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?

Snap, but I do know a 25 year old Claire and a 31 year old, so still around, but won't make the 1975 peak when I was in a class with 5 others!

I love the name Claire. It has a simple elegance. Unfussy but feminine.

@greenrollneck I know 5 Claires ranging from early 30s to mid-50s. I wouldn't have had a clue which decade it was actually popular in, other than not anymore 🤣

Loathed my name when I was a teenager but really like it now - it's quite old fashioned and posh but suits me. I've only ever briefly met 2 people with the same name and I like that

My name is very much a “little girls” name. I can’t imagine being 80 with this name. And, to make it worse, it’s second hand. My older sister had my name but it was changed as my mum “didn’t like it”. Too late to change now.

I have only met 2 of my name in my 53 years... I remember ds telling his friend my name and he declared well it obviously isn't that!!
More common in USA than here. Though a mner had it for a dd name if her unborn was a dd last week. Was very surprised!! Wonder if she used it!!

Lindsey?!!! (Or a different spelling of it)

I love it.

No, I've never liked mine, but it doesn't really bother me. I'm used to it. Mine is a name which is very rare in people more than a few years younger than me (I'm 53) amd it definitely hasn't featured in the old-fashioned names revival of recent years.

My friend took her husbands name when she got married ( we all met long after they'd married) we were asking her WTF she did that as it was 'Gross'. Her maiden name was Hiscock. She was glad to ditch it! Though she had dreamed of names nicer than Gross.personally I'd have stuck with Hiscock, at least it's a little amusing.

Same here

I would do that but wasn't given one. I did used to like my name but not any more. I hate the way some people react when I say my name.

Mine has always seemed boring.
Definitely a name from the 60's.
Linda.
Funny thing is I don't like anyone to shorten it to Lynn.

I always wanted a glamorous name such as Felicity.
Or something like that.

I absolutely love my name. I always have. It’s my favourite female name. It has the merits of being both unique and over a thousand years old. It’s also beautiful.

I am really sad I can’t give it to my daughter as a first name, but I suppose that’s why middle names are a thing.

My brothers have my favourite male names, as well. My parents did a cracking job with all our names, imo.

I hate it. I am from a European country and I have a "classic" name from there that hasn't been trendy ever and I find not feminine or graceful at all. But here we can't change it :(

Why can’t you give it to your daughter? Millions of boys are named after their fathers.

Love my name. One syllable. Friends add a - y to the end as a nickname, which I like and family just call me by my Initial.
My name is much nicer than my sister’s so I’m glad I was second child.

Eve?

I'd love to know what some of these names are, loved or hated!

Nope. Dislike it. Parents had a choice of three names; two are beautiful but discounted those for a very popular name in the 70s. Sister got a lovely name which she often reminds me about! My DC really like their names we chose for them, which I am relieved about.

Mine’s Wendy. Awful. My middle name is Jane and if I thought I could get people to use it, I would. My sister was names Wendy first but my mum decided she didn’t like it. Two years later, I came along and as I was to be adopted to a childless family couple, I was given Wendy because it didn’t really matter.

I truly hate it.

We had some lovely family names too.
Eleanor, Constance, Matilda (Auntie Tilly).

Wendy 🤦‍♀️

I think Kelsey is cute. It's a bit like Elsie, which I love, but with a K. Which is a good letter. Lol

I love my middle name as it's massively unique. I've never heard anyone with it except my family. But it's from a country that none of my family come from!?

First name is very boring but versatile so I use a short version. Lots of ugly short and long versions of it too though, which people always try and guess!

And I don’t like that, either. People being named after their parents (of any gender) doesn’t do it for me.

Someone I went to school with gave her daughter the same name as her. The daughter is 17 now and her mother still refers to her as "little shared-name"

I don't like it, it's common and dull and people still misspell it.

I always wanted a pretty, feminine name when I was a kid. Don't really think about it now.

Unless you have a really unusual name you can be sure that no one has an opinion on it other than you.

I love my name. It has a beautiful meaning and is very rare even in my country.