Have you ever looked up your RL name in the 'baby name' board?

[Ashleys63]

kind of wish i hadn't

www.mumsnet.com/baby-name-generator

I did it and was not surprised to see that it was regarded as an old lady’s name

And I dislike my name

Not bad, 90% like. I'll take that.

Yes, mine is a bit polarising. Most people think it’s lovely, traditional, not too popular and classy, but around 10% decry it as a terrible, ugly, stuffy name

(Carolina, incidentally, is not my name!)

I just looked & as I imagined people hate it 😂 I have never liked my name at all, to say it myself aloud it sounds really weird! I am glad hardly any MNers are lumbering their kids with it 😂

@ItsALovelyDayToday

Apparently my name is “chavvy” among other lovely descriptors. But I’ve literally never met anyone else with my first name so maybe all the other are “chavs” 🙄

Mine too! And err “pikey” was one charming comment (not about my actual name, but the style). Also “American”, which is Not A Good Thing apparently .

@JosephineDeBeauharnais on MN ‘American’ and ‘chavvy’ are practically synonyms

Oh my. Pretty much everyone hates my name. )) Bleugh, horrible, just no, you can not do it to your child, transvestite Not that I care- I love my name. ))

Apparently it is lovely and classy.
I haven't met any babies with the name but there were 4 of us in my class in the 80s

MN mostly thinks that it's a classic and pretty name, but a number of posters think it's dull, bland and forgettable

Mine is damned. "anything but a classic" is among the kinder comments. I don't mind. Some MN popular names make me want to gag but I'm too polite to say so...

On a thread called "do you have a test name", my name is mentioned as being all bitches, arrogant, horrid. Well ffs, ha ha

*A twat name, damn predictive text

@camperjam I have a feeling we have the same name as I was about the type the exact same thing

@ViciousJackdaw

I have a Gaelic name and not one of the nice ones either. 'Irish granny chic' apparently. Personally, I wouldn't wish it on anyone!

Are you a Nuala, @ViciousJackdaw? Or an Attracta?

Omg I put my name which is very unusual, never met another. And it came up as about 15 years ago there was a poster with the name as her username.

Just have and am surprised it's quite liked! Well done my parents choosing it, and again rather glad I'm not called their other choice 😬

I just did - it only appears on a couple of threads about hard to pronounce names.

Searched & I got
Wet
Classic but not overused.
Strong name
Timeless but short.
Also seems to get picked a fair bit on "a sibling for X" threads.

I like my name. I know a few of us but I'm the only 1 at my place of work (where we seem to have a lot of "duplicates")

Mine is traditional in my country but very unusual and probably unheard of in Britain. On MN people disagree about how to pronounce it and in classic MN fashion people think it would be a fate worse than death to be saddled with it

I don't think having a weird name is such a burden. In real life people struggle with it most of the time but seem to like it and the meaning behind it.

Mine seems well loved, weird to think there are so many babies called my name! When I was a child it was difficult to get anything personalised with my name on it and I was constantly asked if I was really called the longer version of my name (im not). But I suppose it does now belong to one of the most famous women in the country!

I just did and as suspected 95% of people think it’s awful

Yes I wish I hadn't too. Seems I have quite a hated name, "downtrodden and 80s", "chavvy".