What is your name and do you recommend it?

I'm a 69 year old Patricia. No-one likes the name, hell I don't like the name, plus had the horror of being called Patsy and Patty by various aunts as a child [shudders].

I expect it to be in the top ten names in fifty years. Well if Ethel and Edith are now acceptable why not Patricia, given time? Perhaps not.

I'm Lori. I know it's more common in America, but I've never met another one in the UK, which I love. The only annoyance is that no-one can spell it and everyone seems to misspell it a different way. I would recommend it, although sometimes I'd prefer something a bit longer and fancier!

My name is Tamsin. The name itself I love. What I don't love is the fact that all my life (35 years of it) it has been pronounced "Tasmin" by almost everyone and continues to do so by people I just meet, so I am sick of correcting everyone.

It is for this reason, I gave my DD the name Sarah, so she wouldn't have to keep correcting people's pronunciation of it as much as I have had to!

(and I went to Secondary School with two other "Tamsin"s in my class, so couldn't get away with "at least it was unusual"...

Sacha, which I hated as a child but I love it now. I rarely meet anyone else with the same name, especially with this spelling and I like unusual names. I do remember whinging to my mum when I was a kid saying why couldn't she have called me something ordinary. I wouldn't change it now though.

1 more Jessica (don't actually know many my age at all though) . love my name! Always have done. Jess/Jessy as Nname are fun + affectionate while I think the full name is strong but feisty while being pretty/feminine but not overly twee.

Josephine hated it growing up as i didn't know anyone else with the same name. Now I don't mind it although still get the oh that was my grandmothers name! I'm 33 still I got off lightly my sisters middle name is honora!

Gabrielle. Nn Gabs. I HATE being called Gaby, but people only call me it once . I would recommend it, I really love it - it's fairly unusual, but people have heard of it, and I'm invariably the only one so if I hear someone call my name it's me!

People can't spell it, and plenty of ppl mispronounce it to start with, but that's never really bothered me. And I suppose it's a pain that I dislike the most common shortening of it, but the reality is it's very easy to choose your own nn - I just tell people not to call me Gaby!

Leonie, other people like it, I'm indifferent. I wouldn't call a daughter of mine it as it's really not my naming style.I like Pandora, Antigone, Venetia, Margot, Juno, Flora etc etc.

I'm a Jessica, but always introduce myself as Jess, as Jessica doesn't suit me. My mum calls me Jessie or Bess (who knows why)

I don't know many other Jessicas and certainly no one under 20. I do love it as a name, but it's too "posh" for my personality.

DD's first name has become really popular, but her mn is Christine. I've told her it'll be cool by the time she's grown up ??

I'm Christine and I never liked it as a kid. The only other Christine's I seem to know are much older and I've never met one my own age (early 30s).

Everyone calls me Chris.

Helen. It's okay I guess but it's pretty boring.

I wouldn't recommend it as it's too dated.

I'm an Alison. Have never met a small child with the name since I was one. It's ok, I don't love it or hate it.

Was almost a Sally, which isn't me.

Oddly, my dad calls me Alice and my mum calls me Liz never ever Alison.

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Victoria.

Hate it.

Have always fucking hated it.

Eliza-Jane, hated it when I was a kid in the 70's, I knew no-one else with the name and children frequently took the piss sang at me. Now I'm just Eliza, except to my Uncle, and as there have been a crop of little ones around here, it's not so bad

Charlotte. Yes I love it. The only thing is that it sometimes seems prettier than me, IYKWIM. I'm also quite pleased that it's nothing like as posh as it used to be - when I was a young adult it still had quite a 'posh bird' reputation but not any more.

This thread is like a virtual school registration circa 1989!

I love Charlotte/Charlie. Always loved boyish nicknames, so Georgina /georgie, etc. Very nearly went with Jaime pronounced Jamie. I have an unusual name in the UK, not quite so uncommon in the US. Still a boy nickname though, and full name - = I'm in trouble

My birth name is Aleksis. I hate it - it's so masculine. I go by a different name now.

Francesca. I loathe it. Growing up it was rare enough that people didn't know how to say it or spell it and now it's become incredibly common in every sense. I shudder every time I hear it screeched at some poor child.

Catriona (the O is silent). Took me till 7 years old to spell it properly, but I've always loved it and there have been versions of it for every stage of my life. My parents got some things right

I am Jemma - I have joked before my middle name should be "withajay" as that is inevitably what I say when I tell people my name!

Kim. Not Kimberly, just Kim.
And after seeing the K name thread maybe best to avoid, you wouldn't want to lump your child with a gasp working class name :P
Uncommon name now but I knew about three or so other Kims my age growing up. (Born early 80's) None in my classes at school though.
The irony is that my mum gave me the shortened version as people would likely never call me the full Kimberly, but now I get all kinds of lengthenings: kimmie, kimbo, kimbob, kimmiecoo... Haha!

Carol - only ever given to girls born in the early 60s and there were lots...I was one of 7 girls in my primary class (25 boys) Three Carols , 2 Elizabeths and 2 Annes.

No, I wouldn't recommend it.

Ah well there's at least 2 other Louise's, I'm not alone!