My name is Joshua Justin Aubin. I come from a French-Irish Roman Catholic family. My last name is from the French side of my family. Though my family has French roots we hail ourselves as French Canadians and not Parisian French. Parisian French are people who immigrated directly from France. My Family name on the Irish side of my family is Daily, which is a very common Irish name. As for my first name Joshua I prefer to be called Josh. Being called Joshua is reserved for a very select group of people.
Though I come from a Roman-Catholic family my parents became Baptists a short time before I was born. They then decided to name each of their children a biblical name. I happened to be the first and got the name Joshua, which means Yahweh saves or Chosen by God depending on where you look it up. My parents continued to name each of my siblings biblical names also. There is Nathan(after Nathaniel), Benjamin, and Jeremy(after Jeremiah). I also have two sisters and two more brothers but somewhere along the lines my parents stopped giving them biblical names.
I have grown accustomed to my name, though there was a short period of time when I went by my middle name Justin(long story). Because I grew up in such a large family I answer to just about anything when called for. The only name I cannot stand and will not under any circumstances answer to is JJ (another long story). In my day to day life though it is just Josh and no I am not joshing you about it.
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