Do you like your given name?

[cnic419]

My maiden name rhymes with "whore", so no I didn't care for it too much, especially in high school.

[O'Hara]

I don't mind my first name, but I changed my middle and last name. My last name was Smith =/ It gets tiring having people ask you your last name, and then your first name, and then your middle name, and then your birthday before they can find you in their computers or lists or whathaveyou. There was another girl with my same name just in my freshman class at college. That's ridiculous.

Actually, when I moved and had to change high schools, in my Physics class, I sat next to a Smith and in front of a girl with my same first and middle name. The poor instructor was so confused. I had enough. So when I turned 18 I changed my middle and last name. My last is now O'Hara

[Srbo]

Well, I do like my name, coz it`s the name my dad gave me and I would not want it any other way, but it gives me problems in my life like mothing else..

Srbo ( prounacend just like that, just read it, even though on this continet people assume that there should be a "e" or "i" between S and R...so Serbo or Sirbo ) is just the short verison of Serbian.
Like America Ferrera for American.

Ever since the war there started, and even before that, and even after that, even now, I have a hard time explaining to anyone from the Balkans that that is my real name.
So, so many times, I would meet somebody, he might be of muslem religion from Bosnia, or a Croat from Croatia, I would extend my hand, say my name and people would refuse to shake hands with me.
They think that I`m lying ( coz it really isn`t a common name ), that I`m a super ultra nacionalist ( which I`m not ) who`s lying about his name just to rub it into their faces.
Like I know if they are this or that when we first meet, I have no idea at all who they are and am not interested either...
And I have a hell of a lot of trouble explaining to people that i don`t give a rats a** what religion they are, what they believe in and so on, you get my drift, right ?
Sometimes it works out, most of the time it doesn`t, no matter what I say to them.
I wish with all my heart that that madness ends once...

And of course, living in Canada, having to spell it every single time to everybody...
Man, I like my name, but it`s really, really a big PITA.

[Srbo]

Just to try a better explanation:

If you guys meet somebody, anybody, and he tells you : "Hi, my name is Ossama ...or Saddam..."...you would feel at least a little bit akward.

Well, that`s the reaction I`m getting nine out of ten times when I say my name to people from the old country......

And that`s why I said in some other thread:

Call me The Dude.

[SusanNorton]

Mine would be Carol Broady. BORING...Sounds like someone in a business suit.

Not at all, Kim - it sounds close to Carol Brady. Who wouldn't want to see her strip?

[BlueSmurf721]

I don't like my first name, or any of the multitude of nicknames that come from it, very much. "Patricia" just doesn't fit me very well for some reason. I go by "Pattie" most of the time, but eh...it still doesn't quite fit. I'll blame it on the fact that my dad picked it, lol.

Sometimes I forget my own middle name. Is that bad? Hehehe. No, I remember it...it just bothers me that I share it with so many other people!

I like my last name, though. Easy to spell, easy to pronounce...fantastic!