When your parents named you, did they use names from other family members, or did they give you something unique to you?

First name has no reference in family history, but so common its.... but anyway, I don't mind that part. My middle name is from a great uncle I will have never met who lived in the state that led my grandparents to giving my Mom her name. In a way it's sweet, in another way... it's annoying. It would help if I liked my middle name...