If You Could Change your Name, What would it be?

[Princess Weeb]

I was debating just making this a "Names that you like and stuff" sort of thread, which I suppose it can be, but if you could change your own name, what would you change it to? Or if you were the opposite gender, what would you call yourself?

A lot of Italian, Spanish and other foreign names (Like Violetta/Valentina/Rosabella etc) I really like, because you can shorten them to more English-y sounding ones, or they're just pretty. I'd love Rosaline/a or Ophelia, too.

 

[Colour Bandit]

I think my name, Emma, suits me... But if I were born a boy I was going to be called John, a traditional male name on my dad's side of the family...

 

[raimon]

i like my name but i used to hate it.
i like my sister's chinese name better than mine though.
other names i think would suit me: elodie, ruby, cody.

 

[Sanaki]

Name suits me but I don't like it.

emma

 

[Colour Bandit]

Name suits me but I don't like it.

emma

OMG, name buddies?

 

[Princess Weeb]

OMG, name buddies?

One of my cousins is called Emma, and tbh I'd totally trade names with her
(Her body too she is like the prettiest/skinniest in the family ffsss)

 

[Hyoshido]

I want my name to be DragonSlayer19xx or DarkViperMLG

But it's called Ryan instead, lame.

 

[Nouris]

I hate my name so I tell everyone to call me 'Ava'

 

[FraudulentDimetrodon]

My first name is actually Melleia, and due to countless spelling and pronunciation errors over the years (My Spanish teacher legitimately called me "Meluluhluh" for a year, and she wasn't foreign or anything so there was absolutely no language barrier, along with several others) I've always detested my own name.

Oh my God, I sympathize with you in regards to spelling/pronunciation errors. Not going to give out my own name here, but I had the exact same thing happen to me growing up. I had one teacher mispronounce my name for nearly an entire year, until one day, one of my friends randomly blurted out, "Hey! Her name is [insert correct pronunciation]!" and the teacher just said, "Oh, my bad!" as if it was only the second week of classes and he's only called me by the wrong name twice. Ugh.

I have more problems with my last name, though. I have a Western (I think its origins are Greek?) first name (it's a rare name, though, hence the mispronunciations), but a Chinese last name. The teachers who called students by their last name were my least favorite teachers.

If I could change my first name, I might just change it to my nickname, Gena. I actually seriously thought about this when I was in middle school, but now I'm kind of "meh" about it. I don't care too much either way. I like my full Chinese name a lot (the sound of it anyways, the meaning is kind of "eh"), but of course no one can pronounce it here so I'd rather not use it. I can't even deal with my last name, haha.

 

[VioletPrincess]

I loathe my first name and not many people know it. If I could choose another it would be Rachel. Might be a bit confusing if I did as my new sister in laws name is Rachel.

 

[staticistic1114]

I don't like my name
but I don't wanna change either

 

[Mao]

FLORA <3 But then someone said it reminds them of butter so ): I've always like more unique-ish names like Hazel (not my real name aha) Jodie, Heather, Marcy/Marci or something like that~

 

[Cariad]

I would like to be called Scarlett, as it kinda has attitude, but is serious too.

 

[Alienfish]

I'd change it to Jun. I love it but people always pronounce it wrong. It's supposed to be "Junn" in the way of pronouncing it with the u being more of an "uh" sounds..in a Japanese way xD

 

[oak]

Well I did already pick my own name xD Noah~ But I had much different circumstances then others.

 

[BungoTheElf]

I wish my name was lynn

Amanda is a really ugly name ok

 

[PurplPanda]

If I were born a girl, my parents would have named me Summer xD

 

[cherche]

i actually did change my name because i hated my birth name both for being spelled weird and therefore getting a lot of mispronunciations/being called by the wrong name but also because i wanted a more gender neutral name. i toyed around with the names alex and andy for awhile because i love a's but then decided on sid/t?. also changed my surname back to my birth surname because i hate my dad's surname, haha.

 

[ForgottenT]

I don't really dislike my name, but I don''t like what it means lol.

 

[Alienfish]

I'd say most people's real names are better than mine lol.