If you fancied renaming yourself...

[Wishuponastarr]

Which name would you pick and why?

I quite fancy being a Madeleine because my name is short and a bit cutesy, and I fancy something longer but not too frilly.

Amelie. A bit different like my actual name and also French (I like French names).

My name is a lumpen monosyllable. I’d love to be Isolde because it’s soooooo romantic. Swoon.

And I’d have very long black silky wavy hair in case that’s allowed too. My actual hair is short and brown.

Katherine

Claudia

I got a monosyllable, and an overused monosyllable at that. My sister's both got highly unusual trisyllabic names. And I got the worst middle name.

Dunno what I'd change to though.

Something short & neat like Emma, Anna, Laura or Kate.

But I do like my own name.

My name is fine, but it's frequently listed on here as an 80s name.

I'd go for something ruddy cheeked and robust but pretty like Charlotte or Kate.

My dad wanted to call me Susan. Not even Suzanne. Thank God my mum vetoed that one (sorry to any Susan's reading).

I’d like Catherine I think, simply because I have a god awful name from the 80s that people find Chavy.

I like my name but it's a bit frilly for my personality. I'd pick Molly because it's warm jolly and no nonsense.

Jasmine, there's just something magical about it that I love

I hated my name as a child. It was highly unusual, but more importantly, seemed to always be what the bitchy secondary antagonist was called in books. I didn't want to be a bitchy secondary antagonist with a clunky name I wanted to be a likeable, glamorous protagonist with a many-vowelled, multi-syllabic name Hence, I developed a fondness for names such as Rosalind, Atalanta, Isabella, and the like.

Gabriella or Scarlet

My name is fine but I would quite like to be Jodie. I think it's cool.

My name is fine but just a bit ubiquitous amongst my age group. It's one of the most common 70/80s names.

Something like Stella or my grandmother's name Sylvia or Hazel. I also love Isadora

I'm an Elizabeth.

I would choose Dasha, because I think it'd suit me, and I think it's too dissimilar to the other names I like for me to ever use it for my own child. I have loved it since I first saw it in a book when I was a child.

Wavey or Bathsheba.

As in Prowse or Everdene.

Sadie

I used to want to be called Alicia/Alysia but decided it would be a real pain as people would possibl pronounce it as Ali-sha. I quite like my actual name (a few people have mentioned it in this thread so it can’t be all that bad). Maybe Leia, if I had to pick?

Love Sadie. Was she in Circle Of Friends?

Charlotte, I would suit the name much better than the one I have.

Not sure about circle of friends?. I had a great aunt Sadie, who was a lovely woman and used to give me and my brothers a 50 pence piece each wrapped in tinfoil every time we visited her as children. My dd is also called Sadie.

Josephine but I would be Jo. I've got one of those childish names you get that sound good on a baby but not an adult, Josephine would be much more sophisticated.

My dad wanted to call me Susan. Not even Suzanne.

Is Suzanne better than Susan? Interesting.
My dad wanted to call me Paula. My older DB is Paul.

I use Pearl as a forum nn. I love it.

Grace, Helena or Anna