Do you like your name?

[frenchielala]

Do you like your name? I actually love my name despite a recent thread where it was pretty much torn to pieces. It was unusual for its time (more common now) and is part of the reason I would like to give my daughter a slightly unusual name (for 2016) too.

Curious about how you feel about your name and if it has influenced your thoughts about baby names.

No I really don't!
Exactly the same as trinityforce every other person I know with the same name is 30 years older than me!!

Yes, I feel lucky that I love mine. Although I often get called a very similar name I'm not as fond of (think Joanne instead of Joanna) and I'm not particularly fond of the nickname I was known by as a kid and which family and old friends still call me.

WRT influences, I like long, feminine names that end in -a most, just like my own.

I like mine now I'm an adult. I still get fed up of every bloody person I meet telling me it's their middle name, though. I think it was more common as a first name a generation earlier.

Mine hasn't come back into fashion since.

Yes, I like mine. It's classic and timeless.

It's actually my middle name, but it's the name I've always gone by.

I dislike my first name. My parents had a name they wanted to give me, but my cousin arrived a few weeks before me & she was given that name. So I got a similar but horrible name. My parents clearly weren't mad on it either as they always used my middle name.

My name is my grandmother's middle name & I like that connection to her. If I'd had a daughter she'd have had a version of it as her middle name.

As a funny anecdote, my hated name is also that of my Dad's ex-girlfriend (prior to my Mum).

When she found out she went ballistic apparently, needless to say they're now divorced.

I love mine.

It's unusual so I wasn't as keen when I was younger as it made me feel odd at times but I love it now. It can't be shortened, so no nicknames and I've never met anyone else with it, though I know of a couple of people, one who's famous.

I do now. My parents gave me an unusual pronunciation to combat the Australian rising inflection, but I'm ok with it now. I found it tedious in my teens.

It did influence my choice of names for both DDs, though - no variations, spelt phonetically, only one spelling possible.

I'd like mine if my parents had spelt it properly for the country I (and they) have always lived in. They have no links at all to random country my spelling comes from.

Mine is really common and I hate it. I hated being one of many, it makes me feel totally forgettable especially since people frequently get it wrong and call me by something else (always the same something else). I would have changed it but my parents would be hurt.

No - I've never liked it. Everyone seemed to have the same name as me - there were 6 in my class alone. It's just so bland and dull.

I hate my name. It's very unusual. My parents wanted 'something different'. People often get it wrong. As a child I wished for a more common name, so that I didn't have to constantly correct people. I'd love to have had a more popular name, still to this day.
I went with safer options for my children.

Trinityforce
As a funny anecdote, my hated name is also that of my Dad's ex-girlfriend (prior to my Mum).

Same!

I really, really disliked it growing up. I'm named after my grandmother - so imagine calling your baby a name from our parents' generation - it's not quite removed enough to be part of the new zeitgeist.

My parents deliberately gave me a simple middle name (my other grandmother) in case I hated it so much, I wanted to be known by something else.

Nobody else had it growing up - and I've never actually met another real person with the name. There are different spellings for Anglo, French, Spanish and Italian variations.

I started going out with my first serious boyfriend in the mid 90s, and he made a throw-away comment about it being the name for beautiful women (thinking of a couple of actresses), and I was like It had never occurred to me to think of my name as anything other than dowdy, and something I was lumbered with.

It was then that the name was just beginning to come back into fashion. A couple of his very ahead-of-the-curve friends called their new daughter it (I couldn't believe they were saddling her with it). Then I heard a girl from my school had called her daughter it.

And then - bam - it was every. It, and its variations, dominating the popularity charts for about a decade. It's now overly popular that people seek to avoid it.

I like it well enough now - or rather, I like having a name that is virtually unique to my generation and sounds fresh. Rather than being one of the many Js, Ss, Ns or Ks from my era.

I have a popular biblical name. I don't love it as in I love the way it sounds or looks, but I love it in that it's a "good" name to have as it's socially neutral, exists as a name in most languages/ countries and the inevitable shortened version isn't horrific.I can't imagine anyone saying "God, I hate that name". It would be like hating water.

I used to hate it so I used the short version. I don't that my name has dated badly, it screams "born in the 70s".

I don't really mind it now but still prefer my middle name.

I've given my DCs classic names that won't date.

No, I don't like my name. My mother wanted to call me Rachael but my uncle disapproved. The hospital staff wrote a different name on my wristband and my mother, who was very superstitious, would not change it. There were five of my name in my primary school class. One of the neighbour boys called his dog by my name - ha! He might well look hopefully at me now - if he makes an approach I'm going to say "What? After you gave your dog my name, over fifty years ago?" So, growing up, I didn't like my Christian name or my surname. I quite liked the surname of the man I married, and wasn't unhappy to keep it when he had to go.

I'm not fussed about my name really. It's a one syllable name, and was top ten for a few years around the time I was born, so very common. And yet it was frequently misheard and I got pretty fed up of being called Ann, Gill, Kim etc. when my name is nothing like them. I ended up hating it and tried to change to using my middle name but no-one would use it! Bastards.

Anyway, I'm now OK with it, and no longer lose any sleep about it wishing I was called Gloria.

Nope, single syllable, really boring.

Most people think it's a short form of something else.

Could have been worse.

Mother wanted to call me Velvet. After the movie.

Thanks Dad xxx

No, hated it. Everyone always got it wrong. When I was 16 I changed it.

Didn't particularly growing up. It was very unusual (but not unknown - everyone could pronounce it and knew where it came from, they just had never met another one) and I never met another person with my name until I was about 20.

Funnily enough it has now become slightly popular/hipster so when i give my name at coffee shops I sometimes get "Oh I love that name my baby niece is called that"

I think I grew to like mine. It's not common (I don't know anyone by my name - not personally anyway) but it's not weird or 'out there' and my middle name recently became very popular due to a trio of books (Primrose) so I don't mind telling people my middle name so much now haha

I love my name and always have done. It's very unusual and I always have to spell it, which is a bit of a nuisance, but I always get positive comments about it. It does have a possible shortening which was very popular in the 60s and 70s so I could have been much more anonymous if I chose, but I never have.

We inadvertently called both our children names that turned out to be hugely popular in the UK (top five for ten years or similar), but have subsequently moved to somewhere where they are much less common, in fact ds's name is often thought to be a girl's name.