Do you think that your name suits you? Has anyone ever told you that you don't look like a _______ (insert name here)? How do you feel like your name has affected your life or the way society perceives you?Common or unique?"Parents often agonise over what to call their children. It can feel like a test of creativity or a way to express their own personalities or identities through their offspring... the choice [parents] make over their children's names could play a part in shaping how others see their child and therefore ultimately the kind of person their child becomes.""Our names can have these consequences because they can affect how we feel about ourselves and how others treat us."Have you given yourself a nickname or shortened your name?Has your name affected your career path in any way?Do you sue like Soo?Do you bolt like Bolt?Does your name (seemingly) match your face?"You don't look like a Dan."According to one particular article, there's a reason that our names may not (seem to) match us.
I’d say my name fits me. My dad named me after Steve McQueen, the actor. My last name isn’t McQueen, but it roughly sounds similar, and I’ve been told it sounds like a “stage name”, so that’s kinda cool, haha. I don’t think I’m as cool as Steve McQueen was, but I like to think I have a little cool in me. My mother wanted to name me Hamilton, lmfao, that could’ve altered my life greatly😂 You can’t be named Hamilton and be cool, you just can’t, lmao.
No. I have one of the gayest sounding names ever, and I really should be more of a "Chris." My name is just to attached to my identity (I've had it literally my whole life), so I couldn't even change it once I got old enough to. I thought about it as a teenager, though.
You can guess what my name is, though. It starts with an "M."
I guess my name suits me, but more so my last name. My last name is Taylor and one of my hobbies is to sew my own dresses, which would make me a tailor. That inspired the "Taylor Made" part of my username. As for my first name, after looking it up, I learned it means "manifestation of God," which doesn't suit me because I'm not religious. Nonetheless, I still like my name. Outside of its meaning, I just think that the name Tiffany suits any pretty girl with some flair and I guess, when you put it that way, it does suit me.
@DarkCarousel: You know, I never really noticed that until you mentioned it. A lot of last names are based on trades. I'm assuming that, sometime in the ancient past, people based their last names on family trades and did so to separate themselves from other families and clans.
No. My name comes from old indo-germanic "Mara" = Bad dream. It's even present in English in term Nightmare from old English mær. It doesn't fit to me, I'm not that terrible.
My name comes form Mar, Mara. It's a name of Slavic/Germanic goddess of winter and death, she rides at dark winter nights horses and drinks blood of men. I don't know what for devil has driven my mother to pick this name for me.
No, I don't think my name suits me at all. It's very common where I live and I feel that it doesn't match my personality. It's like an "empty" name. I've never had anyone telling me that I don't look like a [insert my name] and I also don't think it has affected the way society perceives me. I just think it's not the right name for me.
I get called up at the doctors office & they tell me i haven't been called, i tell them my name & that they did & they tell me, and i shit you not, "But... You're white," and i respond with, "Yup, the whitest white girl you'll ever meet, now lets get this over with before i call your supervisor & chew both of you out."
Do you generally use Chris or some other nickname?
Haha full names are known for expressing frustration or anger. When they stop calling you 'baby' or whatever term of endearment and use your actual name!
I like Damien. It's interesting though because all of the associations that I have with the name Damien are darker. Until recently when I met a giant, slobbery, gentle beast of a Rottweiler named Damien.
I've never had people say i looked like I'd have a different name, but for some reason like 75% of people that say a different name then my actual name say Kevin. These people never met, at different stages of my life and it's just so unbelievable to me that Kevin is the go to name so I don't know if this counts
Yes my real life name certainly suits me. My real life bane us Angelica and I definitely am very beautiful and angelic. My username here certainly suits me too as I'm a dominatrix and a total slut and I always dress head to toe all in very super bright pink. Everything I wear and own is very super bright pink including my houses and cars and everything in my houses and cars. I wear glasses that are also very super bright pink. Even the cigarettes I smoke are very super bright pink. I refuse to wear it own anything not pink or smoke any cigarettes not pink. The only thing I love not pink is my men who I love very dark black and I'm married to and have kids with a very dark sexy black man.
I've managed to go by two names, one in the US and my second name in Mexico... lol, that way I do not have to constantly hear to four different pronounciations of my names.
I agree that you shouldn't have to look a certain way to have that name. It's just interesting how brains are drawn to patterns or link sounds with shapes, such as the Bouba-Kiki effect. Also, it sounds more formal to go by your full name, Katherine, rather than a more casual variation.
To be honest my name is a source of frustration for me and because of that I'm not a fan. 1. It's quite rare and while it shouldn't be hard to spell there are 2 versions with the wrong version being more common in my country and 2. It's hyphenated with the most basic and generic middle name ever so it's also exhaustingly long. 3. My name is more elegant than I am.
@Mangospacho "googeling" is a proprietary eponym. it is synonymous with "looking something up on the internet". doesn't matter if you use bing, google, duckduckgo or whatever. so i'm not wrong. you're pedantic.
i don't mind my name being known :D i wouldn't have answered this question if i wasn't. i like when people call me tobi. but that only works in germany, cause i think "toby" is sort of a feminine name in the us right?
I have a distant female relative named Toby but other than that I don't know anyone else by that name. Save for The Office character and the Nevernude. Ha
I think so since my name is unique and was popular back then. I'm not sure if people still use it during this day age as much as it used but I think it's a very sweet. Some people might have a hard time guessing my name unless I give them my nickname.
Purice Nichols "Julie's Web." Paris for short. It sure does. lol!!! xxoo
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no i don't think so. it's kind of a little kids name, not really an adults name. like it would be weird if i was a lawyer or a doctor. but i guess i still look like a teen so maybe it fits.
Yes, it’s my actual name. But it’s a total mismatch because I look almost exactly like my Asian mother. It makes for a lot of interesting conversation though.
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