Do you like your own name?

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

The only thing that I don't like about my name is having to listen to people singing that song to me as though they're being original.

No Ive never liked it I still dont now as an adult and I was adament when we were naming ours that we would NOT be using unisex names

I like it, but at school I didnt. It sounds kind of posh somehow and loads of girls had it too so I wound up with loads of stupid sirnames. I always wanted to shorten it but was too shy to ask people to call me by the nickname, but now I like in its long form. Because of the shyness only my very closest friends call me that nickname which they still do which is nice. DH also calls me by the nickname which I like.

I dont think that made much sense but hey ho!

Have made peace with my name in the past decade or so but actively hated it before that. Old biddy irish name. Saw it on a thread here and well lets say its as unpopular as I thought it would be. I guess after a while you just stop thinking about it and other people def dont think about it. Wish I even had a good nickname tho.

My name is Vanessa and I like my name now. At school I did often wish that someone else had the same name as me, but looking back now I think it was a good thing. It's a name that everyone has heard of, but not that popular.

I do think I don't match with people's perceptions of a 'Vanessa' as I'm quite introverted and I think people expect someone more confident. I read an article years ago about how people's names influence their careers and it said something like 'You'd never see a Vanessa, Tanya or Leanne as a CEO of a multinational pharmaceutical company'. No offence to Tanya's or Leanne's! To be fair to the article I'm not a CEO, but I do think whatever name I'd been given I'd be doing what I do now.

I do hate my middle name at the mo though, it's May (after my grandma) and I just detest the way everyone seems to use it now. Don't even get my started on the whole May/Mae/Mai thing!

me 2!! it ok altho lots of clients say 'o i will remember ur name i have a cat/dog called sophie!!'

As a child I wanted to be called June. Don't know why,I just loved it .

Am actually Fiona. I didn't like being 1 of many with the same name at school (there were 5 of us in my year). Then we lived in England for 4 years and a girl called Samantha made fun of me cause she said my name was posh - eh, don't think so!

My uncle in Canada's best friend called her daughter Genevieve Fiona, and when I met her she said she wished she'd been called Fiona as it was so exotic. So funny how different names mean different things to different people in different places.....