Do you Wish you Were Born With a Different First Name?

Question

I can't remember answers to the last five times you answered this question. Do you like your first name?

Colder I wouldn't remember it anyway. I'm bad with names.

Always, the question nitpickers.

Answer 1

No it doesnt feel like my name at all. I think I got it by default to "match" my twin brothers name - and the "alternate" names my mother had considered were even worse ! Honestly I can say I dislike my name very much ! When I hear it I always wonder who is being addressed. not me. It is SO unsuitable no one ever remembers it in fact --

My friends have NEVER called me by my given name - so I have had more than few nicknames and one has stuck and that one is a name that I DO identify with - it feels like me.

Most people call me "Dee" which is much better than my given name and only Granny knows the name I identify with - and which feels like me that was given to me years ago by a close friend and has "stuck" --- :-) Granny liked it immediately as well and felt it suited me -- I sign my emails "D" because honestly I am just lazy :-)

And -- my name rhymes with the Norwegian word for fart

Edited to add: your parents can have your name picked out long before you are born so whether it "suits" you or not you are stuck with it -- AND if one more person tells me that stupid joke about denise and denephew I will flatten them

Answer 2

Actually wish I had been born to different parents. First name is the nickname for the long version of several other names. The teachers would ask what my real name was. Common practice back then to attach a boy's name for the middle name. Then the teacher's spoke both names together. My middle name was for a Great Aunt though. She had 11 sisters and only 1 brother.

Answer 3

I was born in August, so my Mother named me June. Now that's not bad. It could have been worse, maybe April or May. The only problem is or was, is I am a boy. My father called me William. It sure was Hell growing up. Do you know how many times I ate dirt fighting on the ground? I grew up for many years and on my 60th birthday I went and had my name changed legally to Betty Sue. I like this name a lot better. My friends still call me Bill or William. My Mother had 7 boys before she had a girl and then she named her after her Father ... Patrick. Could never figure her out. Well I have to go as my two brothers Helen and Mary are going out to dinner

Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Nollaig Shona Dhuit
( Inglais) (Espanol) (Gaelic)

Answer 4

Are you kidding me? LOL. I've always hated my name. Especially since someone made up a poem that was hurtful
when I was little. If only my grandma had not been allowed to choose my name, and my parents also hadn't gone along with
it. My grandma gave me the name of Sharon, from the bible,
she once told me. And mom wanted to name me, Alexi. To
honor her dad, Alexander, who she idolized.
I guess my dad had nothing special in mind. However he
gave me a nickname, and stuck with it my entire life. He
chose to call me, Shawna. From his Irish ancestry. I was
Shawna, til his dying day. No one else, used it, except him.
I hated Sharon, and changed it to Shari, when I was in
highschool. So except for something 'legaleze', I am Shari.
And yes, I definately wish I'd been given a different name
when I was born. But since my other option would have been
Alexi, (which is coming into vogue now as 'Lexi'), I'll stick with
what I've got, I guess.

Answer 5

Dear Wickwire, of course I wish I were born with a different first name. Who wants to go through life with literally every person you're introduced to saying, "Sherry? Oh. Like the Wine?" I changed it when I was 21 and I would never make a smart remark about anyone else's name, not after 21 years of hearing that inane question. --F.

Answer 6

As you know I wasn't raised by my parents but my grandparents. Well, as though that wasn't bad enough ( I'm laughing here this is meant to be funny, not sad) my mom named me Eva which being born around the Hilter time period
....do you remember his girlfriend's name? That's right Eva Braun. I never heard anyone else with my name, until I was 12.
To top this off, I had celebrated my birthday on the 6th for many, many years, only to discover that it was on the 7th.
Mom forgot when I was born. We, in the family had the biggest laugh about this and now I get cards for both days, and on our Family site, it says; Mom's birthday ( 6th) Mom's other birthday (7th). ( I got off track again Wickwire, sorry)

Answer 7

No I like my first name, it comes from an Irish name. Of which I am.
It's my middle name, I do not like, Cecilia. Actually it's spelled Cecelia on my birth certificate. I changed the E to an I. I rarely use it so it really doesn't matter.

Answer 8

I hated it growing up because it sounded like a name for an old woman. Never used it was called by the nickname on my avatar!
Now I have grown into the name Virginia quite nicely, maturity and all!

Answer 9

since my first name rhymes with "coward" it got me into a lot of fights as a kid.Now this didn't upset the colonel so much as it did my mother.Well , as we all know, women win all the arguements and the colonel said to quit fighting or I may not have another little brother of sister. It took a while ( about 10 yrs) to realize where he was coming from !

Answer 10

My first name is Sharyn....I hated it and no one could ever spell it correctly any way. On my bills, they insist I spell my name wrong, my computer always says I mispelled my name My cousin who is 2 weeks younger than I am was also called Sharon, we both had the same middle name...Lee. My parents called me Shary or Shar

I worked for this doc and had to initial everything I wrote in patient charts and for deliveries. My initials are SLK, the doc thought my name was Silk and it stuck,

Eve T: My grandmothers name was Eva