what names did you consider?

When I was 9 years old I quite fancied myself as a "Sophie" and subsequently brought home school reports alerting my parents to a possible identity crisis.

i've wanted to change my last name to my mom's maiden name.

i've never cared for my dad's family. my paternal grandmother used to call me sissy mama's boy and a few other choice names. as did most of the rest of them.

but because i love my dad and think he's great i've kept it what it is.

ehuffnsd said:

WTF!

ZombieKitten said:

people are cruel.

I was going to change my name to an unpronouncable smell, but then I realised I wouldn't know if someone was calling my name or just farting.

ehuffnsd said:

thankfully not everyone

unique said:

my mum used to always say "yes?" when me or my sister farted

ZombieKitten said:

I just wanted to change the configuration of my name: "Lynn Mariah" to "Mariah Lyn".
I went thru a period of "L. Mariah" in college because I truly hate "Lynn".

chocolate1 said:

that sucks

Teena Louise..

apparently my mum was going to call me that, she even has a new born card with that name in it..

But i got Tracy instead.

prb said:

wow! weird
why did she change her mind?

This was something I had to seriously consider when I was planning to move to the UK 10 years ago (well, I did in fact move there, but decided to come back anyway). See, my real name isn't necessarily something that most English speakers would be able to pronounce to any satisfying degree, so it was always awkward definitely ("who the hell is this "Zahree Eskhelaighnen" person they keep referring to when speaking to me anyway?"). I could never figure out what I should be called instead, even if I tried changing vowels here and there and abbreviating the last name ("Eskelinen" apparently has become "Eskelin" for many American immigrants for example). Other than that, I never really knew my father either and didn't really see much point continuing using his name. To be honest, I wasn't comfortable with my birth name until around the age of 24 or so. so I guess when I didn't have any trouble with it anymore it also signalled that I was getting over the loonier phase in my life as well.

Since I've abbreviated the first name to its initial letter for some of the music work I've done. the fun part is that I should be placed quite close to J.S. Bach on discogs listings.

ZombieKitten said:

my rugrat was gonna be kyle james, it was a just in case name if we had a boy we were told we were having a girl...
we had a boy...and called him benjamin

novabrkr said:

how do you pronounce your first name correctly?

prb said:

my first one got the name I'd chosen for my kids (I'd picked out Oscar and Mia - since I was going to have one of each )

the next one got Walter (on a whim - we were in a shoe shop in Morón, Buenos Aires and there was a poster of a soccer player, Walter something

the last one was named by his 2 older brothers as they were watching Max and Ruby on telly

If I'd had a girl she would have been Shamila, that was the dream name I would have embroidered onto a cushion if I'd been like Charlotte on SATC.

ZombieKitten said:

I love Max and Ruby

I still havent seen the first SATC movie..and they are making another one

prb said:

I haven't seen more than one episode of it EVER, it just happened to be the baby shower one

ZombieKitten said:

lol

prb said:

just like the only episode of Friends I ever saw was when Joey and Chandler accidentally had the porn channel. ANd I saw it TWICE.

ZombieKitten said:

i watched a lot of Friends

I think I will change my name to Desmond Wolf.

ZombieKitten said:

I used to write "Tom" on my school papers.

My cousin (who was like my twin sister) was "Jerry."

We still call each other Tom and Jerry sometimes.

I want Dave to be my real name, so real I would hardly handle it.

I like David, but I absolutely despise that name on me. I even refuse to state that name on official documents for school

It sounds ridiculous, but when someone calls me David it gives me the shudders.
In English it wouldn't even sound that bad, but the German pronounciation of the name is just gross.



Dave for President!

Electric chair for David.

Dave1992 said:

Aelis said:

"Damn it, David, this is an official document that will be sent to school office!"

"I am not David. My name... is... (mysteriously sounding) ~*+Dave+*~. Bitch!"



You know, like in that Love Symbol segue!

We talked about it once, didn't we?
[Edited 9/17/09 8:12am]

Dave1992 said:

Mhm, I remember

In junior high I wanted to go by my middle name. I though Joni was too weird and sometimes people would mispronounce it (like "johnny"). I told the teachers to call me by my middle name, but only one of them took me up on it. The thing is that he kept saying my middle name and I didn't answer because I forgot I was supposed to be answering to that instead. I gave up after a few days.

Now I don't mind Joni -- it's uncommon, but not freakishly weird.


(Side note: I was supposed to have been named Tricia, but then someone in my very small hometown had a baby girl and named her Tricia, so my parents chose Joni. I'm glad b/c my last name starts with a "T" and I'm not so big on alliterative names. My brother was supposed to be Matthew, but the same thing happened so he ended up with Darren. )

I was supposed to be called Sarah. I don't know why my parents changed their minds.

jone70 said: