Pick me a new name!

[NewNames23]

Makes a change from baby names I guess

I am wanting to change my first name and need ideas. Criteria is that it has to be obviously female and not mistaken for any other name or be able to be spelled or pronounced a different way. Can't use my middle name as nobody can spell that

I've NC so I can give you my name now if anyone wants to know
Nothing is jumping out at me so turning to MN for names I might not have thought of

And I'm 41

Sylvia
Charlotte
Rose
Jessica

What sort of names do you like?

and what is it about your current name that you don’t like? / if you don’t want to give the name give something similar

I'm sick of being called the male version so I've had enough and decided to change it
It's Danielle, and every email/letter, person standing in front of me, doctors appointment calls me Daniel and it's getting quite upsetting to be called male constantly!

No preference for name types but nothing too flowery!
I love Iona, Cora, thought about Louise but wondered if that would get changed to Louisa
Not keen on anything like Susan/Suzanne/Elle/Ella that can be misheard or spelled wrong

Jessica is a nice option actually, I like that and option there to shorten it too

I think Louisa would be more likely to become Louise than vv
iona Is lovely
Elizabeth is classic

Rosie or Rose

Cora is great what is stopping you using it?

Lisa
Anna
Joy
Stella
Emma

Adela. Alice. Felicity. Rachel.

Spelling mostly and I'm not sure it goes with my surname

I was going to say Gabrielle until I saw your current problem!

Emma - I think that’s classic and yet current, timeless, no mess ups there

Kate (ok all the variants but just Kate is really nice)

Sophie
Fiona
Amy
Jasmine

How about Dana? Keeps some of the same letters so might feel familiar or make sense easily to others and sounds a bit like Cora which you like.

Or maybe small risk of misspelling Dayna or pronouncing dahna so maybe not in your criteria.

Ok how about..

Ruth
June
Ivy
Violet
Grace
Clara

Or Dora, like Cora but keeping the D

Daisy.

I love Cora..or what about Nora.
Also love Dorothy

I really love Gabrielle as well!

Just can't find any other way around it, it's like my name doesn't exist any more

Example
Doctor "Daniel?"
Me, ignoring it as well, not male
Turns out they were shouting me
Me "hi I'm Danielle"
Doctor "hi Daniel"
Me

I email someone with my email address as my name and it's in my signature. Email back "hi Daniel"
Me "FUCK OFF"

How about just Elle?

Who are these people that don’t know the difference between Daniel and Danielle. Honestly!

Gabriel and Gabrielle sound more different than Daniel/Danielle so maybe you’d get away with that?

Probably not worth the risk though!

I think maybe male Daniel is spelt Daniele in some other languages so that might be the issue?

Your criteria were similar to mine for baby names - some of those from my list were:

Alice
Eliza
Lois
Erin
Clara
Eve
Isobel
Nina

Though I have to say I worked with a Danielle once - don’t know why people should be calling you Daniel… not surprised you find it annoying!

Marina

@YourUserNameMustBeAtLeast3Characters no language barrier. It's even happening in letters/emails when my name is clearly written

I like Sophie but can't use it as it's a family name already

Oh I’m so sorry you’ve had this experience. I’ve got 2 Danielle’s in the family across mine and DP’s families and neither have ever been mistaken or called Daniel. I even forget that there is a male version of the name because when spoken it seems so obviously feminine and lovely.

How about:

Claire
Chloe
Sophie
Zoe
Emma
Catherine
Elizabeth
Caroline
Sarah

Grace, Charlotte, Helen, Amanda, Heather, Florence, Rachel, Lucy

I hope you find a name you love.

Corinna
Dianeme
Celeste

Abby
Kate
Molly
Sally
Hannah
Veronica
Vivienne

Tessa
Abigail
Jasmine
Iris
Hazel
Greta
Gwen
Sasha
Tara
Saffron
Holly
Lydia
Amanda
Vanessa
Nancy