(light-hearted) inspired by another thread .. do you like your given name?

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Does it cause you any problems?
If you could pick a name what would it be?

What is Kirsty shortened too that is ugly?

@SeamstressfromTreacleMineRoad I wonder if we have the same name. There were 5 of us in my class. I like it. But it used to be very popular

I'm an 80s baby

Nope hate mine. I have a foreign name that is nearly always mispronounced and I really think my life would have been so different if I'd been given a normal name.

@absolutepowercorrupts my moms name is Yvonne and I love it, I was going to name my eldest dd it, I think it is uncommon yet beautiful.

Can't stand it. Old fashioned and sensible, stereotyped in the media as being bossy and fat.
Plus-I lisp the letter my name starts with. It's awkward as hell struggling to say your own name!! 😳

I honestly don't know how I feel about my name... I get so many compliments about it but I feel like because I've lived with it forever (obviously) I can't really decide if I like it or just learnt to live with it!! My name is a precious stone... any guesses?!

I have one of the most common names given to girls in the 60s. There were 4 in my class at school! I detest it! I'd like to be called Cicely!

Mine is chavtastic. I do not know what my parents were thinking, my sibling has a nice classic name and mine is shit. After nearly half a century with it, I'm stuck with it, but I longed be something (anything) else growing up.

I hate my name. It's a boys name, and the name of a vehicle. And my surname started with the same letter. (Eg BB) would love to change my name but I haven't got the guts to!

Not really. I always wanted a longer, fancier name when I was growing up. It probably suits me though.

Mine is fine. Only 3 letters so can't really be changed although people do seem to like lengthening it for some reason. Very few people with the same name but it's not particularly unusual.

It's fine, marks me out as a child of the eighties though..

I have a really old fashioned girls name. It has become trendy again with the ironic, fixed wheel bike and mason jar brigade. I got awful slagging in school over it but now I am older I love it

I hate mine it’s so boring. I would prefer almost anything to it. I probably wouldn’t change it though, for my mums benefit. My mother has always been sad and a little bit hurt that I don’t like it, she says she named me it because in her opinion it’s the prettiest name she’s ever heard.

Mine (Rachel) has never caused me any problems- it was reasonably common when I was growing up and there were a couple of others at school but not too many.
I don't especially like it though and don't really think it suits me. Where I live it tends to be pronounced Ray-chull which is quite harsh.

My name was common amongst my school year as it was a popular name of it's time. I hated it when I was younger, but now I really like it, all of it, including middles (I have two, preens ).

@MaMisled
We probably have the same name!
There were 8 in my (all girls school) class.

I go by my first and middle name sort of combined. In our village of about 300 houses there are 3 of us with this combined name- all about the same age- but all spelt differently.

I like the shortened version I. E. Steph, not Stéphanie

My mum really liked the show Bewitched. I am named after one of the characters (and no, not the wicked MIL)

I do love my name. I carried on the tradition by naming my daughter after another character.

@Gingajewel
Aw thank you, you're right it's definitely not a common name and it's so lovely to know that you think it's beautiful. As said I only know two other women named Yvonne. The only sort of semi famous women I know with that name are Evonne Goolagong, Australian tennis player and Yvonne Elliman, American singer songwriter.

I like my name. Only know of one other person (semi famousish) with the same name.
Annoyingly if you take one letter out it becomes another name which I get called frequently especially when Big Brother was on years ago! Drives me mad when I receive emails addressed with the wrong name!!

SecretWitch
Samantha?

I do now, thanks to deed poll as soon as I was 18.

I have an Irish name - the type where the spelling and pronunciation make no sense to a none Irish speaker.

I got very frustrated with it as a child because we lived in that Irish speaking heartland... Derby.

But, now I like it. And I’m old enough to weather the mispronunciations and inevitable “oooh, how are interesting! Where’s it from? Oh, Ireland, of course, are you Irish?”

Yes. My name is Sophia but my dad has always called me Sophie. I do prefer Sophie to be honest but not sure if that’s because I just love the relationship I have with my dad and it reminds me of him so much.