Do you like the names your parents gave you?

Yes, I've always liked it. I got it purely by accident -- my parents thought that I'd be a boy after two girls. So when I was born - oh, no, the baby had no name. Mum asked the midwife who'd delivered me "what's your name ?", and it was Stella. So I became Stella.....I've always been grateful that the midwife had an acceptable name, considering what it could have been back in 1949. The name has become quite fashionable in the last few years, with various celebrities using it for their children. I even have a bottle of "Stella" perfume, courtesy of Paul McCartney's little girl.

HATE my name! The fact that it's spelt the French way does not help at all as I hate everything French. If I could choose my name it would be, Kourtney, Butterfly, Velocity, Poison, Amethyst or Ferrari.. Yes I like weird names and I made some of them up randomly :P but these shall be my children's names then..

Yes, I was named for both of my grandmothers!

EDIT:

Kembeck has a point: My given name is Julia, but Grandpa always referred to my Grandma as "Judy"...My Dad's side of the family calls me Judy, everyone else calls me Julie, and I use Julia only for legal items as it is the name on my birth certificate.

The day I was born, my father read about a local young lady who was coming out (as a debutante,not a lesbian).

Anyhoo, he loved the name and since it it also my great grandmother's name, my Mother agreed.

I think it suits me better than Diane which was my Mother's pick ( Smile for me,my Diane).

I got used to them pretty quickly,

so never wanted to change.

My Mother wanted a name that would

not be shortened, but she was the

first one to shorten it to Malcky.

I have three names and like them all.

Yes. I really like my first name, but it has a nickname which they insisted on using. I've never understood naming a child one name, but calling them by another.

No. I've never been called by my actual name. Larry is a nickname for Lawrence which is my middle name.

Yes, I like my name (Francesca) I HATED it when I was younger because there was no one else with it but now I really like it. And I like the nicknames 'Franki, Ces and Cesca'. The only nickname I don't like (which I got called a lot when I was younger) is 'Fran' :| but, other than that, I like it.(:

Oh yes!, I have the same name as an English poet,and so proud of it. Thomas Gray..

I am farly happy with them. At 67 my names could have been more old fashioned,something like Percy or Horace or Sydney. ?