Rhonda? Barbara Ann?
Suzie-Q?
Hint: it’s got an awkward line of French in it.
Ah! Very pretty.
I would like my first name to be Grand Supreme Potentate the Most Magnificent and Beneficent Ruler of the Land Before Whom All Shall Bow and Shower Many Baubles and Riches Upon 
Too much? I’ll just stick with my current name. 
My sister’s name is Elizabeth, and she has been called Betsy since birth (she somehow wasn’t able to shake it, like I did with “Sally”). She likes Betsy well enough, but when she started working, she tried to go by Elizabeth, since she is very small and young-looking & thought Elizabeth seemed more grown-up and serious. Didn’t work, because people called her Liz by default, which she hates as much as you do! She’d much rather be Betsy than Liz. I think she agrees with you on Beth…seems too quiet of a name, and she is far from quiet. It’s funny to me to have a name with such a selection of nicknames! “Sarah” doesn’t have too much going in that direction…I get called “Sare” a lot. 
I have to say that I have a pretty awesome middle name, so that’s the one I go by. I’ve never particularly liked nor “felt like” my first name, and I’d probably say 95% of the people in my life don’t even know what it is (or that the name I go by isn’t my “real” one).
Are we allowed to guess?
That’s me, too, but I don’t like it. (Different song, though.)
Yeah. That one. I’ve always hated that song Help Me, Rhonda because he was asking her to be his second choice. Damn. I ain’t gonna be nobody’s second choice. If I’m not the one you want to be with then FO, ya know?
If I had to choose a first name other than the one I’ve got, I really, really like feminine sounding names like Amanda, Sarah, or Catherine. But none of those would really go with my last name.
I’m so curious about all your names, I can’t guess. I suck.
I used to hate my name because it was unusual and because nobody can spell it. Also there are two different ways to pronounce it which are very slightly different, and one of those ways sounds really ugly to my ears, but I am not going to go correcting such a minor punctuation issue, so sometimes my name sounds ugly to me. But I’m over it now.
There are also some pretty neat (and equally uncommon) variants on it. I might have preferred one of the variants but I’m cool with this one too.
It’s recently become a lot more common (among both males and females, it seems) but everyone spells it differently, so that hasn’t gotten any easier. But my surname is hard to spell too so it’s not really an additional burden.
“Jenny ate six” [7-5309]?
Or going by your user name, and Seinfeld, “Delores”?
I’m not too fond of my first name. It’s consistently been in the top ten baby names for the last twenty-some years, and the stereotype associated with the name is often the trendy, conniving, Queen Bitch of High School type. Or a villainous temptress. Hmm.
Name I would prefer? The name suggested by my bf, “Amalie”, or a variant, “Amelia”. (Now you see some of the inspiration for my username!)
Hmmm, this could have been written by me. I wonder if there’s something inherently quiet and bookwormish about the name Julie/a?
I hate my name. I was scheduled to be a Kelly or a Kerry, my mother was on an "Irish names that start with ‘K’ "kick for my previous two sibs. But then she went on some crazy “honor those darn Catholic saints” rampage and gave me this made up combo name that it turns out only a few hundred other people came up with between 1960 and 1980 and no one has been stupid enough to use it since. I always go by a shortened nick of that name but I can’t get away with that on official stuff. Everyone gets my nick wrong because it’s also unusual for a girl’s name.
If I had been named Kelly or Kerry I might have been a different person. Someone who’s less sarcastic and more perky and who gets on the cheerleading squad and seems normal.
Thanks mom, for making me so weird.
If I got to choose my name today, I’d probably pick something unusual, because I am definitely not a Kelly or Kerry now.
My name, Ryan, is a perfectly nice name, if a bit too common these days. I tend to get called Bryan a bit, and by brother Brendan gets the Brandon thing, so maybe I’d go with something else, but it is what it is.
I’ve never thought about changing it, but I was almost Patrick instead and I would have hated that, so I’ll stick with Ryan. Patrick became my middle name, and it’s my best friends name too, so if I ever have a son he’ll be named Patrick, but I’ll just call him “Tricky”
I hated my name so I changed it. Seemed the logical course of action. $50 and a tiny bit of paperwork to never be called that again was a pretty good deal.
I’m quite fond of mine.
I like that it has a traditional aspect to it- all the females on my mother’s side have the same first name, including me.
And it has a more exotic/unusual aspect to it- I’m the only one who didn’t get a boring nun name. The name I use (middle, natch) is uncommon enough not to show up in the top 1000 for… at least as long as any of those name trend websites go back.
I would change my nickname, though. I’m Izzy now, which is all well and good, but would be better if I were in third grade and my name were Isabelle or Isabella (as people assume it is when I’m introduced as “Iz” or “Izzy”). When I go to college, I’ll be Dora or Isadora.
And if I were legal-fying, I might switch my first and middle names. So that the name I use would be my actual first name, which is just easier.
Uhhh…yeh…no. It is not a common name, even where it is commonly found (it is quite a regional name). The song is not a pop song, and I would dare say the song is older than anyone on this board. My name is not vulgar sounding in and of itself – only when that song is sung in the context that the boys sing it does the song become vulgar. FTR – my middle name, which I go by, also has a song that boys always sing to me – “Joanna”. At least it’s not vulgar.
Litoris – Is the song “Joanna” the one by Michael Nesmith? I love that song but didn’t think many knew of it to sing to others with the name, which is cool if true.
fishbicycle - your wife’s name is Lady Marmalade?! 
I like my name, it’s very pretty. However, it’s so common among twentysomething women that there are four of us in my office. I do wish it were less common. I don’t think I should be the one to change, though…I’m older than the other three!
Oh, I don’t think I have heard that one – I was referring to the old Kool & the Gang song. I will have to look up this one by Michael Nesmith.