If you weren't called your first name , would you use it for a baby?

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no for myself

No. Because it's Karen

Yes. It's pretty usual. I've only met a few. Foreign and hard to spell. But like it.

Yes I would. It's a classic but at the moment under used name.

yes! I love my name so much. I have only met one other

No I wouldn’t ..my name was quite popular in the 80/90s

No but I don't even go by my given name, although it is quite popular now it's a royal name. It never suited me and I don't associate myself with it at all.

No - I go by my shorter name version, and I prefer longer names, and I don’t like my longer name, sounds stuffy imo

Me too

I most certainly wouldn’t. It’s dated and not in a good way and I also think it has an unintelligent vibe.

No…because it’s been consistently in the top 10 girls names since before I was born.
When I started school in the 90’s, I was one of 5 girls with the same first name in my reception class. Forever known as “First name + Surname initial” 🙄👍🏻

Never. My mum went for a unique name. There are a few of us around now (I’m in my 40s) but I’d never saddle my child with it.

Yeah defo

No. It was in the top 10 in the 70s when I was born and is always cited as being awfully dated and naff nowadays. My poor parents thought they were being younique the spelling as well. (Bless them- they were only 21 when I was born)

Yes, it's a good unisex name.

No, it's definitely dated and most women who share my name were born about 10 years before me anyway.

Absolutely not! It was so overused at the time and it's not even nice.

As to people saying they have to spell it out all the time, mine I still had to as it was one of the least used versions of Catherine. And some people from different backgrounds got stuck trying to pronounce/know what my version is at all.

I shortened it legally in the end because in full it always made me feel like I was being told off.

No but only because it is hugely popular now for baby girls, my mum was ahead of her time apparently!

Not exactly, but I like the shortened version so I might use a full name that also had that diminutive

I hate mine with a passion. I just find it incredibly ugly. It doesn't even shorten to anything. I also hated my middle names and deed polled them away so at least I didn't have to have them on things like passports, but I wish to god I'd changed my first name years ago when I first moved away from home. Too late now really (I know people will say it's never too late, but the effort of it all would be immense).

I probably would actually, I really like my name. I'm an Olivia. Obviously wildly popular now but I don't really care about that. It was hardly heard in the 80's.

Always feel very vain to admit that I love my name and would 100% have chosen it as my DD’s name if I hadn’t taken it!

Yes. I love my name.

Nope... My parents were convinced they were having a boy and had I been, I'd have been called Lee Anthony. You can imagine as I'm female what it I ended up with. 1980, typical name.

nope, it's such a "meh" name and every person I ever met with this name (and I've met a lot because it was super popular in the 90s) had sort of mean energy about them - myself included