Do you like your first name?

makingplans4nigel

Never particularly liked it. However I like the story behind it, I was named after "Baz's party" a song from True Love Stories by Jilted John, released the year I was born. Unfortunately during the 80's and 90's, anyone named Barry was generally a scally, in prison or soon to be. It will now be confined to a list of "baby boy's names now extinct"...:rotfl:

If I could choose any other name(s), it would be Josh or Leo...or Alan.

Brodiebobs

Me and my DH are in our 30's but we both have names which would suit a much older person and go by shortened versions of them. It doesn't help that mine is spelt differently to the traditional version too which confuses people, but probably suits me now the older Im getting.

Both names also probably on the extinct baby names list... so much so we never come across anyone our age or younger with the names.

I hated it growing up, wanted to be called Danielle, Sarah, Claire or something normal... but obviously not too much as we named our children very unusual names but thankfully they suit them and they love them.

GBNI

I like mine, it's fairly unusual and I have only ever met less than a handful of people with it in my 34 years.

chelseablue

I'm Sarah

I quite like it I guess, never really thought about. Glad I've got a 'normal' name and not something like Apple or Moonflower

I was born in the 80's, I think it was quite popular then. Be interested to know how many people call their girl Sarah these days

leviathan

Thinking about it I guess not, as I've shortened it for everyday use and thus dont go by my actual real name.

onomatopoeia99

My first name is monosyllabic so can't be foreshortened and I'm happy with it for that reason.

If I could pick a different one, possibly 'George' after the hero of 'Emma' or 'Charles' after the inventor of the digital programmable computer.

I'd like 'Hypatia' after the Hellenic astronomer and mathematician, or 'Ada' after the countess of Lovelace who wrote the first computer program, but I wasn't born a woman.

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I loathe my name and only my mum and my MiL call me by it.

Since high school people have called me Tea and it stuck. When DD was in Reception Class, her teacher called me to one side and said 'Is your name Tea?' I said it was and she said 'Oh! I thought she'd got it wrong'

Sobraon

My family 're-cycle' names so all mine are inherited (as are those of my children). The one family first name that has not been re-used is the same as that of a former leader of Germany ('34 - '45) still DS1 may consider it in due course for his son...:shocked:

surveyqueenuk

Sobraon wrote: »

The one family first name that has not been re-used is the same as that of a former leader of Germany ('34 - '45) still DS1 may consider it in due course for his son...:shocked:

Something similar used to happen in my family too - we would be given our grandparents names as our middle names. But, for some reason, Ma refused to name me after Granny Myra...

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GBNI wrote: »

I like mine, it's fairly unusual and I have only ever met less than a handful of people with it in my 34 years.

Unusual? I can count ten of us with my name where I worked.