Subject: Are you happy with your name?
Posted by: xbunny
Date: Mar 22 10
Do you like the choice your parents made when they named you?Do you have nick name that annoys you,that stuck with you at school/work..
If you could change your name now,what would you like it to be?
Posted by: xbunny
Date: Mar 22 10
Do you like the choice your parents made when they named you?Do you have nick name that annoys you,that stuck with you at school/work..
If you could change your name now,what would you like it to be?
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Mommakat 
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Yes I do, and I like the meanings as well. Margaret meaning a pearl and Eleanor meaning light. Though I figure it is referring to illumination and not my weight LOL Reply #1. Mar 22 10, 11:01 PM |
tezza1551
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Not particularly, although having now had them for almost 60 years, I cannot imagine being called anything else.. when I was younger, I would have loved to be called Fiona ! Reply #2. Mar 22 10, 11:35 PM |
cazza2902
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I always whinged that my parents had been lazy in calling me Carol Anne - they could have given me Caroline as a first name which is so much nicer, but that would have involved thinking up a second! Reply #3. Mar 22 10, 11:43 PM |
redwaldo
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Yeah, I am now, but when I was a teenager,I was thinking of changing it to Mars! Reply #4. Mar 22 10, 11:48 PM |
Cymruambyth
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I have three Christian names - I loathe the first one, I'm lukewarm about the second one and I like the third. I've toyed with changing my first two names but I figure that's not money well spent, so I'll keep them. The name I am known by is a contraction of the second of the three and while I'm not crazy about it, either, it's a lot better than the others! Reply #5. Mar 23 10, 9:03 AM |
supersal1
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As I've got an older brother, I do think my parents should have thought that one day I would be Aunt Sally. I've always preferred that my nephews and niece call me by my first name, but my SIL always insisted in the 'Aunty' bit! I was going to be Jane, but for some reason my parents changed their mind, that was always a great source of angst to me as a child. Reply #6. Mar 23 10, 9:18 AM |
lesley153
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I'm comfortable with my name, and have never wanted to change it. I had friends who played around with theirs. Ann and Kathryn in primary school were known as George and Tom. Ten years later, Jean asked everyone to call her Troy. Hmmm. Sally, I had exactly the same thing - my brother has a whole brood of nieces and nephews I told to call me Lesley, but their mother ordered them to call me Aunty Lesley. I remonstrated and lost. Clearly her concept of courtesy didn't extend to my preference. Ah well. Now the youngest is 17 and they all just call me Aunty. I give up. Reply #7. Mar 23 10, 9:30 AM |
| lesley153
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Sorry, that's nonsense. The brood are my bro and SIL's children, and my nephews and nieces. I'm sure anyone reading it worked that out, but I still wonder if I should get a grown-up to proof-read my posts. Reply #8. Mar 23 10, 9:31 AM |
Rob3
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I'm happy enough with my name - the full version is Robert which is fine - although most people call me Rob. I hate being called Robbie though which is what a work colleague of my dad's used to call me. Reply #9. Mar 23 10, 9:37 AM |
| guitargoddess
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I didn't like my name that much when I was younger - it was long and no one else had school had the same name (which I realize now is nice, but when I was six, I wanted to be like all the Jessicas and Jennifers and Kaitlins). But between the ages of about 9-12 or so, I happened to read several books that all said that Alexandra is a glamorous name, so I started to like it. But then by the time I was 12, every one was calling me Alex anyway. Everyone except my parents (and most other family members), as my mom said if she wanted to call me Alex that's what she would have put on my birth certificate. I have to say though, I've always liked the Italian version of my name better. My mom's parents are actual born-in-Italy Italians, and there is no 'x' in the Italian alphabet, so they've always said and spelled my name Alessandra. Actually, sometimes they made a few attempts to anglicize it - there's pictures of my baptism cake, ordered at the bakery by my grandfather, that says on it in icing 'Alexsandra'. In terms of family nicknames that have stuck - I'm stuck with Awa. Somehow, that's what came out of my brother's mouth when he tried to say Alexandra when he was just learning how to speak. I don't *hate* it, especially just at home, but both my aunt and my dad have a tendency to call me that in public and it's getting kind of embarrassing at age 22! Reply #10. Mar 23 10, 11:43 AM |
Lochalsh
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My first name is just fine, although it does place me in a specific decade. My second name is rather pretty, although my mother tacked an unnecessary 'e' on it just to soften and "feminize" it. (She was a southern lady among southern ladies.) All that being said, I yam what I yam, and my moniker's just my moniker. _______ Lesley, I understand what you said at first reading. Should I be frightened? Reply #11. Mar 23 10, 1:23 PM |
| Lochalsh
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Guess I should say that my middle name is "Lynne." Send a proofreader my way, too, will you? And my first name is not Lochalsh, although "Lochalsh Lynne" has a certain euphony to it. :) Reply #12. Mar 23 10, 1:27 PM |
| Lochalsh
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I meant "understood." Am going to go to the garden to eat worms, if they'll have me. Reply #13. Mar 23 10, 1:28 PM |
| lesley153
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No, Lochalsh, there's nothing to be frightened of - really. I just fell out of the logic tree, and stopped for a grumble. But it's all right now. :) The worms won't have me. They told me that a long time ago. Reply #14. Mar 23 10, 1:39 PM |
| tezza1551
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Well, I was actually christened Theresa Anna.. which was very quickly shortened to Terrianne, apart from when I was at boarding school. And if my parents every called me Theresa, I KNEW I was in deep trouble. I was named for the nun who was head of the orphanage where I was born, and for the nun who handed me to my parents. Do you wonder that I wanted to change it ? As I said in my earlier post, I would have loved to be called Fiona. Reply #15. Mar 23 10, 9:06 PM |
| Deunan
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I'm not unhappy or happy with my name. No one calls me by it anyway. Frankly, I prefer Deunan or D. Nan would be fine too. :D Reply #16. Mar 23 10, 9:19 PM |
rayven80
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I didn't like my name when I was younger because everyone would assume I was a boy. But I like it now that I've grown into it. Reply #17. Mar 26 10, 8:54 AM |
nasty_liar
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Never been over keen on my real name so I go predominantly by my nickname from university now which is Bernard! Reply #18. Mar 26 10, 10:02 AM |
| honeybee4
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I like judy better than my real name Judith. I would love to have been a Carol Ann, but that was my sister's name. Reply #19. Mar 26 10, 10:56 AM |
| lesley153
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It's a nickname! I thought you were a bit young to be a Bernard. How did it get picked? Too many people look at my name and assume I'm a man. There are two major and several minor ways to spell my first name, a few variations on my middle name, and then a few more ways to spell my family surname and my married surname. You wouldn't think one little name would cause so much trouble. They're all fairly common, ordinary names, but I've given up now and I just spell it, whether I'm asked to or not. And you wouldn't believe the number of weird and wonderful ways people find to spell Jonathan. :( Reply #20. Mar 26 10, 11:46 AM |
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