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

I have an Italian name, both parents were Italian, I am named after my maternal grandmother as are a lot of girls in our family, it wasn't a fashionable name when I was younger but very much so these days.
I also named my daughter a family name . I like that our heritage stays with us.

I have always hated my name really hated it, and never understood why my mother would name me after the next door neighbour who was good to her when I was born.
I never knew anyone else with the same name at school, not from the first day to the day I left. I have had a lifetime of spelling it and so when I was 16 abbreviated it to something similar which I use but my real name still crops up occasionally at the doctors. Yesterday at the solicitors I had the usual comment ‘never heard that before’, I could scream.
I gave my three children simple easy names, Caroline, David and Stephen, still used today as they were 60 years ago, and at age 88 I’ve still never met anyone with my name.

I was named after my father so female version of his name. I was to be last child so no son to have his name. He died when I was a child and I'd never change my name but I hate the shortening my family insist on using. I guess after 60 years trying to stop them I just have to accept I e lost that battle.

I like my name, it's a bit unusual, though not too much so. I didn't like it when I was a child but now I can't imagine myself having any other name. It's me. If I were to have a baby girl to name now, I love the names Wren or Dale. For a boy, Dale, as it's unisex.

My first name is Lesley, I hate it. I named my daughter Siobhan Pandora and she likes it

I love the name Ottilie. It’s not very common-I think I was first aware of it in a book-but it just seems so pretty. You couldn’t surely be unattractive with a name like that (to me anyway). I often feel that if I think of all the people I know with the same name, there will be one characteristic that all of them share. Anyone else noticed that?….

I was one of the dozens of Susans popular when I was at school. Never liked the name Susan but have always been known as Sue and am happy with that. My mother's name was Alice and I wish I had named one of my daughters Alice but it seemed to be a very old fashioned name at the tame. My daughter always said she would call her daughter Alice but sadly she only had boys.

I have never liked my name! But stuck with it now!

Such a shame none of you said what your name is- which makes it difficult to know why you loved, hated it 😐
My name is Sheila and I have never liked it - and it puts me slap bang in the 50’s 😂
I was in Australia for 7 years and came close to changing it then-for obvious reasons - but I was named after my favourite Aunt - so stuck with it.

I’d love to be called Gabby.
No special reason, I just like the name although I’m quite happy with my own and people often comment on it ☺️

My Father wanted me to be Sarah, after his Mother, my Mum could'nt stand her, so I ended up being Joan, which I have never liked. I do use Sarah for Ebay though.

I'm happy with my name and grateful to my parents for their choice... but when I was about 11 or 12 I longed to be called Pamela. I was a big fan of Enid Blyton's books and I think one of her heroines must have been called Pamela.

Eloise or Francesca

Celieanne86 same here. I’ve only met one other person with my name and that was the person I was named after, my mum’s friend. She was very nice, but it was a name from the 1920s and not very popular even back then! I think Shakespeare had a minor character with the same name and there’s an actress with that name. I was careful to call my children fairly ordinary names. I’ve heard of other people being called after Enid Blyton characters

When I was at school I longed to be called Karen as there was a very attractive older girl with the name. Of course now the Americans have really killed Karen as it’s used for a horrible entitled white person.
I love the name Chiara though it would not suit someone my age.

Lucy
Louisa
Gabby

My name is very common in my age group there were 4 of us in my school year and I knew two more outside school. My family always shortened my name unless I was in trouble then it was my full name.
Names I would have liked to be called were Rebecca, Charlotte or Amanda.

I remember a relative saying that names are a minefield, you have to consider what they'll get shortened to?

My mother was Betty (originally Cecilia Betty, but no surprise she went by the middle name?!), however I doubt she ever got called 'Bet' (as per Bet Lynch).

One of the most lovely and talented film stars was Audrey Hepburn, but I don't suppose she ever had to suffer friends or neighbours saying "Orright Ord"?

I had a friend who said she'd been told she should have been 'Rose', as she looked lovely, smelled exotic, and could sometimes be prickly!

My daughter’s name is Delma named after a very good friend. Never heard of it before I met her

I have always really hated my first name and only kept it as I was named after my Mother! For a very short spell, I worked with someone who misheard my name and thought it was Helen, she called me that for several very happy months, even though I corrected her! One of my friends had a French mother, she was very, very beautiful,so stylish and glamorous and she insisted all we children call her byher first name, which was Anita, that was always my very favourite name!

Bethany
Rhiannon
Briony

I also loathe my given name, this month I would choose Anna but I change it on a regular basis. Our granddaughter was to be called Maud 😱 but fortunately it rhymed with her surname. I love the one she ended up with. Naming a child is a nightmare! Will it date? How will other people perceive that child/person? Will it be abbreviated? Then you have to look at initials. I have an Irish friend who spent the first two years of her life being called Baby. She is now called Marion, but was eventually christened Eileen.

I like my name (Melanie) now, but went through a time when I wanted to change it to Sharon or Tracey 😂.
I was the only one at Primary & Secondary School with my name.
I do get annoyed with people who shorten my name, without asking.
I don’t have a middle name (apparently nothing sounded right with it).
I’ve always wanted a middle name, I quite like Naomi or Mabel

My name’s Kimberly. I’m 65 and I don’t know of any other women with that name of my age!! I was born in the USA (hence the spelling), but it had a short period of being popular in the 1980’s - I was shopping in Tesco’s once around d 1995 I guess and suddenly this man shouted “Kimberly!” in a loud, cross voice - I nearly jumped out of my skin - then a little girl ran past me towards him haha! I get a load of issues particularly with email as it doesn’t have an “e” between the “L” and the “y”. Obviously, it gets shortened to Kim a lot….. if I could have chosen my name though it would’ve been Celia or Helen.

I like my first name, it's my surname since marriage that's the problem and I always have to spell it because people always get it wrong.