Would you give a child your name? 🎁

[bemiranda]

Would you give a child your name?

• I would and I like my name
• I would and I don’t like my name
• Only in a specific circumstance (middle, nickname, same initials etc.) and I like my name
• Only in a specific circumstance and I don’t like my name
• I wouldn’t and I like my name
• I wouldn’t and I don’t like my name
• I would want to but I can’t for a specific reason
• I wouldn’t want to but I will for specific reason
• I have a different answer

By “reason” I mean anything from how you feel about your name to your heritage and traditions

Feel free to give a longer answer below

[_thelittlefairywren]

I don’t mind my name, but I’d use the more traditional [name_f]Kara[/name_f] spelling if I was going to use it.

[the_common_fool]

I enjoy my name, but if I was to name a kid, I would want as much opportunity as possible for being creative with the name! Which to me means using an entirely different set of names. Perhaps I would choose a name with a related meaning to my own, if I wanted to somehow honor myself (:

[snowmaiden]

I absolutely love my name.

The only reason I wouldn’t pass it on to a child for a middle is that I have too many other people, novels, and ideas I’d rather honor than use my own name! (Plus, I just like so many names. I’m sure many relate. )

[goosebaby3]

I have a lot of conflicting feelings about my name. On one hand it’s very pretty, I love how my parents chose it, and I definitely think it fits who I am, but on the other, it’s got a very unique spelling that causes a lot of confusion and I’m pretty sure barely any of my friends know how to spell it right. It also gets confused with very popular similar sounding names (not popular now, but back when I was born).

[winterlyricalfox]

I like my name a lot (my middle name specifically, which is what I go by) but I wouldn’t want to give it to a kid just because I’d want them to have their own identity!!

I would definitely be okay with an honor name, such as a name with a similar meaning, I just think it would be nice to have an honor while still letting my kid be their own person!!

[tallemaja]

I voted for both “I wouldn’t and I like my name” and “I wouldn’t and I don’t like my name”, because I’m planning on hopefully changing my name, but I wouldn’t give my child my current legal name nor my future one.

I just would find it incredibly incredibly odd having to call out your own name to refer to your child. And in terms of using it as a middle name, I just don’t see a reason? Why would I want to honour myself - I’d feel so conceited (to be clear, I’m not saying that every [name_m]Junior[/name_m] out there is named that way because their parent was conceited, I’m only talking about my situation)

[heartwings]

It is illegal where I live to give the name of a living parent so, no.

[namelover55]

I would give my child my name if it wasn’t my name.
I certainly don’t want an [name_f]Emily[/name_f] [name_m]Junior[/name_m]

[Eirime]

I love my name but Juniors are not something that we do in my culture so it feels weird.
[name_f]My[/name_f] name happens to be more popular now than when I was born (which is all relative since we went from 3 births to about 50 I think) so it would work well for a child. But it is not the easiest to pronounce in the US, which would rule it out even if I was inclined to use it. It would work as a middle though.

[bemiranda]

I ask because I might give my name as a middle. [name_f]My[/name_f] DS wants to use their middle name or a variation (probably as a middle as well.) I was also very curious! I might do an extended poll to get more in-depth answers later

Thank you for the responses this has been very fun to read yalls answers

[DCAT]

[name_f]My[/name_f] name is [name_f]Diana[/name_f] and I like it, but I do get fed up with people thinking it is [name_f]Diane[/name_f]. For this reason I would only consider giving it as a middle name. If I wanted a similar name, I would go with [name_f]Deanna[/name_f]. Never heard of a [name_f]Deanne[/name_f], so that confusion is avoided, and I like the nn [name_f]Dee[/name_f]. But there are so many beautiful girl names that I don’t think it would make my top ten.

[Youssarian]

I don’t necessarily like or dislike my name. I wouldn’t give my name to my child since I don’t love it. However there is a high likelihood if I ever had a son they would get my initials (or my initials reversed) since that’s been a tradition going back many generations in my family.

[Rosebeth]

I like my name, I might even say I love it, but it’s… my name?

[copper_porcupine]

Not my literal brain thinking “I’ve worked so hard to find my name, I’m not gonna just give it away!”

[NameSearchAccount]

There are specific cultural reasons why I would probably feel weird doing it. I do really love my name and that almost has me thinking I would say yes if not for those reasons, but also I like so many other names and don’t really know that I would want to share mine when I can use perfectly wonderful other names. If it weren’t my name, though, I would probably love to use it.

[hellobanjo]

I did use a variation of my middle name. I would consider using a variation of my first but likely not the exact same name

[marigold.solstice]

I’m kind of ‘meh’ about my name, but it does have meaning to me and my family, and I would love to pass that along to my daughter! Only as a middle name though, because of the crazy popularity. (Which is why I’m meh about my name for me haha.)