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If you could change your name what would you choose?

45 replies

popcornchickin · 16/03/2022 19:26

Sensible answers required but feel free to add a silly answer.

Sensible: Alice
Silly: Profiter

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LollyPollyPop · 22/03/2022 10:08

Sensible: Chrissie
Not so silly: Queenie (it was my Grandmas name)

GahAndTheBear · 22/03/2022 10:03

My name is crap. Properly crap. Start a terrible names no one should inflict on a child thread and it’ll be mentioned within 3 replies. And then repeatedly.

Which is to say I’ve given this thought (but the logistics of changing your name - and the family politics too - are awful).

I’d choose to be Ailis.

DoorLion · 22/03/2022 08:31

@bowtieandheels

My name has been mentioned as a silly name, I absolutely love my name and wouldn't change it. I think it's been life changing and was the best gift my parents ever gave me!
My interpretation of silly was a name I love but is quite out there so if it was mine - which would be amazing, I’ve never met one - it wasn’t an insult!
bowtieandheels · 18/03/2022 16:34

My name has been mentioned as a silly name, I absolutely love my name and wouldn't change it. I think it's been life changing and was the best gift my parents ever gave me!

DoorLion · 18/03/2022 15:14

My name has been mentioned three times. I knew I had the best name. Grin.

DirtyDancing · 17/03/2022 22:22

Sensible: Sienna, Katie or Bella

Out there: Summer-Storm

herecomesthehotsteppa · 17/03/2022 21:44

Allegra, Bibi or Coco

AnxiousHeffalump · 17/03/2022 21:36

Regina Philange.

CathyorClaire · 17/03/2022 21:32

Sensible: Melanie (thanks DF for vetoing it and saddling me with the ghastly second choice Angry)

Out there: January

LadyCatStark · 17/03/2022 21:24

Sensible: Charlotte nn Charlie
Silly: Persephone nn Percy

Poorlyplants · 17/03/2022 21:08

Sensible: Antonia, Georgina, Zara
Silly: Heidi High

RealRaymondReddington · 17/03/2022 20:58

Sensible: Polly
Silly: Octavia

IDidntWearASmileToday · 17/03/2022 20:55

Sensible: Ingrid
Silly: Indigo

KylieCharlene · 17/03/2022 20:53

I'd like to be called Carmen
My alter ego would be Dakota

stickygotstuck · 17/03/2022 20:49

Some of these 'silly' names sound rather sensible to me Shock

Musmerian · 17/03/2022 20:47

Sensible: Athena
Silly: Esmeralda Dribble

Wammawink · 17/03/2022 20:42

Sensible: Eve
Silly: Luna

roarfeckingroarr · 17/03/2022 20:35

My name has been mentioned here 😍. I wouldn't change it.

Jennywren1975 · 17/03/2022 20:23

Sensible, Alexandra
Silly, Dolly

soulinablackberrypie · 17/03/2022 20:15

Sensible: Charlotte or Sasha

Silly: umm, I don't think I really want a silly name, but I could bear to be Rainbow for a day just to see what it feels like.

IglesiasPiggl · 17/03/2022 16:27

I have always wanted a pretty French name like Amelie, Camille or Manon.

Nurseryrun · 17/03/2022 15:55

Sensible: Alessia

Silly: Daisy or Bianca

DoorLion · 16/03/2022 22:33

@DaisyWaldron

Surely we could all change our names if we wanted to?

I've often considered using my very unusual middle name, but I feel that I've finally settled into my first name now, and like the abbreviation I use, so I'm sticking with it.

Yes, actually I wouldn’t change my name - which has already been mentioned on here, woo! - I was thinking more if I had to have a different name.
TimeforaGandT · 16/03/2022 22:10

Miranda (although slightly less keen after the television show - fell in love with it from reading the Tempest)

IAmSantaOhYesIAm · 16/03/2022 22:08

I wish I was called my full name and not the shortened version. I love my full name now but have got so used to introducing myself as the shortened version for the past 40 odd years it’s who I’ve become!