when I had my first born son, I named him Domonic Andrew Drozd II after his father.
