What would YOU like to be called?

[tikkabaguette]

If you had to change your name (not to anything silly like Profiterolina) what first name would you go for?

Penny or Lydia. I don’t like my name and have zero connection to it or my middle name. Looking back, I wish I’d either changed my name or picked a name I liked and used it as a nickname. When I was younger, I never really considered that those were things you could do, and I feel like it would be too weird now I’m married with kids.

I'd have liked Charlotte. It was my grandmother's middle name.

My name's bloody awful. I'm the only British passport holder with it, the only person in France with it. Every bugger that writes to me gives it an acute accent where there isn't one - after 65 years of going cold when someone asks me my name, I really really do know how to spell it.

I have a middle name that's a version of Helen. Totally outing myself, it's Lenore..... NOT Lenor, so that wouldn't have been an alternative.

It's weird, I never see my name in print, never see souvenirs with my name on etc etc. I do look occasionally just for fun, but never seen it.

Flora
Lauren
Ophelia
Claudia
Delphine
Sylvie
Lois

@newtb what is your name?????

I'd like one of those names like Bunny or Kitty.

I grew up knowing two people who had "reinvented" their names in (young) adulthood.
If my name caused me true angst I'd do the same.
Also my parents told me to change my name if I didn't like it when I took to moaning about it as a teen😂, so all in all it doesn't seem so outlandish to choose to alter a given name.

My husband had a colleague who reinvented himself as an adult - went from something like John Cooper to something like Oscar Fontainebleau.

Maria Rodriguez Espinoza .... not that I've thought about .... much

I've always seen myself being a Phoebe Anouk

Anything other than my name, tbh. I hate it.
It's always on lists of "beautiful" girls names but I rarely hear of anyone being called it IRL.

Jennifer

Well I'd keep my name, but only because I changed it aged 12 :)
When I was 12 decided I did like my name and refused to speak to anyone unless they called me by my new name. It carried on a bit in school, as I couldn't completely refuse to talk to teachers. Changed it by deed poll when I was 18, and no one I met at uni or after knows what the old one even is.
Although I think it's a bit 80s, and now a bit middle aged and middle class, I like the fact it's international and more than one syllable (which I always think is boring), but short enough to never get abbreviated. Plus it really suits me. It just me. And I don't think my family would let me sulk like a 12 year old if I wanted to change it again.

So, to all those aspring Profiterolina's out there.....just change it by deed poll. It's actually pretty simple!

@LewishamMum
I was very surprised when a good friend of mine showed me her travel pass with a completely different name! She never bothered with the deed poll bit but when she left school just told everyone she was now Esmeralda (obv not that) and was known as that from then on.

It's never been a problem but obviously official documents have her birth name.

If you don't like your name I think it's a good idea to change it.

Claude
Coolest woman I ever met (Parisian of course) was called Claude. I would be totally kick-ass if I was called Claude.

I like my name, it is mentioned up thread but I would have loved a Welsh name. My absolute favourite is Esyllt so I’ll go with that.

Don’t know why I didn’t get one, my brother did.

When I was little I always wanted to be "Cassie"

My name is 'of its era' but its my name and its part of who I am.

I did used to give myself two extra middle names when I was a teenager - think Nicola June Felicity Alexandra (the latter two being made up)

Another vote for Claudia. Just think it sounds so classy!

I have a horrendous (in the UK) 70s name - I come from abroad and it just doesn’t have the same connotations there, plus it puts me out of kilter with my age/demographic. And to make matters worse when I was still working in the City people would regularly mistake my surname for a first name and assume I was a Muslim bloke.

I dunno… I’ve sort of made peace with it now. If it’s held me back professionally I wouldn’t know about it.

Merryn. I'd love to be a Merryn.

I really want to know what your name is newt

inmyslippers

I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you

Growing up, I went through stages of wanting to be called Wendy, Chloe and Nicole. You can probably tell I was born in the late 80's!

@LadyWithLapdog

Olympia

I saw two little girls on holiday years ago, Olympia and maybe Calypso or something like that. They were such cuties. I think Olympia would suit any age and I’ve liked it since.

I think we know the same girls, I doubt that two families chose that combination! Gorgeous names.

Mine is a foreign name, I’d love to be a Sofia, not traditional English but slightly foreign and easy to pronounce

Juliet
Lydia
Beatrice