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Re: Do you like your name/Why

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Ant wrote:Not really given much thought to "liking my name" or not, it's just a name, I've learnt to live with it!
I know exactly what you mean about being in the doo dah, if my mother shouted "Antony" I knew I was in trouble, otherwise everyone I've ever known calls me Tony. :D
Funny looking at my husband's photo books, there's a lot of " There is Frank, Antonee and Cahhmine...then you look at a different picture and "There's Frank, Antonee and Cahhmine, no these ahh the OTHER ones"...seems like the only three names for about twenty guys in the family...
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I really like my first name. "Gabrielle" it's elegant.
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Growing up and attending school, I hated my name. It's Aries named for my zodiac sign. I'm always mistaken for a boy by almost all my teachers in grade school and high school. But while I'm in college I learned to love it cause my professors can remember me. There are a lot of Christine's, John's, Mary's, etc., in my classes so it makes me stand out.
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I've never really liked my name. Christina. I just don't like the way it rolls off my tongue. :?
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No I dont. I hate my name. People pronounce it wrong and call me lassie. LIKE THE DOG.
Drives me crazy. It's laci. Like 'ooh pretty lacey thing' not 'here doggie.'
I begged my mom to let me change it and she got all teary eyed and pouty and I just can't handle that haha.
All of my friends call me something else. Husband calls me Ace. Family calls me maymay for my middle name.
Laci. Mae. Payne. I wasn't blessed when it came to names. I looked it up and my name literally means Boy Matthew (Matt's my husband's name so that makes it even more complicated) Payne.
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I really like my first name. It can be kind of annoying sometimes when people misspell it, but other than that, it's not bad at all. My first name is Lottie.
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When I was little I hated my first name, and tried to get everyone to call me by my middle name. But I've grown to love my first name!
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Yes I like my name (Tayla) because it's unique and I have never met anyone else with my name. I have online but never met anyone with it and I know for a fact no one at my school has it or any school I have been to. I looked in school year books.
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This is sort of a tricky question for me. I like the spelling of my name because it's still pretty unique, even though it seems to be catching on. But I've never felt my name was me. I just don't think i fit my name. Aimee is a really nice name, but i feel weird calling myself that because it's not me...does that make any sense?



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I went through a phase of disliking it a bit...just wondering if something else would suit me better, I guess? I really like it now, though. Except that everyone always assumes my full name is Jessica when in fact my full legal name IS Jessie. But that's not a fault of the name itself.
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I never liked my name. It's too simplistic and popular. I would rather have a name that was not as common as Katherine.
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nope,It's so boring but it's kinda unique.
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Love my name. Holly. Best name ever.
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My name is okay (Ryan). It's nothing special, but it'll do :)
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I used to hate my name.
I couldn't find it in any name books.
My name had no meaning because it hadn't been defined in a book.
At least that's how I felt. Stupid yes but it's how I felt.
Thankfully I grew out of that.
It's my name. I like my name.
I now (thanks to google) know what it's from.
It...fits. Somehow.

And at least I didn't have to share it with anyone. :P
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