Do you like your name?

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My name is Shanie. I didn't like it as a kid and thought it was weird & it was mispronounced shanny instead of shay-nee. I quite like it now tho & it has never been shortened except by people trying to piss me off and call me shane. But I do like it now and couldn't imagine being called different, Never met another though.

I dont mind it. There are other ways of spelling it but mine is the supposed correct way. I am called the shorted version rather the full given version with i dont mind either but i hate the even shorter bit of it because growing up it was a 'boys name'

I absolutely hate my name!

I hate saying & hearing it.

No. It's far too old for me - all my life, my peers have commented that it's their mum/aunt/gran's name, or their middle name after an older relative. My mum specifically chose a name that couldn't be shortened, so I was the only one never to have a nickname growing up. I much prefer my middle name.

I really didn't like my name growing up and wished my parents had called me Jennifer but as I've got older I actually quite like it now (Rachel).

I'm not keen on mine. It was very unusual when I was born, then very popular in the 90's, and has now gone out of popularity again.

It's very normal though, and I'm the type of person who wouldn't want an unusual name.

One of my sisters has a much better, timeless, classic, strong but pretty name (IMO), the other has an awful name so I can't complain.

No, I don't like mine at all. It has several different accepted pronunciations and mine is probably the least common, so 95% of people say it a different way when they see it written down, and a lot of people look confused and ask me to repeat it when I tell them my name, as the name isn't widely used even in its most common pronunciation. I know some more confident people won't see the issue, but I find it really awkward to correct people on how to pronounce it, and if I don't do it the first time I sort of feel like I never can as people are that you've let them say your name wrong multiple times without correcting them. I've also had very rude people tell me that I'm wrong in how to pronounce my own name, and a uni friend who had assumed that my name was really but I had changed it to be different

I would love to have a name that is easily recognisable and has no ambiguity on pronunciation!

I love my name!

It's traditional, long, ( a whole four syllables) and though it lends itself to many shortenings and nicknames, I always insist on the full version.

Don't like it. Always wished for an uncommon or unisex name.

I like the actual name itself but while it's a little bit unusual (and probably posh) in the UK, it's pretty much unheard of in Ireland. It's the original version of a much more common (and old fashioned) name, so I get called that all the time.

My name also doesn't go very well with my surname, lots of double letters in both.

I like mine, it's actually my middle name & I share it with my grandmother. It's a classic, not used too often these days. I'm eternally grateful that my parents chose to call me by my middle name because I detest my first name.

I want to know what all the names are!!

Say it and* spell it

I'm a Hannah. It's ok. Would rather have something more unusual but it's not weird or embarassing, everyone can say it or spell it (even if they miss the second H sometimes).

I have a name that peaked in the 70's even though I'm an 80's child. I don't hate the name but I wish it was less 'dated'.
I am now loving a girl's name that I think will suffer the same fate (fast rise in popularity and then plummet) and not sure whether to go for it or not.

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Is it Siobhán ?

Also I understand it more popular in the US but over here it’s very unpopular.

I've never been fond of my name as people immediately shorten it, or ask what I'm called as if it's just too long to say! It id the assumption that I must have a nickname as my name is just sooooooo formal and boring that annoys me.

I've a classic name (currently in top 10) but spelt in an unusual way due to my Polish heritage. People butcher it mercilessly when they try and pronounce it from how it's spelt. I considered changing the spelling to the Anglo Saxon version but I've embraced the uniqueness and use it as a conversation starter

Nope! My name is Carly and it’s unusual enough that there aren’t that many around (and I could never get anything with my name on as a child!) but I’ve been told it’s a name considered to be a bit chavvy 😳. I remember someone kindly informing me that “Carly” was number 3 in the suns top 10 names for “easy women”. Misogynistic bullshit in a nasty newspaper but sad to hear the connotations with my name!

I've no love nor hate for my name.
Its not overly common, although one of my closest friends shares my name and in my friendship circle there is a 3rd (maybe more popular than I'd considered)
It was a relatively popular name in the late 80s/early 90s when I arrived.
At primary school I was the only one in the school, at secondary I was one of 3 in the year.
I think it suits me and can't think of a different name that would...
But I also have so many nicknames for a 3 letter name it's crazy because a lot of them make my name longer 🤦‍♀️

I'm not keen.

My name is Anne-Marie.

Double barrelled names get ridiculed on here for being naff but mine is a 'proper' name as far as I know.

I don't like it much because people always want to call me Anne which is the dullest name on earth. Then all the Maries I know are loud and uncouth.

loki I'm Josie to everyone apart from my family who all call me jo my twin occasionally calls me jo jo

Mine is biblical - think old testament - and not very popular outside Judaism (I’m not Jewish, nor is my family). I was the only one right through school, at work and hardly ever meet another one! I don’t dislike it, indeed I’ve made it ‘me’ over time. I do still have twinges of resentment that I was named for a terribly saintly great grandma and I can tell ma is still a bit disappinted I didn’t measure up! Had I been a boy it would have been worse. I’d have been saddled with a very naff name that was that of my dad’s elder brother, the ‘favourite’ snd who died tragically young. Imagine the fallout from that....!

I'm ambivalent about it, but the way I pronounce it tends to be different to how others pronounce it.

Eg. Maureen and Marine.