If you could change your first name what would you have ?

I wouldn’t change my first name but would love to change my second name to that of a flower like, Lily or Rose.

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Casdon

petra

I’m just grateful that my father didn't get his way with naming me. He wanted Ethel 😱

My poor neighbour was Euphemia - with apologies if anybody here is called that, it must be one of the most dreadful names ever.

Oh, I don’t know! My husband’s grandmother was called Tryphena!!

Oh dear. I hadn’t heard of that before, I just looked it up, and apparently it means delicate in Greek - it’s just not a delicate sounding name in English, is it?

My dad was a in a jazz band and wanted me and my sister to be called "jazz" names - Georgia and Carolina! My mum was horrified and instead chose two boring 1950s names. We always say we'd have much preferred Dad's choice!

TerriBull

Catherine! it was my maternal grandmother's name, one of my mother's names and it's also one of my 3 Christian names, 3 rather than 2 plus a confirmation name, so that makes 4. Catholics, when I was growing up gave their children as many saints or biblical names as possible. I think I often complained to my parents about my third name not being my first name, because I didn't like my first then, but I'm ok with it now, in the sense that I don't hate it. I'd have chosen the female version of my first son's name if he'd been a girl, which ends in dra rather than der, he goes by the diminutive, widely used for both sexes.

I know which name you mean, Terribull and I chose that for my youngest, suitable for a boy or girl.
For some reason MIL was rude about it which put me off but I wish I'd stuck to my guns, although I do like the name we eventually settled for.

Casdon

When I was younger I always liked the name Caroline, but I think I’d go for something Welsh now - I like Eleri, or Alys.

My Dad's cousin was Alys. She was quite formidable, I believe! They weren't Welsh though.

petra Ethel was perhaps after a favourite Aunt of your father. Thank goodness he didn't get his way.
I was nearly Wendy, it wouldn't have suited me at all.

I like Charlotte. A number of my grandmothers and g and gg grandmothers were Charlotte. Miranda is nice too. The one I really love though is Viviana. I met one a few years ago and she had Italian parents.

I very much like my middle name and dislike my first name. I've used the middle one on occasions, and my ex partner always called me by it.

I had an aunt called Ethel and always thought it was a really old
name and very unfashionable. Now, though, I think of Scandinavia and people like Ethelred the Unready so I have changed my mind about it. You watch, betcha it will come back into fashion!

I have a name after a character in an opera. My mother picked it out because another mum she knew called her daughter by this name. We later became friends until she emigrated to Australia under the £10 scheme.

The other name I fancied was Guinevere. Its associated with Lancelot and Arthur but is actually of Welsh origin.

I love my first name , wouldn't dream of wishing for a different one.

I like the name I was given at birth. It was a family name and is not unusual. What they call, a classic.

Casdon

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Casdon

petra

I’m just grateful that my father didn't get his way with naming me. He wanted Ethel 😱

My poor neighbour was Euphemia - with apologies if anybody here is called that, it must be one of the most dreadful names ever.

Oh, I don’t know! My husband’s grandmother was called Tryphena!!

Oh dear. I hadn’t heard of that before, I just looked it up, and apparently it means delicate in Greek - it’s just not a delicate sounding name in English, is it?

No, and she wasn’t a delicate sort of person either! Parents have a lot to answer for sometimes!

Dee1012

I've always liked biblical names...some favourites; Esther, Leah, Naomi, Rachel, Rebecca, and Sarah.
If faced with picking one, I'd opt for Rachel.
I can remember watching Samson and Delilah as a child with my Nan (she was fond of Victor Mature) and deciding that I wanted to be called Delilah!

Victor Mature was THE most sexually attractive man ever to exist!

I would choose Mary Anne, because I feel it suits me.

My name is a bit of a mouthful. I’ve always liked the name Jane.

I don't much like my given name, but other people do.

I rather fancied Judith, Miranda or Rosalind/Rosamund as a child.

I dislike my first name. It was never intended to be used and I am known by my middle name.
But of course officialdom uses my dreaded first name.
I think I should have been called Rosemary. My mother wrote to my father who was away at sea during the war, asking for his choice of name. He came back with Mary. My cousins were also asked. They choose Rose.... presumably after Princess Margaret Rose. So Rosemary is logical.
But my mother gave me her own first name and the name of a friend.
I like Rosemary. If I could choose I would be Naomi.

Allira

Casdon

When I was younger I always liked the name Caroline, but I think I’d go for something Welsh now - I like Eleri, or Alys.

My Dad's cousin was Alys. She was quite formidable, I believe! They weren't Welsh though.

petra Ethel was perhaps after a favourite Aunt of your father. Thank goodness he didn't get his way.
I was nearly Wendy, it wouldn't have suited me at all.

No, it was his sister. I would have loved the name of one of his other sisters, Nancy. But at least my granddaughter got that one.
My friends daughter named her baby Connie Frances. Nothing to do with the singer she just thought of it.

I think there was a Tryphena in the bible?

When I was about 7 or 8, I longed to have a more glamorous or exotic sounding name - Arabella, Ariadne, Veronica or Carlotta were among the ones I thought of asking people to call me by but my mother and my then best friend both told me not to be so daft so it never happened.

I'm really grateful to my dad that he vetoed my mother's choice when I was born: she wanted to call me Olwen because she loved a piece of music called The Dream of Olwen. I just can't see myself as an Olwen nor as the Ollie it would have inevitably become!

I actually like the names I was given, timeless 'classics' that worked well with the family surname and also with my husband's surname after I married.

If I had to rename myself now, I'd probably opt for Eleanor, Margot or Ruth - although my daughter has none of those names.

My mother told me the choice was between Sarah and the name I was given. I wish she had opted for Sarah which has always been a popular but not too common a name.

I would love to have a name with a swish like Rosalind or Eleanor as in Lady Rosalind or Lady Eleanor.

I wanted to be Elizabeth (great for the letters in your name playground game).
I always liked Rosalind and also Eloise, until I taught an Eloise which made me glad I wasn’t.

My name is Patricia, which I like, but everyone calls me Pat, which I dislike. I would like to be called Loretta.

I quite like my name