Are you happy with your first name?

[MarkF]

I am v.happy with Mark, I like it a lot, I'm 47 and notice that there are very few Mark's about at my childrens school, a shame. Played in a football team when I was in my late 20's when we had 7 Mark's

Fell in love with a "Jane" but then found out she was really an "Edwina" things were never the same and at school I had a stunning girfriend, she was jaw dropping beautiful, but she was named, unfortunately, Gwyneth Crabtree.

 

[paddy01]

Can't say I'm very happy about my middle name, which gained something of a resergence recently as being the name of one of the characters in one of the Harry Potter books.

My first (Patric) is fine, although I get monumentally bored with having to correct the spelling on anything official just because I'm a child of the 70's and my parents had to be different.

Bloody hippies

 

[XmisterIS]

I hate my Christian name. It is so ordinary!

I wish I had been called Reginald or, if I had been a girl, Ruby McBooby.

 

[Sittingduck]

More than happy with my first name

 

[Headgardener]

happy with my first name, Ian. Though all my family, peeps at work and close friends know me as E. Never liked my middle name.. Roger... which gives me the initials IRA

I am known as E to family as well. Although my parents chose Ian because it was the only name they could think of that was difficult to shorten and with a surname as long as Edinborough middle names were not an option.

 

[Dayvo]

More than Happy with my first name

Are you one of the Seven Dwarves?

 

[Sittingduck]

There's only 5 off us left - I bumped off 2 of 'em

 

[Plax]

I don't mind my first name, and my parents never gave either myself or my sister a middle name on purpose. Seems to be a tradition round here that first names are never used. My dad has 6 siblings and none of them are known by their first names. Same applies to most of my cousins, although it tends to be nicknames for them - I've got away with my name just being abbreviated. However my Taid always used to call me Jennifer and for some reason a couple of teachers at school kept calling me Rebecca.

 

[rich p]

..my parents never gave either myself or my sister a middle name on purpose. Seems to be a tradition round here that first names are never used. .

Do you parents call you ----------, then?

 

[Plax]

Do you parents call you ----------, then?

Ha ha, it was so people would have to call us by our first names, although my dad quite often gets the names of my sister and I mixed up.

 

[BearPear]

I like my name, which is Clare, except for a short time in primary school - I hate you Gilbert O'Sullivan!!

it does bug me that people assume there's an "I" in there though.

 

[ianrauk]

The exact same reason as I was named Ian...

Although my parents chose Ian because it was the only name they could think of that was difficult to shorten

 

[Cheddar George]

In my first job at a large pharmaceutical company everything was done by initials. I worked with an Andrew who was HAG but didn't like the name Henry and a Dave who was ADM but didn't like the name Andrew.
I just went with my given name of Dave to avoid confusion.

 

[dellzeqq]

I detest my first name - always have done. I've no idea why, other than the shape of the letters is so bland. So, if I had my time again I'd go for Fred. It's got a beginning, a middle, and an end. It's nice and short. The f-r gets it off to a nice start, soft, but quite well defined, and the d brooks no argument.

 

[Mr Farley]

I'm happy with my name David/Dave or Davo to some .

I've got two friends who use their middle names instead of their first names.

One who was christened Rhoddri......now known as Huw, and another christened Carl......now known as Chris. Don't blame either of them .