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Do you like your own name?

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LetThereBeRock · 11/05/2010 16:35

Do you? And if not what would you like to be called?

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PricklyThistle · 15/05/2010 01:39

As a child I wanted to be called June. Don't know why,I just loved it .

Am actually Fiona. I didn't like being 1 of many with the same name at school (there were 5 of us in my year). Then we lived in England for 4 years and a girl called Samantha made fun of me cause she said my name was posh - eh, don't think so!

My uncle in Canada's best friend called her daughter Genevieve Fiona, and when I met her she said she wished she'd been called Fiona as it was so exotic. So funny how different names mean different things to different people in different places.....

sophieandbelly · 14/05/2010 12:49

me 2!! it ok altho lots of clients say 'o i will remember ur name i have a cat/dog called sophie!!'

nessmay · 14/05/2010 11:52

My name is Vanessa and I like my name now. At school I did often wish that someone else had the same name as me, but looking back now I think it was a good thing. It's a name that everyone has heard of, but not that popular.

I do think I don't match with people's perceptions of a 'Vanessa' as I'm quite introverted and I think people expect someone more confident. I read an article years ago about how people's names influence their careers and it said something like 'You'd never see a Vanessa, Tanya or Leanne as a CEO of a multinational pharmaceutical company'. No offence to Tanya's or Leanne's! To be fair to the article I'm not a CEO, but I do think whatever name I'd been given I'd be doing what I do now.

I do hate my middle name at the mo though, it's May (after my grandma) and I just detest the way everyone seems to use it now. Don't even get my started on the whole May/Mae/Mai thing!

MammyG · 13/05/2010 22:18

Have made peace with my name in the past decade or so but actively hated it before that. Old biddy irish name. Saw it on a thread here and well lets say its as unpopular as I thought it would be. I guess after a while you just stop thinking about it and other people def dont think about it. Wish I even had a good nickname tho.

LittleWhiteWolf · 13/05/2010 21:15

I like it, but at school I didnt. It sounds kind of posh somehow and loads of girls had it too so I wound up with loads of stupid sirnames. I always wanted to shorten it but was too shy to ask people to call me by the nickname, but now I like in its long form. Because of the shyness only my very closest friends call me that nickname which they still do which is nice. DH also calls me by the nickname which I like.

I dont think that made much sense but hey ho!

Lonnie · 13/05/2010 21:04

No Ive never liked it I still dont now as an adult and I was adament when we were naming ours that we would NOT be using unisex names

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LetThereBeRock · 13/05/2010 19:12

The only thing that I don't like about my name is having to listen to people singing that song to me as though they're being original.

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AnnieBeansMum · 13/05/2010 19:11

Yes I love it! I hated it as a child (1970s) because it was too different and everyone was constantly commenting on it.

Now, it has become a little more common and I adore it.

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LetThereBeRock · 13/05/2010 19:08

To answer my own question I do like my name.

It's a common name,if rather dated now, but I can't imagine being called anything else.

I've met a lot of people who were born in the 80s with this name, but my parents didn't choose it because it was popular.They chose it because it's the feminine form of my grandfather's name, he died a few months before I was born.

That said of course it'd have been fine if they'd chosen it simply because they liked it.

It was either this or Claire.

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vinauchocolat · 13/05/2010 18:46

Kirsty's purple to me... tis a bit fluffy (but I like it!)

Delyth is green

Miriam is deep pink

bronze · 13/05/2010 16:07
Grin
chipmonkey · 13/05/2010 13:52

I will never, ever forgive my mother for calling me chipmonkey.

SoMuchToBits · 13/05/2010 13:11

But if you meet anyone else with this kind of synaesthesia they are very likely to tell you it's some completely different colour

helyg · 13/05/2010 13:09

Thanks! (I think...)

SoMuchToBits · 13/05/2010 13:08

Haha, but Miriam is pink to me (but not fluffy)

SoMuchToBits · 13/05/2010 13:07

Kirsty is yellow, but is also a Scottish teddy bear (so you may be right about the fluffy bit)

Delyth is green

helyg · 13/05/2010 13:03

My name is Delyth, what colour is that?

GetOrfMoiLand · 13/05/2010 12:50

I loathe my name.

It is so pink and fluffy imo (Kirsty, btw).

I am not pink and fluffy as a person. It's a bloody kitten's name.

I wish I was called something like Miriam.

Horton · 13/05/2010 12:47

I am so jealous of all the colour-sensing people. I would love to have this capability!

vinauchocolat · 13/05/2010 11:59

Lucy's a light blue name to me

MaisietheMorningsideCat · 12/05/2010 21:55

Thank you Us Carols are rather lovely, and whilst I may be a bit (OK, 10 years) older than you, I'd definitely not frumpy and middle aged - so there's hope, you know!

CappuccinoCarrie · 12/05/2010 21:35

You're very lovely!

bronze · 12/05/2010 21:33

SoMuchToBits Lucy is yellow to me. I wonder if its really cos I know that it means light so connect the two without thinking

MaisietheMorningsideCat · 12/05/2010 20:42

You poor thing . At least there were one or two other Carols around then to share my embarrassment!

CappuccinoCarrie · 12/05/2010 20:32

I am not, therein lies the problem. I just had a big birthday that had a 3 at the front! Child of the 80s me