Ever felt like changing your name?

No, I haven’t. My first name: Dominic, is awesome. I’ve always loved it. It’s strong sounding (the English word most similar to it is “dominate”, after all), and yet I am an effeminate gay boy. :P Plus, “Dominic” means “of the Lord”. I wouldn’t trade it for any other name. My last name, which I’m not revealing, does automatically tell people I am Russian, but that’s a good thing in my opinion.

when i was 6…

I’m happy with my first name and changed my last name when I got married. So, I’m set.

when i was younger i wanted to change my to roxanne.

Not since I was a kid. I always dreaded the first day of school, when the teacher would stumble over my name and mispronounce it. Or, when the teacher would wrongly assume my last name was really my first name and just call me that. By the time I was in high school, I appreciated the uniqueness of my name and wasn’t so bothered by the mistakes. People still constantly spell it wrong.

Now that I’m married, I kind of miss my maiden name. It was simple and easy, and also unique. My husband is Italian, so now I have a crazy last name to go along with my crazy first name. I wouldn’t consider changing it, or keeping my maiden name. Besides, it’s kind of funny to hear people struggle with both my first and last name. :)

Haha, I don’t have a name, but you may address me as Paul.

@lovemypits86 – Was that so you could put on a red light?

yes it was. haha

Never. Although, most people tend to butcher my last name. It’s Melanson. When first meeting people, they say “Mel – ANN – son.” (Ann as in the female name ‘Ann’). That’s incorrect and makes me cringe a bit. It’s pronounced “Mel- awn- son” (awn rhymes with yawn). Now, the French pronunciation is a whole different ballgame. It’s actually, Melançon (check out me doing the correct pronunciation here.)

Yea, kind of. I’d like to shorten my first name and combine it with my middle one: Liz-Renee.

Yes! Growing up there were 6 Jennifers in my 3rd grade class and nobody knew who was who, so we had to go with our last initial and then there were 2 of us that had the same last initial so I ended up being Jen-Jen (not too bad) Unfortuntly, a friend of mine a few years back had a son that was just learning to speak, his first word was en-en and EVERYTHING was en-en – a dog barking, a car…. his mom. lol. And the fact that it’s easy for kids to say my name 50 billion times in 1 breath. I told the kids I changed my name to Obi Wan Kenobi and I would not answer them until they got it right. Hey it worked for a really long time lol

I liked Mike Hunt.

I’m contemplating changing my name, or at least deciding on a more English speaker friendly name for the sake of my work.
Though I love my given name, (it’s a beautiful name) English speakers find it difficult to learn. I used to love that my name was so unique, but now it only seems to be off putting and alienating. And also, honestly, it is very difficult for English speakers to appreciate what is beautiful about my name- which makes me not want to share it with them at all.
I say “English speakers” as I live in a English dominated country, and my name is non-english.

Yes…I don’t like my name, but it is unusual.

I love my name and my last name together. My last name is really common, though…

I’m very competitive so I’ve been thinking about changing my name to Aaron Aardvark so I can be the first name in the phone-book.

P.S. My name IS Mike Hunt and apparently everyone loves me, but I can’t figure why.

I thought about changing my name, not because I didn’t like mine, But Anything that could go wrong did for while. Murphy Law seemed to fit. Of course, my brother wanted to change his to Buck Naked and do Adult Films.

Yes, being Charles Manson Hitler is getting old.

I’m so used to my name that I couldn’t imagine changing it, but unfortunately it’s also a pretty common stripper name. My parents were originally going to name me Deniz, which means sea, after one of my cousins in Turkey. That would have been pretty cool along with my crazy last name. I don’t know of anyone outside my family who has the same last name I do. I’m pretty sure I’ll keep it if I ever get married.

I like my name, it’s unique but respectable and I get compliments on it all the time. (I’m Truman btw.)

Sure you can call me funny girl. I’m sure I’ve provided many hours of great entertainment for quite as few.. Including myself…...........I crack myself up sometimes.

Superman would suit me just fine. Although probably a little self indulgent. On reflection i’ll keep what my parents bestowed on me thanks.

My name is Beth not Elizabeth either, just Beth. I have always wished I had a less common name. I personally don’t know a lot of people named Beth but there is sure nothing exciting about it at all. If I could have picked my own name I’d have picked Bronwyn, Francesca or Anastasia. My kids are Grace and Jack which aren’t exciting but they are good, solid names that will be good when they are grown up. I thought Grace was a little different but now its really popular. And my husband wouldn’t go for anything far out. We agreed on Grace. I’ve always loved the name Jack so there was no discussion about that one.

Cruiser does just fine for me, except only she knows me by my real name. ;)

There are Sara’s everywhere and there has been since I was born. I’ve always wanted a less common name or a name that’s more ethnic. Even a good nickname would be nice, but I’ve never even had one of those.

Felt like it? Of course.
Any movie ever made that has a younger annoying brother in it, he has the same name as me. I hate that.

Everyone I know (outside of my family) just calls me by my last name. It’s a good simple two-syllable strong manly last name. It’s also typically the name I use in games.

I’ll probably never change my name, as much as I dislike it.

i know my name is Sara too and it’s lame.

@MissAusten, our story sounds almost identical. I will get mail addressed to me saying “Mr.” (first name, last name). I’m female. Or if I’m asked my name, I’ll give them my first name, and they’ll say, “Ok, and your first name?” Yeah, that was my first name that I just gave you. People tend to pronounce my name one of four different ways. I usually just take whatever comes out. They mean well and it just makes them more uncomfortable if I correct them. If it truly doesn’t matter what they call me, I leave it alone. I named my three kids common names so they’d be able to find the mugs, magnets and all those other personalized things that I wanted as a child and knew I’d never find. As a child watching Romper Room, she never looked in her magic mirror and saw me as she called out all those common names! (really I wasn’t scarred by being left out) :)

I have three in mind right now…;)

As a kid, I hated my middle name, Martha. It was so old-fashioned by my reckoning. I grew up in an age of Barbara, Nancy, Laurie, Lisa and Janet, so my first name was unique. I was okay with that. Except the inevitable, “But that’s a _boy’s name!__” That got old. Luckily, I was in the same school system K-12 so only substitute teachers really messed that up.

So, yes, I’ve wanted to change my middle name. Not now though. I’m proud to have my mom’s name as a part of me.

I always wanted to change my name to Elizabeth. With the Z. Why? I’m lame. ^^

i like the name charlie.

My name is Nicholas, which means victory of the people, which is fine with me. It looks pretty good with my last name, so that’s good. I don’t like the nickname, though: Nick. It’s gross, ugly. Too short, but not in a cute way like some short names can be cute.

It alliterates with my last name, which fact I’m ambivalent re. But on its own my last name, which has a weird silent letter and an ambiguous nationality (German? Polish?) is pretty cool. Telemarketers can’t pronounce it, so it’s easy to say, “Nope, that person definitely isn’t here.” Etc.

I always loved my middle name more than my first – it took me a really long time to become a “Samantha” ... so I used to want to be called Rae, but never encouraged it. All throughout school, I was referred to by my last name anyway. Now I’m a total Samantha!

I’ve always wanted to change my names to Hue Jass.

Just so I could order at restaurants LOL

Certainly, because I’ve always wanted to change my gender, and that would necessitate a change of name too.

I will change my surname at some point for professional purposes.

@lfino I don’t bother to correct people either. I just give them the shorter, simpler name that most people call me. Everyone still spells that wrong because my parents used a different spelling than you usually see, but I hardly even notice anymore!

Another reason my name is special to me now (but not something I appreciated as a kid) is that it’s a family name. It’s my mom’s middle name, her aunt’s middle name, and either the first or last name of the oldest daughter in each generation. When my daughter was born, we used it for her middle name. I do get compliments on it a lot as well. :)

My maiden name was Joy, so you can see why going from that to something long and ending in a vowel was quite an adjustment!

Yes hang on—coming up.

I was never thrilled with my middle name, in fact I have avoided using it except as a middle initial. My middle initial is B.

I hated my name as a child. Everyone would say Dammit Janet, or where is Chrissy and Jack? As I’ve gotten older I’ve learned to enjoy my name. I wouldn’t change it now.

@jonsblond I didn’t know you were on Three’s Company!

I changed what I call myself from Janet to Jan about 20 years ago. Janet sounds too harsh to me, and Jan was always a nickname, but now I just introduce myself to people as Jan.

Growing up, everyone called me by my nickname: Archie. I grew to hate that name, though now I don’t mind it. When I hear it, it means it’s someone I knew a long time ago.
I actually did date a girl named Veronica, though not for long.
I got a lot of jokes about Archie Bunker as well.
Today, I am known my my real name, which is Jack.

@janbb Dammit Janet Jan! Why’d you do that!?! Now I’m all alone here! ;)

@jonsblond Don’t think of it as alone, think of it as unique.

Tony Williams, Teresa Green, or Semor Butt.

Lols! some great answers! thanks guys