Do you love your name?

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When i was growing up, i hated my name because i was the only child in my family without an english name, i made up names for myself and yearned for one, my dad felt pity on me after much threateningbegging from me that he gave me one when i was 7, i was not impressed[
there were 3 girls i already knew with the same name but it was the best catholic name he could find, i shortened it, it suits me and i love it,used it from that day

As for my traditional name, it happens to be one of the most beautiful unusual names in my country and my father couldn't have done better, and now that i live in europe it is exotic, i thanked my dad last time i saw him,so, if you had to choose your own name, what would you have named yourself?if you are happy with the one you have,fine..

please do share coffee, some people have some very nice names and i am looking for a name to name my second child,,well, sort of

I'm very happy with my name and always have been

ok, maybe you can help me by giving me 5 of your fav boys names and 5 of your fav girls names, maybe i can get somewhere

Not love. I didn't like my name at school but it's not so bad now (Joanne)

I'm happy with my name even though I can't pronounce it properly. It's my name so I am attached to it regardless :)

I like mine, though it annoys me when people can't pronounce/ spell it.

Gina.

when i was little i hated my nakme because it was very common.

I yearned to be called Polly, or Daisy, or Suzie!

Now I actually really like my name, it's quite pretty ad I don't know any babies with it at all

I've grown into my name but it's still unusual for me to use my whole name (I'm Emma-Louise). It's a big old name to saddle a small person with. However, there's a nice little family story behind it and I wouldn't change it at all :)

I hate the fact that I've spent my entire life spelling it, when my sisters have names that don't have that problem. But aside from that I love it and the reason behind it :)

(It's Petrina btw)

my 5 faves names would be:

boys:

Linus
Gabriel
Asa
Nico
Josiah

girls:

Frances
Mavis
Zelda
Primrose
Ramona

Don't love it or hate it - its a bit boring and common (was very popular in the early 80s).

My brother has a unisex name and he hates it. We gave DS a unisex name and I'm really hoping that he won't grow up to hate it because I love it.

I like mine, a nice classic and nothing to be embarrassed about.

phoenix i have always liked your name, however i know two already and the yare my friends..

rinabean

goober, how do you get a name like Gina wrong?

petrina do you have a nn? its very unsual,and not many of them around,,

thisisyesterday your choice i love Gabriel and Frances, thanks

Lucy is a lovely name.

Hi
Fave Girls;
1, Sophie
2, Freya
3, Emily
4, Amy
4, Matilda

Fave Boys;
1, Archie
2, Noah
3, Isaac
4, Dylan
5, Zachary

:)

People who knew me before I got married call me Trina, people who know me through my husband call me Pet, as that's what he calls me. The name's a feminine variation of Peter, I was born on St Peter's day and St Peter had a lot of meaning to my folks.

My middle name's Lucy (great grandmother's name) and my dad (and ONLY my dad) calls me Trinaluce

My fave names are

Sheherazade, Dorothy, Suzannah, Rosanna, Zinnia.

Ralph (pronounced Ralph not Rafe), Stan, Edward, Robert, George.

Hate my name (think v famous US President's wife name, early 60s).

I like it more than I used to, and I appreciate I have options with shortenings.

I'm Jennifer, known as Jenny/Jen, but always use Jennifer when it's official.
It's one of those names MN approves of.
Can be anything, PM or cleaner (I'm a cleaner!), and has a choice of shortenings, but it is boring.

Lockets
I love Dashiell.
My boy's name is Tristan, but secretly I want to call a boy Dash.

I have a daughter, and she'll always be an only but if I can convince anyone to use Dash, I will!

I don't mind my name, but Mum chose an unusual spelling because she didn't like the hard 'k' at the start of the usual spelling . I hate having to spell it when people put random letters in there regardless.

I would swap my middle name for my first (if I was naming myself :)). Although popular now, I was very unusual with it at school when everyone's middle name was Ann/e.

My name was unusual when I was growing up, its slightly more common now. I liked having an unusual name and people spelling it wrong never really bothered me. I chose a similarly unusual but not unheard of name for DD.

DH and I chose Bruno for DD, but obv she was a girl. I was very glad as the (awful) film came out shortly after.

My name is very 70s and yet unoffensive ..my mum eventually chose Karen and tbh it's a cool name..better than the middle name imo..I'm Pure... break of day ..can't expect less considering I'm a 70s child

My sister got the french names Nicole Germaine

Similar to you, I spent quite some time in my childhood coming up with names I liked better than my own. I had some strange ones.

I really dislike my first name - it's Diana. Most people I've talked say it's a lovely name, but I just don't like it. I don't like the myths behind it, I certainly don't like the Die and In-Diana jokes (I grew up in the States, Ohio specifically which is right next to Indiana), and I also dislike that my mom picked it off the TV as I was "suppose to be a boy". I've considered changing it several times, but now it's on everything so I'm more moving to use one of my middle names (have two, but the first is the also name of my husband's sister) but that one has bad connection too (The name is Pearl and when I was little, if I got too upset, I was called poor pitiful Pearl). And people wonder why I prefer to be called Ms. [Surname]!

Probably because of my issues with my name, I put a lot of thought into names for my children, who all have two middle names like me.