Do you like your own name?

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Do you? And if not what would you like to be called?

I hated mine as a child although I was the only one through all my school years so there was no confusing who was being yelled at!

Now I love my name. It is a normal, old name, but not one that is popular by any means. I think popularity has grown in recent years, but you still don't hear too many being called.

Also, there are many nicknames for my name, but no one has ever attempted to shorten it in my case apart from XP's!

Yes, I love my name. When my parents chose it it was very unfashionable, and they had lots of comments saying that they had made a bad choice. Now it is becoming quite popular, which is not surprising because it is a beautiful name.

I'm a Maria. I thought it was ok when I was a child, hated it with a passion as a teenager due to all the teasing I had and as an adult have decided it's rather pretty after all!
I loathe and abhor my middle anme and I really don't know why my parents had to give me a poxy French middle name when the English version is more than acceptable.

No, I've never really identified with my name.

I always wanted to be called Louise (which was what my Mum wanted to call me).

aye of course.

Lucy is a ruby red (to me) but may be something quite different to other synaesthetes.

Oh, that's lovely, thank you SMTB. That's my favourite colour, actually.

I grew to hate my given name so much I changed it to my MN name.

I hated mine as a child, but as I've got older I've grown to like it.

It is Welsh though, and nobody outside Wales can spell/pronounce it properly!

Yes, I love it. There are no others on google, which I like rather.

no

I detest my name and always have, it is very old fashioned and anyone I've encountered with it is at least 40 years older than me. Mum didn't even use it- I've always been called by my middle name (a sensible Ann) so what she was thinking I don't know I've never been able to find a name I'd prefer to replace either otherwise I would have.

Bizarrely I like the way ot looks written down but hate the way it sounds.

I always wanted to be called Meredith Goldsmith

Ooooh differentid what was your teasing? I'm also a Maria.

lol at Meredith Goldsmith!

I know it's shocking isn't it? There were some books about girls in US high schools I used to read and loved 'Merry' from those. I alsways thought Goldsmith sounded really glamorous!

I used to want to be "Jane Greenwood" - not nearly so glamorous.....

Somuchtobits I think we've bonded over a shared love of Playmobil and shit names

I do need to ask why Jane Greenwood?

Lol, I just liked it - and it's green (my favourite colour)

Yes, I love the meaning of my name and middle name - and their histories. There were a fair few of us first names in the mid 70's but my mn is unusual so I still felt special.

I wanted to be called Elise Mercy Parker and used to practise her handwriting obsessively. Children are mad.

I love Elise Mercy Parker!

ihave always loved being the only leanna in schools and workplaces...much more popular in america apparehtly....especially pornstars it would seem...ah well....

would love to be called Genevieve....just sound so sultry and romantic...

Ooh Elise Mercy Parker is a psychic who lives in New Orleans surely?

I love my name and loved that my first, middle and surname all had the same amount of letters!