Do you like your first name?

seven-day-weekend

pollypenny wrote: »

I don't like the tradesmens' names : Mason, Carter, Taylor and even Tucker.

I'm waiting for a Plumber.

Or Electrician or Plasterer?

pollypenny

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Or Electrician or Plasterer?

Maybe a boy called Sparks!

happyandcontented

I have a very unusual first name (although there is one quite similar) which everyone used to call me and which infuriated my mother. I have never met anyone with the same name although they do exist, as I have googled it! I have a very, very common second Christian name and a third Christian name to satisfy my Grandma.

I love my married surname though, as it is a great improvement on my very Irish maiden name!

thepurplepixie

I think we often have a reaction of liking or not liking a name, some of my GC have names I'd never have chosen but I'm well mannered and said how lovely they were. I don't think about them now, they are just their names and I can't imagine them called anything else. My main challenge is using the right name for the child in front of me, not unusual for me to do a Bert, Fred, Mike, John I mean James. The challenge of 4 kids and half a dozen GC. It is a bit different to our own name.

I know some people hate names that have variations but I think the opposite. Two of mine have names that "can't" be shorted but I have found that means their friends think up ever weirder versions, two of mine have names with lots of shortenings, think Elizabeth as an example (not one of mine but a good example) parents might decide to call them Beth but child might decide they like being Lizzie and then when they are a teenager, and rejecting anything and everything, they might decide they want to be a Liza.

seven-day-weekend

thepurplepixie wrote: »

I think we often have a reaction of liking or not liking a name, some of my GC have names I'd never have chosen but I'm well mannered and said how lovely they were. I don't think about them now, they are just their names and I can't imagine them called anything else. My main challenge is using the right name for the child in front of me, not unusual for me to do a Bert, Fred, Mike, John I mean James. The challenge of 4 kids and half a dozen GC. It is a bit different to our own name.

I know some people hate names that have variations but I think the opposite. Two of mine have names that "can't" be shorted but I have found that means their friends think up ever weirder versions, two of mine have names with lots of shortenings, think Elizabeth as an example (not one of mine but a good example) parents might decide to call them Beth but child might decide they like being Lizzie and then when they are a teenager, and rejecting anything and everything, they might decide they want to be a Liza.

I hate my name being shortened and always correct anyone if they do so.

My husband, on the other hand, has various 'shortenings' depending upon who is speaking to him, and even a Spanish version of his name too.

My son has a name that can't be shortened (chosen quite deliberately), and people lengthen it. He is like me, and corrects them.

thepurplepixie

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I hate my name being shortened and always correct anyone if they do so.

My husband, on the other hand, has various 'shortenings' depending upon who is speaking to him, and even a Spanish version of his name too.

My son has a name that can't be shortened (chosen quite deliberately), and people lengthen it. He is like me, and corrects them.

One of mine is like your husband, 3 "names" one for family, one for friends and one professionally. It can be confusing when the three groups collide, weddings for example.

One of mine has a short name that gets lengthened, it doesn't bother him. I use a shortening of my name but as a child my family used another, well family still use that version. Doesn't bother me when family use it but it makes me cringe when anyone else does.

Strange things names.

Deep_In_Debt

I don't really like my name. My maternal grandmother wanted to name me after one of her sisters. She came from a large family and her sisters had old fashioned (but popular names for their time) names like Maud, Ethel, Gladys but one had a fairly decent name and luckily she named me after the sister with the decent name so I shouldn't really complain!

Frith

Hate my first name. I won’t say what it is, but it would be like being named “Diana”, just because Prince Charles had just married her.

All women born in the 70s have Louise or Jane as a middle name so yes, I have one of those boring names as well!

KiKi

onwards&upwards wrote: »

Hmm...

Martha? Esther?

Don’t feel you need to answer I just can’t resist a guess!

My name is really boring, there were about 12 of us in my year at school. It’s fine though, not ugly or with any negative connotations, I am ambivalent about it.

Haha! Neither of those, but you're absolutely in the right vein! As a side note, I know quite a few people who've called their kids Martha, recently - I think it's making a bit of a comeback.

sillyvixen

Frith wrote: »

All women born in the 70s have Louise or Jane as a middle name so yes, I have one of those boring names as well!

No, I was born in 1971 and my middle name is Ann! Yes quite boring and generic! My mother accused me of misspelling it on my wedding invitations as it should have been 'Anne', I showed her my birth certificate - Dad was in big trouble for missing out the E in my middle name when registering my birth!!

He got away with it for 40 odd years!!