Are you happy with your own name - do you think it dates you?

[LJS666]

I really like my name, Jane, and have always really appreciated having an easy to spell and pronounce name.

But I if had had girls I am sure I would have gone the other way with a frilly, fancy, complicated name.

My sons are (Joseph) Joe and Max and I really like short, simple names for boys.

I like the name Juno for a girl but it is so easily traced to that film.

[lucyandleo]

I chose Leo for my son as its simple and doesnt age I dont think. Im Lucy I think it suits me but I dont really like it! Does anyone like their own name? Leo was going to be Mathilda if he was a girl so I am with you on the short names for boys. I like Juno - people wont remember the film in 10 years time!

[Raahh]

i don't like my name- it is Joanne, and almost screams 1971. I go by Jo, which could be anything.

Some names fit into a trend that will date them, others are quite timeless, and classic. My middle name is Elizabeth, which i think fits the bill of fitting in almost anywhere.

I loved the film Juno

[meadowlarks]

I don't like my name. Jessica. It's so unbearably late eighties/nineties; I know dozens of people my age with the same name, and it's like we were all born in this strange era when the school disco was sophisticated and the Spice Girls were cool. My middle names are a bit less dated though; May Cecelia.

[feedmenow]

I hate my name. I'm a Jacqueline but have always been Jackie. It is such a boyish name (Jackie). And I couldn't very well suddenly start insisting everyone calls me Jacqueline now - even if I wanted to!
I've often thought about changing it but have no idea what I'd change it to. Any suggestions???

[cyteen]

I love my name

[cece]

I like my name. Already mentioned on this thread. I would have happily used it for a daughter if it wasn't already my name. But it does date me as I don't know any children with it.

[zenoushka]

I like my name - it's unusual but good unusual not bad unusual! My mum grew up in India so she wanted me to have an anglo-indian name.

By the way i like the name Juno!

[Tuschinski]

Yes my name dates me - to about 1930!!!!!
It's Shirley, it's in the cool names for babies book as one of the names nobody is cool enough to pull off. I quite like it though, it fairly unusual in my age group, most people only know one, but yet there is no issue with spelling or pronunciation.

[MayorNaze]

my name is chav-tastic

[dominoralley]

I quite like mine. It's Bethan but I use Beth. Not mad keen on Bethan but like Beth.

If either of our DD's had been boys they would have been Joseph/Joe btw

[Butterbur]

A few years ago my name was top of the Daily Mail list of "names most likely to belong to a chav loser".

It also screams 1950s. Which is when I was born, but I don't like to advertise it.

[Hassled]

I do quite like my name - looks nice written down, but heard to pronounce (Gaelic). Sufficiently unusual that it doesn't date me.

[izzybiz]

I hated mine as a teenager, wanted to be called something 'normal'.
Now Im an adult I like it, its always complemented and quite a good conversation maker!

Its Emmaline by the way, my parents got it from the hot chocolate song 'Emma' not Emmeline Pankhurst unfortunately, love the song though!

[ProfessorLaytonIsMyLoveSlave]

My name was very unusual when I got it, but is pretty popular now. That's a bit offputting in some ways (I spent decades being able to assume that if someone used my name in public they were talking to/about me, but now I hear parents calling it to their DDs all the time in shops and keep turning round looking foolish) but may mean that people assume I am younger than I am. I'm not wild about it as a name, TBH, but it's OK.

[sharbie]

I'm with mayornaze and butterbur

[SqueezyB]

my name has been called dated on here - Louise. I've always liked it though, don't meet many other people with it as a first name (loooaaads as a MN though!) and I like the NN Lou. I've also always liked the fact that while my brother and sister had family names my mum chose mine just because she liked it.

[Colliecross]

My work colleagues are:

Caroline- known as Sarah
Sarah-known as Dawn
Bridget-known as Jane
Elizabeth-known as Beth
So none of us likes their real name

[AmazingBouncingFerret]

Im a Jacqueline and I quite like it now, didnt when I was younger because nobody had that name, it was all Sarahs and Jodies! My parents always call me my full name and most people I know either call me Jackie, Jack or Jaffie

[NoahAndTheWhale]

I am Katherine. I like it and don't feel dated by it.

[Igglybuff]

I like my name - it's not attached to a particular generation, it's pretty, a bit difficult to say but I'm happy to correct people on their pronunciation (especially when they say it the american or chavvy way). It's also unusual and people always say what a nice name I have!

[sonniebonnie]

I love my name. It was quite rare when my parents gave it to me in the 1970s and therefore hasn't 'dated' much. I have only ever met two others with the same name .

[LostArt]

I've never met anybody my age or younger with my name. They tend to be about 55 - 65. It's not a horrible name, nobody has ever laugh out loud or said yuk to my face, but it never comes up on the baby names threads either.

When I was younger, I think it helped having an older name on my CV, I was interviewed for jobs were I'm sure that they wanted an older candidate. Now i'm worry that I won't get an interview because people will assume I'm nearing retirement!

[PosieParker]

I have an unusual name in that it's two first names, which in my generation is unusual. Although the first part is like Sharon/Tracey and I loathe it. My father wanted to call me by the second half of my first name but my mother refused, she knew a pretty gilr with my name and so, foolishly, thought it was a pretty name.

[notalone]

I don't like my full name - it is a typical 70's name and a bit crap. I shorten mine and then I do actually like it. I am not saying what it is though. I like my anonymity on here

[SpiderWilliam]

Definitely. It's Alison.

In fact I have seen some stats that show that it was at it's peak in the late 60's and tailed off during the 70's, and disappeared in the 80s. I was born in '77 so that means it dates me to about 10 years older than I actually am.