Do you like your own name?

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

In the 70's NOBODY had my name, I longed to be called Debbie, Sarah, Lisa, instead, I had a very unusual name that is now consistently in the top 5 since about 2000! I can't get away from the fact that in the playground I hear people calling my name and assume it's me they want as I didn't meet ANYONE with my name growing up!! Now, they are EVERYWHERE!!!

If she has fake copperplate handwriting and loves the colour green, then yes, that's her, Dastardly.

I absolutely hate my name - harsh sound, associated with old ladies, ageing and ugly. However, my middle name is Isobel, which I think is elegant and pretty. I've always wanted to use it as my first name but never quite known how to go about it - do you just announce one day that from now on you wish to be known as a different name? Always wished I'd done it on my first day at university, as its the only time when I've moved away and known nobody.

ive got a very hippy dippy name and have struggled with it for years, people taking the piss, not knowing how to spell it etc. When i was 13 i very nearly changed my name by depol to Tina, i didnt though, but sometimes i still use that name to make life easier!

Horton it is definitely her. She likes floaty chiffon clothing and blue mascara - yes?

I'm a Sian

Hated it as a child (Lived in England - therefore it is not common) Love it as an adult.

(Despite the Sharon? Shane? Siobhan? which has plagued every mention of it - although the most memorable being a letter addressed to Larne Surname. LARNE? and as a baby my parents got a letter addressed to STAN surname. )

Dastardly, My teasing involved particular teachers singing "how do you solve a problem like MAria" at me if I forgot my homework, which the kids then took up if I even raised my hand to answer a question.
Also, my maiden name was the surname of a family in a very popular series of the 90's with Catherine Zeta Jones. So everyone would ask me about MA and PA ad nauseum.
Then, just out of my teens came that fucking Blondie song.

So you're called Denis then?

Yes i so do!

Caroline

When a bit squiffy I put on Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond very loud and dance to it and make others who are near dance too!

Dad names me after the song, thanks Dad RIP.

I love my name
Its unusual enough that I've only met a couple though know of more but no so unsual people havent heard of it. Its pretty and Welsh and people always say they like it

Not really. I don't hate it but think that my parents could have been slightly more imaginative when naming me.

I was born in 74 and have a very popular name for that year.

SARAH

My middle name is Frances which I detest. I remember my Mum telling me that they couldn't decide between Frances and Lucy. Why oh why didn't they choose Lucy.

If I had been a boy I would have been Oliver (cool and not very common for the time) so why didn't they choose say Olivia.

Carocaro- My nan does the same to "come on Eileen" and makes us all dance as it's "her" song

Bronze-your name is lovely!

Is it Bronwen? I like that. I also like Olwen. Have known one of each. Taht's all. Mind you I am not in Wales.

Yes it is
4andnotout. All the people I have known with your name have been super stylish and intelligent. Not met you yet of course

I hate my name, its soooo dated and not a name that's going to do the rounds and turn out to be cool. Its totally from the wrong generation. Its Carol. .
Caroline or Carolyn would both have been fine. I was desperate to be called Katie when I was at school, it seemed like such a nice, safe, name. I've been judged on the basis of my name alone in the past - I was temping and another new girl started and said 'thank goodness, when I heard I was working with a woman called Carol I nearly didn't turn up!'. Harsh but fair in my opinion! 'lady called carol' certainly does put an image in your mind...and I'm really not like that! Wish I'd known years ago that Carrie is an acceptable shortened version, at least its a name I can enjoy on line
We've given both our dcs top 10 names, they'll prob hate being one of 6 in the class, but at least their names are from the right generation!

What image does Carol conjure up? Nothing immediately comes to mind and I know a few Carols who are all very different.

Bronze let's just say my mum should have stuck to her first name choice for me then supersized yes, superstylish sadly no

Frumpy and middle aged is generally the perception. I do know one Carol who manages to shake off this image but several who fit it perfectly. I don't think I am frumpy and I'm definitely not middle aged and the name really doesn't suit.

Bronze let's just say my mum should have stuck to her first name choice for me then supersized yes, superstylish sadly no

nope, it was on a thread here where people said it sounded like a dried up old librarian with a bun in her hair!

I like my name now and it hasn't dated or become too popular but though it was really dull and boring when I was growing up, also it is a diminutive so people assume it's not my 'real' name or they call me another diminutive.

It's a shame Carol has a bad image because if you think about it without the preconceptions, it's actually a really really pretty name. I bet it comes right back into fashion in five or ten years.

Dastardly, yep, definitely thinking of the same person , although when I was eight she was a rather Victorian-looking child in a pinafore with very pretty hair slides and lots of wavy hair.

I like my name when people use it properly. I hate that people shorten it as soon as I tell them what it is. I can't even write the shortened version of my name, it just feels odd. Strange though that it never got shortened in South Africa where I grew up, but it gets shortened automatically in the UK.

I would have loved to be called Kate Brodie when I was younger.

In my culture you are given a nn which family and friends will call you and a formal or "real" name. My nn had become anglised and I was even known by it until I was about 6. So I've had to get used to my "real" name. I never really liked it but I couldn't think of what I'd like to be.
My "real" name has become me.

Well I'm a Catherine Elizabeth so some people's ideal name. I quite like it but would prefer it the other way round.