Which Name Would You Choose?

Thank you nightowl it means a lot.

As a child I wished I was called Rosemary.
Now I'd like Kay as it sounds more definite than my real name (which my DD liked to pronounce as a mumble, to be annoying).

I also rather wish I'd kept my own surname when I married.
I like my DHs surname but haven't always felt as if it is my name.

I dislike my Christian name intensely, but funnily enough other people like it. I always found it difficult to say as I had a stammer as a child.
My DM nearly called me April as that is my birth month; that would have been better.
I would have liked to be called Miranda, but that would have been equally difficult to say!

Ooh, just remembered I wanted to be Diana when I was a child!

I always resented 'having' to lose my own surname when getting married in 1980. The registrar advised that it would be complex and expensive to keep my own name, and at 19 I believed her. So when asked what I would like for our 20th wedding anniversary, I said I would like my own name back.

In the end DH and our 2 DDs all agreed we would all change our surname to hyphonate, with my 'real' surname coming first.

Surprisingly, on her own marriage, DD1's husband changed his surname legally to our hyphonated surname, so our gorgeous GGD shares my surname - isnt that wonderful

names go in and out of fashion so much. You can so often date a person by their name.
When I was a child I wanted to be Sally Anne, for ages and then Michele.
I named my guinea pig Sally Anne and my dolls got all sorts of names. .
My own real name was too short and too common for my liking (at one time there were 5 of us in the class) and only 1 syllable both first and surname so I was so pleased to gain another syllable when I married.

I have never heard a dog named after me which is a relief!
Lumbering our DC with names they didn't care for. DD didn't like hers as she reckoned she was the only person under 50 with that name in Scotland. She likes it a bit more now.

At my christening mum wanted to call me Hazel but gran said I would be teased 'Hazlenut' at school so it was hastily changed to a more common name. I like the name of my friend, Marisa.

Am happy enough with my name, but if I could choose I rather like Laura, Helen, Catherine, Anna ( sound like rather noble heroines.)
I also like my Surname, so wouldn’t change that either.

PennyWhistle I'm so annoyed with that registrar, on your behalf!

In the 70s I worked in a bank when a couple from an overseas country opened an account.
The clerk who opened it for them mentioned that they'd said they had different surnames, as was normal in their home country.
He, however, told them that they should use the husband's surname, as was usual in the UK, and that's what he put on their new bank account.
I was horrified that he had actually made that woman change her name!!!

I would have liked to have been called Sarah. It’s a name my mum chose first but my dad didn’t like it, apparently. It was also the name of my grandma, who died when I was four. Instead I have a name that dates me to the 50’s and that I’ve never much liked. My middle name is a mundane one and my dad spelt it wrong when he registered my birth. I’m very happy with my married name!

Thinking about it, three of we four siblings have names that date us and the other sibling has a Scottish name although neither of my parent’s families had any connection with Scotland. Baffling! I wonder what went through their minds as they chose our names?

I loved choosing girl’s names when I was expecting my daughter - we didn’t choose a boy’s name until we were nearly at the maternity hospital! OH and I just have the one Christian name each, but the three offspring have three each. As I said earlier, I loved choosing girl’s names so had a huge list. But I only had one daughter and then two sons. At one time I wondered about choosing another Christian name, maybe for my 50th. But I didn’t. At the point of a gun, it would have to be Araminta. A good friend of mine had always hated her Christian name. She didn’t change it by deed poll until after her parents and husband had died. By which time she was 70!

Just to add that I was the first grandchild on my dad’s side and they took practically the full 6 weeks allowed to choose my name - probably why I have just the one. It’s French and people often misspell it. My brother and sister have two family names each,

Something French, such as Fleur would go beautifully with my married name. I have never liked my first name.

I had a friend called Fleur when I was at primary school and another called Fern.

I was named after a Princess (so were lots of girls).

I always wanted to change my name. My initials were PC. A task at school was to embroider our initials on aprons. Had the mickey taken for that. Teacher said I couldn't put my middle initial. Pleased to change my surname when I married.

My husband has aways used his middle name. It's the topic of conversation every time he meets someone new.

Very happy with my first name.

When teaching, my class would love to guess my middle name. They knew my first but only the initial letter of the middle name. I the end I told them it was Summer (it wasn't but I love that name).

I always thought the name Alexa would suit me- now every household seems to have an Alexa to boss around and demand answers to every question, I'm thankful for my own name.

I’ve always liked my first name but unfortunately the Beatles wrote a song with my name - pronounced wrongly! Our gp’s nurse even has her version of my name spelled phonetically with “Me” instead of “Mi” at the beginning. Strangers always say it wrongly when they meet me.

My birth name was Moira Isobel which I like but would never use in deference to my parents.
I agree Grammaretto you can so often date a person by their name.

I hate my name (Jayne) it’s so abrupt and cross sounding! My Dad used to call me Ginny but now he’s gone no one does. I’d like a name that could be shortened so it could be used and not sound cross! Christine, Elizabeth, Catherine.... I don’t mind!

Paperbackbutterfly Lucy runs in our family. As far as I know, it started with my great grandmother but, it could have been earlier. My mother was Lucy, I have it as my second Christian name and my daughter is Lucy. She has not used it for her daughter though so, probably lost now.

I’m another who can be dated by my first name. There were 4 of us in my primary school class, very 1950!

I love my name and my married surname, however my first name is rather long so everyone has shortened it since I was a teenager, but this has problems, I often have requests to be friends with people on Faebook who presume I am a man, my name can be a boy or girl,its quite interesting really

My name Pauline Margaret, means little Pearl which is quite sweet of my parents. However when we studied Thomas Hardy in English Literature we read Tess in which Angel Clare says that someone has a Pauline view of life. So I looked up Pauline in the Oxford dictionary and found it was a religious order belonging to st Paul. Not really keen on being a whole religious order. As to choosing my own name I hadn’t really thought of it before although if my son had been a girl I would have called her Katharine Jayne, Katie Jay for short.

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I have hated my name for always. Bullied at school (in Edgbaston), where they changed the spelling to something rude! and was always called it by one of the teachers.

The nasty girls in school stories often had this name! Not the heroines!

Try guessing!!!

Regina? X

Virginia?

Stephanie for me. I discovered this was my Mum's first choice but, unfortunately, she was persuaded otherwise.