Are you happy with your first name?

[johnnyh]

Johnny, fine and dandy for me

 

[661-Pete]

Always a good idea (any parents-to-be on here, take note!) to give a newborn babe at least one middle name which is a useable forename, just in case when they grow older they're not happy with your first choice! At least for me, Peter (family) and Pete (others) will do fine, I had two middle names bestowed on me, which were the first names of my two grandfathers neither of whom I ever met, and I would not care to be known by either of those! No, it's just 'Pete'.

I think the common English practice of bestowing the mother's maiden surname as the child's middle name, can be a bit unfair on the kid, especially if you're christening a girl and the mum's surname happens to be "Trevor", or a boy and it's "Daphne"... Give the poor kid a chance!

 

[661-Pete]

On the other hand, just about every other French kid (boys as much as girls) seems to get the middle name "Marie". The church has a strong hold over there! And hyphenated first names for boys, like "Jean-Marie" or "Pierre-Marie" are commonplace.

 

[tyred]

I don't mind my name as such, even if it isn't the most interesting. It's just my parents used the less common spelling of it so everyone spells it incorrectly - Bryan, not Brian.

 

[Gromit]

Bit of a story around my name, I was born by C Section, so my Mum and Dad couldn't go to register my birth. My Granddad offered to go and do it.

My Mum wanted my name to be spelt Debra however my Granddad wouldn't recognise the American spelling, so registered my birth as Deborah.

For the earlier part of my life I was known as Debra, until I started to fill out legal documents when I started to use Deborah. My Granddad gave me a chance to rebel.

I prefer to be called Debz because only my family call be Debra and I hate it.

 

[Pandaboy]

My full name is Simon James Hart, and it's never really bothered me. Although being born in 1970 it seemed that every other kid at school had Apollo somewhere in their name.

My dad is Anthony Frank James Hart, but is known to almost everyone as Jim (even his mother), and no he is not friends with Morph.

I do work with someone who hated his first name so much he legally changed it from Andrew to Andy.

 

[Dayvo]

I do work with someone who hated his first name so much he legally changed it from Andrew to Andy.

Bit like the Monty Python sketch;

Arthur Penis would like it to be known that he will be changing his name to Art Penis!´

 

[Keith Oates]

I once worked with a guy who was known as Woggy. I asked him how he got the name and said that when he was at school he used to get a good suntan in the summer and hence the name. I said that's fine but how did that follow you into adult life, he said because I told everyone that's my name. In reply to my question of why he said well it's better than Malcolm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[661-Pete]

Bit of a story around my name, I was born by C Section, so my Mum and Dad couldn't go to register my birth. My Granddad offered to go and do it.

My Mum wanted my name to be spelt Debra however my Granddad wouldn't recognise the American spelling, so registered my birth as Deborah.

You know, when I first glanced at that paragraph, I got the impression you were born in a Government research institute - or a barracks - or a prison. Ah! 'Caesarian'. Pardon my blunder!

I may be out-of-date here, but I thought only one parent needed to be present to register the birth. Certainly I remember I went alone to register our son's. And we gave the names to the midwife immediately after the birth, so that she could write them on the label. Also the registrars used to do the tour of the maternity wards once a week. But maybe they do things differently with caesarians. Or is this just, perhaps, the story your parents gave you?

 

[red_tom]

I was Thomas up to the age of 19 when I thought Tom would be a bit cooler. It was then that a girl pointed out that if you put my surnname before my first name it spelt Botttom. I couldn't believe my luck - I got the whole way through school without anyone realising. Tells you something about the school I suppose.

Oh, and my middle name is Colchester. WTF is that all about? (Family thing, all the guys have it, I've never had a decent explaination why.)

 

[Greedo]

I wanted to change my name when I was younger to Red Adair after seeing him on the news all the time during the Piper Alpha fire.

I was deadly serious and my mum said "good on you, you'll need to wait until your older to do it on your own though" obviously just humoring me. Needles to say at 37 I'm still called Liam

 

[TVC]

I'm happy with my name, I chose it. My family called me Andrew, but when I went to Uni (well poly anyway) I decided I wanted to be known as Jim, and have been ever since.

 

[Fnaar]

I'm happy with my name, I chose it. My family called me Andrew, but when I went to Uni (well poly anyway) I decided I wanted to be known as Jim, and have been ever since.

I acquired a nickname my first days at uni... it stuck, to the extent that one fella asked me when we were just about to leave what my real name is... He'd gone 3 yrs, being a close friend, without knowing Suited me, cos as I posted earlier, i don't like my real name (and my middle name is pretty cr@p too)

 

[Dayvo]

My brother was in the RAF for 22 years and had a mate he knew more or less the whole time he was in.

Just before he came out and I phoned him up and asked to speak to Mike!

He said he didn´t know anyone called Mike.

I remembered that most/all service personnel have a nickname, so said he´s called Tiny (he´s a big bloke, my brother).

He called out ´Tiny´ and on passing the phone over to him, I heard him say `I didn´t know your name was Mike!´ After 22 years!

 

[darkstar]

I'm happy with Tom, pretty common but thats fine Rather that than a completely random one, seems 'celebrities' are in a constant battle, trying to come up with the weirdest name imaginable!