Mumsnet Names

[johnHancock]

Just wondering really, how long have you had your mumsnet name?
How did you choose it?
Do you get upset or angry if someone else has a similar name to yours or posters sometimes mistake you for another poster.

Do you feel that you "own" your name and no one should have one that sounds the same.
Do you blush if your name gets googled?

Also are some names more stand out then others? And what happens when a few posters have the same type of name, Eg

Mummyone mommy1 sort of thing

[belledechocchipcookie]

Erm... why are you being unreasonable? What is it that you are being unreasonable about?

[Needanewname]

I've had this name for a couple of years now, my previous nanme sounded a bit twee and I liked the one before that but kept bumping into another member with a name that was shortened to mine and I got fed up of it (I was a bit annoyed but it really wasn;t worth it, lifes too short and I;m niot that known on here really).

Just haven;t got round to thinking of a better name snce really

[YellowDinosaur]

I have had mine for about a week. I have been on here for about 4 years previously, always with the same name apart from when I wanted to post the odd personal thing. My old name (and profile) was very public and I decided I didn't necessarily want to be easily identifiable anymore.

Quite like this name (and funny back story) but not sure I feel like it is me so this might not be the final change...

[hidenseek]

I've changed to this name quite recently. No huge reason, just fancied a bit of a change. That said, I was probably quite identifiable by things I had said before, so have decided to retreat to this new moniker for a while. :)

[StealthPolarBear]

I've had mine since early 2007 (I used to be Katy44)
I picked it after running into the kitchen to try to get chocolate out of the frisge without being picked up byu the alarm sensors wearing a huge white fluffy dressing gown at 9m pregnant.
There are a few of us bears, and recently strandedpolarbear has joined who has a very similar name and the same initials - I don't mind, it's entertaining. TBH I haven;t seen her around much.

Yes, some names stand out more than others - I like puns / plays on words, like valiumsingleton, and ones that I relate to, like mummydoit and getdownyouwillfall.

[RevoltingPeasant]

RevoltingPeasant - well, if you knew me IRL you wouldn't have to ask

As for JohnHancock, good name. I am US-bred, and once I asked an English colleague to 'put his John Hancock' on something I needed him to sign.

He tried very hard not to look at his fly and said, 'Sorry....?'

[RunAwayWife]

This is my second mumsnet name, and my mum suggested this one!!

It gets shortened to Wifey, or RAW I don't think there are any other runaways at the moment but I would not mind

[squeakytoy]

I was completely stumped for a name, and the dog was making a lot of noise with a rubber lamb chop... hence the name!

[blinks]

good point belle.

could be unreasonable to discuss names when your first name is all in lower case, compared to your surname.

i notice such things .

[backwardpossom]

Nobody can spell my name right. Apart from one or two posters.

I usually get called backwardpossum.

[ConstanceFelicity]

Mine is a play on Constant Velcity. Physics nerd!

Namechange all the time to avoid detection, and then out myself every single time! :o

[onlion]

What is a possom then?

[onlion]

I have had about 20 names.

I like change.

[SecretNutellaFix]

There is someone else with a nutella name that I have seen. I like to think though, that people will know it's not me, iyswim.

I'm usually shortened to Nutella, or SNF, or Nutty by my nearest and dearest pals on here.

[GollyHolightly]

I've had this name for about seven hours (but have been here under different guises for much much longer than that).

In the past when someone has popped up with a similar name, I will change mine, so far I haven't got particularly attached to any of my names and I want to stay anon.

[doutzen]

About 20 minutes
Before this my last was for about 2 months

[notnowbernard]

I've just spotted another Bernard! 1st I've seen since being here (nearly 4 yrs)

[JarethTheGoblinKing]

I frighten people with my tights

[FoxyRevenger]

I've never namechanged - I like this one too much, it is meaningful to me, although it's daft.

There are a few others on here with 'Foxy' in their name, but it doesn't bother me, apart from doing a double take when I think I have posted and then suffered a bout of amnesia....

[RunAwayWife]

Waves madly at Nutty

[chipmonkey]

I have had this one for 6 years. I have tried namechanging but hated it when people I "knew" didn't recognise me.

[backwardpossom]

Don't think it's anything, onlion. It's not a possum though.

[Teaandcakeplease]

Couple of years I think? There is someone with a similar name to me, but I've only come across her once.

Can't really answer the other questions as I generally stick to threads I'm known on nowadays as I cannot keep up with the speed everything else moves at now with my 2 toddlers chasing rings round me in the day

I do not feel I own my name per se though. But it is me to a tee

[thrifty]

this was my credit crunch name, i kinda like it now.... its been a long recession

[SecretNutellaFix]