Do you like your name?

[MustardYellowJumper]

As I'm naming a baby girl, I'm wondering what you like/don't like about your name. (You don't have to say what it is.)

I have always liked my name. I like that it's feminine but not too girly or frilly. There's lots of them my age, but that's never bothered me - and there's a few different nicknames anyway. I never felt my name was boring or shared by too many people, although it was popular. I always liked that there were lots of famous women in history with the same name.

I didn't like that my siblings had a story to their names, and mine was a name my parents "just liked"!

So what do you like/dislike about your own name?

Mine is okay but I much prefer the 'a' ending over the 'e' ending I have, I think it's less clunky.

I do love my shortened name tagged together with my surname though, it sounds pretty cool

I'm a Lucy. I don't like it. I was one of three Lucys in my class at secondary school. Nobody ever calls me Lucy; it's either Luce or Lu. It's a little girls name that sounds a bit ridiculous now I'm in my thirties. I was serenaded with 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' on a daily basis at primary school.

I don't hate it, it's very classic, but I think 90% of girls who were born the year I was were also given the name! I went to school/worked with a lot of them..

I love my name now, Olivia. I was born in the 80's and I've met no other Olivia's until recently thanks to the boom in popularity.
I hated it growing up as I wanted to be like all the other Sarah, Rebecca and Louises in my class.

I hate my name and always have. Can't use the middle one as it's no better

DM told me it was DF who'd insisted on my ghastly moniker. She wanted to call me Melanie which I much prefer. I reckon I'd be a great Mel

I can’t complain about mine- it’s one that is often suggested on threads here too. It’s one of my dd’s Middle names too. Short, not flowery and not overly common when I was growing up.

I like my name but hate the Y in it. I really wish it was spelt Jane. Classic and traditional. I get sick of always having to say ‘Jayne...with a y’ when being asked. I would always stick with the most common spelling of a name.

No, I hate it. I was named after someone very prominent at the time, against my Mum's wishes.

The shortened form is more awful than the full one and the name sounds stuffy. I've always thought it was a name for a middle aged woman!

I like my name now but didn't like it when I was little as there weren't many of us around. I really wanted to be a Sarah or a Melanie or something else popular and more cool in the mid-eighties. But as an adult I do like it, and the fact that you don't hear it that much.

I know of a 21 year old Hebe but she's the only one I know of apart from HebeMumsnet It's a lovely name thank you for the £5

I love my name. I think it's a classic. It was in the top 10 when I was born but I haven't met another since school.

I hate my name, it's literally the most boring plain name ever.

@Princessfaffalot

If I remember correctly (dodgy memory), in Dallas decades ago, JR Ewing's new bit of fluff was called Carly or something similar.

In the 80's she was much maligned.

I really like my name.

Though number views it as one of those scary Irish ones.

I like my name. It’s popular but was never faddy so doesn’t pinpoint when I was born at all.

I’ve tried to follow similar with DC’s names - I don’t mind something often in the top 10/20/50 (ie classic names) but what I DO mind is something that went from Top 200 to Top 10 overnight and will date massively.

I've always disliked my name. Its an ie/y/ee type ending, and quite girly which I'm not. It doesn't feel like an adult name to me, and doesn't really have a shortening that doesn't sound like a nickname. It was relatively uncommon when I was growing up, so I was often called another more common name. Then it had a short peak making it a more known name but I don't think is popular now. Never liked my surname either for that matter.

We purposely named DC with names that can me shortened but they can use a full version if they choose when they're older. I really hope they don't feel similarly to me when they're older though!

Mines Joanne, I hate it! I'm only 29 but feel as though it's a 40 years + name!

My sister is 29 and was going to be a Joanne apparently, but a neighbour unknowingly nabbed it a few weeks before DSIS was born. So DSIS is a Louise.

My first name is an uncommon Welsh name and my parents slightly anglicised the spelling. I've never met another person with my name (of either spelling). I love that's it's unusual, but don't really like being mistaken for a man (the name ends in "n"), and spelling it out to everyone does get boring. But overall I'm happy and wouldn't change it.

I've never been a fan of my name, I think it's quite harsh and blunt - Adele. My husband loves it but I'd rather have been called something a little more feminine. I'm currently pregnant with my first child and we have names that we both like, they're unusual but easy to pronounce and not too unusual.

I dislike the logistics of my name.

Its a unisex name, but more commonly given to a boy. Im female.

There was a movie about a boy with said name released when I was in school which wasnt ideal.

My mum wanted my name to "fit" with my sisters so spelled it a weird way that ive never even seen before, so naturally no one else ever spells it right

The name itself it ok 🤷‍♀️

I have a VERY Irish name. Growing up in England was a bit annoying having to correct people-or even worse people would just not bother trying, even though the spelling is scarier than the pronunciation! More often than not though it was fine and it wouldn’t put me off giving my dc Irish names. My name has history and meaning and has been featured in Irish literature forever. I’m a Saoirse (the Irish for freedom)

I like mine (Diana) I was the only one in my senior school, but mostly go by Di. Although people do assume my parents are big royalists though. I like to look at the meaning behind the names as that can give you some history behind them.

I like my full name but I hate variances so people who I don't even know well my name is not Phee or Pheebs grr

Hated mine so much [Nicola] that I changed it by deedpoll.

I get lots of comments about my new name being unusual [its a shortening of one of my middle names] - but there are now quite a few babies called it too.

No I dont like my name (Lonnie)
I dislike getting asked what it is short for.. (nothing)
I dislike it being unisex
I dislike the sound

I DO however
Like it is unusual
That my parents loved it and still to this day it gets a huge grin from my almost 80 year old father when he recall peoples reaction to it.

& I never minded having to spell it for people.

Vagabond225

I'm an Ann-Marie too (slightly different spelling, I don't have the E on Ann).

I never liked it when I was growing up but I would never allow anyone to try and shorten it an Anne is my mum's name (I'll really never understand why she chose not to spell mine without an E lol) but Marie just sounded odd to my ears without the Ann in front of it.

It sounded so old-fashioned and boring when I was younger and in a school full of girls with much prettier names but now I am in my mid 40's I feel that I have finally grown into the name.

It was called a "classic" name on a baby thread the other day about double-barrelled names