Spinoff:what is your name and do you like it?

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Anonymous wrote:Karen. I've always hated my name. My childhood dog and older sibling both had names that start with K, so it was really Kutesy. My mother claimed she didn't realize but when we asked what her alternates were, they were Mark and Michelle. I always wished I'd been given a name that lends itself easily to a nickname. I also never felt that my name was pretty or cool in any way.

My friend, Karen, is nicknamed Karey or Kary.

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I have an ethnic, hard to spell, hard to pronounce name. When pronounced and spelled correctly, it is a cool name. I hated it growing up, but I grew to love it in college.

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No total 80s name. Swore I’d change it when o got to be 18, but then other things got in the way. By the time I was changing my name in court from a divorce, I was used to it though I don’t like it.

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Interesting how many of you don't want to state your name.

Christin, but pronounced Christine. German, so the e on the end would result in a different pronunciation (Chris-tee-neh). Now that I'm in the US it's annoying to have to correct everyone from Chris-ton.

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Christina - love it. In childhood I was nicknamed Tina. Not because my parents really liked that nickname, I had have an Uncle Chris confused my older brother, he who thought they were saying, "Chris' Tina". So I was called MY Tina, and then Tina. The minute I left for college, I became Christina. I tried it out in high school, but could only get minimal traction.

With that in mind, I did have conversation with my teens to see how they felt about their name, and if they would prefer to go by a nickname or middle name. I'm happy to call any one the name that they prefer.

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Anonymous wrote:Christina - love it. In childhood I was nicknamed Tina. Not because my parents really liked that nickname, I had have an Uncle Chris confused my older brother, he who thought they were saying, "Chris' Tina". So I was called MY Tina, and then Tina. The minute I left for college, I became Christina. I tried it out in high school, but could only get minimal traction.

With that in mind, I did have conversation with my teens to see how they felt about their name, and if they would prefer to go by a nickname or middle name. I'm happy to call any one the name that they prefer.

MY Tina is so cute.

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Sophie. It's fine.

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It is so weird how names just go out of fashion. No one names their kids Betty, Alice, Carl, or Frank etc anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Heather. Best I can tell, we'll be extinct once all the millenials die.

It might come back once millennials start having grandkids.

My grandma Charlotte would have agreed. Only Charlotte in my life ever.

Then my same age cousin named her daughter Charlotte after my Grandma (or that was just plausible deniability re: Sex and the City).

Then later came Princess Charlotte.

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My name is Dawn. I was born in the late '60s and when I graduated high school in the mid-80's there were 5 of us in my class. I like my name. It is short, so I've never had a nickname except my grandma used to add an "ie" to it when I was little. When I started my first job, my colleagues told me that they assumed my parents must have been hippies. (They were not)

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I have never met anyone with my name. I think my parents just made it up. The story they tell is my aunt had a waitress with this name and they all fell in love with it. Except it’s not a real name. I have been googling it for years and still not a single person with this name. I hated it growing up and I’m neutral at best about it now. The alternative that they were going to name me was way worse, it’s an old man name.

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Julie. It is fine, I don't particularly relate to it.

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My name is Sarah and when I was a kid I thought it to be sooo plain. But now I don’t care. I like that it’s recognizable and easy to pronounce in many languages. It is kind of annoying to be one of many Sarah/Saras at work/school/neighborhood or whatever.

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Anonymous wrote:I love the name Jennifer, nn Jenny, Jen.

I have a name I like a lot, but it was only used for a nanosecond at a certain time, so instantly dates me. I don't love that.

Kristin?
All of us Kristins are dated and there didn't seem to be too many after us. Maybe it will pick up again in another 10-20 years.

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Anonymous wrote:It is so weird how names just go out of fashion. No one names their kids Betty, Alice, Carl, or Frank etc anymore.

There are both a Frank and an Alice at my kids school