Do you like your name?

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I've always hated my name, it's Kelsey. I think it's pretty ugly, a bit 90's chav, and I hate saying it, I don't what I'd prefer I just don't like it, does anyone else hate theirs?

Ugh I hate my name, it's Kelly-Ann, I have no middle name and I prefer/identify with Kelly more but at work it's always Kelly-Ann .. ugh, it feels really chavy as well.

I’ve always loved my name. It can be shortened to Pippa, or Pip- both of which I like. Occasionally, I have been called Phil, which I’m not so keen on.

I hate mine. It's Karen. Enough said!

My name almost certainly dates me to the decade I was born in, so isn’t “classic” but I do like the way it writes. It looks pleasingly balanced on paper.

It’s usually only spelled the one way in the UK but there seem to be an almost endless number of variant spellings in the USA, the UK spelling isn’t the most commonly used there at all.

Absolutely hate my name, it's dated and there must be 20 ways to spell it. Yes I got a particularly unusual spelling too just to make it worse and have spent nearly 50 years spelling it out.
Is that with a d?
Is it ay or ey?
Ly or Li?

I don't mind my name and feel like it suits me quite well

It is dated in the sense that most people with my name are in the 45 to 65 age bracket but it's not a name with any negative connotations (that I'm aware of)

I love mine, it's actually my middle name, an underused classic that I share with my grandmother and great grandmother. My first name I absolutely detest, it's never been my name, even my parents have always used my middle name.

Funny, I met a Kelsey at high school and I wished it was my name!

I like my name as an adult - enough other people have it that I know it can't be bad. I have a foreign spelling that means everyone spells it wrong. Depending on my mood at the time I'll laugh or be grossly offended. Even nearly 40 years in, I'm discovering new spellings. It's 5 letters and who knew there were so many combinations or amendments.

Add to that a surname that is only shared with 8 people in the UK and only double digits worldwide and I still can't work out if it's good or bad.

I like my (Scandi) name more now than I did when I was a child. I quite like the fact that it's on the list of approved names in Iceland 😊

As a kid I desperately wanted a plain, English name. Samantha Smith or Jones would have been perfect and "normal" as I was so desperately trying to be.

I love mine. It's very ambiguous and is actually a flower which not many have heard of. I have never met anyone else with the same name, even with a different spelling. Most people I meet, the first thing we talk about is what does my name mean and where does it come from.

i really don’t like mine. It’s the shortened version of a long, old fashioned royal sounding name which is on my birth certificate but no-one has ever actually called me. It’s a hard sounding name and I’m a bit baffled about what possessed my parents to choose it. I tried to change it as a child - my full name has another way to shorten it which I prefer but my family ignored me and carried on as they had before 🙄
I have a very unusual and short surname which I also disliked as a child but has grown on me hugely as an adult. Some friends, with my consent, refer to me just by my surname as it suits me better than my actual first name.

Like. Classic but not overused. Good for a child and for an adult. Could take it anywhere. Parents did a nice job.

I like my name, my bro (who was much older than me) chose it from a short list given by my parents. He did well, I did not get a Debra/Sharon/Tracey era name. I got a relatively unusual one that’s never in or out of fashion.

I like the name Kelsey.
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I'm named after a royal of Monaco. My mum apparently loved her and I'm named accordingly.

I don't dislike my name and have only met one other person with the same name and I'm 53!

I think we have the same name and I feel the same way about it! Only my headmaster used the full version and i don't associate with it at all.

My Auntie suggested my name to my parents as she always liked it. Not enough to name her 3 daughters born before me though!

My name started to decline in popularity in 1958, 10 years before I was born and I share it with much older women. It is from my country of birth and it does have a lovely and mythical meaning even though it's derived from medieval times. I don't have another name to use and it isn't good abbreviated either.

My name is Sarah. I used to dislike it because I thought it was too popular but I’ve grown to like it over the years. I like the meaning and that it’s a biblical name. DH and I tend to go for biblical names when choosing names for children so I like that my name sort of fits with that.

I've always disliked my name, it was the most common name the year I was born. The only saving grace is the fact that it's a family name and I quite like having that connection . If it were my choice though I'd have preferred something a little more uncommon and something longer as well.

Definitely one of my favourite names!

I dislike my full name. I call it my trigger name as it's mainly been used in negative situations and these days when I hear it my body genuinely goes into a mild fight or flight mode.

But the diminutive form I like. Think it suits me :)

Large reason why I didn't give either of my kids the long versions when I knew we'd only ever call them by the shortened one.

I did however, go to school with a girl called Rickeita.

Because her dad's name was Keith (Kei), her mum's name was Tara, (Ta), and when she was born they both loved Rick Astley. I shit you not.

The best thing she could shorten it to was Ricky...but this was at a time when Bianca used to scream it daily on EastEnders, so she really lucked out there too.

I have an Irish name Clodagh. I didn't like it as a kid but love it now.

Ditto.

Likewise my four siblings.

(Mine's not Charlotte BTW)

I've never liked my name. It's a very, very common 1960s name that you really can't shorten and even as a small child I always wanted a 'fancier' name that would have a nickname. My father's parents were from Cornwall and there is a Cornish girl's name that is extremely similar, I'd always wished they'd given me that name.

I did acquire a nickname (based on a popular song) when I was about 13. I've always loved my nickname, but I never used it other than with my friends.