Out of Curiosity

[sayga.livejournal.com]

[Poll #761987]

Oops, I forgot to put an option for indifference to your name.

Comments

[pearshateraqui.livejournal.com]

Well I really don't like my real name. I go by Evangeline or Evie online, but my real name ... I've never liked. It's not popular, it's girly and long and somewhat old-fashioned (it was popular in the UK in the forties/fifties). My second name is Jane and I wish I'd been called this instead. XD

[semi-sweet.livejournal.com]

I wish I had a name with no nicknames. So I could just say my name and be done with it, no explaining. Or that my nickname was obvious, like Liz for Elizabeth.

[secret-x-stars.livejournal.com]

my legal, unchosen name is Jessica Doina. Jessica was the #1 name the year i was born. Doina is a Romanian name with a nice meaning (it's a type of folk song), but it just looks and sounds ugly. and Jessica doesn't mean anything.

i'm so glad i chose Lorelei lol.

[macabre.livejournal.com]

I hate my middle name Marie because it's so common.

[juicykisses.livejournal.com]

I like my name, I just wish it wasn't so common. I really truly do have the most common name.

Sarah Elizabeth Smith

If I had another name I wouldn't like sharing it on the internet, but since its so common, its not like you could track me down easily. Plus, I'm getting married next week and it'll change lol.

[ghost-dance.livejournal.com]

I love my name (Gabriella). It's classic but not common and no one has to guess what my gender is. I can't really complain about my middle names because they're family names (Grey and Leng). I like that they offer options if I ever needed a stage name haha.

[julieannie.livejournal.com]

I wish my name had a better nickname. I'm Julie and people either call me Jules or Ju (pronounced like Jew). Jules is okay but kind of hmmm.

[apple-seed.livejournal.com]

LOL, my daughter is Juliet and we call her Ju!

[bellisima87.livejournal.com]

I actually really like my name. But I wish I had a middle name.

My name's Annika, by the way and I go by Annie/Anni.

[xnaivetex.livejournal.com]

My name's Cristi Nicole. Which I don't mind, but I wish they'd spelled Cristi a little less creatively.

It's a pain in the butt, I always have to spell it out for people, and even after spelling it out, they usually still write it down wrong.

Even with half my government documents, they spelled it "Christie Nichole" (Don't know how they got the H in nicole)

I'd love to have a name where people just know how to spell it, or I only have to spell it ONCE. Not "C - R - I - S - T - I... no, no H. No E at the end either.."

[lostrocket.livejournal.com]

I like my name (Katherine), with my last name (but I am not all that fond of my last name), and don't even care about its popularity anymore (when I was younger I did, for awhile I was sick of always having multiple Katherine/Katie/Kate/Kat people in all my classes).

I do wish I felt it was more "me." When I was little I went by the nn Katie, in junior high I started using Kate, and by the end of HS I was Kat. I am still Kat, and I think it works the best for me, but I still don't feel a great connection to it. I like "Lux" (Loox) better, it's a name I started using as a counselor at a language camp and I still feel it fits me better. I worked there for 6 years so I got very used to it.

[ferretiger.livejournal.com]

i think "I wish my name was easier to spell" should be an option. it's not that it's far from the pronounciation, it's that everyone butchers sheilah.

[ouronlylight.livejournal.com]

For number one, I didn't answer because I'd rather that my name were more popular, not less. I don't want to be one of twenty Jessica's in my class, but I'd rather not be the one of two people with my name in the entire school. Also, my full first name sounds rather little girl-y to me, so I go by a nickname which I find to be rather dull. I really like my middle name, though, but I wouldn't want to go by it.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I wish for the first question there was the option of "I am perfectly happy with all aspects of my name".
that's what I would have picked, none of the other answers applied to me for the first question.

[tigress-oils.livejournal.com]

I like my name(Laura Lynn) because it's shocking to people. It's very Southern, it calls to mind Loretta Lynn, and then I come across as this ultra-progressive, and I like the play and the balance of my name with my energy. It works well for me.

That said, I get really tired of, "Oh, my middle name is Lynn, too!" Laura is such a classic name, and I do sometimes wrinkle my nose at its pairing with such a typical filler middle name.

[ships-sail.livejournal.com]

ksenia khapovalovna kadivitch.

no, i don't like it.

[tallc00lone.livejournal.com]

Whoa.

[ships-sail.livejournal.com]

basically.

[thejoysofjess.livejournal.com]

I wish my last name were easier to spell and pronounce. But I'll marry out of it soon enough.

[laura-anne.livejournal.com]

I like my name now (enough to not think of a creative LJ name anyway!) but I did change it officially, so my middle names are now my first name (no hyphen though, just Laura Anne). Since I dropped my first name entirely, I am now middle nameless, which makes me sad as I liked having 2 growing up - if I'd thought about it more I might have chosen some new mn's, but now I have even more names for future cats!
I also wish my last name was spelled closer to the pronunciation...it doesn't seem strange to me, but hardly anyone can spell it without being coached.
I sometimes wish my name had a more exciting meaning (I used to be named after a fertility goddess, now I'm just crowned with laurel leaves), but I like the story of how my middle/current names were picked by my family better than the story behind my old name, which was just chosen because they thought it fit me once I was born.

Bit of an essay there, but as you can imagine it's something I've thought about a LOT growing up.

[tigress-oils.livejournal.com]

may i ask what your name was and why you changed it?

[laura-anne.livejournal.com]

Sure! My name was Esther, and I guess I changed it because I got a lot of teasing at school. I grew up in a city called Chester (never live somewhere that rhymes with your name!) and there's a talk show host in the UK called Esther Rantzen...it's not a flattering comparison to hear when you're 7 or 8 (I guess the US equivalent would be being called Oprah). I imagine it was those things that originally made me dislike it, but I can't remember ever liking the name or feeling like it fit me. I've gone by my middles for almost ten years, and the reason why I legally changed it was because I had a lot of name confusion problems once I started college, so it seemed like the next logical step.

[maude.livejournal.com]

I chose both "I wish my name had a better/more significant meaning" and "I don't care what my name means" because my mom only picked my name because she liked it. I wish she would've named me for a song she liked or a hero she had or something. But I don't really care about the meanings of names you get when you look them up in baby books or whatever. Erin means "Ireland" and I could care less.

[maude.livejournal.com]

Oh, but I do like my middle name! It's uncommon for anyone my age and it's after my mom's sister and best friend.

[oh-vibrant.livejournal.com]

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

I really like my name. It's Kristen Marie. I guess I don't really care for Marie, but it was a standard 80s filler mn, much like Lynn or Anne, and nowadays Grace and Rose. I used to not like Kristen, but I really like it now.

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

I wish my name had more meaning - I was almost given a few family names but my father vetoed. I like my middle name (Kate) but not my first name (Molly).