Hating your own name?

jekasi · January 2015

My grandmother was Delores but decided to go by Jonnie. I also know a Hazel who goes by her MN Denise.

I grew up a Jennifer in the 90s. It seemed like I was perpetually Jennifer last initial. In high school I went through a phase where I wanted to be called by a nickname. I hated the nn Jenny and chose something unrelated and weird. Now I'm an adult and I'm trying to get my friends to stop calling me that, I'd rather go by Jennifer. However they refuse to drop it because there is another Jennifer in our friends group. She gets to be Jen and I get to live with a 10+ year old nickname that I am not fond of anymore.

CML11 · January 2015

I always liked my name, it's a french name that flowed really well with my maiden LN. I loved that no one ever had the same name as me. If a crowd of girls introduced themselves, I would always get a complement on my name (even to this day). I have only met a few other people to this day. Quite often people tell me I am the only one they know with it. That's cool to me.

tealbee · January 2015

Oh man I HATED my name for most of my life no one could spell it no one could pronounce it which I mean .. It's not hard at all really it's pretty obvious lol my names teal my parents decided to name me something more unique. Iv grown to like it though.

velvethelicopters · January 2015

I have a stupid, cutesy made up FN - Emabelle. Really, on what insane idea did that appear. I hate it. Actually, hate isn't strong enough. Once I got to have my vote count, I've gone by Emma, with Em or Emmi as NN. When DF and I get married, I'm changing my FN to Emma, MN to family by choice maiden name, DF's LN.

catwine · January 2015

Both my parents hate their names. I don't want to type their names out for internet safety reasons but I will say what their names mean, if anyone is suuuuuper curious and wants to do some Googling. My mother's name is is the poetic way of saying "spring time" in Slavic and my dad's name mean's "from the elves valley". My mom has no middle name so she had no choice but go by her FN but my dad often used his middle name (Anthony) for business.

janneann1127 · January 2015

My dad hates his name, Mi.lo Lon. Which is funny because Milo is getting really popular these days. He's always gone by Lon.nie. He made me promise not to name my son after him.

khaleesi123 · January 2015

Ever since my nanna was a little girl (talking 5 years old) she hated her name (Pamela) and would only respond to Dawn so ever since then she has been known as Dawn.

mrsh82414 · January 2015

DH does not like his FN. He is 100% Japanese, but was born in America. Needless to say his parents stuck to their culture and saddled he and his older brother with Japanese names. DH's brother's name is easy bc it is the same as a famous baseball player so most people know how to say it. DH's name is extremely phonetic and once you see it once/ say it once it is very simple. Whenever he makes reservations though he always goes by his american nn Mark for the sake of not having to repeat himself a half dozen times. He also has stated he refuses to give our kids Japanese FN for the same reason. We may do Japanese MN, but easy to pronounce English friendly ones.

Koalaknuckles · January 2015

My name is Kyna (pronounced Keena) and I hated my name when I was a kid.

Whenever a new teacher got to my name in roll call I could always tell because they'd stop, pause, and get a really perplexed look on their face like they were constipated.

My last name is really long and ethnic so I just grew up spelling my entire name out for people to save time.

I just wanted a 'normal' name that I could find written on things like all the other kids. I remember wanting to be called Karen.

Now I totally LOVE my name. So glad my mum chose it. I get compliments on it all the time and I think it suits me.

My brother Kurt has hated his name all his life, he's always wanted to be called Chris (which is what my parents were going to name him but they didn't like it with a K).

My mum also hates her name, which is Shirley. One of her middle names is Ann, and she always wished they were flipped around so she could be Ann Shirley (like Anne of Green Gables lol)

I think it's normal to hate your name when you're a kid at least, because you're trying to find your identity as you're growing up.

I kind of feel sad for people who hate their names as adults, but for some people their loathing is totally legit.

Take the author Anne Rice for example.

Her birth name was Howard Allan O'Brien, after her father. She legally changed it later to Anne, and I don't blame her.

Because yikes.

thelastdreamer · January 2015

Have a friend Chelsey Beatrice who sometimes just goes by Bea.

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