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I think I''m a bit ambivalent towards my first name (Erin). I don''t hate it by any means, but I don''t love, love, love it either. Growing up, while there weren''t any in my class, there was one a year older and a year younger. It''s still not a name I hear very much, which I do like. Funny thing though, I entered a speech contest in college to get out of taking the final for my speech class. I hadn''t run into one Erin the entire year in any of my classes. I get into this competition and they had broken us up into groups of five. In my group, 3 out of 5 of us were "Erin". It was the weirdest thing ever. I still haven''t run into that many Erins in one place again.
 
Bianca here.

I hated, HATED, it growing up, but the older I got, the more it grew on me. As a kid/teen, I was the ONLY one with my name. Now it''s becoming more common, but in my peer group, I''m still the only one.
 
I have a VERY trendy first name that nearly every girl in the 70s was named! It was so bad in elementary school that I always has to write the initial of my last name on every paper!

It's fine now because I rarely run into others with my name. Where did they all go? Possibly decided to be called by their middle name.
 
Date: 6/5/2009 12:59:51 PM
Author: musey
I have a very uncommon first name which always seemed to get in the way. No one could ever pronounce it, they always wanted to know what it was short for (um, nothing), and when I did meet another person with the name I had this (irrational) territorial response (hey, that''s MY name
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). I still get some of that sometimes - I saw it show up on a PS baby name thread recently and a little voice in the back of my head said ''back off!''
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I''ve always thought I''d give my children names somewhere in-between... maybe between 60-100 on the SSA name list (mine has hovered between the low-300s to 900+ in the past 20 years). That way it would be common to the point that they would come across others with the name often enough to avoid the territorial emotional response, but not often enough to feel like EVERYONE ELSE has their name.



Side note, I still wish I could change the spelling of my first name (to NF''s spelling, actually
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) because it looks prettier and is more intuitive as far as pronunciation... but after changing my last name recently, I think changing the spelling on my first name would be too traumatic
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Lol Musey! I do like my name although I do share some of the same frustrations with it as Musey!
 
I LOVE my name! I used to hate all nicknames associated with Samantha as they were all very masculine, but now I''ve totally embraced them and will answer to Sam, Sammy, Samster, Sammers, etc.
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My name is Laura and I like my first name, but I feel like it's a bit too common. When I was in elementary school, there were 3 of us with the same first name. Then in high school there were three again, but the other two had a different version of the name (Laure and Lauren). Same story in college - 3 of us, but 3 different versions of the same name (two Laurens, but different spellings). I guess I just wish everyone didn't share my name! At my first internship there was even a woman with my exact same name, first and last, and my last name is very uncommon. The poor woman spent the whole summer forwarding emails to me because nobody could get the emails right.

ETA: While on one of those creepy stalker-ish people tracking sites, I realized the woman who worked at the company was the only person in the entire country to share the same first and last name with me. Weird!
 
Like some on here I hated it when I was a child because it is so uncommon and not spelled the way it is pronounced so almost no one would say it correctly. It got to the point that I stopped correcting people!
Now I actually really like the fact that it is unique and have never heard of or met anyone with my same name.
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I''d change my first name in a heart beat. It''s Jennifer. I hated it growing up. HATED it! There were atleast 2 of us in every class if not three. I hated that my last name was attached all the time. My last name starts with an R. And I hate the two R''s (the r at the end of Jennifer and the R of my last name) together. It rolled together and just sounds dumb. People would call me J.R. not junior but J - R. People of a certain generation associate that to J.R. Ewing (sp?) from Dallas I believe. . . whatever. My parent''s second choice for me was Nicole. I''d have much rather had that. There was like 2 Nicole''s in my high school class but they weren''t there in grade school!
 
I absolutely hated my name growing up- I was the only Amber in my school until I was in junior high. I could never find anything personalized, and it matched my last name- which was also a color. People totally made fun of me for that. When I got to high school, Amber because the name for strippers, prostitutes and **** stars, so that was also fun.
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Now, I like it better, and enjoy being the only Amber around our group of friends and family- but it doesn''t make a good "Auntie" or "Mommy" name, I feel. I wanted a name with a nickname, and "Ambie" was NOT a nickname, despite my family using it constantly.
 
Mine was a popular Baby Boomer name. Now, I don''t meet too many Linda''s, just the ones I already know.
 
Date: 6/5/2009 1:53:48 PM
Author: Bia
Bianca here.

I hated, HATED, it growing up, but the older I got, the more it grew on me. As a kid/teen, I was the ONLY one with my name. Now it''s becoming more common, but in my peer group, I''m still the only one.
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DH and I considered Bianca for our DD, but went with Genevieve. We call her Gen-Gen for short and it has stuck. The boys at school call her Genie and she hates it!
 
I think everyone who has given their first name onthis thread has a beautiful name. It''s funny how you never like your first name, but grow to live with it. At least no one mentioned a name like Moon Unit!.....
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unless there is one lurking out there among us!
 
I like mine. Jennifer. I was Jenny all my young life, then when I went to secondary school I thought it was too babyish and made everyone call me Jennifer. Most people ended up calling me Jen. Now it''s kind of a 50/50 mix of Jen/Jenny. Friends call me Jen and family generally call me Jenny. I get called Jennifer at work or if someone''s mad at me
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I love my middle name, it''s my granny''s and it''s slightly, but not too, unusual. I might pass it on to a daughter someday!
 
My name is just right for me. It is beautiful and sounds like a ''normal'' English name (no offense to anyone who likes unusual names) however it is out of fashion and has been out of fashion for all of my life. Therefore, I do not meet people who have this name very frequently. To me this is ideal--to have a beautiful name which doesn''t sound obviously unusual, but which does not have half the room turning their heads around when it is called.

It also sounds very feminine and has a lovely meaning.

Again, no offense, but I personally would not like a name that sounded like a man''s name. (Although they don''t for long. As soon as too many girls get named a male name, whether it is something like ''Lesley'' or something like ''Madison'', the boys stop using this name. Again, I hope not to offend anyone. I chose those two names because they have both changed from male names to female names within my lifetime. There are many others.) Worse of all to me though would be to be named after something trendy, whether it was a soap opera star or a car. Don''t laugh. I do know people named after cars, brands of whiskey and all sorts of things of that nature.

Anyone up for naming their daughter Diamond? It''s interesting--I don''t know anyone who has that for a first name, although among women of a certain age there are lots of Opals, Rubys, Pearls and even some Sapphiras.
But I also don''t know anyone named Zirconia, which would be worse.
 
Date: 6/5/2009 12:51:01 PM
Author: Thomperchik
No. I have a very Hispanic name. My first name is Maria and I''m sure you can guess my last name.

Yuck.
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I think Maria is a beautiful name. If I could have picked my own name, I''d either have picked Maria, or Annette.

I think Spanish names tend to be beautiful and mellifluous, personally. The only problem I ever see with them is when they are done the traditional way (tradtiional in some countries, anyway) that has you add your mother''s maiden name on the end, after your fathers, which can make some of them really really long. But then, this is ahead of its time, isn''t it. VEry feminist.
 
I love my first name, I think it''s quite unique - I''ve never met anyone with the same as me, although I have seen a few with a different spelling. The only issues I had with it were whenever I had a supply teacher - they would always pronounce my name wrong! The weird and wonderful things some of them came up with...

Dayna
 
I like the way my name looks when it's written, but otherwise I've never hugely cared for it. Even though it's not particularly popular anymore (it was HUGELY popular until the 1930's) it's just a bit boring and I always wanted something a bit more unusual.

My daughter is Daisy Xanthe Pandora - so she has a good range of names from the very unusual to one in the top 50 to choose from when she's older!
 
how interesting.. those with "common" names hate the lack of individuality of their name, and those with "uncommon" names hate being excluded from the group, and getting misspellings, and mispronounciations... this is a FABULOUS TOPIC!

Me, the only thing I hate about my name is that people ALWAYS say it wrong to the point of re-naming me. It is really a pain in job interviews or meetings when someone is messing up your name. I''ve gotten over correcting them in the meetings where they are just taking attendence (and I am not an active participant or leader)... and have often considered for professional purposes going by my middle name. LEIGH. at least they don''t really mess that one up... though people are getting better at saying my name after a couple hollywood movies came out.
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I like my name. In 1959 very few girls had it and they still don''t.
 
I like my first name it was somewhat popular in the 80''s, but not too much. Although one of my cousin''s has the same first name and I have 2 friends with the same first name.
I was never given a nickname as a child, so I''m used to being called by my first name, but somehow friends seem to refer to me by a nickname Shel, Shelly nothing too exciting.
I like Michelle but I think I like it more with my middle names and my last name.
 
I was named after my great grandmother - Shaina. I''ve gone through stages of liking my name and not liking it. It always bothers me when people pronounce it wrong (not that I blame them, it''s not the most common name) and usually doctors and teachers seem to think it''s "Shania" even though that''s not how it''s even spelled. My middle name is Rachel and sometimes I wish that''s what I was called.
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minor threadjack:

Why aren''t more girls named Diamond? It seems odd, given that diamonds are so popular. It wouldn''t be a traditional female name, because historically diamonds were not that interesting as jewels for a long time, since they have to be faceted to look pretty and the technology was not there. They don''t have the pretty color of rubies, emeralds, sapphires etc as cabochons so they weren''t valued except as something very very hard before the late 16th/17th centuries. And after that, they were a jewel used by men primarily (Louis XIV was a famous wearer of diamonds) until the 18th century when women began to wear them and then of course in the 19th century when men stopped wearing anything remotely interesting looking(no more lace, no more velvet, no more embroidery) women took them over as prestige jewelry, first noblewomen and then the middle classes, especially after the opening of the South African mines created such a glut of them. And then of course in the 20th century they became THE jewel for engagement rings especially in the US (though I have trouble believing that this was really because of a DeBeers advertising campaign in the late 1940''s. There are too many Edwardian and Art Deco diamond engagement rings still in existence, it seems to me, for this to be quite true, even if it is one of the ''facts'' repeated over and over and over. And I''ve seen Sears Roebucks catalogs from the beginning of twentierth century with lots of diamond engagement rings for sale-- for prices like $5.00 and $10.00!!)

But given their extreme popularity right now, why hasn''t it been picked up as a common given name? Inquiring minds want to know..
 
I''m Elizabeth.

For the first 18 years of my life, on standardized tests I was Elizabet.

LOATHE that. LOATHE.

Another problem is when people mix up my first and last names, because they are both common first girl names. Ugh.
 
hello girls!
Monica is my name, the origin is greek that means...widow, nun, alone, I don''t care about the meaning and I really love my name, the original way to write it in greek is Ìüíéêá. Here in my country Brazil is the name of a famous comic book character named Monica, that has a bunny named Samson and she has the habit of hit the boys with him
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...lol, but my late mom didn''t chose this name because of the comic book, the reason was she met once a little girl named Monica, then she thought that one day she will name her girl as the little girl she met.

have a nice weekend

hugs

Monica



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Gosh...my name in greek almost like.... Movika
 
I''m Melissa. There were 2 of us in my grade, and 2 in the grade below me..4 out of about 60 kids. I''m only Melissa if I''m in trouble or someone is really trying to get my attention. I''ve always gone by Missi. Nobody seemed to like it when I was younger-they insisted it *had* to be spelled w/a Y. I''m like, um, I''m 5, this is how mom says my name is spelled, sorry! I spent several years spelling it "Missie" until I realized that was more common, so dropped the E back off. I don''t know what I''d''ve picked for myself..something not so common tho.
 
I''m an Yvonne. My mom loved French names. I didn''t even know how to pronounce my name growing up! My mom would call me "eee-von" but I couldn''t figure out why there was a "Y" in my name if it sounded like an "E" so I convinced myself it was pronounced "yee-von." Then I grew up and realized that I was wrong.

Anyway, to this day I get "yuh-von" and "Iv-von" and "why-von"...
When I order coffee and they call the name for the order pick up, 95% of the time they call me "Evan" because the person typing in my name spells it "E-V-O-N" in the computer and it just doesn''t translate correctly on the other end...

So yes, I''ve always hated my name but I think it''s growing on me now...
 
Date: 6/5/2009 6:01:16 PM
Author: Black Jade
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Why aren''t more girls named Diamond? It seems odd, given that diamonds are so popular. It wouldn''t be a traditional female name, because historically diamonds were not that interesting as jewels for a long time, since they have to be faceted to look pretty and the technology was not there. They don''t have the pretty color of rubies, emeralds, sapphires etc as cabochons so they weren''t valued except as something very very hard before the late 16th/17th centuries. And after that, they were a jewel used by men primarily (Louis XIV was a famous wearer of diamonds) until the 18th century when women began to wear them and then of course in the 19th century when men stopped wearing anything remotely interesting looking(no more lace, no more velvet, no more embroidery) women took them over as prestige jewelry, first noblewomen and then the middle classes, especially after the opening of the South African mines created such a glut of them. And then of course in the 20th century they became THE jewel for engagement rings especially in the US (though I have trouble believing that this was really because of a DeBeers advertising campaign in the late 1940''s. There are too many Edwardian and Art Deco diamond engagement rings still in existence, it seems to me, for this to be quite true, even if it is one of the ''facts'' repeated over and over and over. And I''ve seen Sears Roebucks catalogs from the beginning of twentierth century with lots of diamond engagement rings for sale-- for prices like $5.00 and $10.00!!)

But given their extreme popularity right now, why hasn''t it been picked up as a common given name? Inquiring minds want to know..
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because it is usually a stripper name?

My name is normal and fine. I am indifferent to it. I usually get compliments on it, which is weird because it''s a very normal name. I''ve also been told that it is sexy, and at least a quarter of the guys I meet say that they want to name a daughter my same name...
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very weird, but it''s been happening since I was a teen. Is that some crazy pick up line that I am unaware of???

I like the names Alexandra, Elise, Avery, Elle, Sydney, Indira...
 
Date: 6/5/2009 7:04:36 PM
Author: trillionaire
Date: 6/5/2009 6:01:16 PM
Author: Black Jade
minor threadjack:
Why aren't more girls named Diamond? It seems odd, given that diamonds are so popular.

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But given their extreme popularity right now, why hasn't it been picked up as a common given name? Inquiring minds want to know..
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because it is usually a stripper name?
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Yikes. I have a friend named Diamond, and she is certainly not employed by a Gentlemen's Club. It's more popular within certain cultural groups than others, just like Jesus or Fatima.

BlackJade, I don't know why you'd say that it isn't common (though that's a relative term). It peaked at 150 in 1999, then fell to 449 last year. That's not super-high, but it's not far behind Ruby and way out-ranks Pearl (which only cracked the top 1000 once in the past 20 years), Opal (hasn't been in the top 1000 since 1960) and Sapphire/Saphira (which has never been in the top 1000 for at least the past 100 years).
 
Date: 6/5/2009 1:53:52 PM
Author: MC
I have a VERY trendy first name that nearly every girl in the 70s was named! It was so bad in elementary school that I always has to write the initial of my last name on every paper!

It''s fine now because I rarely run into others with my name. Where did they all go? Possibly decided to be called by their middle name.
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i know at least 7 women with your first name.
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