Who here resents their parents for giving them the name that they did? — Page 2

Oh and Stagey, I had twin uncles named Marvin and Melvin.

Blue, I was also upset that my parents didn't give me a middle name. In grade school I just told all the teachers it was "Ann". Boy, could I have picked a duller middle name??

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Thanks, taz. Cannot wait!

Reginald: That's just cruel. I have a brother one year older named Selvin, and that added to the confusion with my name. I guess it's easier to say Selvin and Melvin.

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Yeah, "resent" isn't really what I mean, I just get annoyed every time I think about it

I like my first name (it's Danny if you can't tell from my screen name). It's pretty common, but I have actually only met people who go by Daniel or Dan--nobody else with the exact same name. Plus, nobody can mispronounce it.

My last name, on the other hand, is something I hate--Kapinos (pronounced kuh-pee-nohss). Everybody thinks it's pronounced with the a and the i using short vowel sounds, and nobody thinks to ask how it's pronounced. Not to mention what offensive names come from changing the last syllable.

Im very lucky, my parents let me pick my own name and gender.

My name is fairly common though when I was little the spelling was not. I'm a Kristin and 20 years ago it was all "Kristen". I could never get pencils or anything with my name on it because it was always spelled with the "e". And, to this day, I have family members who still spell my name with an "e".

Oddly enough, I wasn't supposed to be named Kristin. My late father's favorite movie was The Quiet Man and I was going to be named Mary Kate after Maureen O'Hara's character in that film. Also, my mother's mother was named Mary Catherine. But my father's brother's wife was pregnant at the same time and gave birth two months before my mom. And guess what they named their daughter.

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I like my name (Erin), because it's nice and simple, and goes well with our fairly common last name. I just wish it worked better for nicknames (and Er doesn't count). My older sister (Deirdre) loves her name now, but didn't always like it when we were growing up. People always misspell/mispronounce it, and there's very few souvenir things with it.

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I have a cousin named Brendan

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Of all of this things I have issues with involving my parents, my name is luckily not one of them.

My only problem is that it sounds very waspish for a somewhat nice Jewish girl.

I like my name well enough. I'm not real uptight over nicknames, but I get irritated at being called Chrissy (it just sounds dumb to me) or Christine (because that's not short for Christina, it's just a different name.)

My last name is extremely uncommon. The only people (person?) I've found with my exact name are all in Germany.

For anybody named Chris, is it annoying when you get robo-calls and mail that only read/say Christophe? My cousin was complaining about it a while back.

I'm a Chris (of sorts) and I haven't had that problem (as I'm a Christina) but I do enjoy how Greyhound always prints my tickets to LASTNAME, CHRIST.

I hate my first name, I don't think it fits my personality in any way, and it's also my dad's name. Now, my dad is my favorite person in the world, but I hated growing up and having the word "little" precede my first name in order to differentiate us, and getting mail when I lived at home was always a pain.
When I moved to the United States, I tried experimenting with different versions of the name since people here pronounce it differently, hence the "Ray" which I also never truly liked. Finally when I started grad school I settled on my middle name, since I've always loved my middle name, I think it fits my personality really well and now I feel weird when people call me by a different name.
What's annoying is that my mom wanted to give me my middle name as my first name, but my dad wanted one of his sons to have his name and they knew they weren't going to have any more kids after me, so I got stuck with the bad first name. Oh well. I still cringe a little when people call me by all the other names.

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