Choosing your name

I like my middle name and have used it at every opportunity throughout my life.

My middle name is bland (Anne) but I'm glad to have it because there is someone in my area with the same first name and surname as me, and she is registered with my doctor and dentist. If we didn't have different middle names, the confusion would be even greater than it already is.

At first, NanKate, I thought your thread was going to be about usernames. I once mentioned that I don't drink on a thread and another poster told me off for choosing the name "Sparklefizz". How dare I when I'm not a drinker?

I have three names, catholic tradition, include as many saints names as possible. One of mine is Catherine, after my grandmother, also one of my mother's names. I was very annoyed with my parents for not making it my first name because it's a name I really like. However, somewhere along the line when "Funny Girl" came along, I started to come to terms with the first name, it took a while, I didn't like it at all as a child.

My mother chose my name and it has been a burden as it is a 'virtue' and unusual. I have only ever met 3 others.

I quite like the shortened versions of it now and, as someone said uptrend, it is part of who I am.

Alice is a family name on both DH's side and mine. We resisted calling our daughters that for the first two but then decided that we should use it for DD3 - she hates it.

Sparklefizz suits you a treat imo 💐

My mother gave me and my siblings just one name because she disliked both of her names and didn't want to saddle us with two names to dislike .

However, I'm perfectly happy with the name I got, though it was very popular around the time I was born and there were never fewer than two of us in all my classes at school, which could be confusing..

It's a matter of luck really. My DD has in the past expressed not much love for either of her (very nice, IMO) names 😕 I suppose people could choose to go by a completely different name if they wanted to. My maternal Gfather was called something completely different from his given names. I never found out why.

My name was unusual when I was growing up and I wished I had something that didn’t stand out. I never met another with my name until I was 17 and in Canada.

It is now a very common name and I’ve learned to like it. Can’t imagine being called anything else.

My mother actually named me Fenella when I was born but had second thoughts as she thought I’d get called ‘Nellie’😂. I’m glad I dodged that bullet!

I don’t mind my name but I love Freja so one of my cats has that name. She is a lovely little cat,too. Purrs all the time.

I was named after my grandfather's sister who died earlier in the year I was born. My middle name is the one chosen by my parents. I always disliked my given name and grew to hate it when Coronation Street introduced Mrs Ogden. I was teased about it at school.
The great aunt that I'm named after was a lovely lady so these days I don't mind it, after all, I am me regardless of my name.

My given name is my great grandmas maiden name , it is not a common surname , and I have never heard it used as a first name , except for myself , and it is Scottish .
I now live in Ireland where it is pronounced differently , and all my life it has been a pain in the b.m !
At 88 yrs old I’m now resigned !!

I never met another one of me until I was thirteen. Now they are all over the place. But I love my name wouldn’t want to change it.

I did change my name by deed poll. My original name was very dated and I had no middle name to fall back on

My birth mother named me Moira Isobel but my adoptive parents changed my names completely. I do quite like Moira though.

I’m ok with my name. My middle name is Anne after my GGM, who died just a fortnight after I was born. She was Phoebe Anne and I’d much have preferred the Phoebe instead.
DH was always known by his middle name, picked by his sister. He disliked it to his dying day.

I've always thought that I would like to be called Eve. I just think it's sounds very earthy and somewhat sexy!!

I traced the same name back seven generations on my mother's side. Apparently the Registrar misheard when Mum's name was being registered so that a slight alteration to the spelling broke the long tradition. A shame really, although I do like the version I've inherited.

I don’t like my first or middle name. Very dated. Elizabeth and Alice have always been names I like but only used these as second names for my two daughters. I also like flower names like Rose, Lily, Poppy.

I disliked my name when at school. It was an old fashioned name at that time.
No one else had it at primary school, and at senior school there was only one other with the same name.
However, it became popular during the 80's, so I didn't feel so bad about it, and now I really like it!

As I said I don’t mind my name, and it is quite unusual, but the whole family, and now friends as well, call me by a nickname that has nothing to do with my actual name but which I actually like more.

I remember when atgrammar school , we were given French names , always used in the lesson. Peter was Pierre etc. There was no equivalent to my name so I was given Marthe absolutely hated it.

My name is so simple, Ann, no middle name.
I have never really thought much about it but later thought I would have liked Caroline.
Strangely I didn’t name my D this and on the thread no one has said they named their D’s with their favoured name.My mother was Clarissa, a name she did not like , when we did the family tree her direct something ancestor was named Clarissa and it was used either as that or Clara in every generation until me.
My D liked it when she was pregnant so her D, my GD has it as a second name and she loves it.
On my Father’s side the name Sabena was often used , the name of my GGM, the last time for an Aunt of mine, Father’s sister.

I have four Polish forenames! I always wanted to be Sarah. I went back to my maiden name after I divorced because I thought it 'went' better with all the other Polish names than the very plain English married name I acquired.

I had quite a few relatives and people I knew. All deceased a long time ago that used their middle name and yet they had lovely first names.
My mum had names she absolutely hated. Gladys Hilda.
She used to say she had a wicked mother. All of her sisters had lovely names.

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I remember when atgrammar school , we were given French names , always used in the lesson. Peter was Pierre etc. There was no equivalent to my name so I was given Marthe absolutely hated it.

We were given names in Latin, too. I was Hortensia. Quite glad I’m not saddled with that in real life.

For some bizarre reason, Junior daughter called her youngest "Agnes". She is now about 7 and so pretty. Such a shame. Becauuse of her \Scottish roots, I m afraid my trranslation into The Haggis has stuck!!!