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

I don't know. I have an older cousin with the same name, but I don't know if there is any connection. Ironically, he has always been known in the family by the diminutive nickname version of the name as a younger person normally is, and I by the more formal versions of the name in order to avoid confusion. The name was never used before in the family as far back as I have done the genealogy.