If you could change your first name, what name would you choose?

[Repondering]

I'm Andrew and I've always been known and addressed as Andy. I'm comfortable with both and cannot think of a name I'd prefer to go by.

 

[Michael Z]

I would keep my name, but use the original pronunciation of my last name. I know I could do that now, but it would be too much correcting folks on it.

 

[papa tiger]

I would choose to be named Jane; I've always liked that name. I feel like a Jane.

Sweet, Calamity, Jane Doe, Plain Jane or Jane the talking Horses arss ?

 

[dilettante]

 

[DaveA]

My first name's the one I use on this site. My middle name's my mom's maiden name, and my last is obviously my dad's. No half,s, steps, etc. in our family.

What's to change ???

 

[LadyEmeraude]

I have always like my name, Janine nickname Jan.
BUT if I were to change it, I chose Rachelle.

 

[Capt Lightning]

I don't care for my first name, it's an ordinary one and relatively common. I prefer my middle name of Alexander, but every other male round here is Alexander, Alex, Sandy etc.. There are a couple of Jims.

 

[Naturally]

Wouldn't change it ... naturally

 

[AprilSun]

I was also born in April.... but quite sweet you should say April and sun, because we have our lovely friend here called @AprilSun

Thank you Hollydolly. That was very sweet of you.

 

[Capt Lightning]

One of Mrs. L's colleagues was born in April and originally her parents thought that they might call her 'April'. Unfortunately their surname was 'Showers', so they thought better of it.

 

[Timewise 60+]

you should have been born in Scotland, every 3rd guy is called James or Jimmy

Your insight is amazing!

 

[JBR]

Through a period lasting several decades, I worked mainly as a magazine journalist and newspaper freelance contributor. I believe that if my family name had been Shakespeare, I surely would have changed that.

 

[MaidMarian]

Although I can’t think of another name I’d want, I’ve never liked my name.
I don’t like it because people never remember it. Everyone calls me MaryAnn or Miriam or Marium.

 

[hollydolly]

Your insight is amazing! Our last name is Cameron...and my Dad's name was James! You can see even more why I do not like my first name...Carl! I think it is German or? But, as I mentioned it was my late grandfathers name, and I did love him very much...

I like the name Carl, (you're right it's originally germanic)...probably because I have a friend with that name..

My family are a combined auld enemy Clan Marriage.. Cameron & Campbell...

 

[Remy]

I can add that I hate the sound of my first name with my last name. My last name was changed to my stepfather's when I was 7. We were never asked. My first name sounds much better with my original last name. They both end in the same vowel.

I never got married, so I have been stuck with this last name. It rather short, simple and some people would think cool. I just hate it.

My last name and my brother's were changed. My oldest brother was 18 and his name was never change of course. Just us minors who had no choice. So my oldest brother has a different last name.

 

[Radrook]

Yep, same here. Hoover looked forward to being teased about it because he loved to fight. He was a big kid, and he was a vicious fighter, so it only took a couple quick arse-whoopins, and no more teasing. All the boys at school would warn the new kids...I remember that so well.

He actually likes his name. I do, too. It suits him....if you don't think about vacuum cleaners. (if you do...run! )

He reminds me of a kid who was referred to as The Mummy due to his extreme ugliness. He wasn't physically imposing, but he would always threaten to brandish his knife on anyone calling him that.

Wonder what ever happened to the Mummy? | Varietygalore​

 

[hollydolly]

Although I can’t think of another name I’d want, I’ve never liked my name.
I don’t like it because people never remember it. Everyone calls me MaryAnn or Miriam or Marium.

One of my best friends at school was called Marian... no one ever called her anything other than Marian...

I feel sorry for the people whose names have been hi-jacked over the years to mean something completely different..

We had a ''Gay'' in our school..and that's how it was spelled.. she now goes under a different name since it became synonymous with being homosexual..then theres , what was a common Male name in England.. Walter ( wally)... and Wally was hi-jacked as was Dick, to mean an idiot and the latter also to mean a part of the male anatomy, ... then there;s Karen, in more recent times,.. we all know someone called karen, and now they get endless schtik due to their names being Hijacked...and of course, Alexa, the name for Amazon Echo...

There's a million combinations of letter that could have been used to form words to mean all of the above.. it does irritate the heck out of me that no-one seems to have realised this...

 

[hollydolly]

I can add that I hate the sound of my first name with my last name. My last name was changed to my stepfather's when I was 7. We were never asked. My first name sounds much better with my original last name. They both end in the same vowel.

I never got married, so I have been stuck with this last name. It rather short, simple and some people would think cool. I just hate it.

My last name and my brother's were changed. My oldest brother was 18 and his name was never change of course. Just us minors who had no choice. So my oldest brother has a different last name.

you're not stuck with it, you can call yourself anything you like, and be known by it to everyone, as long as youre not using it to defraud anyone, you can from ths day forward be known as your previous name, or any name you choose and it's perfectly legal. Google it, you'll see how to do it, it;s very easy...

 

[Radrook]

I can add that I hate the sound of my first name with my last name. My last name was changed to my stepfather's when I was 7. We were never asked. My first name sounds much better with my original last name. They both end in the same vowel.

I never got married, so I have been stuck with this last name. It rather short, simple and some people would think cool. I just hate it.

My last name and my brother's were changed. My oldest brother was 18 and his name was never change of course. Just us minors who had no choice. So my oldest brother has a different last name.

I am surprised! I have two cousins who retained their surnames of Rodriguez, even though their foster father's surname was Miranda.

 

[Remy]

you're not stuck with it, you can call yourself anything you like, and be known by it to everyone, as long as youre not using it to defraud anyone, you can from ths day forward be known as your previous name, or any name you choose and it's perfectly legal. Google it, you'll see how to do it, it;s very easy..

I have considered going back to my original last name. My mother would have flipped. But then again, she loved to flip. I don't know what my stepfather would think. Or I'd wait till he was gone and also wonder, at my age, if it's worth the hassle. There would be some.

Stepfather was a provider but never a dad or protector. Bio-dad a jerk and deadbeat so they both suck in different ways. Just pick a random name? I could. I don't know what I'll ever do, probably nothing.

And my first passport had both names on it because I was a minor and I was never adopted by my stepfather and there was nothing done legally to change it. When I got another passport in my 20's, I asked if both names would be on it and the woman stated "no, you're an adult, you can call yourself anything you want."

 

[Brookswood]

In our culture questioning one's name is sacrilegious. It's like calling our parents "stupid".

Then by all means do not question your name and do not call your parents stupid. I have done neither. I was named after my two grandfathers, who both died before I was born. I carry that memory with me.

OTOH, if somebody named me Moon Unit……. As much as I love my parents and grandparents, I would probably get it changed. I would never call my parents stupid for any reason.

Frank Zappa’s four children are named:

• Moon Unit (female, born on September 28, 1967)
• Dweezil (male, b. September 5, 1969)
• Ahmet Emuukha Rodan (male, b. May 15, 1974, and named for Ahmet Ertegun)
• Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen (female, b. July 30, 1979)

 

[Radrook]

Then by all means do not question your name and do not call your parents stupid. I have done neither. I was named after my two grandfathers, who both died before I was born. I carry that memory with me.

OTOH, if somebody named me Moon Unit……. As much as I love my parents and grandparents, I would probably get it changed. I would never call my parents stupid for any reason.

 

[hollydolly]

I'm Andrew and I've always been known and addressed as Andy. I'm comfortable with both and cannot think of a name I'd prefer to go by.

Andy's a good name.. as is Andrew.. good strong male name

 

[hollydolly]

I have considered going back to my original last name. My mother would have flipped. But then again, she loved to flip. I don't know what my stepfather would think. Or I'd wait till he was gone and also wonder, at my age, if it's worth the hassle. There would be some.

Stepfather was a provider but never a dad or protector. Bio-dad a jerk and deadbeat so they both suck in different ways. Just pick a random name? I could. I don't know what I'll ever do, probably nothing.

And my first passport had both names on it because I was a minor and I was never adopted by my stepfather and there was nothing done legally to change it. When I got another passport in my 20's, I asked if both names would be on it and the woman stated "no, you're an adult, you can call yourself anything you want."

Remy, ....remy..stop... you're living your life for this horrible stepfather... stop... who cares what he thinks, why would he even have to know anyway...

 

[hollydolly]

If I had an Eastern European name espeically Polish with all those xx'y's and zz's... I'd change it in a heartbeat..I couldn't go through life having my name constantly misspelled...