Do you like your real name?

[Peach_Jam]

I used to feel meh about it when I was younger but I like it now : )

 

[oath2order]

Yes, but I now go by a different name which I do like.

 

[Mokuren]

Yes I like my name! It's a really normal one in Austria but also in english speaking countries. I never have to spell it for others and that's a hugh plus in my book!

 

[OswinOswald]

I have a fairly uncommon name and I like that! I don't speak a lot of Mandarin, but my impression is that it's not that common in Mandarin either. I've only met one other person with my exact name. I think this makes it easy to get internet handles/usernames, for people to remember me uniquely, and no one ever gets me confused with anyone else
But the romanized version also has similarities to a male name in Scottish, so sometimes that's confusing. Good thing I don't live in the UK
My parents did give me an "American" name but it never really took

 

[You got mail!]

Yeah I do, nothing to complain about

 

[Darcy94x]

I don’t know anybody else with my name so yeah, when I was younger I was sad that I could never get any personalised things in the gift shop but now I love it, every cloud ️

 

[kayleee]

I don’t love it but I don’t hate it either!

 

[rocketspruggs]

I don't really like my real name. It may be a different spelling of an old name that parents don't name their children anymore, which is quite unique, but the reason I don't like my real name is because it is so easy to misspell, as literally nobody else shares the exact same spelling of my name as I do.

I prefer to be called by my nickname, Hayley, instead.

 

[Oblivia]

I have a pretty intense dislike for it, actually! Here's some post inception that illustrates my feelings quite well:

I fully plan to change my first name at some point. I think the only reason I haven't already is due to the amount of steps and red tape it's going to take; it requires getting approval from a court, visits to multiple government offices, and then there's the matter of all the places my name currently appears (mortgages, credit cards, loans, a business, etc.) that would make it a very lengthy and tedious process. Thankfully it's a lot easier to change your last name, which I did ~15 years ago for emancipation purposes.

There was a similar thread ages ago and my feelings definitely haven't changed:

My real name is pretty... weird for lack of a better word, but I rarely sit and think about my own name and am obviously used to people using it to address me.

It'd be so useful if it was easier to change your first name and there was some system in place that allowed, say... a free and easy one time name change once you reach adulthood. That way we wouldn't have to rely on someone else to choose the name we're going to have for the rest of our lives, especially if our parents are somewhat out there and opt to choose a name that fits them better than it fits the person it's intended for, you know?

 

[Yoshi155]

Yes, EXCEPT how every year I have to tell my teachers how to pronounce my name correctly and I hate that about it. I wouldn’t mind it if I had a different name people could call me in public than the one I get called at home. I do use a nickname at school which is my normal name but the last half, but I think if it was my full name it would probably be hopeless for people to pronounce it on their own.

 

[thatawkwardkid]

It's ok but it's nothing special. I like that my dad has a story to why he named me. It's also a common name so you can't mess it up

 

[SilverWolf21]

While I'm sure my real name is fairly uncommon, I don't really like to use it when online for hopefully obvious reasons. And no, I'm not going to say what my real name is here.

 

[S.J.]

No complaints about my name. Rarely do people use my actual name. My family have another nickname for me, and other people have been calling me SJ since I was a teenager, and I've always liked SJ.

 

[pottercrossing]

Well, I chose my name so yes, I do like it. In terms of my birth name, I probably wouldn't hate it so much if the majority of people I know didn't still use it.
At my school and my theatre class, I'm registered under my deadname. At school, if someone wants to go by a name that isn't a shortened version of their name or a nickname, they have to get their parent/guardian to get it changed, and I understand why they would choose to have that rule in place, but it REALLY sucks for people like myself who don't have supportive families.
As for my theatre class, we can use whatever name we want, but I've known those people for 2-ish years (one of them I've known for 4-5 years) and I'm scared to spring it on them.
And of course my family is very religious and very conservative, so I can't tell them.

So now it pains me to read my deadname. I once refused to read a book because that was the name of one of the characters. I've scrapped many OCs because I gave them that name. It's that bad.