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

My middle name Helen

I like Rachel and Hope.

My name really dates me, so many other old woman have my name, but it's rare amongst the young.
I wanted to be called Angela.

NotSpaghetti

I think there was a Tryphena in the bible?

Ooh, was there? I didn’t know that. I wonder if that’s where his grandma got it from. I never thought to ask her, but wish I had now.

My mother wanted to name me Diane, but my father registered me something different. Apparently, my Mum’s dog was called by my name, before I was born! 😂 Also, my older sister’s middle name is the same as my first name. Not much imagination there! I had aunts called Charlotte, Harriet, Sophie, Maude, Theresa, Dolly. I like Alice, Florence and Freya.

I have always disliked my first name it is long and unusual I have never met anyone with the same name.
My siblings all have names which were popular at the time.
I just wanted a normal name like Christine or Susan.

I’ve got a Rachel in the family and,yes, she’s challenging😀aAnother one is Jason - naughty boy name !

Yes, I know what you mean. I taught a couple of Rachels and they were all challenging.

We know a young lady called Pebbles

My youngest granddaughter, who has a lovely name, is passionate about being called Elizabeth, if we call her by her name, she gives us a look and we have to correct ourselves.
My paternal grandfather had Seven Sisters, all seemed so old fashioned names, but now they are quite cool
Nell
Jane
Kitty
Elsie
Marjorie (maybe not)
Lily
Ada

I quite like my name

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I think there was a Tryphena in the bible?

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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!

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