Changing your first name?

[Anonymous]

If you could change your first name, what would it be? Growing up, I always wanted to be a Crystal (ie Crystal Gayle).

[Anonymous]

I don’t like any other name enough to change the one I’ve had for 40 years. The ones I like, I have to my daughters.

[Anonymous]

Me and every other woman I know named Karen has considered this in the past few years.

[Anonymous]

Candy. I just love the nickname, i knew this very nice lady with that name growing up who looked just like dolly parton

[Anonymous]

If I was required to change my first name, it would be to what my mom originally wanted to name me. However, I like my name and have no plans to change it.

[Anonymous]

I wanted to be Monica or Leslie from the time I was a very little girl, because I heard those names on General Hospital, which my mother watched, and those women seemed very glamorous and beautiful. Lol.

[Anonymous]

My mother told me that she almost named me Tabitha after the little girl in Bewitched. I would have liked that.

[Anonymous]

Elle

[Anonymous]

I like my name, but for myself I like the names Claire and Emily too.

I'm not sure I'd pick either for a daughter, but they'd suit me, I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Me and every other woman I know named Karen has considered this in the past few years.

Yep, and sometimes depending on who I'm talking with or who is physically around me, I have provided my middle or Hebrew name instead of admitting my name is Karen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I was required to change my first name, it would be to what my mom originally wanted to name me. However, I like my name and have no plans to change it.

My mom was only considering Michelle before choosing Karen.

[Anonymous]

I've never thought of it seriously, but I have thought about what I would like to be if I could pick my own name. I have a common 80s girl name (well, a common name for all eras honestly) and the commonness doesn't bother me but the inability to make easy nicknames does.

I think, for that reason, I'd like a nick-name-able name like Amelia, Madeline, or Elizabeth. If I could pick. But I would never change my name, I like it and obviously have grown attached to it.

[Anonymous]

I always liked the name Annabel. It sounds classic yet whimsical and has the lovely Edgar Allen Poe poem Annabel Lee.

[Anonymous]

When I was a kid, I always named myself Stella when we were playing house or pretend.

In high school (Irish Catholic in Chicago) I always wanted a double barrel name like Mary Kate, Mary Claire, Mary Beth

[Anonymous]

Pippa