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I wish I were called...

115 replies

cornishglos · 13/04/2016 12:26

Tell me what name you would like for yourself. And maybe your partner. So I can hear some names that work beyond the baby years. Thank you.

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annandale · 14/04/2016 06:18

I adore my name so wouldn't change it but I will always have a huge soft spot for Alison. It was pretty popular when I was born and I have always loved it, associate it with cool organised longhaired girls.

Misssss · 14/04/2016 06:51

I adore my name, but hated it as a child. The only name is swap it for is Genevieve. It's just beautiful, looks great written down, and the nickname opportunities are limitless.

Zadocthepriest · 14/04/2016 12:03

Anything short. Mine has been shortened by everyone once I left the family home, where it wasn't allowed. Long names are too long to slip into a conversation so tend not to get used at all. But now I am attending hospital regularly I get the full version and hate it. It's not ME

I fancy Julie!

TheScottishPlay · 14/04/2016 12:11

I really like mine. It's solid, known but not hugely widely used.
It's the same as my DM's though so at almost 44 I'm still 'Little ....' but thankfully never 'Babe....' though that might be most apt.Smile

Thewolfsjustapuppy · 14/04/2016 12:12

Demelza
I like a good strong unusual name.

TippyTappyLappyToppy · 14/04/2016 12:18

I'm a Jane which is fine but boring and there two others in my class at school. I would love to be Georgina or Genevieve or Paloma or something romantic sounding. Failing that you can't go wrong with Emma or Anna, they don't need to be shortened never go out of style and sound fine in any accent.

stumblymonkey · 14/04/2016 13:00

I'm a 1980's Sarah...I don't mind my name but when I was younger I wanted something a little more exotic.

I very much wanted to be called Estella the beautiful but cold one from Great Expectations

Now I'd choose something like Evelyn nn Evie so I could have a 'professional' name and familiar name

ParsleyTheLion1 · 14/04/2016 14:56

Iris

ParsleyTheLion1 · 14/04/2016 14:57

Or Peplo, which is in fact my middle name. And has been a name in my family for generations (form of the Scottish surname Peploe). My mum wanted it as my first name but dad overrode it

NoncommittalToSparkleMotion · 14/04/2016 14:58

Samantha. I don't know why.

VagueIdeas · 14/04/2016 14:59

I wish I had a timeless name, instead of one that dates me to being circa 35 years old.

BlueRocksPinkPebbles · 14/04/2016 15:02

Catherine / Katie

JeanGenie23 · 14/04/2016 15:04

I'm called Adele, a name my dad picked but my mum wanted to call me Deliah, I'm glad my dad won that.

Dp was nearly Harry after one of this GPs, but his mum went with another top 10 name. I'm pretty sure his name has Always been in the top 10 list:

MissHooliesCardigan · 14/04/2016 15:07

Francesca, Chez for short.
Or Madeleine which is DD's name although she generally goes by Maddy which I love as well.

hollieberrie · 14/04/2016 15:08

I love my name. It wasn't popular at all when I was a kid - 1980s - but it's a top 20 girls name now.
I always did love the name Lisa though.

Kenworthington · 14/04/2016 15:47

I'm a Claire (70s!) it doesn't suit me and I'm not keen on it. I would have preferred Clara or margot Blush

DerelictMyBalls · 14/04/2016 15:58

Daphne. I think it -and the nickname Daffy - would suit me.

JeanGenie23 · 14/04/2016 16:25

derelict a friend of mine have birth to a little girl last weekend and named her Daphne Smile

Bathsheba · 14/04/2016 17:16

Belinda. I use it in Starbucks as my actual name would get pronounced/spelled wrongly...

I think my husband should be a Matt or a Martin...he isn't either.

TealLove · 14/04/2016 17:18

Adore my name but I also love Verity!

NNalreadyinuse · 14/04/2016 17:21

I would like to be Kate or Caroline or Ava or Lara. I got Sarah, like everyone else in the 1970s Grin

Baz13 · 14/04/2016 17:59

Grown to love my name, but always hated never finding anything with my name on in the gift shops. I have only ever met three Tara's.

Abigail12 · 14/04/2016 18:06

Love my name! Uncommon but not weird and also quite fairytale-ish. Did wish when I was about 10 that I was called Sally- I loved worsel gummidge at the time!

Heyheyheygoodbye · 14/04/2016 18:11

Babette.

Normandy144 · 14/04/2016 18:15

I'm a 70s Victoria, but known as Vicky which I don't really like but I hated Victoria as a child - it was so stuffy to me in a sea of Lisa's and Nicola's at school. I'd have liked to have had a prettier, more glamorous name, as Victoria seems very warrior-ish to me, so something like Stephanie, Gabriella, Alexandra or Lydia.