Do you like your real name?

[LadyDestani]

I'm fairly indifferent about my real name. It's not bad, but I don't love it and would never have chosen it myself. But it's been my name for so long that I can't imagine being called anything else.

My real first name is typically used as a nickname, so I always get asked what it's short for and I have to reply that it's not short for anything. It's just my name. I wish my parents had given me a longer name so I could have picked from a variety of nicknames, but my dad was adamantly against it because he hated having a long name.

I use my real name for real life stuff, but LadyDestani or Destani have been my online and gamer handles for over 20 years now. I'm honestly more attached to it than my real name and it gives me privacy. I want to feel free to say things openly online without facing any backlash in real life.

 

[aericell]

i like my real name and i can’t imagine having anything different. i do wish people didn’t mix it up by one letter. it’s not a hard name at all if they paid a little more attention to the spelling ><

i’ve never really used it for online usernames. i wouldn’t say i’m secretive about it or anything but i tend to choose usernames based on my interests instead

 

[BluebearL]

I like my name- it's a pretty name that is common enough to be a well-known name but not so common that I have known many other people with the same name. Sounds very professional with my sir-name as well which is nice. It's not bad.

 

[Xara]

while xara isn’t my birth name nor have i made it my legal name, i still consider it to be my real name and i love it a lot. looking forward to making it my legal name in the near future.

 

[a potato]

Yes! I don’t think I would have it any other way. I think it suits me. I also really like my initials.

 

[nyx~]

I don't hate my real name but I'm not a huge fan of it at the same time. It also bothers me that there's not rly a nickname you can derive from my name so I'm only ever called by my name.

 

[Foreverfox]

My real name is Lori, I like my real name and I think it suits me. It's also not that common, so I like that. However, I rarely hear my real name anymore, since we've mostly stayed home since the pandemic started. I only really hear it from my parents and my stepchildren. My husband and I use our nicknames, so I'm Fox most of the time!

 

[Alienfish]

I do not. Which is why I almost never use it online (My insta has it but I don't add a lot of randoms there anyway). If you know it you know it but yeah I don't like it lol.

 

[nordskjev]

I like my real name, but i dont mind using some nicknames too

 

[Holla]

Yeah my real name is fine. It’s pretty darn similar to my forum username for those that know it haha.

If I got to choose my own name I probably wouldn’t have picked it, but at the same time I don’t know what else I’d choose instead ha. I also like that it’s pretty easy to spell and common enough it’s not a weird or odd name but it’s also not super common so I don’t share the name with a ton of people.

 

[Stella-Io]

I don't like my real name. It's too common, generic and there's too many spellings variants of it, to the point that hardly anyone gets it spelled correctly the first time. It's also not a 'me' name; I like to think I'm not common and generic (thou my appearance certainly is but I'm working on that) so I'd like a name that suits me better.

I absolutely love my online/artist alias Jerico (lol obv not my username here but if you know me you know I go by Jerico or JP) and if changing my name wasn't such a hassle I'd change it to Jerico in a heartbeat. Not only paperwork, updating everything but also people irl who previously knew me by my real name. Like, it would be an adjustment for them and there would still be times that they would say my old name. It does help that my name does have some nickname variants to it and some people do call me by a nickname variant irl, but still, it's not my desired name.

That, and it's a gender neutral name, imo. It's originally for boys but the only thing that gives it a 'boy context' is the O at the end, and I personally think it can be used for any gender. My real name is a femme only name, there's no boy association to it at all. Jerico much more fits my gender neutral/non binary/androgynous/idk I'm still figuring it out, gender.

But I'm also a coward who doesn't dare introduce myself as Jerico to new irl people, cause people who know me now would be like 'why are you telling them that, your name is-' and stuff like 'why *that* name? That name is so weird' ect...

So to anyone who does know my real name but calls me Jerico or JP, thanks much!

 

[oak]

Well I picked the name Noah so yes I like it. I realized soon after though that everyone was naming their kids Noah so now there's millions of 6 year olds all named Noah, but that's what I get for picking a top 10 baby boys name.

 

[moo_nieu]

yeah i love my real name (parker) but i used to hate it when i was very young. i actually think its the perfect name for me. also its nice that my name doesnt cause any dysphoria for me since realizing that im nonbinary. strange fact: my parents named me parker so that i could have an easier time getting jobs with a mans name on my resume. i dont think people assume that as much about names anymore but im happy that i ended up what i did. my middle name on the other hand..... mom why. its supposed to have the letter z! the s just looks weird and i dont even know how im supposed to pronounce my own middle name

Spoiler

its elisabeth D:

 

[Antonio]

Nope, I hate it cuz I feel like it doesn't describe me.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

I'm okay with it though since my name is so inherently feminine I recently started going by my middle name instead (since it's pretty gender neutral and a few people already refer to me by that name).

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my middle name on the other hand..... mom why. its supposed to have the letter z! the s just looks weird and i dont even know how im supposed to pronounce my own middle name

Spoiler

its elisabeth D:

that's actually the German spelling of that name, not weird to me

 

[Romaki]

I mean, it's grown on me. It's european and says a lot about my location, but luckily it's very modern (unlike my middle name...).

 

[JellyBeans]

i don't mind my name! i always go by 'jess' as opposed to the full 'jessica' because jessica just sounds so.. formal?? i dunno. but i probably wouldn't change it

 

[Dunquixote]

I am indifferent about my name. I used to not like it but now I don’t really care. I don’t know what name I’d rather have it be.

 

[Toska]

I like my name alright. It’s an extremely outdated name, which I guess just makes me more unique. Online I usually go by Toska for privacy reasons, of course. My irl friends call me either by my full name (it isn’t that long of a name) or by my nickname. Funnily enough, my nickname is the same as my island representative and my Nintendo account. I have no intentions of changing my name!

 

[SublimeDonut]

Yeah. Mine's Catarina, portuguese equivalent of Catherine. My parents picked it because of Kate Bush and the character Cathy in Wuthering Heights and I can't think of two better people to be named after. It's also not common in my country. I don't know why but I think I'd despise having a very common name.