to ask if you like your name (and if so, what is it?)

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We're trying to think of a name for our new daughter and I want to find one that is actually fun/useful to have rather than one that we like but is horrible to actually be called.

Meredith and I love it.

Likewise, urchin!

Mines Rowena. Spent years at school having row your boat sang to me and being called rowenta kettle. Dad chose it as he fancied Rowena Wallace who played nasty Patricia in Sons and Daughters. Mum wanted Chantelle-Marie. Only answer to Row these days.
Dd is Lucy and she hates it. She wants to be a Sophie because everyone seems to be called Lucy these days.

My name is Emilia, and I love it. Would not change it! Although, I have to spell it out everywhere I go since I moved to the UK from my native Scandinavia :P

My name is Sian (pronounced Sharn)

My father chose it and as annoying as it is to be called "Sharon", "Shaun", "See-Anne" and "Stan" (yes, really!!!) I wouldn't change it for the world. I think I am a Sian and wouldn't suit any other name

I have an unusual name, I don't want to give here but always loved it that no-one else at school had my name - my class was full of Carolines, Christines, and Lynnes (Yes I'm from the 60s). Later when I was a teacher I had one class with about 5 Emmas and 5 Matthews. I felt sorry for them.

Flipperty, I had a friend at school (in England) with the Welsh name Ceri. The number of teachers who pronounced it "Serry"!

Crazy I love Meredith - gorgeous name

I love my name because I don't really know anyone my age with it, although its becoming more popular now but not really common. I get compliments on it too.

My name is Bethany

My only issue is i'm not Welsh and have no Welsh descendants..!!

My job role includes a lot of incoming/outgoing calls and it's pretty embarrassing when the Welsh customers attempt a conversation in Welsh that I have no clue about!! ??
I think the Welsh language is beautiful though, I'd love to learn it!!

I was a bit of a bratty kid when I was in infants, I told everyone I was half Welsh, Half Spanish and half Dutch (maths has never been my strong point, clearly) owing to the heritage of my first, middle and last names. I insisted everyone called me Jane as that was my name I used whilst I was "visiting" England. I would have despised me..

Not saying what my name is but fairly boring and dates me as a child of the 60s
I was nearly called Madeleine and would have preferred that I don't even mind Maddy
I was very careful choosing both my children's names thankfully they love them although they both equally like the second reserve names we had for them in case when born didn't suit our first choices

I was named after My mum which I find weird:)
I don't like my name and my family have always referred to me as "lainey" my whole life, I'm 37 now and lainey sounds "babyish"!!
My name is Elaine.

I don't like my name but I always get a shirtened version of it which I do like. I always wanted to be called Calamity or Scarlet when I was little - after Calamity Jane or Scarlet O'Hara.

I detest my name and go by the short version of it. I even changed it by deed poll so that I am now referred to on all documents by the short version. Anyone that calls me by my given name is sharply given daggers from me and from that knows to never do it again.

My name was very common (as in frequent in our area at the time, not as in chav) and I detest it. You can guess my age within a few years and I was one of 23 with the same name in my year at the girls' school I attended.

My sister, on the other hand, has a lovely name. She is Meredith - and I still get a little green that she never had to use a last initial just to be identified as one of a huge group in her year.

My DCs both have classic names, with traditional spellings. Unfortunately, DD's name gets misspelled often as there are also several versions of it.

DS's name is pretty straightforward, just very uncommon these days - he was named after his great grandfather.

Duh! Meant to add... I am Allison (and I detest it, went by "Lee" for part of my teen years), DD is Brigid and DS is Reginald (although he goes by Reg, now, unless his little sister is calling him - she is the only one allowed to call him Reggie any more).

Another Stephanie here. As a child I hated it, but I don't mind it now.
Just grown into it I suppose. I have a middle name which is very old fashioned, but too much info on here.

Catherine and yes I like it

My name is bryony & I love not having a name that is quite uncommon :)

Elizabeth here. Now... I love that it can be changed to so many shortened or different versions, all depending on the decade!

Betty (my brother's favourite - thinks he's funny)
Bet
Beth
Liz
Lizzie
Betsy
Liza
Lizbeth (the most common one I get called)
Tin Lizzie
Whizz Bang (ok, pushing it but was my dad's pet name for me)
Lillibet (apropos the Queen!)

and any other anagram, frankly. I've never hated my name, except when I was 7 or 8 and wanted to be called George, thanks to the Famous Five

Oh, and I've used it in conjunction with my partner's name for our business! Just perfect... his begins with A and ends in ...der.

Hated my name as a child and can remember being taught to spell it as two of each letter - V I E N.
Love my name now.
Vivienne.

Tamzin- at least it's not Clarissa!

I like my name - it's Anna. I've always liked it, except when I was about 7 and wanted to be called something fancy like Daniella (watching too many Eastern European gymnasts on the telly).

Always loved my name.

Complacent jane Austen heroine and 60s kick ass agent.

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