Okay my names kayla but it doesnt seem like a great name ?? im getting really sick of it and im only a teen!!?

Question

Kayla is a really popular name and well it sort of has lost its uniqueness and im getting sick of it every where i go there is a kayla or makayla is my name to common??

Answer 1

It's a beautiful name with a beautiful meaning (Pure & Beloved).
Just be happy that your parents didn't follow the trend that mine did and just made up a name. At least people say your name right, LOL. I don't even correct people anymore.

Answer 2

I know exactly how you feel! My given name was one of the three most popular names for baby girls in the decade of my birth. I loathed and detested being one in a sea of kids with the exact same name. But, like Kayla, it was so short that there didn't seem to be anyway to twist it into a nickname or somehow make it *my* name.

I tried everything - different spellings, going by my initials, asking to be called by my first and middle names together. Nothing stuck. My mother was baffled - she has a long, unusual family name and thought I'd love having a short, common one. In fact, she'd bucked generations of family naming tradition to choose my hated moniker.

In my late 20s, I finally took pen to paper and legally changed my name. My new name derives from my birth name, and I actually kept my birth name as my first name. So now I'm J. Verity. And I finally *feel* like my name suits me.

The nice thing about being J. Verity is that when I do see people from my childhood, they simply think that they never knew my middle name. Wrong, of course, but who knows their friends or students or neighbors full names? It seems like a polite way of getting my way without being too splashy about it.

A legal name change costs a few hundred dollars, and ticks off your parents, so you might want to wait until you're out of the nest. I did my name change right before finishing graduate school. That way I started my career with my new name. If I had it to do over again, I'd have done it sooner - probably right before I finished college.

My mother insisted that hating my name was a phase I'd grow out of, but I must say that when you know, you know.

My sister, who kept her equally popular name, still gripes about it.

Hang in there - you'll have to be Kayla for a while longer, but you don't have to be Kayla forever. Grow up and become K. Something, or even Katharine Laura or something that Kayla could've been derived from. There are plenty of ways to keep a link to your past while finding a better name for the future.

Best wishes.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Kayla is just popular!! Just deal with it!! Your a teen so why are you in the baby name section?

Answer 5

Its too bad your stuck with it. Its a nice name, doesn't matter if its common. Maybe you could use your middle name instead if you have one, just switch the order

Answer 6

I think every girl goes through the stage of hating their name as a teenager. don't worry about it, you will like it again soon

Answer 7

no its not 2 common its a great name i actually wisk it was my name its great and it has a great sound 2 it i love it no matter what.

Answer 8

I agree its unfortunate.......same thing happened to me, Im Chelsea, and now there are tons of little Chelseas......my mom was being unique, and now look what happened. it pisses me off alot, so i can understand why youre annoyed.

Answer 9

i love the name kayla, it's adorable... and consider yourself lucky that you're not another 'katie'.