In the laughable supposition that I have any reader who does not read Swistle, please go here to participate in the most fascinating discussion, which I originated.
I posed this question to Swistle to discuss later, but I'm going to go ahead and bring it up now: In the above discussion of names, it became apparent that many of us do not like our own names. I am curious, if you are one of those people, assuming it was easy and you wouldn't hurt your parents' feelings, etc etc., what would you re-name yourself and why?
I've been thinking about this for a couple of days now and although I don't love my name, I cannot come up with any other name that just screams ME. I know that's a lame cop out and I'll keep thinking of it. Until then use this as something to ponder while you're choking down lumpy mashed potatoes pretending to be interested in your Uncle Vern droning on about the football game he single-handedly won his senior year of high school.
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I really have always like my real name (which is not Marie, BTW). It's fairly commen, but I've met lots of beautiful people with my name. In fact, my very bestest friend and I share a name. How cool is that?!
So no. I would not rename myself.
I like my name (not Daisy). It is common, but it really suits me. I had a fun nickname in high school, so that was pretty fun. A few people still call me that. I do not, however, like my middle name. It's my mom's, grandma's, and mother-in-law's middle names as well. Jean. Bleck. I just don't like it.
I'll pony up with real names. I am Donna Angelina and I don't really care for either. Donna is a name for our parents' generation. I guess it's ok that there were never any other Donnas when I was growing up. When that stupid movie LaBamba came out in junior high, I tried to go by Angelina for a while because let me tell you how f-ing sick I got of hearing "Oh, Donna" over and over and over and over....
All that being said, I can't say that I know what I would change my name to at this point. As much as I don't like it, it's just me now. Nothing else sounds right.
Like everyone else, I also like my name. Growing up in a big city at large schools there was still only 1 or 2 others with the same name. Even better is my married last name which is a noun, verb, adjective and an adverb at the same time! Plus it is also funny :o)
I like my name just fine too. I really enjoyed Swistle's entry based on your question. I hope she does this one too.
I took a french class once with 16 stugents in it - 6 had my same name - Jennifer. This is why I have so many damn nicknames - Jenny, Jen, Niffer, Pacer, JP, etc. I answer to just about anything and it doesn't confuse me, but I know it confuses other people.
I like the name and I think it suits me, but it's been strange at times.
It really took me a long time to appreciate my name. Especially since I grew up during the heyday of Personalized Items, and the closest I ever got was "Shannon."
My mom told me once that before she named me Shauna, she was going to name me Tiffany.
I came to like Shauna pretty quickly after that.
I left this comment over at Swistle's, too, but I'm a commenting fool these days, so why not here, too?
My name is Ami (pronounced AH-mee), and the only thing I don't like about it is that I have to spell if for everyone and it gets mispronounced all the time (as Amy). Oh, and it also feels like a cutesy little kid name, but that doesn't bother me as much.
As for what I would rename myself, I don't think I would. My name is just so ME.
I definately don't like my name but I also don't know what name I would like for myself. I used to like my friends to call me "Ho". I know this sounds strange, but it is the shortened version of Heidi Ho, just Ho, Hey Ho what's up? I liked that. I am not really a Ho though.
I guess Jennifer is an ok name. I don't like being called Jenny much, but since that was my name for the majority of my life, that's what the majority of people call me. If I could be another name, I'd call myself Trixie LaRue.
Not really.
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