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.

I'm an Alexandra, most people call me Alex and i love it.

It's one of those names you get in every generation so it's not too dating although i did go to primary school with others.

My DCs have very unusual names ...

I am Cathleen, which I hate, but I am always known as Kate, which I love. It's short, simple, timeless, easy to say and spell, and I think perfect for a woman at any time of life. I love having a name that women through the ages have always had - historical precednet is a good thing!

Yes and my two best friends at school were Elizabeth and Victoria - we were three great queens...

I'm a Lucy and I'm happy with my name. I also have a Leo

I like Juno. I agree that the film will be long forgotten in years to come.

I like my name although it is very 1980s and there were five of us in one of my classes at secondary school!

I am Jane and love it -It is as the op says, easy to spell and a classic.

I don't know what Jane Seymore would think to another 100 years

Jane is pretty timeless as never overused.

I don't mind mine. I'm Julia but mostly known as Ju! I don't think it dates me too badly

My name makes me sound like a fat, 40-something, bottle-blond Christian from Minnesota.

I am none of those things.

I didn't exactly love my name growing up - it was VERY dated and old lady when I had it (named after my grandmother), and even now at 36 I've yet to meet another one my age.

I like it more now though and am pleased not to share it with loads of people. Well, I suppose I share it with loads of babies and toddlers since the trend pendulum has swung completely the other way and it is now v popular - Isobel.

I really like the name Jane - it is so classic and timeless. Very elegant.

I am Michelle which screams 1970's (was born 1979) there were always at least 3 Michelle's in my year at school but havent heard anyone named it in the last 15 years.

DD1 got a very common name (Ellie) and her best friend at school is Ellie too (they are known as Ellie P and Ellie D already!) however DD2 got a fairly unusual name Hattie (she was going to be Jessica or Charlotte but DH mentioned Hattie night before I had her and we kept it!)

My name is Kathleen, but everyone calls me Kate. I only use Kathleen on official forms. I'd have prefered it, if mum and dad had just called me Kate, but as I dont use Kathleen it is not really an issue.

I like Kate!

I really don't like my name.
I'm only 30 & most people i hear of who have my name are OAPs.
I don't like shortened versions of my name either.

I'm Cerys, born '83, don't think it dates me, but it definitely Welsh-ifies me! I like it.

I'm Louisa. I don't think it dates me (though my middle name probably does). I don't think Louisa has ever been really popular, and I think that's why you wouldn't know from just my name when I was born. You often see it on gravestones (which is cheery). I've hardly met any other Louisas - maybe a handful over the years, that's all. I'm not all that keen on 'Lou' as a nn - but most of my family insists on calling me it

I'm an Olivia and 26. It was relatively unusual when I was born, so much so that one of the nurses accused my Mum of making it up.

Now, they are everywhere so I do wonder if I will be seen as 20 years younger than I am in future!

I am lucky though - I was always called Livy which people do still find unusual!

I do it like. I'm another Michelle. I can't imagine being called anything else.

I keep hearing people say that it's very 1970s but every other Michelle that I've encountered was born in the 80s.

The only thing I don't like about it is that bloody Beatles song that people insist on singing to me.

I'm Simone (pronounced Si mone) I have met one other person, same age as me with the same name but she pronounced it "See-mon" (the proper French way!) Hated it when I was younger, not that keen on it now but it's OK I suppose. Don't think it dates me though. Like what's being said about Katherine and Elizabeth - my Katherine (although not that spelling) is 9, my Elizabeth is 4. Lots of different nicknames they can use as well as the full names too!

Mine was very common for my era (70s) but still used sometimes. It's OK but I don't like the fact that I have a 'formal' full name and a nn everyday name. One seems too formal, the other abit nn, and there is a further even shortened nn, would prefer just something which is a name with no shortenings/longer names, hence I gave mine shortened names or ones which can't be shortened.

I have an Irish name, which I consider impervious to fashion, but being Irish and having an Irish name does identify me, in Ireland anyway, as someone born in the 60s or afterwards.

math What is your name?.

Mairead

I'm a Megan born in the US in 1982, so yes I am dated by my name! I like it though. Am also often called Meg, sometimes Meggie or Meggsie.

And by the way, missmiss, I am a bottle blonde from Minnesota! (And a Christian of sorts) Just what did you mean to imply?!?!

Oh, forgot: I like names that you can't really date, that could belong to someone who was 5 or 50 or 105. That's why DS is Sam.

Math Please tell us how you pronounce that!

Seeker-I love Kathleen.

I had a relative with that name & she was one of the loveliest, kindest, nicest people ever.

The name always makes me think happy thoughts!

I like my name now.

It´s referred to on here as a 70s name, although I was born in the 60s & it has Greek origins!