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zarabia
Tol Eressea
Dec 1 2012, 7:47am
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How do you feel about your name?
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Curious G's thread about giving a child a Tolkien inspired name prompted me to think about how I feel ( and how I used to feel) about my name. Which, of course, led me to create a poll about what others think about theirs. I'm not asking for real names here, just your feelings about them.
For me, I used to haaate my name; I begged my mom to change it. But over time I came to accept it, if for no other reason than that I don't run into twenty other people with the same name. Later, I noticed that on those few occasions when there was a character with my name in a movie or on TV, she was almost always smart and spunky. So I've come to rather like my name. One bad thing: it lends itself to stupid jokes. Not mean or crude jokes, just stupid. And people always seem to think they are the first to come up with them 
You can choose more than one answer, so please share.
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Starling
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Dec 1 2012, 8:01am
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It's unusual, but easy for people to pronounce, so I have never had any difficulty because of it. And it's a nice reminder of my family heritage on my father's side. He died when I was a child, so that makes my name even more special to me.
In my lifetime I have met two people with the same name as mine.
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Tol Eressea
Dec 1 2012, 8:11am
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It's wonderful when parents give a name that is meaningful - that gives a feeling of connection to family history or heritage.
I'm sorry about your father. But it's nice that you have this reminder of him.
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Spencissimus
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Dec 1 2012, 9:02am
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I can't imagine being called anything else.
My name is just so me!
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Kelvarhin
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Dec 1 2012, 9:13am
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and the abbreviated form of it too, which is what most people call me. Was called by my full name today and wondered what I'd done    
I was named after my Step-pops favourite singer, so it's always been special to me. He died long before I was born, so it's a nice connection to him. 
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DanielLB
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Dec 1 2012, 9:16am
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I have quite a common name, but I wouldn't change it!
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I do prefer Being called Daniel than any of its abbreviations, but I'm not fussed. Like I said in the other thread, I don't particularly like my middle name though.
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Alcarcalime
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Dec 1 2012, 9:25am
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don't like nicknames.
I am sure that there aren't many people on the boards who remember a show from the 50s called My Little Margie (Gail Storm). Her father had a girlfriend with the same name as I have. He had a BBC-type accent and said it so beautifully.
I don't like having my name mispronounced, but don't say anything. I don't say anything about nicknames, either. I always say, I don't care what you call me, just don't call me late for supper.
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Magpie
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Dec 1 2012, 3:30pm
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generally, I"m very happy with my name
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Many people from here who know me know my full name. I think the thing I love the most about it is all three of my names start with M. And since my first name is a little long, I have taken to signing things as mmm instead of my full first name. And for the same reason, other people use it as a sort of 'nick' too. So lists of people might read:
Andy
Sharon
mmm
Peter
Alicia
When I got my Magpie nick (which I've adopted for a larger personal 'brand', as well) from my husband, it was another M. I also live in Minneapolis, MN although I live on one of the many numbered streets... not Morgan Ave or something... so it's not *perfect*.
Although my last name is common, my first and middle names are not spelled in terribly conventional ways although both are accepted spellings. I liked my name so much that it was one factor in not taking my husband's last name when I married. It wasn't the only reason but it factored in greatly.
Not so good parts about my name:
As a youngster, I shared my first name with a blond bombshell. I didn't like being compared to her. I was happy when circumstances pretty much put a stop to that. (on a side note, there was another older actress that had the same first and last name as myself - although both actresses spelled their name differently than mine. There is another actress whose first name is the same as me and whose last name is the same as my middle name! again.. different spellings)
No one spells my name right. They always leave off the last double letter. I finally took to filling out forms for events and meetings with "NOTE SPELLING" next to my name so that people would make the nametag correctly. I thought my business card should have my name spelled wrong and then the last letter added in crayon like font because I was always grabbing whatever I could find to correct name tags. I used to just let it go but decided at 40 that my gift to myself would be to correct people. I was correcting people who had gotten it wrong for years.
I never met another person with my first name until high school when someone moved to the district who had the same first and last name as me. She was a bad girl. I was a goody twoshoes. She was constantly being called to the office (only bad students got called to the office). "X X ... come to the office." She was bad, though... so she wouldn't go. "X X ... come to the office." My friends would poke me... 'they want you in the office'. No... they want the other X X. I'd gone through this many times before. Finally, after the third call I'd go to the office just to satisfy everyone else and the other X X would be showing up about them. And it was her they wanted.
When I tried to buy tickets for the Guthrie Theater after first moving to Minneapolis, the ticket seller asked for my name. "Ah... we have four X X's in our records." Gulp. Four? I immediately started using my middle name for almost all purposes.
But when I signed up for a gmail account in my real name for business reasons, I did not use my middle name. Now I get emails for people with my name, unconventional spelling of first name and all. Apparently one who shares my name just put a 1 at the end for her gmail account. None of her friends do though, so all their mail comes to me. And neither she nor her husband does half the time because I get emails from their church, their dentist, the coffee shop whose mailing list they subscribed to, etc. I've gotten two in the last week. One from an old friend who sent her a special sentiment in an attached word doc!
I wish I had used my middle name for that account. :-(
But one last good thing about MMM is... I have a really cool signature with large swirly M's. People comment on it when I sign checks. :-)
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Ardamķrė
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Dec 1 2012, 3:47pm
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It's not too common around here, which I really like. But I used to get teased for it when I was younger which I hated, but now I don't mind. I think it was because little elementary school kids are pretty mean, but now people do it just for fun or as a term of endearment (I guess )
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wendy woo
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Dec 1 2012, 3:56pm
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But I thought her name was spelled "Gale", like a storm. Get it?
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sevilodorf
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Dec 1 2012, 4:01pm
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Never have. At work I go by my last name as I dislike my first so much.
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wendy woo
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Dec 1 2012, 4:02pm
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Three guesses what my name is...
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and the first two don't count! I guess I'm okay with my name. I could have been named Tonya, but my Dad didn't like that name. I don't think I do either, but maybe I'd feel differently if I'd actually gotten it. As it is, the only thing I don't like about my name is that everyone constantly wants to spell it with an "i". Listen to the sound of my voice: it's Weenndy, not Wiinnddy. And neither is is Wendi. Traditional spelling for me, thank you.
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wendy woo
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Dec 1 2012, 4:07pm
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I gave my youngest son the name Daniel as a middle name. It means "God is my judge". I don't know if the name has anything to do with it, but my son does tend to be a little discriminating and opinionated, by the way.
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Annael
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Dec 1 2012, 4:21pm
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I was given a first name that no one ever called me by; I was called by a nickname instead. I liked my real name but all attempts to get other people to use it failed. I was also given a middle name that was a family last name, and I never liked my last name. I liked the last name I acquired when I got married, but when we divorced I didn't want to keep it, and so I changed the entire shebang: I changed my first name to the nickname, I picked a new middle name, and I adopted my grandmother's maiden name as my last name.
I had to carry around a lot of papers for a while to explain why I had a totally different name from my birth certificate! But it's been 20 years now and it's who I am.
It's odd though: every now and then I meet someone new who says "why do I think your name is something like . . .?" and then they say my birth name or something close to it. Psychic?
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DanielLB
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Dec 1 2012, 6:56pm
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Are you calling me opinionated? ;-)
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You chose a good name! 
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Dec 1 2012, 8:43pm
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that I've never been in a school or workplace where another person has the same name, but common enough that people know it when they hear it. The spelling of it, however, has been interesting over the years.
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Elessar
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Dec 1 2012, 9:25pm
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I rarely get called my my full first name Joshua and that's ok because unless its something professional I prefer Josh. My middle name is after a great grandfather and my last name while long is short (lol). So in the end I'm happy.
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Kassandros
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Dec 1 2012, 9:42pm
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I'd be one of three people with my name... in a class of 15 people
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My legal name is insanely common. Most of my classes had at least one other person with my name. So I was often First Name + Last initial. Ugh.
Plus, I don't terribly care for the mythical figure I was named after. He did some awful, awful things and yet is still consider to be a great person. Ugh.
I still use my legal name in the business world and it gives me a way to distance my real self from that sphere. I consider myself to be more truly me around my friends than coworkers.
But around friends, for the last 10 years or so, I've used a name of my own choosing, both online and irl. There are a lot of grey areas, though, but I am pretty comfortable this way. I much prefer my taken name and feel it suits me better. My username here is a variant of it since "Cassander" was already taken. Most people just call me "Cass". Both are pretty rare.
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Dec 1 2012, 10:10pm
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My name isn't too common but is recognizable. But what's way too common is a relative of mine, Jim Smith. Not even "James." When you're starting out with a last name of "Smith," I think the first name begs for something a little less common, but his parents didn't see it that way.
When he introduces himself, some people will take it as a smart-aleck joke and say something like, "Okay, Mr. Anonymous, what's your real name?" He says he would have changed it if he'd gotten around to it, but he never could decide on an alternative and just learned to put up with it.
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Radagast-Aiwendil
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Dec 1 2012, 10:13pm
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I like my name and don't really think I'd like another name more, though some I would like just as much
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Of course, if I had a choice, my name would be Gandalf and I wouldn't be in this particular world, but such is life
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Dec 2 2012, 12:06am
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I once worked with a Mary Smith.
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Her husband was John.
She'd tell us with glee of the strange looks hotel clerks would give them as they registered as "John and Mary Smith". He would have to pull out his driver's license to prove the name was genuine!
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It's as if your original name is "hovering" around you. And even stranger that you couldn't get people to call you by it...
But changing your whole name legally after your divorce must have felt like you were literally starting your life anew!
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Dec 2 2012, 12:27am
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Its a good strong, manly name in my opinion. It is widely known and fairly common but less so that one might imagine - or it has been in my experience - no one in my classes had the same name, or my course at uni so maybe it fell out of fashion when i was born,
My surname is what i love more though. I am proud of it and it might sound stupid but i like the way my name, especially surname looks when written down.
Nicknames - been loads but never a variant of my name more some attribute i have stuck out for e.g. i was pretty good at rugby when younger and so rather predictably i was called tank, for a while. 
Now its more likely to be hoy ____ (insert swear word!) haha
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Tim
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Dec 2 2012, 2:44am
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but I like my name. It breaks into a lot of cool nick-names as well.
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Dec 2 2012, 5:47am
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My first name isn't rare, but it's not common either. However, my last name is quite rare; I've never met anyone outside my immediate family with my last name. In a way it's nice to have a relatively unique name, but there is absolutely no anonymity. If someone were to google my name, if they found any listing, they would know for sure it's me. I could never claim. "Oh, that's another XX."
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Dec 2 2012, 5:52am
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I was going to list that as an option
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But I didn't know how common it was considering all the red tape. That's really interesting.
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Alcarcalime
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Dec 2 2012, 10:01am
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then was uncertain, so I went with the conventional spelling.
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Misto
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Dec 2 2012, 12:29pm
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I like my name. Short enough, easy to pronounce in most languages (save for my hometown's accent *sigh*), no social stigma attached. No complains at all.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Dec 3 2012, 5:23am
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The only bad thing about my name
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is that it's pretty common for women of my age. There are thousands and thousands of women with the same name (first and last) as mine. When I was a kid there were always two or three other kids in my class with the same first name as me, but I kind of liked that.
One thing I love about my name is that there's a Simon and Garfunkle song that has my name for a title :-)
I had to click "Don't call me late for dinner" because that's one of my dad's favorite quotes. He's used that as far back as I can remember, which is about fifty years. <3
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Magpie
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Dec 3 2012, 2:56pm
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common names for different generations
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for me growing up, the girl's name that seemed to outpace all others was Debbie/Debby. None of them were called Deborah, although that might have been their proper given name.
And when I first started folkdancing, amongst the overlapped folk dance groups I knew a Lara, Laura, Lori, Laurie, and Laurel!
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Dec 3 2012, 4:07pm
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That's one of the things I pay attention to when I write novels.
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I wrote one a while back that spanned the years from 1969 to the present, and I was careful to pick names for the different generations that reflected those generations. My name is Karen, which was very common, but I also knew a lot of Debbies and Cheryls. In my daughter's generation, Jessica was ubiquitous. Now as a teacher I'm noticing a resurgence of older names like Lydia and Nathan and Dorothy, names I associate with my grandparents' generation.
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Alassėa Eruvande
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Dec 3 2012, 4:08pm
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When I was a kid, I hated my name.
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My name is unusual. I have never met another one out there, but I've had other people tell me they know another one.
In school, I was the only one. The thing I didn't like most was never being able to find my name on a necklace, or key chain, bike license plate, or cup or anything else. That must have been a trend in the 80s, when I was in those peer pressure years, and everyone had their names on stuff except me. Wah. I"m sure it scarred me for life.
However, I've always been called by a nickname, except in school. I was always called Cookie by my family and close family friends. Even today, my nieces and nephews call me Aunt Cookie. At the vet hospital where I used to work, my coworkers called me Filly.
I had nicknames in college, but they are too embarrassing to mention here. The less said, the better! 
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Kassandros
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Dec 3 2012, 5:27pm
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I absolutely adore Kathy's Song by Simon & Garfunkle.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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"Mrs. Robinson" Only I am *nothing* like the character in that song. It is a great song, though. When I first used to hear it as a teen, I had no idea that would be my name someday. :-D
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Yeah, my daughter has that problem.
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As a teen she went by her middle name, though, which is very common, so we'd get her mugs and stuff with that name on it. We still do, even though she goes by her first name now (or more often, her first initial.) Since we made up her name, she doesn't use it much on the internet; if you google just her first name, you find her.
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Kassandros
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Dec 3 2012, 8:24pm
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I never wanted stuff with my first name on it.
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I had a few things with my name on them back in the 80s too and I hated them. Of course, even as a kid, I tried to change my name once or twice, but it never stuck. Of course, looking back onit, I don't like the names I tried to change to!
I wonder if this is an "always greener" situation. People with common names wish they had rarer names. People with rarer names wish they had common names. Well, some of us. Many seem to be happy as they are!
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I was thinking of first names so thought of Cecilia, but I didn't think that was a very common name.
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Particularly among people my age (at secondary school, in my year of 150 people, there were 7 others who had the same first name as me!). That can be annoying but I don't mind too much.
However, my surname happens to be a LOTR-related name...
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sherlock
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back to my maiden name after my husband's death mainly because I'm tired of being associated with his family. I didn't do it because it's also the name of our daughter & granddaughter & I think having the same last name is way less complicated than different ones. I changed the spelling of my first name when I was about 15 from conventional to non. It was my older sister's idea & I thought it was cool at the time. As I matured I changed my mind about it but never changed it back because I always get compliments on it & it was just too much hassle. Now I'm thinking about changing it back so I could be more anonymous, especially on the Internet.
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D & is fairly common but not as common as Debbie or Donna is for my generation. Kathy, Susie, Linda & Laura/Laurie/Lori were all common, too. I've never had anyone in my class or worked with anyone with the same name so I like that.
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I like my surname a lot more than my first name. I don't like it very much, but have learned throughout the years to co-ope with it.
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Annael
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Seemed like half the girls in high school with me were named Debby, Cindy, Margaret, Barb, or Joan, while the boys were Steve, Tom, Bill, and Jeff. When I was in my mid-20s and working at a peds clinic, all the kids that came in had J or K names. Later it was the time of the Heathers and Brittanys and the Aidans and Evans. Now everything old is new again; my great-nephews have family names that haven't been used for four generations (Samuel and Henry).
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My name (Roisin) is really uncommon where I live. My mother gave me an Irish name, which I like, but the spelling is pretty crazy. I got really sick of people mispronouncing it, so when I left home I started using a nickname, 'Rosie', instead. After a couple of years though, I started calling myself Roisin again, and just worked out a couple of cute ways to remember how to say it, and I'm much happier now.
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Starling
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Dec 11 2012, 6:47am
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What is the correct pronunciation of your lovely name? I don't know.
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alienorchid
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Dec 11 2012, 8:40am
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Ro-sheen - the 'ro' in 'robot' and the 'sheen' in 'machine'. Robot machine!
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Laerasėa
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Dec 12 2012, 2:59am
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Well, kind of. My initials are "EMM," which is pronounced like "M" (which is actually why people started calling me "Em" in middle/high school/college, not just because the first two letters of my first name are "Em").
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Starling
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Dec 12 2012, 6:32am
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It made me think of a glimmering rose before I thought of a robot!
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Aethelwyne Bolger
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Dec 16 2012, 3:01am
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My feelings about my name have changed...a lot!
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My name is Audra pronounced "Aw Dra" and it's a very southern name although I don't see very many Audra's her in Tennessee than I did growing up in Michigan. I was named Audra Ann after my Granny Audrey and my Grandma Ann. As a child, my grandma got jealous that her name wasn't first, so she would call me Ann and that bugged me (but I loved her). It could have been worse, my mom considered naming me Ann Audra and I told her thank you for not doing that, because it sounded like Ann Arbor.
It was hard growing up because teachers couldn't pronounce my name and the substitutes would aways pause when they came to my name and I thought...here it comes... and they would say Asha or Audrey or Aurora and all the bullies would laugh. The mean girls bullied me because my name sounded kind of boyish and tough and they were all named stuff like Melody and Dawn and Heather (it was the 70's). When my teacher told us what our names meant and that Audra meant noble and stong, I could have died from all the laughter. Their names all meant princess and grace and sweet and other girly things.
Some called me She-Ra, my brother called me Ozzy. I called myself Rainbow or Sunshine (my mom's name for me sometimes) or, after discovering Tolkien, Elfstar. What can I say? It was the early 80's, time of Care Bears and rainbows and unicorns. I never could find my name on anything either, so I bought Ann items or had things like a t-shirt or license plate made (using iron ons and stickers).
When I read Anne of Green Gables, I loved the name Anne and thought of myself as Audra Anne, but that didn't look right. I tried Audrianna, but that wasn't right, either!
Somewhere along the way, I grew to love the name Audra. It meant preserverence and strength (from bullying) and I liked it was noble. Other names I've liked, such as Brianna or the elvish Bellawen, also meant strong and noble and I thought that was cool. I really wouldn't change it now. It is me! I've taken the numerology test for fun (though I don't believe in that stuff) from the kalabarians and the meaning of Audra sounded just like me. I'm starting to find my name on things, and I've created things for myself thanks to the internet. My name never sounds sweeter than when my nieces and nephews call me Auntie Audra or Audra Ann! And it honors my grandparents.
My three favorite names for myself all start with A: Aethelwyne, Arianna, and Auntie Audra (or Lady A). I also love my surname, Morton, and it's Scottish heritage. I think Audra Ann Morton has a nice old-fashioned scottish ring to it. That's me!
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Tol Eressea
Dec 16 2012, 3:30am
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I loved that name when I was young
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I still think it's pretty, but when I was little, I wanted to be named Audra myself. I used to watch The Big Valley which had a charcter named Audra who was played by a young Linda Evens. Her character was a bit wimpy; I thought the mother was much cooler (she was played by Barabra Stanwick who had always played strong women), but I loved the name Audra. I would never have made fun of you.
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Gimli'sBox
Gondor
Dec 16 2012, 6:16pm
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I go by my middle name's nick name...
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"Nic". I really like it a lot but, I hate it when I tell people my name is Nic and they instantly say "Nikki?". It happens pretty much every time but, I try not to let it bother me. It's short for Nicholette, which is just a mouthful. I like it but, much prefer to be called Nic. In a way it makes me extremely thankful for the people who will call me Nic from the beginning without questioning. Almost as if our relationship is getting off on the right foot because they listen to what I say and not try to change "who I am." It's always awkward when well meaning people insult you basically by saying that you're too pretty to be called "just Nic." Thank you...I think. Haha.
My first name is Michele, after my aunt. My mom didn't really want to call me that but, last minute dad asked if they could. Mom said yes but, she told him she wouldn't call me that. I'm not fond of Michele and almost wish it had two Ls instead of one but, that's kind of nitpicky. It's FUN to troll people when they ask what my middle name is.
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Aethelwyne Bolger
Bree
Dec 18 2012, 2:25am
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The Big Valley is actually how my parents decided on Audra, even though my Granny's name was Audrey. If they stuck directly with my grandparents' names, I would have been Audrey Annie. So they compromised and called me Audra Ann instead. Plus, my dad loves westerns.
I don't remember The Big Valley from childhood though my dad watches it on cable sometimes nowadays. I grew up watching reruns of Bonanza, Wagon Train, and The Rifleman. I had such a crush on the boy from the Rifleman until I realized he was really my parents' age. Little Joe was cute but I couldn't see him as anyone younger than Laura's dad from Little House and the angel from Highway to Heaven, so he was OLD to me!
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zarabia
Tol Eressea
Dec 18 2012, 4:57am
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I watched Big Valley re-runs on weekday afternoons after cartoons. It was a bit confusing to see The Six Million Dollar Man looking so young in the afternoons on Big Valley, and then see a ten-year-older looking Heath (his character on Big Valley) on Six Million Dollar Man. Same with Little Joe and Pa.
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sauget.diblosio
Tol Eressea
Apr 2 2013, 1:34am
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I've felt very ambivalent about my name throughout my life.
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Sometimes i think it's alright, sometimes i think it's kind of boring. There was even a period as a kid where i considered going by my middle name, and my mom was cool with it, but nothing ever came of it. But i've never felt too strongly either way about it. I have come to realize, though, that it does suit me, and i actually do like it when certain people, who seem to like my name, call me by my name.
So yeah, my name suits me.
It's Kevin, by the way.
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