Do you like your own name?

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

Cappucino - I feel your pain

So wanted to be a Caroline, but oh no - my parents decided that they would saddle me with one of the worst names in the book.

Thank you maisie

And I really really don't think its ever going to come back into fashion but I appreciate the optimism!

I love my name... it's not one that is ever 'in' or 'out' and there aren't that many of us.

I like my name now, but it took me 30 years to get used to it. It's Alice, which I always thought far too girly for me (proper tomboy me). I quite like it now as an adult, because it is unusual in my age group, but everyone knows it. Unfortunatley I married a Cooper!

I grew up really wanting to be called Laura.

Are you of a certain age, Cappucino? Born late 60s/early 70s perhaps?

Have always hated my name as it is foreign, unusual, hard to spell and pronounce and generally always been a problem for me.

About 5 years ago someone at work came up with a simple shortened version which is a simple English name and it stuck - it has been such a relief to gradually take on this other name.

No I just wish I had come up with something myself years ago, but it never occurred to me to just start calling myself something else!

I always wanted to be called Emma - timeless, classy and only one way to say and spell it!

I am not, therein lies the problem. I just had a big birthday that had a 3 at the front! Child of the 80s me

You poor thing . At least there were one or two other Carols around then to share my embarrassment!

SoMuchToBits Lucy is yellow to me. I wonder if its really cos I know that it means light so connect the two without thinking

You're very lovely!

Thank you Us Carols are rather lovely, and whilst I may be a bit (OK, 10 years) older than you, I'd definitely not frumpy and middle aged - so there's hope, you know!

Lucy's a light blue name to me

I am so jealous of all the colour-sensing people. I would love to have this capability!

I loathe my name.

It is so pink and fluffy imo (Kirsty, btw).

I am not pink and fluffy as a person. It's a bloody kitten's name.

I wish I was called something like Miriam.

My name is Delyth, what colour is that?

Kirsty is yellow, but is also a Scottish teddy bear (so you may be right about the fluffy bit)

Delyth is green

Haha, but Miriam is pink to me (but not fluffy)

Thanks! (I think...)

But if you meet anyone else with this kind of synaesthesia they are very likely to tell you it's some completely different colour

I will never, ever forgive my mother for calling me chipmonkey.

Kirsty's purple to me... tis a bit fluffy (but I like it!)

Delyth is green

Miriam is deep pink

To answer my own question I do like my name.

It's a common name,if rather dated now, but I can't imagine being called anything else.

I've met a lot of people who were born in the 80s with this name, but my parents didn't choose it because it was popular.They chose it because it's the feminine form of my grandfather's name, he died a few months before I was born.

That said of course it'd have been fine if they'd chosen it simply because they liked it.

It was either this or Claire.

Yes I love it! I hated it as a child (1970s) because it was too different and everyone was constantly commenting on it.

Now, it has become a little more common and I adore it.