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Do you like your first name?
If you could change it, what would it be?
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Re: Do you like your first name?
I like my first name.
When I was little though, I wanted to be named Cosette after I saw Les Mis. I was probably totally insufferable, wandering around the house trying to look like a victimized urchin singing "Castle On A Cloud."
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Was it because of the American Girl doll?
I disliked it greatly as a kid. It's everyone's Grandma's name!
I'm sort of whatever about it now. It's a decent name. Although!!! Last winter I went to a restaurant and gave my name to the hostess and watched her write down "Merry".
POSSIBLY..... lol
Although I never owned an American Girl Doll. My mom said they were too much $, which is totally true, and I liked stuffed animals better than dolls anyway. (which makes sense b/c I like animals better than kids now)
But I did name ALL of the baby dolls I had samantha. it was ridiculous.
I also liked that it could be shortened to Sam. like the girl from who's the boss
I like mine OK I guess. Never really thought about it.
It was one of the most common, classic names and that never bothered me, which is why I don't understand the recent trend to name children uniquely.
Maybe its because my name wasn't trendy, just popular?
I do not like my name at all.
I use my nickname as what is in my screenname, and it is just ok to me. My full name sucks.......hard
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
I really like my name. Not very many people have it, yet it's not weird or anything like that.
The only complaint is that it's LONG, so it was a b*tch when I was a kid to write out. lol
I remember being a kid and thinking "when I have a kid, they are going to have a short name like Ann or something." lol.
ETA: I *hate* it when people try to use nicknames with my long name. The nicknames are horrible sounding. Reminds me of a fat boy's name.
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I have a lot of friends that wanted that name because of the Samantha doll and I thought about it too when I was little. I never had an American Doll, but I liked the names Molly and Samantha because of them.
i like it now. i've always thought it was okay, but a bit boring. and it's a family name; i'm named after my aunt. it's a tradition in my mother's family for there always to be an "aunt cvillefirstname," so the sibling of the person with my name is supposed to name one her kids with my first name. i told my brother the tradition can stop with our generation (not that it was a threat). i mean, really. and my aunt is . . . not my favorite person ever.
i campaigned my mom to change my name legally to madeleine, and then to bernadette after i saw the song of bernadette and was convinced that any second now i was going to be visited by visions of mary and become beatified. i used to pray for that in church all the time.
and my middle name is one of the names i consider to be a default, uncreative middle name for a girl (ann/e, marie, leigh/lee, etc.). it's also the same as my mom's middle name.
and my grandmother strongarmed me into taking her actual first name (she went by her middle) as my saint's name when i got confirmed. i wanted bernadette then too.
anyway, NEITHER of my kid's names have ever been, to my knowledge, used by any family member in my or my husband's families. ever. and they're normal, regular names. just not recycled from eleventy billion previous generations.
apparently i have feelings about this.
I didn't really like my name as a kid.
I don't really mind it now, but a lot of the time when I'm telling someone my name over the phone they think I'm saying "Erin" which is annoying.
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I love your first name. It was one of my top baby girl names, until I met DH, and he as a sister and almost FSIL with the same name. I'd still use it if I could though!
Yeah, apparently I can't pronounce my name either, because people often think I'm saying "emmy."
No, I sure don't. I don't know what I'd re-name myself if I could ... That's a crazy tough question!
It's okay. I've always loved the name Katherine for some reason.
My name is Melissa. I hated it when I was a kid because there were always 5 Melissa's in my class.
Same here. I am Allison and they think I am saying either Ellison or Nelson.
Not really.
My name is confused with a guys name frequently,misspelled and hard to pronounce for some people. My siblings have normal names so i am all "wtf" at my name.
LOL... ok, these people are stupid. I get Tiffany and Bethany a lot, which makes more sense than Nelson.
my sister's name is Amy, and she is TOTALLY an Amy. You do not strike me as someone who would be named Amy, even though I knew that was your real name.