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If you could have chosen YOUR OWN name (first and or surname) -what would you have gone for?

52 replies

AmIPolly · 01/06/2012 21:55

I've never really liked my name - surname is OK but not a fan of my first name. I often flirt with the idea of changing it (has anyone ever successfully done that?) or assuming a pen name.
Inspired by the lovely double barrelled surname thread below - what would you like to have called yourself..?
I like the surnames:
Bloomfield - just sounds so inviting!
Russian sounding names - ending in vich or kov

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Lunarlyte · 01/06/2012 22:15

Someone once addressed a letter to me, but got my surname a bit wrong. I really preferred it to my real surname, though! It looked ao nice written down. I like my first name a lot so would have that with the 'wrong' but similar surname, which is Wallace.

My real name is 'me' 100% but if I could have chosen my own name, I would have liked to have been Imogen.

Imogen Wallace ... ..... hmmmmm

javotte · 01/06/2012 22:09

I don't like my first name either, but being French, I'm stuck with it. Envy
There are a few names that I'm not necessarily fond of, but that I think would have suited me better : Adrienne, Caroline, Eloïse... or any Russian first name. I would have been a great Anastacia / Daria / Tatiana...