Parenting poll: Did you hate your name when you were a kid?

My name is Kylee. I'm 30 years old, and I've still never met another Kylee my age. Only little girls recently. And they usually spell it 'Kylie'.
I hated my name growing up. It was mispronounced - I don't know how - more times than I can count.
To make matters worse I don't have a middle name. My mother thought, and still thinks, they're useless.
I remember one time in high school the secretary telling me "young lady, if you don't tell me your middle name I'll go look it up on your birth certificate and then you'll really be trouble for lying to me"

Well...I didn't get in trouble for lying, but I did for telling her to F@3k Off! What can I say? I had had enough of my name, or the lack there of, that day.
Now all I hear is " ooooh my friend/niece/sister/daughter named their kid Kylie."

wooopie

Well i hated my name. Now im grateful to have it, i was named after my grandmother and to me now that is something special. my name is Billie thats right a common boys name. Not only that but im now married and my name sounds like i should be put in the movies. my name is BILLIE DAWN VAUGHN. catchy huhh

I never did like it... "Mary"... no creativity, no nicknames, just plain; boring "Mary"... And on top of that, they also sent me to a Christian school, where there was a kid named "Joseph"...

I mean, the least the could have done was made it "Marilyn", and "Mary" for short, but they didn't. Oh well, that's life.

I don't even remember a time when I wasn't in trouble or somebody was trying to tick me off that ANYONE has called me by my real first name. My father thought it would be nice to combine the names of my grandmothers and name me that. One grandma was Dorothy, the other one was Ella. Smoosh those 2 together and he got Dorella, I have never in my 34 years met another one and I doubt that I will. It's taken a lot of time and I won't say that I LIKE my name, but I've gotten used to it. Of course it helps that everyone has called me Dorie my entire life. See, even my nickname is as unique as I am.=)

I used to hate my name...its Sheelah...pronounced like
Sheila. The only thing I hated about my name is that my mom got cute with the spelling. Most times I wouldnt even fight it when it was spelled wrong. For 1972 it was a decently common name but growing up I never ONCE came across it. Now, I hear it all the time in talking to people all across th country. I dont mind it at all. It could be worse, it could be a Brandi or a Cindi or a Tiffani or a (oh gawd...) a Britney. (or one of the thousand other spellings)

im a genevieve and yes i hated it i took my aunt viginias nic name but as im older now and it sounds so beautiful in its native language (french). im half french half irish, i like it. i still go by ginny because no one can prononce it right it's pronoced (jon ve eve) IN FRENCH. ITS BEAUTIFUL AND I FORGIVE MY MOTHER

I'm another example of the "leslie the lesbian" phenomenon, only for me it was "Lezzie" and tied with my maiden name of Van Horn, it became "Lezzie Van Horny" until high school. To top it all off, I'm named after my mom's sister Leslie, so family get togethers are always a real pain. It used to be "Big Leslie" was my aunt and I was "Little Leslie"...yeah, that lasted until I grew up and now it's awkward. My grandparents decided that they would call me "Dutch" since my family name is Dutch, but it hasn't really stuck. I still threaten to change my name from time to time, but I'm sure it would be a real hassle to get everyone to adjust to it. Guess I'll just have to live with it!

I wanted to be christina or christiana or christine or anne or lisa I got stuck with being called tammy but my name is Tamara after the Queen of Georgia. I only found this out after I turned 21! I love it now! Great post! have a nice day! Muah!

I hated my name (Heather) because i was always the only african american girl in class and even school my whole life with this name, as i am now an adult i love it and it fits me. I'm alway perky and i like to think tha tmy name is too.

lizziebear- that is the reason I spelled my daughter's name Alyssabeth instead of Elizabeth. I didn't want her to be called Lizzie or Liz. So she gets called Lyssa, Ali, Beth, Alyssa instead. She use to get salty with me because she could never find anything monogrammed with Alyssabeth, but now she likes being the "only" one, lol.

well....i absolutely hated my name. ok here goes: maryemma christian brady! hahaha..I can still remember the kids laughing in middle school when the teacher would call roll. thankfully my dad gave me the nickname christy. growing up my mom and everyone told me how beautiful my name was and that it was a family thing, but i hated it, I threatened my mom so many times that as soon as i was old enough i was no longer maryemma. but now i am older and its grown on me. Its very unique and no one else i have ever met has the same name, not alot of ppl can say that. i doubt my kids will inherit any of my families names but i can live with it !!!!

Nah, I've always liked my name. Nancy. I was named after the Frank Sinatra song. I have ALWYAS been grateful that my mother and father didn't go with what they had originally planned: Dieadre (prounounced deer-dra). I named my daughter Mairead (pronounced Mer-aid). It's a popular name in Ireland, but not so much here. Hopefully she'll like it. She's a month old, so only time will tell. At least I didn't name her after anyone in the family -- those Irish Catholic people love to recycle names ... Uncle Peter, COusin Peter, Uncle Walter, Cousin Walter -- "Old Aunt Bonny", "Young Aunt Bonny", "Old Aunt Ann" "Young Aunt Ann" And the Marys and the Maureens... it's neverending. And my sisters just named their kids after each other. How is anyone supposed to keep track?! My mother puts me on the phone with Colleen -- I can't figure out if it's my sister Colleen or my sister Denise's daughter!

My last name is Nguyen. The "Smith" of Asians.

my name is Peggy and this is not a usual name for a German girl. I was the only one with this name in the town I was living as a kid and everybody spelled them wrong, like Pegi, Pigi or whatever. But I was ever proud of my name. I got it from my grandpa and he was my hero. He ever said I am a little special girl and deserve a special name.

My daughter is called Maria, like my grandma and of course she didnt like her name when she was a little kid. She wanted to be namend Emma or Helena or Hannah. She`s a Teenager now, loves her great-grandma and is happy with her name.

I never liked my first name, so at age 13 I talked my mom into letting me change my name to my middle name. Had I known what I know now, I would have paid the money to legally change my name to Michelle. I still have documents etc, that are in my first name and it drives me crazy! I say if you hate your name then legally change to whatever you like.

I have no feeling or identify with my first name at all - life is to short to dislike something as important as what you call yourself.

Amazinglynerdy, I love Jaime or Jamie. I plan to name my daughter Jaime. It's a beautiful name It means to supplant. And I always thought of it as she will replace the part of me that is missing when she comes into my life.

I was named after an aunt. She was unable to have children of her own and my mom named me after her to honor her. The only problem was she was not a very honorable person. My family would say bad things about her and she was always doing things to get herself in trouble. It was very embarrasing for me. I was very traumatized by it. When I turned 18, I had my name legally changed. That was 14 years ago, and I have never regretted it. I still cringe when someone calls me by my childhood name.

I hated my name as a kid and still do, so I changed my name to Zenitha Lee. Crazy enough, I got the name from the Zenith television I used to own. I liked the name because of Zenith being one of the types of Horizons. I believe it is the peak hour, a highest point, or state. I'm big on being the center of attention whether I want it or not, so I think Zenitha fits better than my old name.

the meaning of names is so very important..it is a blessing or a curse. be sure of what your childs name means.
I didnt like mine - got teased a lot, but when I got older and looked up the meaning...I loved it!

I loved my first name but swore I would die if anyone found out what my middle name was. Patricia was a great name for me but Gale as a middle name just didn't work for me. I'm so thankful that it was at least Patricia Gale and not Gale Patricia as my mom intended. She was trying to name me after her sister, June Patricia. I'm glad a nurse switched the names around on the paperwork for the birth certificate.