Love or loathe your own RL name?

[stripeybumpsmum]

Trying to choose a name for baby is doing my head in. DS1 btw has a first name in the top 40-50, a second name in the top 90-100 and a very unusual third name. Our surname is not that common but easy to say and spell.

I have a relatively unusual first name (which I love) with a very unusual spelling (which I hate). DH has the most common name of his year, so his generally known by nicknames by family/friends but 'named name' IYSWIM at work. Complicated by named name being second name so actually known officially as something else again. He hates his name.

Are we normal? We don't want our kids to have common names (not in the top 10 for instance) but we don't want them lumbered with Princess Timotei or whatever.

Did your name influence what you call your kids?

I am loosing inspiration so suggestions for baby names (either sex) please!

I've always loved my name. It's one of those not unusual but not very common either ones - you probably know only one or two people (if any) with the name.
It's never been particularly en vogue, and I don't think there are many young people called it nowadays, but I like to think it's a kind of classy name.

i have an unusual first name and an unusual surname both sound very boring.

I hate both. I don't mind my first name shortened though

Love my name.

Very apt, all the time.

I like my name very much, but I loathe the most common diminutive. And I think I come across as rather uppity when I correct people who automatically use it .

I dont dislike my first name, its ok.

My surname is a nice name but does not go with my first name so its sounds a bit stupid. I cant even say it properly without putting on a stupid voice.

Nicknames all the way

dur- I thought you meant mnet nickname.

see how tired I am?

I like my name now that I am an adult. It's not unusual, but not common either. It's me.

As a kid I hated it, noone else at my school had the same name and I thought it was too different (it wasn't). I wished my name was Kylie, because that was the name of every second girl at school!

I think your attitude to your own name definitely influences the naming of your children. But it doesn't matter, because they are probably going to hate their name whatever it is!

Yes, my name really infuenced what I called my children.

My name dates me to within a few years and like so many others there were lots in my class. So I wanted names for my children that would not date and I feel that even so many 'traditional names' aren't that, they are just old fashioned names that have come back into fashion.

My question to decide names was, are there people my parent's age with this name and are there people my age with this name?

There are not many names that cross generations.

Joshua is an example, it's described now as a traditional name, but there aren't many in their forties and fifties

Harry's tend to be either under twenty or over seventy.

I loathed my name growing up, but began to appreiate it as I grew older. Still cant stand my middle name though. Still I have always consoled myself with the fact it's much better than my younger sister's

Loathe; it's like an elderly dinnerlady name! So I have a slightly altered version.

Mine is fine but v firmly places me in the 60s I think

Yeh, I was named after an 80s pop star, last name Decker!!!

Don't really like my name. It was a very popular name in the 70s, but my dad tells me it was not well used when he chose it!
He says he named me after a piece of music, and decided on the name back in the 60s, way before I was conceived!

Hmm, it's odd, I love my name on others, but dislike it on myself. I think it might have something to do with a certain way my mother had of saying it

Used to love my middle name, but now thoroughly dislike it.

Whatever you decide, make sure you spell it the bog standard way (if there are any alternatives) so he/she won't have to spend their life spelling out their name to people, who by the way always get annoyed by this.

Neither love nor love my name - it's fairly ordinary. Would love a surname that I didn't have to spell out to people though.

I think I have the Number 1 1970s name (yes for the whole decade).

I never really felt I owned my name.

To answer op, yes I think it did influence what I named my dd as her name will never be 'of its day'.

I loathe my name. Everybody lengthens it and nobody spells it right. It sounds abrupt. I don't even have a middle name.

My own children have unusual names and 2 each. DD1 has a 3 syllable first name and a 4 syllable middle name.

Loathe it

Have no sympathy for those of you with 1980s name. I have a 1930s name

Loathe mine! It's welsh and very unusual. No-one spells it right and no-one pronounces it right including me!.