Are you happy with your own name - do you think it dates you?

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I really like my name, Jane, and have always really appreciated having an easy to spell and pronounce name.

But I if had had girls I am sure I would have gone the other way with a frilly, fancy, complicated name.

My sons are (Joseph) Joe and Max and I really like short, simple names for boys.

I like the name Juno for a girl but it is so easily traced to that film.

Roffle! I'm the same as amazingbouncingferret and feedmenow. There's hundreds of us and it dates me very precisely because I was actually born in the era when Jackie O was a mega sleb.

I am one of the millions and millions of Sarah's born in the late 70's!

I hated it when I was younger because there were always at least 1 other Sarah everywhere I ever went - and you could never buy rock/pens/keyrings/tat at the seaside with my name on because they'd always sold out! There's going to be a generation of Isobels/Olivias feeling the same in a few years.

Would probably be alright now though as you very rarely meet baby Sarahs anymore. And it means "Princess" which I always liked

I completely love the name Sarah .

I am 47 and the most common names amongst my friends are Jackie, Claire, Sarah, Kate, Paul, Tom, Philip, James.

One day all the little children named Grace, Ella, Maya, Oscar, Archie, Jack will be having this same conversation!

The only way you could have a truly unique name now is to go for Bernard or Beryl or somesuch.

Having said that, I do know an Ada and an Agnes, both 5 .

definitly dates me.

i reckon at least 30% of al women born within 5 years of me have my name.

frikkin awful

I didn't really like my name when I was growing up because it was too different... which makes me wonder why us mothers are so dead set on naming our DDs something unusual!

I love some of your names - Sarah, Catherine, Katherine - timeless.

Jane, Jacqueline and Alison need another 50 - 100 years I think.

I wonder if Katherine and Elizabeth etc might be better than the Millys and Tillys and Ellies that we are up to now.

I am happy with mine . It wasn't very common when I was a child, but is more popular now - so it's the only part of me that feels trendy.

I don't particularly like my name - Alice. It is too feminine for me, and, in combination with my maiden name becomes "Alison" - a fine name, just not mine! IT took me until I was about 30 not to hate my name. DS has a very short, simple, traditional name. Top 10 for about 100 years. I love it.

P.S By the way OP, I love the name Jane - wonder if it's due a revival?

I disliked mine as a child and loved to shorten it, but prefer it said complete now. Biblical and solid name.

DS1 announced today he doesn't like his name and wants to be called Anakin (sigh).

I did like being the only Olivia, made me a bit more memorable (although even English teachers would mispronounce and misspell it). My surname was fairly uncommon too so when I married Mr V Common-Surname I maded sure all my kids had relatively unusual names.

Its ok. Its pretty classic although I think most people called it were born between about 1940 and 1990 so its starting to date.

Its very common as well, I work with two other women in our small department with the same name which gets very confusing. I think its quite a sensible staid name and I would prefer something more feminine and less sensible?

I really love my initial though, i like the letter H a lot!

Thanks Bibbity - and Op!

I totally agree with you on the Katherine/Elizabeth being great names. My 7 month old DD is Catherine.

I love my name, not too common, quite regal in fact! I even gave it to dd2 as a middle name. I spent years shortening it, but now wish I could reclaim the unshortened version. A bit difficult at this stage, though.

But I have a ghastly middle name which screams "1960s", it's Jayne-with-a-"y".

Nicole. Hate it. You probably already guessed I was born in the late 70's.

Also agree that Jane is a fab name.

I HATE my name and have no middle to fall back on. Whats even worse is that the shortened version I use means I coudn't call DD my favourite name as nns would have been the same! (it's her middle name instead)

Not keen on my given name. In its long form, it is dated but shortened, it is still fairly unusual and "stands out" which I am not sure I like.

My birth name, as I was adopted, is even more dated.

I have a hyphenated name which is never shortened. I think it is probably about right for the decade I was born in. Although I have never found it to be common and I don't think it particularly dates me.

I don't love or hate my name, it is just my name that's all[ grin]

i dont like mine - im a Victoria. i dont mind Vic. i get vic mostly.

i wish id had my middle name which is Alexandra, i hated it when i was little but i love it now. i should have been Alex.

i saw some interesting variations of Victoria on MN the other week...including Vita. and i quite like Queenie as a nn....dont think id carry it off now though!

I'm a Sarah, very very common amongst those of us born in the 70's; not so much now.

Used to hate it - it's a very nice name but there were just too many of us - 4 in my class at school, always made me cross to be Sarah lastname rather than a unique first name iyswim. Quite like it now but I did name both my dd's something outside the top 20 for that exact reason.

I like my name, now. Its Abigail, and I'm pushing 40, so you can imagine how much I hated it in the 70's and pretended my name was Claire really!

I like my name - Katy. There were a few of us at school, but I was the only one spelt with a Y. And it's not short for anything. Not sure if it dates me or not, seeing as it's a popular name in various spellings.

FWIW I am so not a Katherine.

When I was younger, I didn't think grown ups could be called Katy, so I thought about insisting being called by my middle name (Jane), but I'm not one of those either

Have just given DD a name outside top 100, will be interesting to see what she thinks of it when she's older!

Patricia - and I'm only 31. I don't mind it but I think it a 50-60 year old woman's name. I think it sounds nice though, so overall I like it.

I always thought my sisters had nicer names than me, now I prefer mine over theirs.

Aww, Vicar, snap! But you can keep Queenie, thanks very much.

My name was old-fashioned (fogey rather than wistful) in the '70s, so even more so now. The only people I met as a child with the same name as me were friend's mums etc. It's definitely not due for a revival!

I have a simple, classic middle name which has been mentioned on here, which some people call me accidently without knowing it (I look like a 'XXX' apparently).