Do you like your name and why do you feel that way?

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At a family gathering we discussed our names and whether we liked them or not so it got me thinking. I was born in the fifties and was as school with several Jane’s, college with more and taught in a school with three of us. So a popular name back then. I taught a Jane back in the nineties but since then have not come across any.
I love my name it’s simple, has associations with famous people and now not common.
So what is your name and do you like or dislike and why.

I love my name, I think it suits me. I have never known , aapart from on stage and screen, anyone else with the same name.
On the other hand I hated my maiden name and couldn't wait to marry to shed it. 😆

I960s baby. I was called after a family friend. I've always hated my name as I was the only one in a school of 700. Nobody could ever spell it and I could never get any of those badges at the seaside or fairground with it.

Love it, always have. Love the story how I got it. I also have 3 middle names, one is Jane, the other 2 are my grandmothers names. Born in the 70s and never met anyone with my first name until I was older. There was a well known person in the 90s who had the name which I didn’t like as I didn’t want it associated with her.

Each of my DDs have uncommon names, all with a story/ meaning behind them. This week one was complaining her name isn’t normal, another boring and the third sniggered because her name has grown in TV/movie character popularity so she thinks her name is cool. I know they weren’t complaining in earnest there were lots of competing with smiles who had the worse name. They were also complaining no one ever pronounces their surname properly and it’s weird. I told them to speak to their Dad about that one.

I really like Anne! I think it's a bit like Jane (which I also like) - could be seen as boring or could be seen as as elegant and classic. I also like Annie and Anna.

I’m an 80s baby and my name is Kelly. I can’t say I’m bothered either way really. There are other names from that time period that a prefer (I love Emma, for example, and would happily have called my daughter it now) but Kelly is perfectly fine.

I don't dislike it, although I wasn't very keen on it when I was at school. It was very much a name of the generation older than me - my mother had 3 friends called this at school, so there weren't more than a couple of people my age that I shared the name with.

However, it felt dated and a bit stodgy. Now that I'm also dated and a bit stodgy and have had a lifetime of adjusting to it I'm neutral on it.

I'd still have liked something a bit more glamorous and exotic.

90s baby here 👋🏻 Very much a classic and what people would call timeless, though I have seen it called boring on here too! I do think it’s pretty and I like the story of how I was named which probably also lends to me liking it too. It was popular then and it’s remained popular since (though I believe it’s outside of the top 50 now and a variant of it has become far more popular over the last decade)
Surprisingly, I never had another one in my school class (there was once one in the year above very briefly) but apart from that, from year 4 onwards I never encountered another in my class or school as a whole until I started college and then had another girl in my year with the same name!

My names Clare and I absolutely loathe and despise because it can’t be shortened so there’s no friendlier alternative. I’ve never truly forgiven my parents for my name. However ironically I love the name Faye which presents the same issues as Clare. I think it’s also because I’m from Liverpool and people tend to say Cliiiiire a lot.

60’s baby with a classic timeless name. I’m happy with it.
I am sure you’d all guess what it is.

Chloe, I don't really mind it. It is what it is. I couldn't imagine myself with another name though. My middle name is Anabelle and I don't think I would of really liked that one as my first name. Not that I dislike that name, I actually like it, I just think it's abit too girly for the sort of person I am lol!

Just changed my username for this … my name
is also Anne , very popular middle name for my generation but not so much first name , I hate it , it’s old fashioned and awful!
My mum tells me it’s after the Queens only daughter ,
but she’s 30 years older than me so not sure of the significance 🙄 .
I actually know of 2 little girls born recently called Annie , my neighbours daughter and a colleagues granddaughter but not any other Anne’s.

Don’t care for either first or middle. Very 1960s (imo). I like variants of it though.

Mines an older name - I used to really dislike it but I don’t mind it now.

It got quite popular for little girls from the early 2000’s

I do like my name. It was my mother's name, and my grandmother's name, and my great grandmother's name. I did not give any of my children the name as I was worried it would mark them out as more special - because my sister's always hated that I got 'the name'.

My name is Lucy. I neither like or dislike it - it’s just a noise you need to make to get my attention 😅
Wished I had a ‘witchy’ name like Lilith or Hecate when I was a goth teen though.

I was born in 1980 and never knew of another Lucy until I was about 12 and our next door neighbour called her baby it.

My first name is Biblical - well known but not commonly used in the decade I was born. I neither like nor dislike it

I would never tell anyone my second name as it was so old-fashioned. It's now one of the most popular names for girls and I've grown to like it!

Emma. I really like my name, it suits me, I was completely unbothered by being one of NINE in my school year 😂and It just feels classic and safe and that suits me just fine!

Love it. Beautiful in sound and meaning, appears in multiple mythologies from Christian to pagan (take your pick - she’s a world spirit, female Christ, was with God at the point of creation, fallen angel, soul of humanity).

No terrible historical figures. People from every nation know the name and can pronounce it. Feminine but not fussy. It is very very common but never sounds anything but classic to me.

My husband asked if it would be weird to give our daughter my name he likes it that much 😂

I actually do like my name because it's not one you hear often. It's Joanna. I've met a gazillion Joanne's but only a couple of Joanna's.

I hate my name, it’s grannyish. Luckily it can be shortened to something slightly less grannyish. My parents were both in their 20s when I was born so I don’t know why they gave me such an old fashioned name.

I like my name. It's an unusual name for a woman these days and there aren't too many of us. However, I did have to change the spelling of it to get people to pronounce it correctly, I spent all my school years with it being pronounced in a way I didn't like at all.

I like my name because it’s short, simple and easy to pronounce. It’s relatively common in my age group but that has never bothered me. I’m also blessed with a surname which is short, simple and easy to pronounce - unlike the one I was born with - and really like the combination.

Love my name as I was the only one with it at primary school then at secondary school a girl in the year below me had ‘my’ name lol but it’s the first person I ever knew with it.

Then no one at college or uni with it - at work (large organisation) there was nearly 1 join us with it but she didn’t. Previous job I met 1 person with ‘my’ name.

So in my life I have actually known / known of 3 others with my name. I like my name more because of this but it put pressure on me naming dc as I wanted names that were like mine and not popular at all!

I am now nearly 50!

I like Ann/Anne a classic name.

Yes. It’s a classic. But also sounds beautiful and looks nice written down.