A rose by any other name.

going away from the question slightly but still on subject
i have three younger siblings and none of our names are simmilar but if one of us is trouble with mum or dad they will call the other three's names before calling the right one, by then we know we are in trouble

my given name is joseph dwayne (last name), my fathers name was joseph david (last name), as a child my father was refered to as jd, when i was little family members came up with jody, i think they realised they couldn't call me jd as i would be confused with my father and jody was i guess derivative of joe d, why they didn't call me joe or joey i'll never understand, but, i actually hated the name and as soon as i was old enough to assert my own will i went by joe, that nmae is okay, although i always thought the name alex was supper cool (used to watch, it takes a thief, with alexander monday)

hate my middle name as most dwaynes i know are nut cases or just really boring people, but as i stated in the middle name thread, one of the members of the band alabama 3 goes by the moniker D-Wayne Love, and that's pretty cool

as for my last name, well i won't give it out, but it was easy to make fun of

Re: A rose by any other name.
Both.
Depends who saying it, how they're saying it, and what form it is said in, as my name has three forms from short to long from informal to formal.Motu: Master of the Universe or Mark of the Unicorn, whichever you prefer.Both my first and second names where chosen from the JewishTribal Religion

i know a dwayne and yes he is a tosser

Oooh...

I mostly like my name, though it's taken on a different cast in just the last few years (fivish?). It's an unusual derivative of a common name, and people were forever assuming that my name was the common one, and I'd have to correct. Now I keep running into little kids with my name, which is weird and not entirely pleasant. They don't seem to like it much either. Them: That old lady has my name? Me: That little pipsqueak has my name?

I am very fond of my middle name (former last name) and current last name. My maiden name is extremely uncommon and very hard to spell and very hard to pronounce and I always liked that about it. It was probably bastardized at Ellis Island, and the only people who bear it are my immediate family (to cousins, anyway). I like that, bastardization or not, it bears witness to my immigrant roots.

When I moved it over a slot, I vowed to always sign my name with the whole thing -- complete middle-formerly-last-name -- but of course within a few months I was doing just the initial. Too unwieldy. I'm a stickler for the initial, though. :-)

I like my last name because it's another immigrant name, but a different flavor, and because it fits my husband so well, and because the two names (middle, last), go together in a weird way. Some of the same sounds, something graphically that works.

To take it one more level, I struggled with how to fit my old last name/current middle name into sozlet's name, and gave up. Decided to give her first and middle name a bit of the immigrant flavor to offset her dad's side/ dad's name.

Oops, I answered 2 and 4 but not 1 and 3:

Do you go by your name or a nickname?

My name. It has a few obvious derivatives but nobody ever uses them with me. In fact, I was happy when "soz" started being used -- finally, a nickname! I always worried I was too serious or something.

What name would you chose for yourself?

Every once in a while I see some (often very old) interesting name and think "cool!" -- but I can't quite imagine being anyone but [myname].

I go by my first name

I like it....it's not cutesy or anything. I'm white, and usually white women with my name are 15-20 years at older. It was a more popular name I guess in the 1940's rather than the late 1950's...19 out of 20 people I've met with my name that are more the same age are black women.

Didn't like my maiden name, no one pronounced it correctly and when I would say my first and last together it would slur together....too many s,c, z sounds all together, so people thought my first name was a different one I really don't like.

I would rename myself Coco LaRue.

How does it connect me with my history?
Not sure what you mean.

If it is a friend or family: always a nickname. It sounds odd and I know the person is pissed/has something serious to say if they use my real first name.

I like the name I was given. Growing up, it was an uncommon name for my generation, so people remembered it. I was often the first one they met with the name. Now though, there are a lot of young girls with my name. I think it's because of a certain TV show that became popular at the time. Funny how a lot of people when first meeting me say something along the lines to peg me as the character on TV. stupid.

I don't know what name I would choose for myself. Very often, people will look at me and basically decide what to call me. I ask why? "You look like a *name*". Ok. Cool.
It works out interestingly. Few people call me by the same name.

My full name sounds a little like a cheesy 70's pornstar name, or a stripper that was a man now a woman. lol. Why do strippers like my name? who knows.

The only way my name truly connects me to my history is my last name.
They rest I could scrap. I like having that name to connect me to my father somehow. I even insist on it being pronounced in the french form. It sounds better and means something to me. It grounds me to remembering how dad would have been holding little-me and speaking french - not english! It sparks the little girl who once knew how to think in two languages.

Long! lol. Names are fun.

btw boom: my dad was a Mo, too. Good name!

I go by my first name Melissa.

Growing up, I hated my last name . Think corn flakes company..
yeah

I was called the flake, ( if only those kids knew how well that fit. ) Snap Crackle Pop, tiger, <sigh>

I used to vow, when I turned 18 I would change my last name.
As I got older, my mother and my grandmother before she died, began telling me the history of our names and how we are attached to the big name part of the family.
Only after I learned this history was I proud to have that name.

Now, as a semi-only when I wanna be adult, people still try to throw the side snicker about my last name. I strongly look them in the eyes and say " Yup, thats my name.. and also my family"
It is usually greeted with ooh's and aah's because everyone wants to meet someone famous in their lives and at that moment in time they are assuming I am one.
Kind of a good ego stroke.

If the conversation continues, I explain how far REMOVED I truly am, but none the less , am part of the family.

My first name has never gotten so much attention.

It means Honey Bee, or Sweet animal... depending on the translation.

it fits.. in certain circumstances.. '
but for the most part, I always wished for a more Unisex, or BOY-ish name.
For the longest time in high school, I adopted the name Ricky as a nickname/joke. Never panned out for me, but sure did for Ricky Lake.

Alot of times , people try to shorten my name and call me Mel.
That doesn't fly over very well with me.
In fact, there is only one person in the world who can get away with that and that is my best friend Sully.

I have no desire to change my name, but at times I do sort of wish it were different..
Though, I have no clue what I would choose now.
Probally something very .. I don't know.. ....tribal?
Not something 'american-ized' like WhiteHorse, but if I were to delve deeper into the Cherokee nation's name history, I am sure I would find something.

I like my name - it's a four-letter-word

I have a nickname.

Clankspoon.

We call it Kochloeffel.

I'm sure you do.

whats a clankspoon?

A Kochloeffel.

Great idea for a thread, boomer.

When I was young, I was frustrated with my first name. It's impossible to spell when you hear it, and usually mispronounced when it's read aloud the first time. That's hard on a kid. Plus I had a lot of trouble pronouncing it myself, which didn't help matters. (I had a lot of trouble with r's in the middle of words. Unfortunately, both my first and last names have r's in the middle.)

I was named for my paternal grandmother who died about a week before I was born. They adapted her (very old-fashioned) name and made up an unusual spelling of an uncommon name. I also have her middle name, which was her mother's maiden name.

I contemplated changing the spelling as a teenager - just to simplify matters. But I came around to liking the fact that I have an uncommon name with a very uncommon spelling. "Mac" is my initials, and a few people have called me that throughout my life, but almost everyone calls me by my name. I wouldn't change it now for anything.

I have always disliked my rather unusual and difficult-to-pronounce name. I either get compliments from people ("that's a loooovely name") or they go "what????".
I don't like the meaning either - rather *grandiose*..my name means "blissful" but not in the normal sense...refers to a nirvana-like bliss.

I go by several nicknames - I like all of them! Funny, each person (among friends and family) has a different nickname for me.

I like the history of my name too - I was named by a writer-friend of my dad's...This writer-friend, who is now dead has always been one of my favorite people.

If I could, I would go by my alternative name, Sevanti. It's a simple name- refers to a nice little flower that grows around here. This alternative name is not official - just given by some member(s) of the family...and used infrequently.

Nice thread...

I go by my first name...usually cut in half, by friends. I have one friend that never calls me by my full name...when he does, I know he's serious about something...I get tickled over it.

But through the years, I have had several nick-names. Cat...cause of the eyes.., and Tink. Tink has a very funny story behind it, but I don't think anyone would get it...lol, its one of those..had to be there stories...lol
The milkman give it to me...lmao

I'm sure I would like it too, if I knew it...