J u l e e
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Jun 28, 2014 2:50:47 GMT
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Post by J u l e e on Jun 22, 2022 19:46:10 GMT
When I went to a different school at age 12, nobody knew me there so I told them to call me by a different name, which they did. Even the teachers did. I really liked the anonymity of it. I had umpteen different names I wanted to be when I was little. From memory; Julie-Ann, Anne-Marie, Perdita, Della, Callie, Nicola, Natalie, Claire/Clara (to rhyme with airer, not Zara), Beth, Katharine, Christine. Probably every heroine from all my favourite books, actually! And I am a Julie Ann who always wanted to be *anything* else. I think I’ve made peace with my name as in I no longer hate it with the heat of a thousand white hot suns. I can’t think of another name I’d choose, but I do prefer one syllable names. I have some people in my life who call me J and I’ve always like that.
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Post by cme37 on Jun 22, 2022 19:50:31 GMT
I like my legal name, I just wish my parents had called me by it rather than the shortened version.
I also wish they would have kept my nickname. When I was little, everyone called me Charlie. Then my mom had a son 5 1/2 years later and she was afraid people would think she had two sons so she made everyone start calling me by my shortened legal name. I always thought it would be cool to be Charlie now.
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Post by Lexica on Jun 22, 2022 19:55:37 GMT
As I said on that list, I am pretty sure I am going to go with Megg. There are only a handful of friends here in California that will hopefully come and visit me in Oregon and I can either go back to my original name while they are there or they can call me Megg. I’m good either way.
I know my mother wouldn’t be bothered at all with me choosing something else. She was born with Annie Mary Lastname. Because she was the youngest of 4 children, whenever the kids would play a game in the yard, she would have to be the one to chase them. And they would call out, “nanny nanny nanny goat” as she chased them. That evolved into calling her nanny instead of Annie. Mom said she had been called nanny for so long by her siblings that she just decided to call herself Nancy. When she and my dad married and moved to the states from Canada, she used Nancy on the paperwork and it just became her permanent name. Dad said he never knew her as Annie. The name Annie absolutely would not have been right for her.
Dad never changed his first name, but the entire family changed their last name. Dad was one of 7 kids, all born in Canada to parents that had been born in the Ukraine. At that time, they lived in an area with a lot of Ukrainian people so their last name wasn’t unusual to their neighbors.
When one brother decided to move to the states, he decided to change his last name to something with more of an American sound. I know many people shortened their last names when moving to the states, but the basic name remained the same. About the only similarity for my uncle was that both names started with the same letter. I wish I would have asked him how he chose it.
A few years later when my parents decided to move to the states after having visited when they were on their honeymoon, they changed their last name to match the brother’s when they applied for citizenship. Eventually all the siblings except for one moved to California. My grandparents moved here too, but they didn’t change their name. There was one brother that decided to stay in Alberta, but he also went along with the brothers and changed his last name too.
So changing from your birth name isn’t a big deal in my family. I don’t see either of my sister’s anymore, so they won’t know that I changed my name anyway.
Oh, one other name change for me. When I divorced, I wanted my original last name back so we put that in the final papers. I had discussed it with my son to see if it would bother him that I didn’t have the same last name as he did. His response. “I call you Mom, so I don’t care what anyone else calls you.” This was after making sure that changing my name didn’t mean that I wasn’t his mom anymore. So he was fine with it but boy was my ex angry about it. I still don’t understand why he was so insulted that I went back to my maiden last name. We weren’t married anymore.
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Post by Lexica on Jun 22, 2022 19:59:41 GMT
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. Bambi! I love it. I like the long game acronym route. It's clever. (My BIL's initials are ASS, and it totally suits him.) On top of having a unisex name that most people assume is male, my married last name is Punjabi. On a daily basis, I have to explain / defend why I am not an Indian man! I named my son so that his initials, JAC, would be my father’s name, Jack. My sister had already used our last name as her son’s middle name, so I thought having my son’s initials sound like Dad’s name would be cool. He loved it. We used to call him little JAC all the time.
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Post by malibou on Jun 22, 2022 20:29:58 GMT
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. Bambi! I love it. I like the long game acronym route. It's clever. (My BIL's initials are ASS, and it totally suits him.) On top of having a unisex name that most people assume is male, my married last name is Punjabi. On a daily basis, I have to explain / defend why I am not an Indian man! I really like my very unique name made up of rather common names. I've never met someone else with it. It is most definitely male sounding, and working in construction didn't help. The Army refused to acknowledge I was a girl! My dog tags said male on them. I commonly uttered the following phrase, "Nope, I swear, you are not waiting for an Asian man". As a very young girl when we played teacher, and house and such, I always picked flower names like Daisy, Dahlia, Marigold, and Lilac.
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Post by stormsts on Jun 22, 2022 20:47:44 GMT
I always HATED my name as a kid. Nobody every spelled it correctly, and it was always mispronounced (I'm a TONYA spelled as Tanya). And there were never magnets or pencils or keychains with my name on them! As I've gotten older I've stopped correcting people when they say it wrong, and while I still don't love it I have accepted it & couldn't imagine a different name. When I was in my 20s and pregnant my mom told me she almost named me Molly. I think I'm happy she chose what she did! My dd is an Allison. With 2 L's. She always gets people spelling it wrong too. And while her dad & a few of her friends call her Ally, she always introduces herself as Allison. And her boyfriend calls her by her full name also. We have the same name with the same spelling and pronunciation. I think it bothers me more as an adult than it did as a kid. Especially with my employees. How many times do I need to sign an email and you not care enough to correctly spell my name. I had an acquaintance come up to me last week and told me her husband is afraid he will say my name incorrectly. Her mother’s name is spelled the same but pronounced the other way. Her husband knows how to spell it but he can never remember if it is pronounced the same as his MIL🤣🤣🤣. But I would never change my name, it is who I am.
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Jun 22, 2022 20:54:47 GMT
I like my name and it suits me. The only thing I do not like about my name is it’s always mispronounced. Seriously how many ways can people find to pronounce Andrea.
My Mom actually wanted a different name for me but my Dad wouldn’t go for it. Palmer. I probably would have hated it as a kid but now hearing it I love it. Sounds so Breakfast Club. 😂
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Post by Delta Dawn on Jun 22, 2022 20:55:20 GMT
My name is a of day no one can say or spell. D-A-W-N it’s not that hard and I dress feminine too. I am not a Don.
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Post by cmpeter on Jun 22, 2022 21:28:35 GMT
In first grade I changed my name from Kathy to Cindi. I’ve been Cindi so long now, I can’t imagine a different name.
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Post by papersilly on Jun 22, 2022 21:32:53 GMT
i'd change my name to "next person in line" for obvious reasons. LOL
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janeliz
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Post by janeliz on Jun 22, 2022 21:36:46 GMT
My name is Jan. Not short for anything else. Just Jan. Boring, lackluster, no possibility for a cute nickname.
I’d like a name that’s a little more feminine and has a bit of a lilt to it. Olivia..Andrea..Christina. You get the picture.
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Post by myboysnme on Jun 22, 2022 22:43:42 GMT
Back years ago I would have chosen Lisa. Now I would choose something like Victoria, Christina, Caroline or even a British name like Nicola or Philippa. Most all the names I like end in 'A' and my own name doesn't.
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Post by gramasue on Jun 22, 2022 23:01:35 GMT
I am Susan, Sue for short. Very plain, very straightforward, it suits me and I don't remember ever wanting another name. My Dad wanted to name me Valerie Ann when I was born. Mom objected, so they compromised and Valerie became my middle name. I don't identify with that name but occasionally my husband calls me Val and I'm okay with that. If I really had to choose a different name it would be Margaret, Maggie for short, after a great-grandmother. How funny! I am also a Susan, called Sue most of the time. But my middle name actually is Margaret, after my paternal Irish grandmother. My Dad wanted to call me Diane, but Mom insisted on Susan, and she won. Good thing, because my best friend growing up, who lived across the street, was named Diane. Our mothers had the same first name and our little brothers had the same first name, too. We always considered ourselves like sisters. That was almost 70 years ago and we are still best friends.
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Post by Legacy Girl on Jun 22, 2022 23:12:13 GMT
This thread reminded me of my high school French class, where we all had to choose a French name. I really wanted to be Chantal, but my BFF's name came before mine alphabetically, so she chose it before I could. I became Brigitte instead and was not thrilled about it (not because I didn't like Brigitte, but because I thought Chantal was so unique). I can't really imagine myself with another name now. I really do love my given name and it suits me. If I had to choose a pen name, I might go with Piper or Carrington, though I have no idea why.
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Post by maryland on Jun 22, 2022 23:36:02 GMT
I love names! I had so much fun picking names for my kids. The family uses my husband's last name, so he got the last name. I got to pick the first name and we picked the middle name together. I know he didn't like unusual names, so I took them off my list.
I don't have my list but I would have fun trying to choose my name!
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Post by lisacharlotte on Jun 22, 2022 23:47:50 GMT
DS was born in 1990. DH and I could not agree on names. So we each wrote a list of our top 10 picks and we would agree on the first match for both girl and boy. Girl was easy, we both had Caitlin first. However, it was crazy popular at the moment, and being a Lisa born in the 60s, I wasn’t doing that again. So I went with Kathleen. My husband’s family doesn’t have any girls, they are all married in, so the chances I’d have a girl were slim.
We had no matches on boy names and could not agree. So one night at dinner, at his parent’s house, with all the siblings there, DH announces we cannot agree on a name, so if it’s a boy we’ll just name him after FIL. And we did. Leo. My FIL cornered me later when DS was a baby and said he’d always hated his name and he didn’t understand why we named him that. My reply was, you named your son Stanley and you’re criticizing my name choice?!?! Then we both laughed. I loved my FIL.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 22, 2022 23:50:41 GMT
I have a common name for my generation and there were always several other girls with my same name in every class growing up. (DH also has a very common first name for our generation.) It didn’t help that my name was a variation of not only my mom’s name but her twin sister’s name as well. Quite honestly I don’t know what the hell my parents were thinking. I also had a difficult last name that no one EVER got right to make things doubly fun. I was so happy to at least lose the difficult last name when I got married. I think what it is now should be an easy name to say and spell but people still don’t get it right, so 🤷🏻♀️. At this point though I really don’t care anymore and I can’t think of a different name I would like better.
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Post by peasapie on Jun 22, 2022 23:51:32 GMT
I DID change my first and middle names as an adult. It is now Allison Elizabeth ( E is after my grandmother). That's fascinating, and courageous, I think. Good for you!
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Post by peasapie on Jun 22, 2022 23:57:03 GMT
In first grade I changed my name from Kathy to Cindi. I’ve been Cindi so long now, I can’t imagine a different name. You just started asking people to call you a different name? Sheesh! Why didn't I just do that!!
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Post by Minty118 on Jun 23, 2022 0:06:41 GMT
I absolutely despise my name. My mother wanted to name me Christina, but my dad didn't like it. So she decided to take her middle name and my aunt's middle name, smash them together and add as many letters as possible. No one can spell it and until people started giving their kids outlandish names, couldn't pronounce it either. It didn't help a painfully shy, introverted kid fit in any better.
I am an avid reader, especially classics, so I would have loved being an Elizabeth, Victoria or Catherine.
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Post by valincal on Jun 23, 2022 0:12:31 GMT
I don’t mind my name, neither the full version nor the short version. My parents each made lists of names when I was born and took turns crossing them off each other‘s list one by one…I just missed being a Tracy! I prefer Valerie. It wasn’t as common as Tracy was when I was growing up. 🙂
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scrapngranny
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Post by scrapngranny on Jun 23, 2022 1:13:59 GMT
I don’t mind name, it was generational, not as bad as the Jennifer/Heather craze. My name is Janet, dull and boring in my opinion. The only thing I don’t like is being called Jan. On my dad’s side of the family and the grands are called by our full names. That kind of sounds funny at this age.
There are a lot of currently popular names I like, but would not fit a grandma very well. My niece’s daughter just named in new daughter Miller Elizabeth. I have no idea where the Miller came from, but I like it. My DD and I were talking about it and both liked it. My only thought was I wouldn’t like her called Millie.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jun 23, 2022 1:20:07 GMT
I mentioned on the Debbie thread that I didn't like my name when I was a child. I wanted to be a Melinda or a Michelle. My sister got the middle name Michelle, which I was jealous about. My middle name is very old fashioned (after my dad's aunt). I get called all kinds of derivations of the name Megan - Meg, Megs, Meggsy, Meggy, Meeg, Meegie, my ex-MIL always calls me Meegie Mouse. I know that Americans pronounce the name Megan differently than the way we mainly pronounce it here. In Australia it is most often pronounced with a long ee sound, like in the word tee or pee: Mee-gan. When I've heard it pronounced in the US or UK, it tens to be a short e sound, like in 'peg', or a slightly drawn out sound like 'meh'. I don't know what name I would choose if I were to change my name now. I still like Michelle, so maybe that. I wouldn't want to choose something that is trendy now, I'm a 54yo woman for goodness sake! 😆 The only thing I do not like about my name is it’s always mispronounced. Seriously how many ways can people find to pronounce Andrea. You need to move to Australia, there is literally only one way to pronounce the name Andrea. Although I've seen enough "how do you pronounce" threads here to know that it's probably completely different to how you pronounce it hahaha! AN-dree-uh
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Jun 23, 2022 1:28:17 GMT
I mentioned on the Debbie thread that I didn't like my name when I was a child. I wanted to be a Melinda or a Michelle. My sister got the middle name Michelle, which I was jealous about. My middle name is very old fashioned (after my dad's aunt). I get called all kinds of derivations of the name Megan - Meg, Megs, Meggsy, Meggy, Meeg, Meegie, my ex-MIL always calls me Meegie Mouse. I know that Americans pronounce the name Megan differently than the way we mainly pronounce it here. In Australia it is most often pronounced with a long ee sound, like in the word tee or pee: Mee-gan. When I've heard it pronounced in the US or UK, it tens to be a short e sound, like in 'peg', or a slightly drawn out sound like 'meh'. I don't know what name I would choose if I were to change my name now. I still like Michelle, so maybe that. I wouldn't want to choose something that is trendy now, I'm a 54yo woman for goodness sake! 😆 The only thing I do not like about my name is it’s always mispronounced. Seriously how many ways can people find to pronounce Andrea. You need to move to Australia, there is literally only one way to pronounce the name Andrea. Although I've seen enough "how do you pronounce" threads here to know that it's probably completely different to how you pronounce it hahaha! AN-dree-uh That’s close if I’m right in guessing how AN is pronounced. If I had to type it phonetically it’d probably be Ann-dree-uh
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Post by lisae on Jun 23, 2022 1:32:21 GMT
I've never liked my name. It is too common. I've always imagined myself as Elena.
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Post by roxiemarie0524 on Jun 23, 2022 1:34:44 GMT
When my mom was pregnant with me, my parents had a big debate. My dad wanted to name me Rebecca and my mom was of the opinion they should just name me Becki. And I guess they could not come to any agreement about it and therefore decided to name me Roxanne. Well I came out and they took one look at me and decided I was a Becki. I don't like that I was given a nickname and with a misspelling too. But I think my name suits me and I can't imagine changing it. However, I do think it would be very cool had my name been Roxanne. People would be singing/screeching ROOOOOOOOXXXX-ANNE (a la Sting) your entire life. My name is Roxanne…and if I had even a penny for every time I heard that, I would be a very rich woman. I hated my name growing up. It was considered unusual, and it was always misspelled or mispronounced (If I had a penny for every time I was called Roxanna…..) Popular names when I grew up were Jennifer, Lisa, Angela, Sarah, Shannon, Michelle….I always felt…different, but not like in a cool way, more like weird, not really belonging way.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jun 23, 2022 1:45:23 GMT
You need to move to Australia, there is literally only one way to pronounce the name Andrea. Although I've seen enough "how do you pronounce" threads here to know that it's probably completely different to how you pronounce it hahaha! AN-dree-uh That’s close if I’m right in guessing how AN is pronounced. If I had to type it phonetically it’d probably be Ann-dree-uh Yes, I think we're saying it the same way. I nearly wrote ANN-dree-uh as my pronunciation. I thought you'd probably pronounce it ON-dree-uh or ann-DRAY-uh something like that!
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Jun 23, 2022 1:48:03 GMT
That’s close if I’m right in guessing how AN is pronounced. If I had to type it phonetically it’d probably be Ann-dree-uh Yes, I think we're saying it the same way. I nearly wrote ANN-dree-uh as my pronunciation. I thought you'd probably pronounce it ON-dree-uh or ann-DRAY-uh something like that! Lol those are the pronunciations that drive me nuts. Its like nails on a chalkboard.
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Post by compeateropeator on Jun 23, 2022 1:51:32 GMT
People would be singing/screeching ROOOOOOOOXXXX-ANNE (a la Sting) your entire life. My name is Roxanne…and if I had even a penny for every time I heard that, I would be a very rich woman. I hated my name growing up. It was considered unusual, and it was always misspelled or mispronounced (If I had a penny for every time I was called Roxanna…..) Popular names when I grew up were Jennifer, Lisa, Angela, Sarah, Shannon, Michelle….I always felt…different, but not like in a cool way, more like weird, not really belonging way. Sing it sister…no actually don’t. Hahah and I hear you and could have written your post myself. 😄! It is played on every station from oldies to indie rock and multiple times a day. Add in all the people singing it to you…also not my favorite song, actually probably my most hated song. 😆 There was never anything you could buy that was preprinted with my name which always bummed me as a kid. Although after the song came out when I was in high school you saw it a little more.
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miascraps
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Post by miascraps on Jun 23, 2022 1:59:48 GMT
DS was born in 1990. DH and I could not agree on names. So we each wrote a list of our top 10 picks and we would agree on the first match for both girl and boy. Girl was easy, we both had Caitlin first. However, it was crazy popular at the moment, and being a Lisa born in the 60s, I wasn’t doing that again. So I went with Kathleen. My husband’s family doesn’t have any girls, they are all married in, so the chances I’d have a girl were slim. We had no matches on boy names and could not agree. So one night at dinner, at his parent’s house, with all the siblings there, DH announces we cannot agree on a name, so if it’s a boy we’ll just name him after FIL. And we did. Leo. My FIL cornered me later when DS was a baby and said he’d always hated his name and he didn’t understand why we named him that. My reply was, you named your son Stanley and you’re criticizing my name choice?!?! Then we both laughed. I loved my FIL. Too funny! Lolol
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