What's Your Name?

Michelle... Like in my forum name!

BananaBubbles I also hate when people pronounce it Mee-Shell, or call me Mish or Meesh for short, have a particularly annoying uncle who insists on calling me meeshell and makes my skin crawl! Otherwise I quite likely name. There were 4 of us in my school year, but haven't met another one since!

I'm a nichola, quite a few nicola's at school but I was better coz I had a 'h'. Found out later in life that I only got the 'h' as the registrar spelt my name wrong on the birth certificate and dad didn't correct her. Needless to say one very angry mother when he returned home . I really like it, I get called nic quite a lot

I'm Frances, pretty unusual but not out if the ordinary though I get really pissed off when it's spelt Francis

Was never Fran, Frankie etc but nicknamed Effie by my gran (Frances Emily = FE = Effie) and my uni friends adopted it as my NN. Thanks to Facebook its now stuck and many more people call me Effie thAn Frances.

Not bothered what I'm called but turn 30 next year and reckon I'll try to start using my proper name again

Possibly SP, though your do seem to be the only fanjo lurking around

I always get people writing my name down as Nicola, apparently Nikki isn't a real name and I must be lying about it not being shortened! Glad to know that there is another Nikki out there though

I worked with a Nickie a few years ago. She looked quite masculine as well and I honestly thought that she was a slightly feminine bloke from the spelling of her name

Ive shortened mine to Viki since i was about 14, no one ever spells it right :( Its not as if its even that hard, there's only four letters!

Sp cannot think of tou as a Kelly!

pixie my mums a Nicola but has always called her self Nikki. She gets annoyed if its spelt wrong.

I like my name. I've never known personally anyone else with the same name, my DDs have unusuall names too, bot unique but different enough.

pixie I think you have confused with someone else. I have never been wise!

I'm Victoria, didn't know many others my age while growing up but strangely now I know quite a lot, including my best friend. I hated it when I was younger, 27 now and have finally decided I actually like it.

SP you're a young'un! Well, a year younger than me Always took you to be slightly older as you're one of the wiser ones!

Luisa, I have only met a handful of others with this spelling as its the Italian spelling.

It means woman warrior which makes me laugh. I'm just a big pussy cat!

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I'm Amy. Always liked it. I've known a few others but not loads.

My dad said he named me after Amy turtle from some tv show that I now can't remember! I was almost Elizabeth but definitely prefer Amy, although I do get aims as a nickname a lot.

Fiona. Don't know of any others. Hated it growing up, love it now.

I'm Beth, have always been Beth although it's a shortening of my middle name. Only my GP calls me Catherine.

I've only ever met one other Beth of my age. I really like it.

Mines is obvious ^

Seeing as I've outed myself already with Æva, I'll say my middle name.Elsð (Elsa in Icelandic basically). My parents evidently had a competition with all the other parents to see how many accents they can fit in a full name.

I'm a Kelly. I hate it. It rhymes with a lot of words!

It was either Kelly or Paige though.

I was born in 1990 and there were a few Kelly's in my year. In my street there are 4 of us. In my local pub there is 3. None are from my street either!

I'm an Æva! Said aye-vah. It took me a long time to find out how to do the Æ on the computer. There's a reason why I have it though- I'm Icelandic.

Helen.

Yes, I quite like it and not particularly common when I was born but...

My middle name is - I believe - unique. Cornish and very old.

To reveal it would definitely 'out' me.

Debi (full name Deborah)
Hated it ever since I can remember, always wanted to be called Caroline for some reason.

Only ever got called Deborah off me mam when I was in trouble as a kid.

Abigail. Most people call me Abi. I like it well enough.

Unusual when I was at school - no others at primary, one in the year below me at secondary, and one in the year below her, 120 girls per year. Much more popular now - ranks around the top 30.

Harriet, middle name Alice. Harriet means 'home ruler' and Alice means 'noble' - rather like that combination! :)

When I was born Harriet was the 68th most popular name in UK. Now it's higher up I think.

Every other Harriet I've met has spelt her name Harriet, however I am forever having people spell my name Harriett, Harriette, and worstly Harriott. I do like my name though even though it's now very popular.

I was one of a million! Even living in an area where being white put me in the minority there was always another in the class! I believe that it was to do with my parents liking the name rather than because it was popular. I'm Claire!

Popular names now don't seem to be AS popular as they used to be.

This will out me I think...

Sareth.

Rhymes with Gareth. I like it, I get called Sarry (to rhyme with Harry) as a nickname. Never met another, until a friend of my mum's named gave it to her daughter as a middle name.