How do you feel about the [first] name your parents gave you?

My first name is also my father’s.
My middle name is my grandfather’s first name.

Then my parents decided to give me a nickname. Archie. There is no dignity in that name.

@filmfann Same with me, share my dad’s first name.
Archie ain’t so bad, think of Cary Grant.

So in answering myself…
My dad didn’t want me to be named after him but was overruled by my mum, she went through 9 months of carrying me & hours of labour, so I guess she had a point.
I’m so glad she did because he wanted me to be called Keith…ugh!

I don’t like my first name. It’s not a common name and I have no idea where my mom got it from. When I got one of my dogs, she asked if she could name it. I told her no that she blew her chance with naming me. I think I hurt her feelings.

I am used to my name.
Neither hate nor love.It just is.
It goes with my first name.
My dad got his way. I was named after someone he knew while in the Marine Corp.

I like my name very much. I also have a middle name. My first name is my maternal grandfather’s name, and my middle name is my paternal grandfather’s name.

It is the same as many of my relatives. At major holidays, confusion abounds.

@canidmajor – I have seen that mayhem in my own family. My grandfather,father and brother all shared the same name. Then I named a dog I had after them.Tradition, you know.:)

I like both my names. They are easy-to-pronounce and undeniably masculine (for now). My mom came up with my first name, but my dad agreed to it readily. My middle name is my paternal grandfather’s name.

I’m kind of glad I don’t share a first name with any relatives, but a part of me does want a future son to have my name as at least a middle name, which may very well happen. :)

@lucillelucillelucille, to add insult to injury, five other relatives have the same initials. I was raised in a family full of identity crises.

My first name is a play on my paternal grandmother’s maiden name. She died when my dad was 5 y/o & it was very important to him that I be named after her. I didn’t care for her first name so I’m glad they used her last name. My middle name is a nickname from my grandmother’s sister. She had ALL boys; so in her honor, my mom gave me an abbreviated version of her name. Then she got pregnant one more time & had a little girl only to give her the same middle name. I don’t care for the middle name as it is considered a male name & I’ve been teased most of my life because of it. I’m just thankful that mom shortened it, as her full first name was horrible. All in all I don’t hate my name. Given the opportunity, I would have probably choen something different; however, I’m still proud to carry on important names in my family!!!

I don’t have a middle name, neither do my 2 brothers. I wonder if that was the trend in the UK back in the late sixties.
My son & daughter were given middle names primarily because they just sound right together, they’re never used at all.

@canidmajor -That’s funny stuff!
:D

My first name is the name of a female character in a Shakespeare play. I like it. It’s relatively uncommon. My middle name is more common, the female version of Christ. I gave my daughter my middle name as her first name, and my sister’s middle name as her middle name.

I hate all 3 of my names…
First, middle, and last….

As a child I didn’t understand why I had a name that no one else had. By first grade when I would meed kids that didn’t go to my school I would say my name was Anna. I couldn’t imagine a nicer name. Today when I want to use an alias, I still use Anna.

Individually, my names are weird. Together they make sense

Grande Richard Eader

^You know. That isn’t bad.The Grande part kinda throws me off. But as you say, together, they don’t sound bad.

I like it. I think my dad got to name us. If Mom had named us it would have been some version of the old Dutch name “Cornelius.” Bleh.
Anyway we were Valerie (me) Alexis & Rebecca. Good names I think.

Grand Richard Eater?

So, using the nickname Dick for Richard…

LOLL!!