What do you think of your own parents' taste?

[essmtee.livejournal.com]

How does everyone feel about the names they were given? If you don't like your name would you ever seriously consider changing it? And finally, of course, what would you change it too.

I'm Sheila Marie. When I was a child I used to think I had a really weird name because I'd never known any other Sheila's. When I got into high school there were a few others but it's never been terribly common. Probably around the same time I thought my name was weird I use to really like the name Dianna. If I was given the choice to change my name as a child maybe I would have gone with that. I have no desire to change my name now though. I guess I wouldn't feel like myself if I did. It would be nice to have a somewhat less common middle name but at least it's not something horrid that I'm embarrassed to tell anyone.

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[hotchpot.livejournal.com]

I'm Catherine Cory and I love my name. I go by Cathy, and I like that, too, whenever I think of Cathy Earnshaw as opposed to Chatty Cathy.

I think if I could change anything about my name I would go by Kate rather than Cathy, or else I'd make it so I was the only one in my family. (I have an aunt, great aunt and cousin also named Catherine, so I go, in my family, by "Little Cathy" which I'm not so fond of. But it beats "Big Aunt Cathy.")

[hotchpot.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and I was born in 1981. My sister (1987) is Kristen Elizabeth.