If you could choose your own name

[VintageLace]

What would it be?

I do not like my name - Julia. I think it's overused all over the world!!! Every nation has it's own variation of name Julia and they have millions of Julia's of all ages(( Right now I think i would change my name to Penelope) But i also like Eva/Ava/Eve a lot)

Princess Consuela Banana Hammock.

I like my name now and wouldn't change it, it was very unusual when I was little the only other person with my name in my home town was an old lady. It's one of the old lady names coming back in fashion.

If I could've changed it when I was at primary school I'd have picked Bernadette, I went to a strict catholic school, she was the coolest saint. Hahaha, so glad I only got to choose it for my confirmation name.

Something unisex and not common.
I hate my overused name.

Marjorie

I absolutely detest my name. I fantasise every day about changing it but - at 38 - I think I've left it far too late. I'd choose something distinctive & feminine: Amber, Esme, Kit/Kitty, Tabitha, Violet ... I think one of those.

It IS too late to change it, isn't it?

Def not too late to change. People will get used to it but you'd have to be patient while they adapt.

Go for it Anjou :)

I like my DDs name a lot. Mine is a two a penny seventies name. I also like Susannah which was mentioned upthread. Loads of great nicknames.

Thanks 246! Good to know at least 1 person wouldn't be fazed by it.

I'd be an Emily. I LOVE that name

Samantha. I don't know why...

Since watching breaking bad I've really liked the name Skylar...

However, I don't think I could carry that if. Hmmm. If I could choose my name I think I'd go for something like Anna. Mind you I like my name too...

I wouldn't be fazed either Anjou. I know of one adult who changed her dreary name to something Gothic and fab! Think Lindsay Smith to Evangeline Demi-Monde She rocked her new name.

Burgatroyd, that is AWESOME! Hmmm, maybe I should give it some serious thought ... I feel the need for a new thread!

I'd pick Verity, wish I'd been able to use it for the dd's!

I wouldn't change my name (thanks mum and dad)!

Anjou I don't think it's too late to change your name at all, you still have half your life left! If I really didn't like my name I would definitely change it! What names do you like?

I am also one that would love to be called Stevie, would love a daughter to be called it but dh says no as his best friend is Steve.

When I was younger I wanted to be Jade, I hated my own name growing up, started liking it them it got ruined by the Kardashians ao hate it again now.

I like Stevie too, short for Stephanie which I also like!

Anjou, 'Evangeline demi-monde' worked at a very corporate company and dressed like an extra out of Penny Dreadful. I liked her style. She changed her name to something fabulous. So rethinking my post now... I'd go for Caraway or Penhaligan.

Empress Zawatulu.

I prefer Squoosh!

Something more unusual. I always felt that my parents couldn't be arsed to think of an original name for me and just went with what everyone else used. My mum once said she "didn't want me to stand out", which I think is an awful thing to say about your child!

I did actually change my name by deed poll, to the shortened name I've been known by all my life rather than its full version which just was never my name - I changed it so that I didn't have to have a name I felt no connection to used during my wedding ceremony. Maybe I should have gone the whole hog and picked a completely new name!

No "if" - I did! Changed my first name to one that was more fitting a few years ago, and this year DP and I changed our surnames so we matched :) I'm beginning to look dangerously like a deed poll enthusiast.

My name has been mentioned a few times

It is a good name and I wouldn't change it :)

I quite like my name (been mentioned up thread) but would much rather be an Anna or a Helena (pron. Hel-ay-na). The practicalities of those names put me off though, I'd forever be called Ann or correcting people on the pronunciation of Helena!

My surname, however I HATE and have hated for as long as I can remember and a big part of me being keen to marry DP (who I also love very much!) is so I can get rid of this awful name!

My mum changed her first name in her late forties from a fairly ordinary name to her chosen Druid name. I was a bit at first, but it really suits her now!