Which Name Would You Choose?

I loathe & detest my first name. If one letter was removed, then I’d quite like it. Apart from school and passport, Dr. taxman etc. I’ve always, almost since birth, been known by a derivative of my second name. All quite ridiculous. I much prefer my actual 2nd name, but too late now to change ?. Luckily my 3 daughters all like the names we bestowed upon them! Phew.

My Mum and Dad had chosen two Christian names for me: T... D...
Then my cousin was born a month before me and was given the T... name.
So I was called D... T...
I joke that I wasn't even given my own names! (Think I prefer D... though ?).

I have never liked my Christian name. It’s one of those older names, but not a fashionable older name, if you follow.

No one would ever call their baby it nowadays.

My maiden name was very short, never had a middle name, so when we played ‘Letters In Your Name’ at primary school, I was always last.

I prefer my married surname to my own.

When I was very young I wanted to be called Nicola and used to add it in when writing my name in books.

I used to practise my first name with the surname of any boy I liked and see if it sounded ok as a married name. It never occurred to me in those days that I didn't have to change my surname!

There's a name that I love, but unfortunately it's already taken by someone not so lovable:
Emily Thornberry

It's such an old-fashioned, country side, story-book name.

I was adopted and my adoptive parents named me Norma after my dad who was called Norman. Another name they considered was Michaela after Michaela Dennis who appeared on tv in the 50s with her husband Armand. A number of years ago I got a copy of my original birth certificate and discovered that my birth name was Rosemary. Much prefer Norma.

My name Christina is too long and gets shortened. I would have chosen Faye or Eve so it cannot be shortened. I like Rebecca but not Becky, and I like Victoria but not Vicky, so I would have chosen a short name.

My first name, which my mother told me she decided when she was twelve to call her first daughter, has always been one of my favourite names. My husband's favourite too, as it happens.

I have three daughters. They all like their names, which are all old (Hebrew, Latin, Celtic based), well-known names but not very commonly used.

hicaz46

My maiden surname was Valentine which I really love. When I married it changed and then when I divorced I did consider reverting to that but with 2 young children at school I felt it was too complicated for them to have a different surname to me. This was in the mid 70s. I had given my son Valentine as a middle name and now my grandson has that as a middle name too. I feel it’s too late now to change my name as I’m in my mid 70s.

Valentine is absolutely gorgeous.
It's wonderful that your son and grandson now have it.

I actually like my Christian name but if I could chose surname I’d prefer my maiden name, not that my married name is horrendous but just prefer my maiden name which is quite unusual

Dee1012, I'd have preferred Diane to Thelma!! I hated it at the time and thought it was even worse than my own name! (Apologies to any Thelmas out there. :-)

grannyqueenie

I always wanted to be Elizabeth. It was my mother’s name, and my grandmother’s name. I had cousins called after my grandmother, who died before I was born, I always wondered why I was wasn’t too. Still like the name now, much nicer than mine!

It's my middle name, and I think that it's a fantastic name.
There is so much that you can do with it.
I think that I'd like to be a Betty, or maybe a Bess, like in The Highwayman poem!

I’d like to be called Carys and if I ever move I will introduce myself as such.

My husband changed our surname three years after we got married to his stepdads name, he hadn’t spoken to his real dad and he didn’t want anything to do with us

I still loathe my married name after 44 years. It is something like Milkcan, so you can imagine the jokes I’ve had to endure. I wish I had kept my own name, but it wasn’t a thing to be done in the 1970’s.

I like my first name luckily it’s a classic name so not ‘dated’. I also like my surname and married surname. So happy customer here!

I have a unisex forename but quite happy with it. I read somewhere that to pick a name you should go for your first pet and address: so I’d be Wendy Cornwall or Skipper Windskill - which sounds like a porn star?

My maternal grandmother was called ‘Eliza Mary Anne’. Neither my sister nor myself had that name, which I love, and apparently it was because my mother didn’t get on with her mother.
Instead I was given 3 names, all of which are OK, but beat no relationship to anybody in either family.

My foreign surname was changed by my parents to make life easier for my sister and I.

When I decided to become a Catholic I had to go to several classes with others. The priest always called me Amanda which he said meant "Beloved," instead of Anna. I used to correct him but he never remembered. I didn't really mind as I think Amanda is a lovely name.

I would have liked to be called Kitty - it is vaguely related to my real first name which is quite unusual and always shortened (except by my mother)

My mother chose my name to be 'better' than most people. She would have been so proud that one person always calls me Fleur and follows it by 'I know it's not Fleur but I know your name is posh and so is Fleur!' Mum would have been so proud.

My maiden name (which I still use) is Haworth. Years ago when working as a Lloyd’s Broker in London a colleague started calling me Rita - nothing like my first name! He said that my surname reminded him of Rita Hayworth and so I was known as Rita until the day I left ? Said colleague also put me through an initiation when I first started as a youngster by sending me upstairs with a message for Mr Scratchdick. I eventually found Mr Hitchcock ?

I grew up in Germany and my name was extremely popular at the time, cousin, parents' friends daughter, 3 of us in class.....
hated it. Always loved nature, specially birds and cheetahs, would have loved a name from nature. Called my daughter Bryony (with a french middle name)

I'm happy with my name now but I hated it as a child. My parents were from Southern Ireland and obviously we were given Irish names.
As a child I wanted the be Susan or Pauline or Jacqueline!

I have an unusual first name. I have always been happy with it apart from the fact that most people mispronounce it or call me by the male equivalent which is much more common. I don't think I'd change it just wish that I was more easily read correctly.