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[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

What is YOUR name?

Do you like it?

Have you ever wished you had a different name?  What was it?

Comments

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

Stephanie Marie. I've never liked Stephanie, but I do enjoy being called Steph or jokingly called Stephy. I've never really picked out a name I'd prefer, but when I was in high school, my boyfriend at the time wrote a story with a character based on me and named her Sara, so I was stuck on that name for a while, but I've never really had a name that I'd really consider changing my name to.

I love Marie, though. I know people complain about it being a filler name or whatever, but I've always liked it. When I was in kindergarten, I was checking out some books at the school library and the librarian said in this kind of conspiratorial tone, "My middle name's Marie, too!" It seemed to imply that we were in a secret club, and I felt very, very cool. That's always stuck with me.

My last name is Coin. I hated that when I was little, from all the teasing, but now I love it. I've never met one (who wasn't related to me). Plus, Coin is a pretty badass woman in Mockingjay, whatever her flaws. I would have to be marrying someone with a very, very cool last name to consider changing mine.

[wizened-cynic.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm a Stephanie too! Didn't like it for the longest time, because there was so many Stephanie's everywhere. In high school I wanted to change it to Josephine, and almost all my high school friends STILL call me Jo, but since I started work I had to go by whatever name is actually on my official documents, so I went back to being Stephanie. I have a co-worker named Tiffany whom I'm quite close to, and when our names are read together we sound like a pair of deranged elves.