Your name...do you like it?

Originally Posted by halfpint

Ah No !!! I hate it, I have spend most of my life trying to figure out why on earth someone would name a itty bitty baby Lois, Like your mother

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Ha... I actually work with a woman who's name is Linda and her husband is Roy. They have 3 kids... Linda, Roy and Joe! To make it even more confusing Matt worked with little Linda. It's so confusing.

My name is Eva Angelina, It was going to be Evangelina but my parents decided that it would be to hard for me to learn to spell in kindergarten.
For my first 5 years I was called Angie but in 1st grade there were 3 other Angie's so I decided to go by Eva. I LOVE my name, it's purrrty!

No. I actually planned on legally changing it when I was 18, but I couldn't think of anything better. (Probably why I'm having so much trouble naming the new kitten too... I suck at this! )

As the story goes... when I was born and the nurse came around to ask my mother what my name was and when my mom said "Amanda", the nurse replied "Oh! That's the 6th Amanda we've had this week!" I was born on a monday She said she was going to change my name right then, but the only other name she could think of was Amelia and didn't want me to get tortured in school since this was around the time Amelia Bedelia books were popular.

So it's horrible because it's *everyone's* name. I never know if someone is talking to me or the 5 other Amandas in the room.

And of course, I was always called Mandie.. which is not a bad nickname, except for the Barry Manilow song. You see the first time my mom played that song, I was very little and started crying hysterically when he got to the "So I sent you away..." part. When she asked why I was crying I said "But I don't want to go away!" She thought this was so funny, that every time relatives came over she'd play the song, I'd cry and relatives would think it was hilarious.

So no, I'm not a fan

I really do like my name. My complete name (which is far too lengthy to post here) is a wonderful combination of the strong women in my family. I consider it an honor to be their namesake.

I hate my name, no one can say it or spell it

I would change it but I have no idea what I would change it to and now that everyone knows me as Eithne they probably wouldn't use it anyway

I hate my name Nancy. My full name is Nancy Jane. I'd use Jane if that wasn't my Mom's name and I have several relatives named Jane. They almost named me Susan Jane, the Susan after a cat my parents had at that time, I wouldn't have minded that!

Originally Posted by adymarie

My Opa called me Susie. He had a special name for all of his grandkids. There was Susie, Chrystal(Lisa), Hansi(Eric), Zeppi(Brendan), Gretel(Ashley), and Fritzi(Patrick). Can you tell German wss his 1st language (he was Austrian).

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It might have been one of my grampas that started with the Susie too. He was born in Hungary.

I remember them speaking German too, but usually only when it wasn't something I was supposed to hear.

icklemiss21, whichout getting myself in hot water...how do you pronounce your name?

One of my nephews recently named their boy Oliver. We all said he'd get called Ollie. They said no, his name was OLIVER. Now THEY call him Ollie. At least when someone hollers Ollie! he'll probably be the only one who turns around.

Originally Posted by icklemiss21

I hate my name, no one can say it or spell it

I would change it but I have no idea what I would change it to and now that everyone knows me as Eithne they probably wouldn't use it anyway

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I know I always have to double check the spelling. I've always wondered though... how do you say your name?

Originally Posted by Bella713

I have always hated my name it's such an Old name...Helen...I was named after my Grandmother, which is fine because my Dad named a street after me and a whole subdivision, but seriously people think Old when they hear that name, I have considered legally changing my name to Bella

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Aww... that would be a lovely way to honor your special girl.

I hated my name, my mom didn't care much for my name either, but it was the wish of a dying woman (aunt).
Wish fullfilled, I have since had it legally changed to Arlyn

Yes and no. I like it sometimes. Its different and I haven't met another person with my name (tho did a search and found a few hundred across the USA). Its NOT in any baby name book or on the net either.

My mom and dad's name began with the same 3 letters and my sister also has a unique name based on the same 3 letters - all of us do

I don't like it because there is no easy way to remember it and people don't remember it at first (some still mis-spell it in my husband's family).

If I could have chosen my name, it would be Amanda - always liked the name and my nickname would be Mandy

Originally Posted by GoldenKitty45

If I could have chosen my name, it would be Amanda - always liked the name and my nickname would be Mandy

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I don't even know what your name is, but I'd be willing to trade

Helen - howdy from an old lady name too! :wave

I feel ya. My name is Celia...and at least in the U.S., only 80 year old ladies have that name. It is like being name Margaret or Esther.

What I do like about it though - People call me Seal (which I spell Ceal) which I like for some reason.

The advantage too is that it isn't that common. But oh boy do I get annoyed with people stuttering it all the time - even when I pronounce it correctly of course! Argh!

Mine's Ingrid, and while I used to hate it (or at least dislike it), I'm now fine with it. It used to annoy me greatly because I'd watch the credits at the end of movies, watching for my name (just like everyone else in my school, lol), but my name would never show up and everyone else's would. There'd be 20 Amandas, 12 Jennas, 25 Michaels, etc. But not one Ingrid (I still remember my joy from the first time of finding my name in a movie, which was Born To Be Wild, about a boy and an ape, lol). But now I see my name as a pretty name, of foreign descent (I hear it's Swedish from some people, but someone once told me it's Norweigen). It still wish I had a more common name, though. It'd be cool to do a "Hi, I'm Ingrid." "Oh my gosh, MY name is Ingrid too!" then we'd both be dorks, saying "Hi Ingrid!" to each other. Ah, my childhood dream... lol

My brother is Stefan and my sister is Katrina, so my parents were learning towards European names (mom grew up in Holland, and I think dad has German roots). Too bad I don't have a real reason for my name, like being named after Ingrid Bergman or something (dad told me that was the reason, once, but it is totally a lie, lol)

I have never liked my name and probley never will! No one can spell it right either. It is Leslye every one tries to put ie or ey.

I see there are a few Tiffany's here. I don't mind my name and never have. I'm Tiffany Richelle and get called Tiff or Tiffany and that's about it. My grandmother (God rest her soul) would call me Tiffy and I didn't really like that. Sometimes she would confuse me and her other granddaughter, Stephanie and would call me Stiffy. LOL I miss her!!!

I hate my name, it's one of those horribly popular ones that when I was in elementary school there were a billion other people with the same name as me.

My name is Lydia Nichole. My family usually calls me Lydia or Nichole and Colin and most of my friends call me Nikki. It's ok. I like my first name- but i also like my middle name too and how it's spelled differently than most people with it. The one thing i HATE about my first name is going to dr. offices/etc and having idiots who can not read call me "Linda" instead of Lydia! Uhhhh it drives me crazy!! Those are two entirely different names not to mention- there is no "n" in my first name Other than that though i like my name. My mom told me when she was pregnant with me i was eithor going to be Amber Nichole or Lydia Nichole....she waited till i was born and Lydia suited me so that's what it was (i think it was the right choice).

I like my name...Samantha Jo. I used to hate my middle name, but over the years I have grown attached to it. When I got married I dropped my maiden name and kept my middle name, I like it so much!!

I hate the nicknames though... Sam, Sammy, Sammy Jo especially. I prefer to go by Samantha.

Oh, I was named after the character in "Bewitched"!

I hate my name Paula and middle name Marie. So blah and boring