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So, what name would you have chosen for yourself...in your rl, now...

58 replies

ChristmasFairySantAsSLut · 11/12/2008 00:10

I always loved the names Rebecca/Rebecka and Teresa/Theresa....bearing in mind that in Germany those were unusual names at the time....(seventies)

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ceeceeanne · 23/12/2008 16:17

I have a hyphenated name and when my full name is used i like it but dont like the name at all when only first bit is used. used to be considered very scottish (im english) when was little, not so much now would like the idea of a pretty name but not sure id suit it!

Boobz · 12/12/2008 12:55

I am known as a short version of my name and wish I was actually called the longer version (Alexandra). I think it's pretty, if a little posh. But no one calls me it and it would be strange to insist on it now at the age of 29.

FlirtyThirty · 12/12/2008 10:50

I know and Octavia...she hates it. And to be honest, we (her friends) have always thought it pretentious.... One of my least favourite Roman names...

daizydoo · 12/12/2008 07:48

I hated my name as it was so common when I was at school. Still is, you can guarantee that there will be at least another person with the same name as me! I always wanted to be called Victoria or Vanessa!

TinySocks · 12/12/2008 07:24

I love my name.

smartiejakeonachristmascake · 12/12/2008 07:22

I hated my name when I was a child but now think it's quite cool. It was very unusual in the seventies when I was growing up and I have still only ever met one person with the same name as me.

OiOi · 12/12/2008 07:08

I have always hated my name as it's common and typically 70's, wish my mother had chose something like Catherine or Susannah - but those are not names I would choose for my own daughters.

Vulgar · 11/12/2008 23:07

and her golden hair.

not her creepily long neck tho

DeckHallsWithFIMBOughsofHolly · 11/12/2008 22:59

I always wanted Miss Scarlett's ample bosom

Vulgar · 11/12/2008 22:58

I hated my surname.

I always wanted to be Miss Scarlett as off Cludeo.

DeckHallsWithFIMBOughsofHolly · 11/12/2008 22:49

I hate my name. It was quite exclusive when I was growing up but now its probably more common and even slightly (hate this word) chav. If I had been a boy I would have been called Craig.

I always wanted to be Debbie when I was small now I would like to be Mia, Suzy or Fiona.

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ChristmasFairySantAsSLut · 11/12/2008 22:45

Hollytree, when I was a Kid I used to know a girl, roughly samne age as me, who was called Octavia....had never heard that name before....but it is kinda a cool name!

SheSells...my mum was going to spell Kerstin with a C...but the registrar made her reconsider as my sisters name starts with C....probably not a bad thing...if I was a Boy I would have been Martin, which possibly would have been worse, lol....

MissAnne....there was a gorgeous german actress called Romy Schneider....she was beautyful...that was one of the other names I wanted to be called, when growing up! You have got a lucky dughter

lol Bumper

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WewishyouaBUMPERLICIOUS · 11/12/2008 11:43

Actually I am luck in that while my name is very common it also has many variations, and I have gone through nearly all of them at various stages. Makes for a bit of a faff when writing Xmas cards though as I have to stop and remind myself what name the person knows me as!

WewishyouaBUMPERLICIOUS · 11/12/2008 11:40

I wanted Scarlett too!

Siriusmewandtinseltoo · 11/12/2008 11:38

I always wanted to be called Scarlett. My name is always getting shortened to something that i really hate which is really frustrating!

gladders · 11/12/2008 11:22

interesting one! i have a v common name - there were 9 of us in a year of 75 girls.... but my mum used an unusual spelling so I have always quite liked that.....

Apart from short period when I was about 11 when I idolised someone called Samantha and wished I was called that.

Actually, although love dd's name and am v glad I chose it, I would not want it for myself.....

Grammaticus · 11/12/2008 11:16

As a teenager I always wanted to be called Louise. I do wonder whether I was "meant" to be called Claire, because if people ever get my name wrong, that is always what they go for. But I'm quite happy with my actual name and with the shortening of it that I use.

MissAnneThrope · 11/12/2008 11:13

My daughter's name: Romy

SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore · 11/12/2008 11:07

I don't like my name as its common. There were loads of girls in my school with my name which is why I objected to dd2's name but DH and dd1 won that battle

My mum would have liked to have called me Kirstyn which I hate even more or Jamie (but spelled wrong she liked jaimee) I would rather have been Jamie.

LilMatchGirlInVictorianSqualor · 11/12/2008 11:03

I'd like to be called Sally.
Or Catherine.

hollytree · 11/12/2008 10:48

sorry didnt mean to put that apostrophe in there

hollytree · 11/12/2008 10:47

I really love the name Octavia but think its just a little out there to call a child (although any Octavia's out there can prove me wrong) so might have liked to be called that myself - but am Elizabeth and I always loved how many other names you could call yourself from that.

SantasNuttySTaff · 11/12/2008 10:46

nobody calls ne by my name anyway lol its nicknames all the way or Mrs ***

but i would have killed for a more exotic name when i was younger (there are literally millions of people with the same name as me and always at least 4 in my class at school same or different spellings etc)

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notevenamousie · 11/12/2008 10:39

I love my sister's name - but I couldn't be called that too, else it would be confusing! I think I've just kind of got used to my name as it is really, though it is common.