Do you like your first name?

My name is Melissa........ Its ok just think its a little plain.... could be worse i guess lol

Mine is Katherine.
I always disliked how common it is. Still do. I would have loved a unique name like Sheriden, Kerrigan, or perhaps something a bit more creative.
Still, I wear my name well. It comes from the greek word for purity, which is a character trait that nearly everyone who meets me automatically assigns (goody-two-shoes, little lady, always polite and conscientious) although lately I've started to evolve outside of my namesake. Close friends have also taken to calling me Kat, which suits me fine.
Still, must it be so COMMON?

Emily. I love it. It's traditional, but beautiful. It's common, but I think it can get away with it because it's so timeless.

My parents couldn't decide between Emily and Emma, so they went with Emily but I am known as Emma (never Emily) by my family.

Professionally I am known as Emily. Friends call me Em or Emily.

I hated mine to start with, pretty much through my school and early adolescent years. My name is Clark and I am named after Clark Gable but obviously everyone thinks I am named after the man of steel with being born pretty much the same time as the first movie came out. As I have grown up though I realize my name has given me a lot and I like it more and more. Where before it was a weakness now it is more of a strength for me :happy:

I hate mine because every time I have to tell people it I have to spell it out for them!!! Its Shelagh and it just makes things complicated, and sometimes people shorten it to SHE which I hate even more!!

Not really - Ann just feels plain and boring. I wish it was just a short-name to Anastasia or something beautiful and long.

My full first name is Celina, although on MFP I go by "Lina", and I'm debating going by the latter professionally for certain reasons (not out of dislike for my name, though. Not really).

I like my name, now, but as a child I was very frustrated by how many people, including extended family, would misspell my name. I also absolutely loathed the frequent question, upon introduction, that was "Oh... like Celine Dion??" No, smartasses... it isn't like Celine Dion. My name has an "a" at the end, not an "e". It's a different name! Further in this theme, I would sometimes get a "So, can you sing like her, too?" Yup, really original, people. In the 2nd grade, I was so fed up that one day I insisted on everyone addressing me by my middle name. My mom got wind of that pretty quick, and it bothered her, so I went back to my first name.

Nowadays, I still get the misspellings at times... so usually when someone asks for my name, I say it and then immediately recite the spelling. My extended family has, for the most part, learned how to spell it; I think I have Facebook to thank for that, actually. Some people who "meet" me over the phone first (I've worked customer service/reception/etc) are surprised to meet me in person and find that I'm not of some Mediterranean origin. Nope... Dutch/Danish. On a related note, I have recently discovered that my surname spelling was altered when my dad's family came from Denmark to North America, making my name match my ethnic identity even less. I'm also considering changing the spelling back at some point, even if not legally, in my professional life.

My name is Corinne and I think it suits me. I hate that I have to correct people on pronunciation and spelling. *rolls eyes*

I absolutely love this name. I know there are a couple of variations in pronunciation for it. How do you pronounce yours? I have actually had this picked out as a middle name for my first daughter (whenever I have one) for some time, with the "ko-RIHN" pronunciation. First name would be Audrey, after my grandmother. "Audrey Corinne". I think it flows nicely, without being a "filler" middle name (I got a filler middle name. It flows nicely, too... it's just so bloody common!) My apologies to my future partner, but I'm pretty adamant about this name combination!

I am Claire, I hate it, I hate having only one syllable, and hate that no-one can every spell it. I do however like that when I go abroad people can say it, unlike my husband Richard and my mum Heather..In France and Germany they really struggle with those.

I'm Emma....even worse I'm Emma Louise!
In my year group at school there were 6 Emma's and 5 of them were Emma Louise - its just so common.

I really hated being common but I guess I've just gotten used to it now. At lot of my friends and family call me Ems or Emylou or even Emzbeth all of which I prefer.

Strangely my parent almost called me Finola - I've never heard of anyone with that name before!! I used to wish they'd called me that instead but I dont think it would suit me now. x

I'm Natalie - and I love my name. Very few people my age have it - which I like, in fact it's not a common name at all. The majority of people call me Nat, and I like that too. Only my mother calls me by my full name lol. My whole family though, cannot pronounce my name correctly and it irritates me beyond belief. They all say Natlie - totally missing the second A sound. The story goes that my father loved the name, mum hated it. She wanted to call me Danielle. I'm glad Dad got his way - I'm Nat to a T.