Do you like your first name?

[Mr Fixit]

Another Michael here, it's kinda boring, but it fits me & it could have been much worse. I suppose i like it, but no child of mine will be named Michael.

 

[BrotherSurplice]

Alexei. Its pretty unusual where I come from (Britain). I have yet to meet any other Briton called Alexei and have only heard of one other; the Liverpudlian comedian Alexei Sayle, the man I am named after.

But in answer to the question, yeah I do like it. Its not massively wierd, and only seems unusual to most people I meet because of where I'm from, but it's unusual enough to be interesting to a lot of people.

However, if one more person tells me its a girl's name I will beat them to death with a portrait of Alexei Leonov.

Congratulations! I entered you in my "Coolest Name" contest and you won! Your prize is nothing except you get to go through life with a badass name.

Ashley (the boy's name) wins runner-up. It's true here in the US it's almost exclusively a girl's name, but I always thought it sounded cooler for a guy.

Oh snap.

Thats actually pretty awesome. Now I love my name even more!

 

[Nimcha]

It's okay.
It's actually spelt Emily but I thought that was crap and boring, so I've been spelling it Emilee for the past 5/6 years now. Just thought I'd try be different in the sea of Emily's at my school xP

What have you done to our beautiful name?

 

[Irishanime]

I haven't seen if anyone else has my name or not, but I am kinda happy not a lot of people usually do(it's Morgan). I was the only Morgan in my schools until I got to High school. I got kinda disappointed in that. However I didn't like my name for a while because people used to make fun of me for it. Eventually I just stopped listening to the haters and enjoyed the fact that I didn't have to ask if the teacher wanted me or the other Morgan to answer them. : )

 

[karmachameleon]

I'm okay with it as it was a pretty uncommon name when I was younger(Eli), at least where I lived. Not that I hear it more often I kind of get jealous and protective of my name. I know it's silly but I can't help it.

Woo! Another Eli!
I'm actually the only Eli I've ever known, so it still seems rare to me.
When I was younger I didn't like it -- I wanted to be Eric. I thought that was the epitome of awesome names. Now I'm content with the rarity of my name.
Unfortunately, when I first attend a new class, and the professor takes role, they tend to pronounce it like the girl's name, "Ellie". Which confounds the fuck out of me. Eli is very simple to pronounce: Ee-Lye. Simple.

Teachers used to do that all the time to me especially substitutes and I got tthe shit teased out of me.Oddly enough the only time it happened in college my friends ended up making fun of the teacher for it instead.

Yeah, it's how my friend and I, who also has a name that people mispronounce often, (Kamal, pronounced Kuh-Mall) use the professor's ability to pronounce our names as a gauge to determine what kind of teacher they'll be. It ends up being pretty accurate, I think.

 

[bleys2487]

Maegan. It's Gaelic for my family in Scotland and Sweden.

I've never met a person who could spell it correctly the first time. I like it though. The 'ae' part looks neat lol.

 

[TheMadJayWoman]

I wouldn't have picked my first name, but I like it well enough (it's Shakespearean actually!), or at least I did until it became a really popular name in the US in the 90's. Now there are armies of talentless pop-tart celerities and spoiled little girls who have my name and it's very disturbing...

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

My first name is Delight. That's a marvelous name. (NotSoLoneWanderer's Mom)

 

[AlAaraaf74]

It's very common (Nicholas) but I like it. My parent's second choice was Michael, and I'm glad they went with Nick.

 

[SckizoBoy]

My name is Diego, which is very damn common in Brazil, so I'm not that fond of it. However, all my American friends reacted with delight when I told them because apparently Diego sounds really badass to English speaking people, thus I like it a bit more now.

One of my former colleagues is called Diego (a Spaniard), and since our work e-mail addresses are composed of the first name and the first letter of the surname (well, his first surname, anyway), and said surname is Dey... oh boy, the telephone conversations when people were asking for him... diegod@ xxxxx.com... "Hi, can I speak to... 'Die God'?!"

So much so that that became his nickname at work, rather unsurprisingly!

 

[Shavon513]

Not at all. I go by my middle name.

 

[valkeminator]

My name is Nicholas, I like the name but its too long. Therefore I often tell people to just call me "Nick", but I hate it when people call me "Nico", and I think I like my "middle" name better (Jonathan). My last name however...annoys me to no end as LOTS of people misspell it very easily.

 

[phyrexian]

Shaunna.

People are always spelling it wrong and pronouncing it wrong, and it irks me quite a bit. I only let my American/Canadian friends pronounce it differently because they have accents and I'm too lazy to correct them.

But no, I don't really like my name. If I could, I'd change it to something a little more awesome and badass.

 

[M Rotter]

My name is Hillary, they exist and ive met a few, but never known any personally...and they all have the one L spelling (Hilary)...which is the male version....fortunately my parents figured out my gender and adjusted accordingly.

 

[empa]

My name is Emil (swedish)

very common name in sweden so i dislike it, but when im out of sweden i like it because its unusual anywhere else

but really though every other Emil i met in Sweden i disliked so yeah.. kind of like if you met someone with the same name as your bully, you would probably dislike him because they share the same name, sadly i share the name with my bullies (been bullied by like 3 guys named emil lol.. what are the odds xD)

 

[Raven-Loveless]

I like my first name because it is very rare for some who is my age to have, I mean I went through elementary, middle school, high school and most of college without running into another Mary and I personally think that is cool.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

Well, you see, it demands a certain respect when you are theemporer. All must bow down to you in the streets and fall to your iron will!

...oh. You meant my real name. It's Derek. It's okay, I guess. There are some names I prefer, but it's not awful. It means "ruler of the people". So that's cool. It is odd, though, because it's a German name and I'm not German at all. Ah, well.

(I'm not going to say it but my middle name sucks. It sounds very flowery. )

 

[Gammayun]

I do like my first name yes , its very appropriate as i am a twin and the meaning of Thomas is twin, so my parent were very logical when naming me, plus it nice to a have a very common fist name compared to my very uncommon surname.

 

[Brightzide]

Its 'James'...What else can I say?..Classic name. Simple, well known and biblical....Makes me very forgettable...My middle name is 'Random'...That's not so common...but thats not the point...yeah, I'd rather be 'Nick' to be honest...my parents other choice.

 

[Poetic Nova]

Menno is the name i've bin given, but I got the nickname "Ozzy" since I have long hair and sunglasses exactly like his.
If you don't know dutch then there's a chance that you can't pronounce my name.