Hey Kerry! Technically no. But I have such a deep love for the wolf (and other canine animals such as dogs and coyotes) it probably should be. My mother always told me I was an eagle when I was small. In fact she named me "Little Eagle" (not an official name. More like a nick name) and when I was a teenager a tribal elder told me my spirit was a horse; or more specifically a spirit horse and I was given the name Yamni Tasunka (Three Spirit Horses). But I have met many wolf spirits in my life. Many people possess the wolf and it is an excellent animal to be associated with.
That is so much more romantic than the way I got my name, David!
Let me tell you how I came to be named Kerry.
During my mother's pregnancy, my parent's short-listed three possible names for me, should it happen that I was a boy. They were hoping desperately for a girl, because they already had three sons. But I digress, the names were David
, Stephen and Richard (which is my middle name). The story goes that shortly after my birth, my three brothers visited my Mum in hospital. She told them the three possible names she was considering and there was apparently a near riot at the bed-side. They hated all three names! Why? Very important reasons for school boys. They knew boys at school named David, Stephen and Richard, who they didn't like, and didn't want a baby brother "named after them." So in desperation, Mum turned to the woman in the bed next to her and asked, "What have you named your baby son?" When the woman responded, "Kerry" (an unusual name for a boy at the time), my Mum declared to the family, "So be it!" And the rest is history. Mum got her way in small measure by giving me the middle name of Richard. My godmother, Dorothy (Yes, my godmother's name really is Dorothy! Please, no fairy godmother jokes!
), refused to call me Kerry 'cause she hated the name so much, preferring "Ricky" instead, until she finally relented when I reached my teens, and started calling me by my real name. I'm glad "Ricky" didn't catch on! I probably would have go the nickname of "Lucy" at school!
Alas, not quite as romantic as soaring eagles and spirit horses!