Would you change your name?

I assume you are only talking about first names. I wouldn’t change mine.

I like my name, even though it is fairly common. I wouldn’t change it, I think it suits me.

I really like my first name. Wouldn’t change it ever. It fits me perfectly good and I identify with it.

I like my first name. It’s pretty uncommon, and I think I’ll keep it!

I don’t like how incredibly common my name is, but I can’t foresee me ever wanting to change it. I’m not very good at choosing new names.

I haven’t changed mine.

As a child, I didn’t like my given name, but I am rather fond of it now.

When I got married at 24, I didn’t want to take his last name, because I had gone through college and was in grad school and felt it would be a hassle. Plus, his family was beyond dysfunctional, so I preferred not to have it. I suggested that we both change our surnames to whatever name we both liked, but he wouldn’t go for that. I gave our son his name, and sometimes wish I had changed it after the divorce and his father’s subsequent death, because now my son carries those negative associations.

I know a woman in her 50s with a very unusual name. When we met, I asked her of its origin, and she said that she made it up herself and legally changed it because she didn’t like her very common given name. I was curious how her mother felt about that, but I saw them together recently, and her mom calls her by her chosen name; so even if she took offense at her daughter’s rejection of the name she gave her, she’s gotten over it in the years since.

I like my name and I wouldn’t want to change it. It was quite unusual at the time(mid-60s) and I didn’t like it when I was a kid but it’s more common now, and I share it with a well-known British comedy actor. My parents were hippies, so my sisters and I are all named after trees.

@JLeslie Yes, I was speaking of first names but last could also be included… and middles too. Can’t leave the middle out, hmmm I am a middle child. lol

I like my first name and like my last name even better I think. It makes for a very colorful name. My last name is Peacock. I really like it and makes for a memorable name, too, so I have been told.

I like my name. It has connections to a great-aunt from my past and my dad chose it for me. It suits me I think. So no, I don’t have any desire to change my name.

@bent That is cool,trees are one of my favorite things on this earth. Close behind trees would be clouds… don’t think I would like to be named cumulus or altostratus. Trees definitely make for better names!

I’ve never had just one name. I’ve gone through life with five or six names. People gave them to me all the time. I liked it

I love my name because it’s unique, even though about 2 famous models have this name. I wouldn’t want to change it.

I like my given name (now) and cannot imagine changing it, but have never cared for the nickname my parents gave me. When I started kindergarten I was one of 7 with that nickname in the same class (almost half the girls). I have been given 3 other nicknames through the years by friends and coworkers, and I like all three. Unfortunately I am so indoctrinated to use the first nickname I have a hard time calling myself anything else. I have been trying to make it a habit for the last few weeks to answer the phone with my given name. During the work day that happens about 50 times to maybe with repetition I can change.

Nope. Turns out my name is the perfect aspiration for me.

@wundayatta What, Mapass? :D

I’ve never really liked my name, and have thought about changing it, but it would be a royal pain and would likely hurt my parents’ feelings.

I’ve thought about pen names for when I write my great American novel. I’d keep my first name. But my last name is often misspelled by people because it ends in “mon” instead of the more typical “man”, so I would use my mother’s family name, which is Woods. Anyone who can’t spell that… not worth worrying about.

I don’t particularly care for my first name, a lot of people can’t say it right.
I’d probably want to change my name to something that people can easily pronounce. I get called the wrong name all the time. You have no idea how frustrating that is. My brother had the same issue. My dad wanted to name me Emily. Thank god my mom shot that down, I don’t really care for that name, either. I’ve always liked Heather and Stacey.

@WillWorkForChocolate Close. Assmap

I’m very attached to my first name and would never think of changing it… but I did change my surname in 1994, I did this because I no longer wished to use my married name (it was 5 years post the dissolution of my marriage) and I did not, at that point in my life, wish to go back to my maiden name, strangely I would be more than happy to use my maiden name now and I do have retrospective regrets that my daughter and I had different surnames from that point on, she was then aged 8, but at that particular time in my life picking up my maiden name again felt like a backward step and I was definitely moving forwards.

I don’t much like my name (hence my use of a female name that isn’t my own as a username, although I don’t much like ‘Mariah’ anymore either), but that doesn’t mean I would change it. Somehow changing my name feels like a big “fuck you” to my parents, which I would never want to do.

I had the most common name the year I was born and it’s a pretty boring name to boot (Lisa), so I hated it when I was younger. Someone would yell out my name in school, and 5 or 6 girls would turn around. I mangled it in several ways (spelled it weird, tried to get a nickname) trying to be more unique, but it never stuck. I’m fine with the name now, though. Honestly, I feel like Auggie suits me better.

I would and I intend to do so (full name) at some point. I haven’t felt like I’m the person the name was given to for a long time now.

My parents spelled my name Judy. I’m a Judith, (hate that name) so in 5th grade I just started going by Judi. It stuck.

My first, middle, maiden and married names are Norwegian, Swiss/German, Scottish/English/ Irish. I would be very surprised if anyone else in the world has the same name. My first name has always been difficult for people to remember, but once they know it, they don’t forget it. It was sometimes embarrassing when people asked, “No, what’s your first name?” Now I don’t care.

Like @augustlan, my first name was common for my generation. In college, there were five of us with the same first name on our dorm floor. Years later, there were three of us working in the same dept.

I’ve never really felt connected to it. For some reason, most friends, co-workers and family members come up with some other pet name to call me. Then there are those that slip and call me by my mother’s name, sisters’ names, or something that sounds remotely similar. One time, my SO’s father called me by his other son’s wife’s name. I just take it in stride. Then there was the time that Mom called me by the dog’s name. That one caught me off-guard.

As for changing my name, I will probably do so once I get married. Not the first name though. The surname will be replaced by the middle name, and the SO’s surname will become mine as well. For several reasons, it will just make life easier, despite the fact that how to correctly pronounce it is a challenge.

My name was changed at the last minute after I was born. Apparently my parents couldn’t make up their minds, my mother wanted me named after my dad, he wasn’t keen on the idea & chose a different name. This was agreed in principle overnight until her suggestion won through, mothers tend to get their way in the end.
I lke my name & am perfectly happy to keep it, second time around.

I have one of those female names that sound so incredibly boring, reliable, and uninteresting I was destined to become a nerd of some sort. Having said that, I can not imagine me with any other name. (So, I simply adopt alter egos when I call myself by a different name.) Muuuaahhh ahahaha. (that is my evil laugh.)

Ah man, I had the same problem as Auggie with my name being common in high school. I took one math class where literally a third of the class was Rachels (there were four of us). The worst was that one of them was a really popular girl, so I was always hearing “hey Rachel” and turning around when they weren’t talking to me. It got to the point that I stopped responding to my name when I heard it because it was just safe to assume that there was another Rachel around somewhere.

I don’t hate my name and so I wouldn’t bother legally change it but there are plenty of names that I think sound nicer than mine. I also prefer people to shorten my name to Lee. My surname isn’t exactly unique but I am really fond of it so, even if I were to get married, I don’t think I would be happy to change it.

Yes, because it’s a European name that barely anyone can pronounce properly without some initial coaching. Sometimes it’s just embarrassing for me to listen to people say it so incorrectly.

At my job we had a few employees who came from China. When they first arrived they were using Americanized first names, but when their coworkers showed an interest in their real names and learning to pronounce them correctly, they went back to using their true names.

I always say I’d like to change it, but if the opportunity came up, I don’t think I would. I’m fine with it, and really, getting used to another name might be weird, and I’d feel sad if I changed it, since it was given to me. Lol.

@blueberry_kid your name kicks ass :D

@Symbeline Your name is perfect for you. It’s exotic,erotic, and mysterious.

Only if I had to. My first name flows nicely into my last name, and the whole thing has a grandiose cadence and generally sounds pretty cool when spoken loudly into an echoy space.

@Symbeline Yours’ too!!!

@Adirondackwannabe We have the same name.

I like my first name. I just don’t think it suites me very well.

The funny thing is that I usually go by a shortened derivative of it that I don’t like as much, but that I think suites me better.

I wouldn’t want to change it though. It’s like an old oversized sweater. A bit ill-fitting, but familiar and cozy.