What name would you choose to rename yourself?

[MistleTOEboughski]

If name changing were as easy in real life as on MN? I can't decide myself but my dd chose Avery. What would you choose and why?

I’d like to be an Elsie

I have a foreign middle name that begins with L. I didn’t used to like it (but now do because it references by dad’s heritage). I used to tell people it stood for Laura, so Laura.

I also really like McKenzie (it’s the K and the z). I tried to persuade DH that we should both change our babes to this when we got married, but it didn’t he wasn’t convinced.

So I’d be Laura McKenzie.

Laura?
I'm surprised. It sounds very dated and extremely common (more so up north).

As a London I never had a friend called Laura. Moved to Yorkshire and suddenly knew loads of Lauras. All lovely, but not the name.

I'd like to be called Saoirse. Or something beginning and ending with A. Arianna. Alexandra. My real name, alas, is not Aradia but is distinctly of its decade, ends in the sound -ee which I find annoyingly childish, and gets mostly negative comments when discussed on MN!

@BettyAndVeronica

Laura? I'm surprised. It sounds very dated and extremely common (more so up north).

As a London I never had a friend called Laura. Moved to Yorkshire and suddenly knew loads of Lauras. All lovely, but not the name.

It makes me think of Petrach’s Laura, so a very classical name, and the character Laura from The Changeover, one of my favourite books, and Laure the French police officer in Spiral. And I love the sound it makes. I don’t know any Lauras in real life apart from the teenage daughter of a friend.

Petrarch

Never crossed my mind tbh and my name and surname have a nice flow to them - have been called by my surname before because it could actually be used as a first name and both start with the same letter.

I actually wouldn't change my name. It's unusual and after having had it for so long I can't see myself with another name.

I knew a Lowrie once. I'd like that name!

I can live with my name. It’s of its time. I would however like a middle name and have been thinking of having my daughter’s middle name as mine, but undecided!

Ooh, I'd quite like Astrid, Ingrid or Viveca to humour my delusions of Scandi glamour. Or Agatha, Lettice or Clara for my other fantasy life of 1930s bright young thing. Or Ursula.

My mum recently told me that they couldn't decide between my name and Simon.

I think Si would possibly have had a cooler life :)

Geraldine would be fine. My name is pretty unusual in women under 60, but I'd guess Geraldine is even less common, and I think it's due for a revival.

I'd love a really glamorous, international kind of name.

I absolutely love the name Tatiana...it's so fabulous, I'd love to introduce myself as that.

Also

Carolina
Natalia

@BettyAndVeronica

Laura? I'm surprised. It sounds very dated and extremely common (more so up north).

As a London I never had a friend called Laura. Moved to Yorkshire and suddenly knew loads of Lauras. All lovely, but not the name.

When I was a child (Central London, 1970s/80s) all the cool girls were called Laura, that’s why I pretended that’s where my middle name was, and why I would choose it now. I’m not going to babe my self something completely incongruous for my age. I was teased about my first name as a child, have a foreign middle name, have had to spell out my surname all my life, and my married surname just gives me the same name as a rock star.

This thread is about what you could call yourself if you could easily change my name. Ok have had to replenish my babe all my life, so I would change it to something completely unremarkable.

It makes me think of Petrach’s Laura, so a very classical name, and the character Laura from The Changeover, one of my favourite books, and Laure the French police officer in Spiral.

The first Laura to spring to my mind would be Laura Farlie from A Woman In White.
Kind, pretty, obedient. Timid compared to her sister Marion (an awesome character).

Massive typos/autocorrects in my previous post!
My last sentence “Ok have had to replenish my babe all my life, so I would change it to something completely unremarkable”, should say “I have had to explain my name all my life, so I would change it to something completely unremarkable”.

@MyNameIsGrace I know exactly how you feel, the anxiety is awful, I am Named after a motor bike. I dread telling people my name, and it makes me cringe, and people are ALWAYS getting wrong and people often expect a male when I go to interviews.

I think I look like a hanna. I dont think I look like what my name is

Marion or Miranda

I've got an awful, dull name that was popular in the 70s - along the same lines as Jane but can be spelt in three different ways (so always misspelled). I always wanted to be an Angela or a Georgina.

I now live abroad and most locals struggle to pronounce my name so they use the equivalent which sounds so lovely in their language - I finally got my beautiful name

[quote CuntasarusRex]@MyNameIsGrace I know exactly how you feel, the anxiety is awful, I am Named after a motor bike. I dread telling people my name, and it makes me cringe, and people are ALWAYS getting wrong and people often expect a male when I go to interviews. [/quote]
I'm guessing Harleigh?

Angelica! Nn Lica. I think it’s such a glamour, indulgent kind of name.

Another one for Kate, or Iris

Would like to officially give thanks for the name my parents chose for me. Really like it and always have.
Have a slight fixation with Lydia. Know it gets mixed press on mn. I can imagine being a Lydia.