Do you ever wish you had a different name?

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I HATE my middle name. I am thoroughly embarrassed by it. Nobody knows it, not even my brother. And I ain't telling. Do you ever wish you had a different name?
 

Yes. My first name is very unusual, so much so that I always have to explain its origin to everyone I meet. (Not all that interesting; my mother looked it up in a name dictionary.) And I have no middle name to switch to, so I am really stuck with it. By now, I'm pretty used to it, though. (It's not Sunny, needless to say.)

When my three children were born, they all got very ordinary, recognizable names.
 
My first name is a common name with a somewhat uncommon spelling. I always have to say, yes, but with a _____.

My middle name looks like it has a letter left out of it. In fact, when I was 17 and had to get a copy of my birth certificate for my first passport, the spelling of my middle name had been changed. The lady at the bureau pulled out the original certificate and showed me where someone had crossed it out, "corrected" the spelling and dated it. No name or initials were on the change, though. I actually had to swear an affidavit before a judge that the name had been changed incorrectly in order to get it back to the original spelling. My high school diploma also had my middle name spelled wrong; apparently someone there also thought I had it spelled wrong on my paperwork. See the pattern?

For some reason, as a child I wanted to be named "Esmeralda". Did I mention I was a strange child?

My mother got my complete name from a death notice in the newspaper. She also insists it's pronounced differently than how I pronounce it. Did I mention I have a strange mother?
 
jujube said:
My first name is a common name with a somewhat uncommon spelling. I always have to say, yes, but with a _____.

My middle name looks like it has a letter left out of it. In fact, when I was 17 and had to get a copy of my birth certificate for my first passport, the spelling of my middle name had been changed. The lady at the bureau pulled out the original certificate and showed me where someone had crossed it out, "corrected" the spelling and dated it. No name or initials were on the change, though. I actually had to swear an affidavit before a judge that the name had been changed incorrectly in order to get it back to the original spelling. My high school diploma also had my middle name spelled wrong; apparently someone there also thought I had it spelled wrong on my paperwork. See the pattern?

For some reason, as a child I wanted to be named "Esmeralda". Did I mention I was a strange child?

My mother got my complete name from a death notice in the newspaper. She also insists it's pronounced differently than how I pronounce it. Did I mention I have a strange mother?
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My "legal" first name also has a unique spelling. For my entire life, I have to remind folks how it is spelled differently from how they would spell it. Legal papers... Employment paperwork... Insurance... EVERYONE wants to spell it wrong.
 
jujube said:
My first name is a common name with a somewhat uncommon spelling. I always have to say, yes, but with a _____.

My middle name looks like it has a letter left out of it. In fact, when I was 17 and had to get a copy of my birth certificate for my first passport, the spelling of my middle name had been changed. The lady at the bureau pulled out the original certificate and showed me where someone had crossed it out, "corrected" the spelling and dated it. No name or initials were on the change, though. I actually had to swear an affidavit before a judge that the name had been changed incorrectly in order to get it back to the original spelling. My high school diploma also had my middle name spelled wrong; apparently someone there also thought I had it spelled wrong on my paperwork. See the pattern?

For some reason, as a child I wanted to be named "Esmeralda". Did I mention I was a strange child?

My mother got my complete name from a death notice in the newspaper. She also insists it's pronounced differently than how I pronounce it. Did I mention I have a strange mother?
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I like my first name but it's not spelled the way it was on my birth certificate. Somehow before I started school I went from Krisztina to Christine. Christine is legally my name though now.
I wanted to be called "Clementine" when I was young, Jujube. :)
 
If you don't like your name, then, by all means, CHANGE IT !

All it takes is a few bucks and an understanding judge.

For the life of me, I fail to see why a person can go through life hanging on to a "funny" name.

Some names border on the obscene...ugly sounding, WAY too long, difficult to pronounce/spell etc.

Just because "family" wouldn't approve of a change. It's NONE of their business.

I've wasted precious minutes standing in line behind some person in the bank or check out counter who takes
what seems like hours for them to sign a check/receipt !

WHY ??

Also, while were at it, BE CAREFUL what you name your kids. Why saddle THEM with some goofy name
that THEY will be ashamed of in THEIR lifetime ?

There are SO MANY things to think about when making a stupid assignment.

(End of rant.)
 
My middle name should be my first. That is what every one calls me. It is spelled wrong on my birth certificate but no one has ever mentioned it where I have had to show it
 
At least the names from our generation are not as weird as some of the ones from to-day's generation;
especially those from the movie stars.
I am Eileen Shirley and I don't mind that at all.
 
My first name is a very common name ..but I'm constantly asked .."With a E " NO. .....
My children raging in ages 51 -- 43 all have common names

Modern family's are naming their children some strage names now days ...( strange to me and many others ) I wonder how many of the children born today will change their names when they grow up
 
I used to hate my first name. It's Gregory. Seems my mother had a crush on Gregory Peck the movie star when I was born, so he hung that moniker on me. It wasn't so much the name Gregory, or Greg that bothered me. It was the nicknames she made up for it when I was little. One of them was Gegee. Pronounced Geh-gee. God I hated that. And then there was the way she would call me in from outside. She would always drag it out Gregoreeeeeeeeeeeeee! Hated that too. It was like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

I had pretty much gotten over that and was getting OK with my name and then along comes "The Walking Dead" and the most miserable pathetic weaselly character on the show has to be named "Gregory",

Thanks writers of The Walking Dead.:rolleyes:
 
Where I used to work in Polk County Florida one of the Secretary's had two kids. A boy and a girl. And her husband had named them after two of his guns. The Girl was named "Kimber" and the boy was "Colt".

https://www.kimberamerica.com/

http://www.colt.com/

You probably think I am making that up, but I swear on my dead mother's grave it's true.

Polk County rednecks, ya gotta love em.
 
Sunny said:
Yes. My first name is very unusual, so much so that I always have to explain its origin to everyone I meet. (Not all that interesting; my mother looked it up in a name dictionary.) And I have no middle name to switch to, so I am really stuck with it. By now, I'm pretty used to it, though. (It's not Sunny, needless to say.)

When my three children were born, they all got very ordinary, recognizable names.
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Bingo! Me, too, except that my mother didn't get it from a name dictionary. It was the name of a pen pal she had in France before the war as part of her high school French class.

It's not an awful name, just one that Americans seem determined to mispronounce and misspell. I hated it as a child but have grown into it. Now I use it, correct people when they mispronounce it.

I also gave my three children very ordinary, recognizable names...names that can be spelled and pronounced without difficulty.
 
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