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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I knew a little girl about the time Princess Bride came out who told her parents she wanted to change her name to Buttercup. Her parents told her to live with that name for a few years and then they'd consider it if it was still what she wanted. They called her Buttercup and asked that her teachers, relatives and friends did the same. I was a few years ahead of her in elementary school and don't think I ever knew what her real name was - we all called her Buttercup. [/quote]

HAHA! I was going to post about how when I was four I spent at least a year demanding to be called Buttercup.

OP, FWIW, I spent probably the majority of my childhood wanting to change my name. First it was Buttercup, then for probably a year or two it was Julie (the neighbor's dog's name and my favorite stuffed animal's name), then once I was tweenage I wanted to go by various pronunciations of my own middle name and/or different spellings for my first name. My mom started going by her middle name in high school so maybe that's where I got the idea, who knows. At any rate, my parents said if I still wanted to change my name when I was old enough to legally do so, I could. Of course, I never did, although I continued to play with the pronunciation of my middle name up into my 20s.

If my daughter wants to change her name when she's a kid (she's only an infant now), I'm pretty sure I would tell her she has a beautiful, symbolically important name that we chose very carefully and purposefully, and if she wants to change it when she can legally do so that is her business. But for now, her name is her name and maybe we can talk about nicknames if it's that important.[/quote]

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