Anonymous
Post 09/01/2023 18:51     Subject: Changing your first name?
Pippa
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2023 15:35     Subject: Changing your first name?
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
Post 09/01/2023 15:32     Subject: Re:Changing your first name?
I always liked the name Annabel. It sounds classic yet whimsical and has the lovely Edgar Allen Poe poem Annabel Lee.
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2023 15:23     Subject: Re:Changing your first name?
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
Post 09/01/2023 15:23     Subject: Re:Changing your first name?
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
Post 09/01/2023 15:22     Subject: Re:Changing your first name?
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
Post 09/01/2023 15:20     Subject: Changing your first name?
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
Post 09/01/2023 15:18     Subject: Changing your first name?
Elle
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2023 12:07     Subject: Re:Changing your first name?
My mother told me that she almost named me Tabitha after the little girl in Bewitched. I would have liked that.
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2023 12:05     Subject: Changing your first name?
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
Post 09/01/2023 11:56     Subject: Re:Changing your first name?
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
Post 09/01/2023 11:44     Subject: Changing your first name?
Candy. I just love the nickname, i knew this very nice lady with that name growing up who looked just like dolly parton
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2023 11:42     Subject: Re:Changing your first name?
Me and every other woman I know named Karen has considered this in the past few years.
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2023 11:38     Subject: Changing your first name?
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
Post 09/01/2023 11:32     Subject: Changing your first name?
If you could change your first name, what would it be? Growing up, I always wanted to be a Crystal (ie Crystal Gayle).