Do you like your name?

I love my name now but growing up i hated it (Irish) and no one could ever spell it or pronounce it !

Yes I really like my name. I was the only one in my school growing up, although lived in Wales so not a massive school but it's still not overly common.

I chose I name I loved for my DS, I also believed it not to be that well used, sadly I am finding alot of children a few years before him have that name, so he may hate it !!!

That said my name isn’t really a little girl name and doesn’t lend itself to nicknames so it must have been weird when I was a child.

I like that my name is pretty universal (as in known in most European languages). Short and easy to spell. And fairly elegant and class nuetral (common in all classes and features in royal families) but not Christian. Reading this back to myself I think I may have really screwed over my children who have really obscure names

My name is Stacie.

I don't mind it, it's my name so I guess I'm used to it and it belongs to me so I like it in that sense.

As you've probably guessed I'm an 80's child and all the other Stacy/Stacey/Staci's I know are around my age so I do think it's quite dated and certainly 'of it's time'.

I like my name. I’ve only ever met another one my age but went through a stage when I taught a fair few who were obviously a lot younger than me. Conversely none of them spelt it how I spelt it.
I think it sounds nice and American which I like but no would put other people off and I think MN would hate it.
It’s Kelsey and I usually get Kels from the majority of people. Never my mum though who hates shortening. I’m starting to think I am growing out of it though and don’t know how I feel about being a 70 year old Kelsey.

My name is Amanda, which is pretty dated now but everyone can pronounce it and everyone can spell it so I don’t really mind it. It was really popular the year I was born but, apart from one year when there was 3 of us in the class, I’ve only met a handful of others. I don’t like when people assume they can call me Mandy though (nothing against it but I’ve never been called it so it’s like calling me Sarah or something).

I dont like my name. Ive always thought of it as a bit alkward to say and hate telling people my name. BUT ive never had any negative comments about my name. Have only met 3 in my life I think.. so its certainly not popular but also not 'weird'.. my husband thinks im weird for disliking it. I dont know why.. its just not a name i like. Too uncommon i guess.. my middle name i love. Also not overly common. Slightly Italian sounding and my heritage lies in Italy so I kind of like that. But this is a name that does not seem to have the same level of love as I have for it.. maybe I just feel differently about names than most other people!! Lol!

I like mine. It is veryour similar to another name that was popular for girls of my age. It would often get misheard as the popular name when I was growing up. I think my less popular name is far prettier though. And it's aged better.

Mine is monosyllabic, which is shit with our monosyllabic surname. Especially as both sisters got unusual 3 syllable names, and there were always at least 3 other girls with my name in my year at school.

And I got the worst middle name.

Have hated my name all my adult life. One of the most popular 70s names and just sounds likes a child’s name not an adult’s. I wish I had had the sense/ courage to go by my middle name but too late now as I’m nearly 50.

I'm a late 70s Emma, I think it's a pretty name now but hated being so common (all the full naming). I spent some time in the US and got constant compliments on it which was nice. DD has a well known but little used name, it's quite popular on here though.

Mine is Stella - I love it. I was named after the nurse who delivered me, so I've always been glad that her name was a nice one. When I was a child it was pretty unusual, but it has become more popular again in recent years , and I'm happy to have a bottle of perfume with my name on it, courtesy of Stella McCartney !

I like my name, it's classic and continental. However, I don't like that the common shortening of my name is often assumed, and I have never gone by this shortening. I often tell people the shortening I go by and they still call me the common shortening. Therefore, I would always be vary of giving my child a name that has assumed nicknames/shortenings.

I also agree OP that I don't like that my name doesn't have a story like my siblings'. My name was picked because my parents just liked it and it fitted with my siblings' names.

I don't mind my name. I don't really have strong feelings about it either way.
It's Kirsty.

I don’t like my name. It was very unusual when I was little, and in a primary school full of Clares, Lisas, Kellys etc I felt like I stuck out.
I use a shortened form but don’t even like that very much.

I like my actual name but I don't like the back story attached to it. My parents didn't really think it through and gave me a name they loved in full, but didn't like the most obvious short form. So when I got a bit older and people started trying to call me by that short form, they tried to avoid that by suddenly starting to call me by a different short form, which I've been called ever since, which is quite nice in itself but is often used as a name in its own right and people often just don't twig that it's not my real name, so I get the short form on formal documents and things and have to ask for it to be amended. In an ideal world I'd be called by my full name and I wouldn't positively encourage the use of short forms, but I wouldn't mind too much if anybody did use one, even the one my parents don't like. But I don't feel able to do that because it feels rude to my parents somehow, even though I'm fully grown and one of them isn't even alive any more.

Love mine. It's unusual and I've only met 3 other people in 35+ years who share it. I get some weird spellings sometimes and some people struggle to pronounce it but it doesn't put me off.

Quite happy with mine. I was going to be called Naomi but my Grandmother died just before I was born so I am named after her.

I like mine. On here it is "awful and very American", but I always get complimented on it, it isn't common (at least in the UK), and it lends itself to many nicknames if I wanted them.

I always wished I was a 'Clare' or 'Adele' instead I was/am Trudi - like it because it was unusual but that's all.

I went through periods of hating & loving my name with a few indifferent periods too. Now I'm nearing 50, I love my given name, but am generally known by my nickname.

I'm Helen, I like my name, I can't imagine being called anything else. There are loads of Helen's my age.

I hated my maiden though, with a passion, (people used to laugh when I said my name) I love my very common married name.

I hate having a popular name for my generation. I wish my parents had tried a little harder to find a more interesting name for me.