Do you like your own name?

Have always hated my name as it is foreign, unusual, hard to spell and pronounce and generally always been a problem for me.

About 5 years ago someone at work came up with a simple shortened version which is a simple English name and it stuck - it has been such a relief to gradually take on this other name.

No I just wish I had come up with something myself years ago, but it never occurred to me to just start calling myself something else!

I always wanted to be called Emma - timeless, classy and only one way to say and spell it!

Are you of a certain age, Cappucino? Born late 60s/early 70s perhaps?

I like my name now, but it took me 30 years to get used to it. It's Alice, which I always thought far too girly for me (proper tomboy me). I quite like it now as an adult, because it is unusual in my age group, but everyone knows it. Unfortunatley I married a Cooper!

I grew up really wanting to be called Laura.

I love my name... it's not one that is ever 'in' or 'out' and there aren't that many of us.

Thank you maisie

And I really really don't think its ever going to come back into fashion but I appreciate the optimism!

Cappucino - I feel your pain

So wanted to be a Caroline, but oh no - my parents decided that they would saddle me with one of the worst names in the book.

Well I'm a Catherine Elizabeth so some people's ideal name. I quite like it but would prefer it the other way round.

In my culture you are given a nn which family and friends will call you and a formal or "real" name. My nn had become anglised and I was even known by it until I was about 6. So I've had to get used to my "real" name. I never really liked it but I couldn't think of what I'd like to be.
My "real" name has become me.

I like my name when people use it properly. I hate that people shorten it as soon as I tell them what it is. I can't even write the shortened version of my name, it just feels odd. Strange though that it never got shortened in South Africa where I grew up, but it gets shortened automatically in the UK.

I would have loved to be called Kate Brodie when I was younger.

It's a shame Carol has a bad image because if you think about it without the preconceptions, it's actually a really really pretty name. I bet it comes right back into fashion in five or ten years.

Dastardly, yep, definitely thinking of the same person , although when I was eight she was a rather Victorian-looking child in a pinafore with very pretty hair slides and lots of wavy hair.

I like my name now and it hasn't dated or become too popular but though it was really dull and boring when I was growing up, also it is a diminutive so people assume it's not my 'real' name or they call me another diminutive.

nope, it was on a thread here where people said it sounded like a dried up old librarian with a bun in her hair!

Bronze let's just say my mum should have stuck to her first name choice for me then supersized yes, superstylish sadly no

Frumpy and middle aged is generally the perception. I do know one Carol who manages to shake off this image but several who fit it perfectly. I don't think I am frumpy and I'm definitely not middle aged and the name really doesn't suit.

Bronze let's just say my mum should have stuck to her first name choice for me then supersized yes, superstylish sadly no

I hate my name, its soooo dated and not a name that's going to do the rounds and turn out to be cool. Its totally from the wrong generation. Its Carol. .
Caroline or Carolyn would both have been fine. I was desperate to be called Katie when I was at school, it seemed like such a nice, safe, name. I've been judged on the basis of my name alone in the past - I was temping and another new girl started and said 'thank goodness, when I heard I was working with a woman called Carol I nearly didn't turn up!'. Harsh but fair in my opinion! 'lady called carol' certainly does put an image in your mind...and I'm really not like that! Wish I'd known years ago that Carrie is an acceptable shortened version, at least its a name I can enjoy on line
We've given both our dcs top 10 names, they'll prob hate being one of 6 in the class, but at least their names are from the right generation!

Yes it is
4andnotout. All the people I have known with your name have been super stylish and intelligent. Not met you yet of course

Is it Bronwen? I like that. I also like Olwen. Have known one of each. Taht's all. Mind you I am not in Wales.

Carocaro- My nan does the same to "come on Eileen" and makes us all dance as it's "her" song

Bronze-your name is lovely!

Not really. I don't hate it but think that my parents could have been slightly more imaginative when naming me.

I was born in 74 and have a very popular name for that year.

SARAH

My middle name is Frances which I detest. I remember my Mum telling me that they couldn't decide between Frances and Lucy. Why oh why didn't they choose Lucy.

If I had been a boy I would have been Oliver (cool and not very common for the time) so why didn't they choose say Olivia.

I love my name
Its unusual enough that I've only met a couple though know of more but no so unsual people havent heard of it. Its pretty and Welsh and people always say they like it

Yes i so do!

Caroline

When a bit squiffy I put on Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond very loud and dance to it and make others who are near dance too!

Dad names me after the song, thanks Dad RIP.

So you're called Denis then?