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 know a Kathleen in her early 20's. Very pretty name in my opinion.

DD is Edith, short sharp and too the point.

DS is Sebastian, very flowery considering my first choice was Arthur and DH's was George.

My name just screams out that I was born in the States in the 1970's. Which I was. I hated growing up that there were always 2-4 of my name in my class, so I always had to be known my my first name and last initial. I can't think of a single child that I know that has my name.

I dont like my own name its Lonnie I never have its unisex and omg I LOATHE unisex names It is SO annoying to have stuff send to MR Lonnie and when I then have some annoying so and so from a company INSISTING the computer is right "err really then I imagined giving birth to 4 children did I?)

No it doesnt age me as it has never been a popular name its rare people say oh thats pretty they usually say what is that short for (nothing what WOULD it be short for ???) its just ugly yuck and PLEASE dont call me Lon thats even worse

I love my name, have never met anyone else with it. DP has a very sensible name, and DS has a Welsh name which isn't common where we live.

I love my name. Its been mentioned on this thread. It was rare when I was born, then about 15 years after I was born it became very popular. So rather than feeling it dates me, I like that it makes me sound 15 years younger than I am

I loathe my name, and have not used it for about 20 years now. I use a shortening from my name, which is an american name in its own right. My real name is so 1970s and a bit tacky, that I find it really quite cringy.

Hence, my children had names that were outside of the top 100, in the 5 years before they were born.

girls names DO go in and out of fashion so inevitably they date you

even so called " classic names" such as catherine, margaret, jane, anne or elizabeth are more or less popular during certain decades

I learnt to read with the Ladybird Peter and Jane series...I dislike both names!! Jane is my middle name...I alwyas think of it as very plain! I yearned to be called Penelope...

I did chuckle reading HeloKittys post my dd1 was named a name that had not been in the top 100 list the previous 5 years the year she was born (Feb birthday) it went in as highest riser on posistion 43.. she is called Phoebe

I still love it but no she is not named after Friends she is named after JD Salingers "the Catcher in the Rye" dh had wanted a dd called Phoebe since he was 14

I love my name now but didn't when I was younger. It is unusual. I never found my name on a cup, bookmarks or keyrings in gift shops.

I always have to spell it but but 9 times out of 10, when I introduce myself, people tell me it's a lovely name.

My name is Caitlin and I'd never heard anyone else with that name until neighbours/Sunset Beach used it. Now there are loads of little Caitlin's and I find it really hard in public places when someone yell at their kids

I like mine, it's pretty unusual but people have heard of it. It has never been on the top 100 girls names, ever, so don't think it dates me. But there is one association with popular culture which is quite difficult to shake off, and people always say it! But I still like my name.

My name is so old and awful (over 70's apply here) that I am known by my middle name, which is what it is more commonly used for generally.
My gm was going to use it on my mother but thought better of it, sadly my mother didn't
Sorry, can't bear to share

My name is Leah. I have met 2 other Leah's my age in my lifetime so I guess it wasn't that common. I hear it a lot more now for little ones.

I like it.

i like my name - it was unusual in the 70's but very common now fading from the popular chart now i think - hated it as a kid - teachers always pronounced/spelt it wrong.

My RL name is as common as muck, although it's a nice name. There are too many of us and it's still one of the more popular names for little girls.

Never mind meeting the odd one or two of us, there were 4 in my class at school.

So, it probably doesn't date me, but I am often turning round in town when a parent is hollering after their daughter who has the same name.

I'm happy with my own name although I am known by three different versions of it which occasionally causes me to wish I'd never opted for the shorter versions as an 11-year-old and 21-year-old. I've also always wised my parents had chosen the other spelling for it though.

It doesn't particularly date me; classic but not over popular. When I lived in Bristol (up to age 11) I didn't know a single other child by my name. We moved to Sussex and there were two others in the Guide troop I joined.

My own DDs have classic but underused names with, crucially, only one way of spelling them and all abbreviations start with the same initial as the full name.