What would your name be?

I've said before that someone I volunteer with calls me Fleur because she can't remember my name and my name and Fleur are both posh! And, that's even though she knows me!!

Mrs Bucket My mum would have been so proud!

Just remembered. Whilst working in Zürich, I met an English girl from the Channel Islands. Her name was SARNIA, which I thought very exotic and lovely. She liked it too, but even better is Serena .

Part of my ID is real apart from the spelling as my middle name is Ellen with an " e ", the Manx is Ellan.
I'm just glad that my forename isn't Mary !

I would be Elizabeth Morgan.

My name isn’t particularly common (though DH’s first ever girlfriend managed to be called it too!) and I didn’t like it because people often mispronounced and misspelt it. Now I like it a lot because there aren’t many of us!

Absolutely always loved my name Diane my DM chose it while in hospital and there were no more at my school so it felt quite unique at the time. But my Grandad said he would rather I had been named Phoebe, heaven forbid ( sorry to all the phoebes out there)

My parents lumped me with a name that doesn't exist in English, a middle name with an unusual spelling and a surname that is so rare, even in Scotland that I spent all of my childhood and my adult unmarried years SPELLING MY NAMES and correcting mispronunciations and misspellings.

So when I married I took my husband's surname and unofficially discarded my one Christian name.

But I wouldn't know what to chose instead.

I like my name. My ex, when we were dating, once said that my full name was a mouthful that 'rolled around his tongue' very well but that I was a handful. He never abbreviated it and would correct anyone who used a shortened version

I chose my name seven years ago and I like it.

notnecessarilywiser

That 'Rothschild' scenario made me laugh

My mother very nearly called me Olwen after a piece of music she enjoyed. Thankfully, she changed her mind. My fore names are plain and timeless and I've always been quite happy with them although, around about the age of seven, I expressed a wish to be known as Lavinia Veronica Convulvulus! Thank goodness, nobody obliged..

I’ve hated my name for the past 62 years. As a child, I loved the names, Sarah, Katherine and Elizabeth. Guess what I called my 3 daughters?!

My mother gave me an Italian Christian name (no idea why) which I hated. Never met another one during childhood but the name is more common here now and I guess I like it slightly more than I once did.

I've always liked my name-Hazel. It is unusual enough without being outlandish.
I would have liked a middle name though- Mum had 4 so decided not to burden me with one.

I would like to be called Rosie. My parents allowed my three older sisters to choose my name. Ridiculous in the extreme as I have had to live with it for almost 60 years.

There used to be an advert where a man was calling to take a girl out and decided he fancied her elegant mother more - Mrs Barrington! I loved the way he said it. I like Grace as a christian name, so I'd change to Grace Barrington.

I've never liked my first name and always wanted something exotic but then I'd have to live up to it.
If I'd been a boy Mum said that I'd have been called Clifford, a name which made my sister and I guffaw! So thank heavens I'm a girl then.

I have always detested my name. I had three godmothers. The other two had lovely names. Saying that I would love to have been named after the grandmother who died long before I was born who I have always felt a connection to. My sister has the name as a middle name as has my youngest daughter. I would love to have been called Cecilia

My parents nearly called me Charity, and I feel I dodged a bullet there! I quite like my name - Penelope - and have tended to use it more in full as I've got older. As to surnames; I'm currently known by my late husband's name, though I prefer my maiden one. Can't be bothered to go through the hassle of changing it for the time being, though. However, if the current squeeze becomes a permanent fixture, our names would double-barrel in a pleasantly alliterative way. But I think that if I marry him it will be for more than a name.

I've never really thought about it.

Only recently has my name gained chav-like connotations here in Germany, and many people are surprised that someone of my age has that name. Also I don't like the way it's pronounced by most Germans. But as for the name itself - as I say, it's my name and I have lived with it all my life and never questioned it.

I’ve never liked my name, it was given to me by my birth mother and my adoptive parents decided to keep it even though, by their own admission they weren’t too keen either. I’ve recently moved to a different part of the country and did consider making a change but in the end I didn’t so I guess I’m stuck with it forever!

I’m a Susan (always Sue) from the early 60’s, I have a friend also Susan born in the late 30’s. Nobody seems to be called it nowadays!

SueDonim. Love your name

I like my name although it does give a big clue to my age! I do feel I am more like the first part of my name on here. My DM always wished she had called me Myfanwy after one of her aunts.

I always hated my name. Wish I had changed it but too late now.