Clarice wrote:

I have the urge to use my middle name instead of my first sometimes, but I couldn't while my grandmother was alive as it was her name, and recently my cousin had a baby and named it Amelia too, so I'm stuck in that respect. I know how it is, though; I don't particularly like my own name, but it has defined me so long I don't have the slightest idea how well I'd hold up after changing it.

...although I'd like to be called Emilia, weirdly enough. Hmm.

Emilia is a cool name...kinda vintage Victorian Age type of name.

Clarice wrote:

Pallas Athena wrote:

Emilia is a cool name...kinda vintage Victorian Age type of name.

I'm very fond of long, almost unwieldy names that can be shortened to something jazzier. (Anastasia, for instance, is one of my favourite names, although I'm no Anastasia.) Russian names are fantastic when used in context, because the Russians are so into diminutives. But that's pretty much why I don't like my own name, because it's a single syllable with no mutant possibilities. Boring. Ugh.

I love Russian names, although I am no fan of Stalin lol, but I did like this one girl's name...Natasjassha:confused: or something like that...well that's how it sounded anyways.

Raven Nightshade wrote:

That said, have you considered Renee as a middle name?

Alexandra Renee Jardon would be a beautiful name... Renee goes well with with so many names.

When I was little, I wanted to change my name to Laura. These days, I don't think that I would want to go through all the trouble. I still don't care much for my real name, but I guess that it can't be helped.

I despise my surname most of the time, although it's not anything about it itself, as such -- it's just that despite it being the same as a famous English tourist attraction/landmark, I constantly get asked how to spell it. Which is even worse here, considering I border the county that also shares the name. It's ridiculous. Although the stupid thing is, I'd only change my name upon marriage if it was going to be something ridiculously hard to spell and pronounce, like Szczepanski or something. I don't know; maybe I just want the question to be justified?

I always felt bad for my mother, whose name is Kristeen; you'd think the novelty spelling was great, but it is the bane of her life.

I like your name, dlaire!

I like the last name I got from Paradox much more than my maiden name.  Reamer was just weird, and if I had been a boy, like my brothers, would have resulted in many more crude jokes.  Instead, my first name (Ruth) got changed into "roof" (as in the sound dogs make) instead.  I like our last name now though.  Light.  It has a certain je ne sais quoi... I think it's just kind of fitting for our personalities.

Unfortunately, I still have to spell it.  Reamer's not a name many people have heard before, and Light for some reason they think has some mystical spelling.  Plus no matter how hard I pronounce the L, I still get called White sometimes.

OHMYGOD ITS A BELF ON YOUR AVATAR.

/offtopic

I used to want a different name, but now I like mine. Sad thing is, though, nobody's going to continue the line of my last name, as Dad had all girls and all his sisters had the boys.

I'm one of very few people I know who hasn't changed my name.  Once upon a time, I thought about changing my first name to Siobhan, just to go with the McLastname.  I didn't think about it very seriously; at one point, my mother admitted she'd thought about using the name, but opted for naming me for the patron saint she appealed to for my conception (St. Jude) instead.  For years upon years, I went by Judy.  I got to grad school, and there were 2 other Judys in the department, so I became, by default, Judith.  I hated that.  Then I got out of the Bad Years, and went butch, so dropped down to just Jude.  I still go by Judy at work, to help differentiate between work and friends.  It can confuse my ex-coworkers when they transition from being my coworkers to being my friends, though.

I know several people who cut off contact with their families and changed their names -- either just their last names or the whole name.  They like their chosen names.  I'm also in touch with an older lesbian community, where it's incredibly common for women to have chosen new names.  I enjoy the concept, but don't feel any particular need to change my name these days.

Hiraku wrote:

Same here. Because my name is just one syllable. Two if you include my last name :/
But now come to think of it, um... I don't think there's any other name that suits me better

But I'm still thinking of a good middle name to fill in. Something that'd remind people of the deliciousness of the 'smores Poptart

Delicious....no seriously...that is an exellent middle name, that or Sugar

Alexandra Renee Jardon....! Hmmm I like that a lot!
I wonder if I could get away with spelling Renee as Rynee?!

Alexandra Rynee Jardon?

But anyways I like everyone elses stories about name changing too^_^.

KissingT.Kiryuu wrote:

I know that SLoT wants to change his name to separate himself from his father.

Me on the other hand...eh. my name is o.k.
Bethany Victoria Cordeira.
It flows well actually. i don't like the name Bethany at all... No one calls me that EVER or they get a serious beat down.

Actually that's part of the reason I want to change my name, my mother and I have a strained relationship and quite frankly I was better off not knowing her. But Be..er..you have a nice name though.
I like your middle name actually...Alexandra-Rynee Victoria Jardon!
Lol, it seems like I'm trying to create a super large name...but really nah, I'm just keeping it to like..four.
Keep em coming!

Pallas Athena wrote:

Alexandra Renee Jardon....! Hmmm I like that a lot!
I wonder if I could get away with spelling Renee as Rynee?!

Alexandra Rynee Jardon?

Well, you can spell Renee any way you want, but don't go too nuts with it or everyone will pronounce it wrong. I did go to school with a girl name Renae, though.

Ooh, Rynae could work. If you want to stick Victoria in there, I'd go with Alexandra Victoria Renee Jardon.

Archambeau's reasoning is probably why I didn't change my name four years earlier. I knew several people in high school who changed their names in an attempt to come cross as less lame than they were previously and it all came across as incredibly immature and tainted the whole process for me. It's hard to take some pasty geek seriously when they legally changed their name to a videogame character's to make themselves look badass.

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