Do you like your name?

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I absolutely can’t stand mine! I think it’s because my parents used to screech it so much on a regular basis and teachers would both mispronounce it and mock it.

Does anyone like their name? I don’t think many people dislike theirs as much as I dislike mine but it’s probably because I have had no end of hassle with it in my life!

I love mine--it is elegant, never quite out of style but never hugely common. Practically invulnerable to silly nicknames. And it is just as well I do because I was born in an era when far fewer girls were given middle names in the UK so I have no alternative. Years ago, incidentally, my mother casually remarked that I was very nearly called Isabel instead and I was taken aback. Isabel (although pretty) is emphatically not the person I grew up to be!

I love my name. It's well known and timeless but not overused. Mostly I love it because my mum was a single parent teenager and named me after an older woman who she really admired and I find that really sweet and moving.

Hate my first name. It's a song, but I was named pre song, apparently suggested by a midwife who didn't like my mother's choice of name for me. Middle name also awful, chosen by 5 year old sister. I feel like my mother really didn't care what my name was.

No I hate it, mine is a typical 70s type name, would have loved a more classic name.

No, I have never liked my name. My second name either, which I thought was a shame since I could have used it instead, like many others have, but to me, both are equally not names I have ever liked.

No, another name, but let's not play guess the name, I try to pretty anonymous on here.

I don't like my full name, but love the shortening that I have used all my life-insisting on it from the moment I was able to express a preference. It's still one of my favorite names. The only thing I wish now is that I had kept the slightly unusual spelling I used to use, but my life was certainly much easier one I bowed to the inevitable!. It's Kate, by the way.

I don't really think about it, it's just my name

Ooh I am curious now !

Well now…😂

I hated it in school, although I was only one of two of us in high school in the 80’s, I wanted something more flowery & romantic I think.
At a recent job there were 3 of us, which was a tad confusing. That’s the most Karens I’ve ever known & I’m now in my 50’s.

I honestly don’t give it a minutes thought these days, it’s just my name. I’ve heard on here of people called Karen detesting their name and being embarrassed to introduce themselves because of the way it’s now thrown around as an insult, but as long as no one calls me Kaz I’m not really bothered about my name.

I love my first and middle names. My first name was common the year I was born (think top 5) but there was nobody in primary school and only one girl in my secondary school who had the same first name as me. My middle name is Agnes which never gets a lot of love. I love it though because it is different as most girls my age seem to have Anne/Ann, Marie, Elizabeth or Louise as a middle name.

My name is fine I neither love nor hate it.

I do like the fact it became really really popular 15/20 years after I was born. I would hate to have a name that aged me.

Louise is such a lovely name. Very underused imo.

I like mine, it's Helen and DH calls me Nelly.
There weren't any other Helens at school and I've never met another.

Not so much. It was unusual at first but became popular in the 60s and 70s and is now much derided on here.
But I an also called a derivation of the name and I prefer that.

Yes, it's quite unusual especially for my age.
But I didn't like it when I was a child/teenager and wanted something more 'normal'.
But I like it a lot now.

I love the name Kate too, not mine though unfortunately, I hate my name.

Helen was my planned name for DS1 if he were a girl. He's 14 now. The nickname would have been Nell.

My name is Rachel. I am on the positive side of indifferent. But there are no other names I would prefer really.

if DS2 were a girl he would have been Elizabeth with a nn Beth. As it is they both have top 10 names for their years of birth. I hope they like their names.

Indifferent. When I see someone write it down, referring to me, it does make me pause. Like, ‘I’m a ‘Lucy’?!?’ (Not real name). That feeling of when you say a word over and over and it loses meaning. I don’t get that if someone says my name out loud though. But seeing it written down is stark.

I prefer the shortening of my name but no one other than DH uses it and feels weird getting people to start now at my big age!

No. It's usually short for a longer name, and I have an unusual (but not unheard of) spelling of it. Everyone assumes my name is actually the long version and that I'm just being precious about the spelling of a nickname. I've spent far too much time correcting people that it's not the long version and spelling my name out. I've had people "correcting" my name to the long version and causing me bother to rectify it - including nearly losing my student loan because some helpful person in the university admin department deciding to update my name to the long version so it didn't match my loan application. I just wanted a name you could find on those personalised gift stands!

I have great sympathy for the kids I see with deliberately "unique" spellings!

I love mine. The only annoyance is that the diminutive is unisex so I get a lot of letters Dear Mr Mirabai which is surprisingly annoying. I use the long version more now.

I love Kate. I've met a quite a few in my life and never any I didn't like.

Yes, my husband and I would both have liked to use it for a daughter if it wasn’t my name.

It’s a name that some people think is ‘of its time’ (80s/90s) and some think is incredibly classic/timeless. Who knows which is the truth!

Not really. It's a name of DM's generation and often comes up ion here on threads about names that are never going to come back in fashion.