Do you like your name and why do you feel that way?

I was born in the early 70s. My name is Essie, short for Esther. I hated Esther as a kid but grew to like it in the end.

I still use Essie, mainly because Esther makes me feel like I'm in trouble. It's the only time i was ever called it growing up. 😁

I dislike my name, its a made up name, and has no meaning behind it. To me sounds like a strippers name. Born in 1963, it peaked in popularity 2 years later, and then declined to almost nothing.

No. It was never popular. There's a few about now but I was the only one at school and college.
Teachers used to laugh at it!. I use my nice normal 80s middle name these days.

Yes. It’s a classic. But also sounds beautiful and looks nice written down.

Love my name as I was the only one with it at primary school then at secondary school a girl in the year below me had ‘my’ name lol but it’s the first person I ever knew with it.

Then no one at college or uni with it - at work (large organisation) there was nearly 1 join us with it but she didn’t. Previous job I met 1 person with ‘my’ name.

So in my life I have actually known / known of 3 others with my name. I like my name more because of this but it put pressure on me naming dc as I wanted names that were like mine and not popular at all!

I am now nearly 50!

I like my name because it’s short, simple and easy to pronounce. It’s relatively common in my age group but that has never bothered me. I’m also blessed with a surname which is short, simple and easy to pronounce - unlike the one I was born with - and really like the combination.

I like my name. It's an unusual name for a woman these days and there aren't too many of us. However, I did have to change the spelling of it to get people to pronounce it correctly, I spent all my school years with it being pronounced in a way I didn't like at all.

I hate my name, it’s grannyish. Luckily it can be shortened to something slightly less grannyish. My parents were both in their 20s when I was born so I don’t know why they gave me such an old fashioned name.

I actually do like my name because it's not one you hear often. It's Joanna. I've met a gazillion Joanne's but only a couple of Joanna's.

Love it. Beautiful in sound and meaning, appears in multiple mythologies from Christian to pagan (take your pick - she’s a world spirit, female Christ, was with God at the point of creation, fallen angel, soul of humanity).

No terrible historical figures. People from every nation know the name and can pronounce it. Feminine but not fussy. It is very very common but never sounds anything but classic to me.

My husband asked if it would be weird to give our daughter my name he likes it that much 😂

Emma. I really like my name, it suits me, I was completely unbothered by being one of NINE in my school year 😂and It just feels classic and safe and that suits me just fine!

My first name is Biblical - well known but not commonly used in the decade I was born. I neither like nor dislike it

I would never tell anyone my second name as it was so old-fashioned. It's now one of the most popular names for girls and I've grown to like it!

My name is Lucy. I neither like or dislike it - it’s just a noise you need to make to get my attention 😅
Wished I had a ‘witchy’ name like Lilith or Hecate when I was a goth teen though.

I was born in 1980 and never knew of another Lucy until I was about 12 and our next door neighbour called her baby it.

I do like my name. It was my mother's name, and my grandmother's name, and my great grandmother's name. I did not give any of my children the name as I was worried it would mark them out as more special - because my sister's always hated that I got 'the name'.

Mines an older name - I used to really dislike it but I don’t mind it now.

It got quite popular for little girls from the early 2000’s

Don’t care for either first or middle. Very 1960s (imo). I like variants of it though.

Just changed my username for this … my name
is also Anne , very popular middle name for my generation but not so much first name , I hate it , it’s old fashioned and awful!
My mum tells me it’s after the Queens only daughter ,
but she’s 30 years older than me so not sure of the significance 🙄 .
I actually know of 2 little girls born recently called Annie , my neighbours daughter and a colleagues granddaughter but not any other Anne’s.

Chloe, I don't really mind it. It is what it is. I couldn't imagine myself with another name though. My middle name is Anabelle and I don't think I would of really liked that one as my first name. Not that I dislike that name, I actually like it, I just think it's abit too girly for the sort of person I am lol!

60’s baby with a classic timeless name. I’m happy with it.
I am sure you’d all guess what it is.

My names Clare and I absolutely loathe and despise because it can’t be shortened so there’s no friendlier alternative. I’ve never truly forgiven my parents for my name. However ironically I love the name Faye which presents the same issues as Clare. I think it’s also because I’m from Liverpool and people tend to say Cliiiiire a lot.

90s baby here 👋🏻 Very much a classic and what people would call timeless, though I have seen it called boring on here too! I do think it’s pretty and I like the story of how I was named which probably also lends to me liking it too. It was popular then and it’s remained popular since (though I believe it’s outside of the top 50 now and a variant of it has become far more popular over the last decade)
Surprisingly, I never had another one in my school class (there was once one in the year above very briefly) but apart from that, from year 4 onwards I never encountered another in my class or school as a whole until I started college and then had another girl in my year with the same name!

I don't dislike it, although I wasn't very keen on it when I was at school. It was very much a name of the generation older than me - my mother had 3 friends called this at school, so there weren't more than a couple of people my age that I shared the name with.

However, it felt dated and a bit stodgy. Now that I'm also dated and a bit stodgy and have had a lifetime of adjusting to it I'm neutral on it.

I'd still have liked something a bit more glamorous and exotic.

I’m an 80s baby and my name is Kelly. I can’t say I’m bothered either way really. There are other names from that time period that a prefer (I love Emma, for example, and would happily have called my daughter it now) but Kelly is perfectly fine.

I really like Anne! I think it's a bit like Jane (which I also like) - could be seen as boring or could be seen as as elegant and classic. I also like Annie and Anna.