What name would you choose?

when I was in middle school, I hated my name. no one could pronounce it correctly, no one could spell it right.. and so when I went to summer camp, I told people my name was Robin. kept it up for a week. when I grew up, I appreciated my name more.. as I am the 4th one in a row with this name. I never met the grandmother I was named after.. I was going to be named after my living grandmother.. but she objected.. so my sister was named Edith.. 10 yrs later.. and I had the dead grandmother's name.

I DID change my first and middle names as an adult. It is now Allison Elizabeth ( E is after my grandmother).

I don't have a specific name I would choose, as I don't mind my name, I just want something more fun to write. Something that starts with an S or an L, then a Q for a middle initial. Laverne Q. Snicklefritz or something like that.
My first and last name are super boring to write as they have lots of up and down letters. No curly or fancy letters.

Too funny, Cindy was my pick as a child. Or Holly. I thought they were just beautiful names.

If I were changing it now I'd go for the lovely Genevieve and happily correct everyone who mispronounces it.

I like my name.
But I’ve always liked the name Allison with the nick name Allie

I can’t say that I love my name, but do wish that it was spelled with one L vs the Americanized double L. (Michelle vs Michele). I always had 2 or 3 other Michelles in my classes and I grew up in a smallish town. I do think that the name Michelle is thought of as a bitchy person. I’ll own that some of the time!

I don't mind my name.

If I had to change it, I would pick a weird old man's name, like Frankie or Charlie or Billy. I like to think I am cool enough to pull it off :shrug:

Mind you, I do have a unisex name, and most people assume I am a male, but it's just not a hip greaser name.

When I was a kid, I went thru a Bambi phase. Also Libby.

Now, I think Tess Olivia McKenzie would be cool. People would call me "Tommy", for my initials--- then when meeting me, they'd be surprised that I'm a girl.

You are TOTALLY cool enough!

57 year old Lisa. One of the millions born in the 60s. I love my middle name, Charlotte, but it never occurred to me as a kid that I could choose what to be called.

My mom said she always wanted to name her daughter, Chimène, from El Cid. By the time she was pregnant with my older brother she had settled on Lisa if she had a girl.

My mother legally changed her name as an adult. She went from Renae NMI to Diane Renae. She also chose a new last name that had nothing to do with our family. There were reasons, that I will not go into, other than to say she did some shady shit that could have gotten her some prison time. She also got a new SSN.

I have about the most damn common name from my era, but misspelled. But, it is what it is…


What’s the correct pronunciation? (Please be the French one. 🤞🏻)

I temporarily worked with a Roxanne and the Phoebe version was what I sang when I said her name. lol

Also, Becki isn’t misspelled.

Signed,
Kelli with an i 🥰🥰🥰

Of course!

I once worked with the most effortlessly stylish Genevieve from Monaco, although she was introduced to me as "Jenny". She said it was less painful to be called that than the mangled versions she'd get of Genevieve. We became immediate friends when I said her name correctly (courtesy of spending a year in France). 

I don't dislike my name, but never totally loved it either. Since my given name ("Wendy") can also be a nickname for "Gwendolyn" (which I really dislike!!), when I was growing up I often had to do the whole explanation: My name is Wendy-with-a-Y, not Gwendolyn, not Wendy-with-an-I. And still some friends(??) thought it was funny to call me Gwendolyn - ugh, it's not my name!! There were also 2 other Wendys (same spelling, also their given names, not nicknames) in my tiny town, so we stuck together in our name righteousness, LOL.

When I was a child I wanted to be named Suzanne, Danielle, or Genevieve - not any of their shortened/nickname forms. Nothing wrong with the nicknames, they just weren't for me. I just thought those 3 names were so pretty, classic, and feminine. I sill like those names, but like others equally well. I like my name well enough that I don't think I'd ever change it.