(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?

Nope. It's posh and unusual and somethimg people think they can comment on. The comments are so very tedious. Could have been worse, my mother considered Petronella (Petra) for short.

I so wanted to be a Susannah.

I like my name people do misspell it (same name as someone famous but spelt every so slightly differently) and they usually mishear it too but I still wouldn't change it

It's uncommon, but not super rare - I do come across other people with the same name and it sometimes appears on gift shop key rings! It's very difficult for kids to spell and pronounce and not super easy for adults either - I have the friends and family pronunciation, business pronunciation and technically correct pronunciation which I hate but have given up correcting. It's a name I've grown to love though!

@OhTheRoses that's my middle name! I considered using it as my first name when I was little but thought there would be too many issues with spellings and shortening, I probably just over thought it!

I was the only one in my peer group with my name. It’s not unusual but wasn’t popular back then. Became popular a genre later. I don’t like it. Don’t think it suits me as to me it sounds very little girl. The full version sounds too posh and no one ever uses it.

@deadlysinner - Petronella or Susannah

This could develop into a ‘guess my name based on my clues’ thread possibly?

Petra was the Blue Peter dog when I was a child. I was so relieved mother hadn't

I think Rebecca is a beautiful name.

I like my name even though celebrities (Lady Gaga - not a fan); pseudo-celebrities (Stormy Daniels); and racist jerks (www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/11/poolpatrolpatty-has-pleaded-guilty-assaulting-black-teen-she-kicked-out-swimming-pool/?utm_term=.baadbbfea422) have tried to give us a bad name.

My name is quite boring, planned on changing my name to my middle name (Eve) but then I met and married a man called Adam so that went out the window 😂

Nope. It's double barrelled (but not hyphenated) which causes all kinds of trouble. The first part is very dated to the decade I was born in and I hate when people shorten my name to just that.

I have a boys name. My parents are nuts

I hate my name, my mum says she always wishes she called me by the longer version (Katherine) and I wish she did too. It makes me feel like a child, but I don’t like the short version of my name either.

I don’t like mine
It dates me - there are lots of us between 40s and 60s my middle name is equally so and even more boring
Wish I’d been named after either of my GM who both had lovely names paternal GM had 4 names and any of them would have been preferable

I was named after my DM, which I don't really mind much, except the name has never seemed like my own. So I tell people I am called LittleCandle, not that it is my name. Splitting hairs, perhaps, but I never felt it belonged to me. My middle name is my aunt who died a few days before I was born, so again, it doesn't belong to me. I can't think of what I would like to be called, so have never bothered to change it. It is not a common name, but not out there either, but I do have to spell it all the time.

I hate my name. It only works in Wales and I spent many years in England. Luckily there is an acceptable short version, but when naming my child it was a criteria she had a recognisable name in all countries of the UK, a shortened version and for it to be relatively timeless. She loves her name as much as I hate mine

Springfern My niece has a boys too, with a middle name that could be hyphenated, if she got bullied in school, Dsis was convinced she was having a boy and kept the name. Neice always loved it.

I am ambivalent about my name, but it is frustrating the amount of people who continue to pronounce it wrong (even after being corrected!).

My name is Tanya.

Tan-yah

Not Tarn-yuh.

There is no r in my name

I like to think of myself as quite proper and lovely and I dress classically. I am classically beautiful.
My name is Kerry.
I think I should be called Jessica x

I used to dislike my name, don't mind it so much now.
I was born in September 1979 in Ireland, when the pope came. I was named after a pope. There was 3 of us in the class with the same name.
My kids all have Irish names, my youngest being the most uncommon. Even here in Ireland people mispronouce it.

@sonlypuppyfat My name is very old testament but apparently people love to shorten it and then add an ie to the end 

Mary/Marie?

I like mine :)
Not a very popular name and only met a handful of people with the same name.
Never had anyone in my school year/classes with the same name either 😊

Mines a popular name from the 1950's and very common amongst middle aged women.

The problem is, I was born in the late 80's, so it's very dated on me. I used to hate my mum for not giving me a name like my school friends like Rachel, Rebecca, Laura or Kelly.

I like it now though. I think it's quite professional and it can be shortened. The only downside is MIL has exactly the same name as me

My advice to Tayla Taylor and Andrew Andrew: own it! I think it's brilliant!

@OhTheRoses, I'd only heard of the name Petronella in the Malcolm Saville Lone Pine books, and that character went by the shortened form Peter.