Do you like your name? Does it feel right? Have you changed it? How do you feel now?

You see ever since I was little my name has never felt right. I think(i was little) but my name has always sounded awkward coming off my tongue. I don't like to introduce myself. (Tho i do have various forms of Anxiety.)
The other day my mum told me that she almost called me Kira, wich i think is much better and sound both more natural and more me.

I'd like to know if anyone in our wide world of sylestia has had a similar experience and what you did about it.
(Yay getting advice for strange people on the internet XD)

Ugh, my name gets made fun of all the time. Or at least it used to. I guess it slowed down a lot as I progressed throughout the grades. Nowadays, I don't really mind it. It'd be too much effort to change it and I don't really feel like it'd be cool if I changed my name to something that sounds pretty, but isn't my natural name...

I guess I don't really notice my name through everyday life, so I can't say whether or not it feels right. Overall, my name is... meh... I'm not proud of it, but I'm not against it either.

I know exactly how you feel Topaz, with a few additional reasons to dislike my legal name.

Growing up not only did it not sound right to me to be called by my legal name, but I was also grouped in with 4 bully girls all due to the fact that the five of us total at my school had the same name...I was nothing like those wicked girls...yet I was treated like I was when people weren't busy bulling me for just reading a book or what ever other excuse they could come up with. Additionally when ever I met another girl with the same name more often than not they where mean, rude, and just down right the last person I'd want to be around. To make things a tad worse the legal name I have wasn't even what my mom wanted to name me...and as much as I love my grandpa he insisted that I should have traditional name...and by the time my mom found out she could have changed it the time had expired...so we where both stuck. My mom never had a problem with me wanting to change my name, and when I very first mentioned it as a kid was supportive.

I haven't use my legal name in introductions that don't require it, and I do have plans on changing my name legally as soon as it's possible. The name I plan on changing to many people are already familiar with and most address me by it or some slight variation. In fact the "LD" at the start of my username here(and pretty much everywhere else) is the first and middle initials of my chosen name....a name I've used for the last 10 years(started using this name back when I was 18).

I've also considered adding another middle name to my chosen name(family tradition on my moms side to have one child[normally a boy] with two middle names), but I haven't decided on which one to add yet.

Ever sense I picked my own name I've felt much better, and feel more secure in myself.

If you're name got made fun off then it's probably really cool. Or has some bad******root. (Idk what nationality you are. So I'm just assuming you're form either American, Britain or something along those lines.)

Growing up like that must of been tough. I feel bad whenever I hear about anyonebeing bullied. I was never bullied really badly (ok it's a complicated story). I mean I was never picked on by random people, or a group of people. And to be picked on bc of your name is just harsh. I'm glad you didn't follow the mold and end up as bad as the other girls tho.

My mum was the one who wanted to name me Kira (and my brother Jasper) both amazing names according to both of us. It was my dad who insisted that we were named what we are. Neither of us are all to fond of our names, although i don't think he feels quite as strongly about it.

I haven't told my mum how I feel yet. I'm kinnda waiting to see of it will pass or fill that feeling i had when i was younger of not liking my name has just gotten stronger.

I went threw loads of nicknames trying to figure out what I wanted in a name for myself...but I knew I was never going to be happy with my traditional name that in no way fit who I am/was.

My mom couldn't really argue with me when I told her as a kid, because she was just about as upset/miffed/unhappy with my name as I was. I do know that my mom wanted to name me either Sierra or Savannah; either name of which I would have liked more than the very common "S" name I was stuck with.

The nice thing is that I have loads of support to change my name, all I have to save up and make a logical argument to the court as to why I wish to change my name legally.

no it doesn't >.>

it isn't even spelled the same as what it is made fun of, it just sounds exactly like it XD

the root is pretty lame too xD

that's okay though. I don't really mind.

Ouch. I that sence I'm probably blessed.

Honestly i don't know what the legal requirements are in this country or how much it costs. My mum changed the spelling of her name, tho not legally.

I'm an immigrant to the States, so I have several names.
While I love my Chinese name, I loathed my legal translated name and the English name I used to go by.
The legal translation follows a weird translating system translating from Chinese to English. The end result is not only hard to pronounce, but also does not sound like my actual Chinese name at all. The system butchered my name so bad, most people were like ??????????? when they heard what it was suppose to be.
The English name I used to go by was pick out by my cousin when I was 5. It means "a faithful Christian". But given that I was never religious, and is an agnostic person. I felt detached to the name itself.

As of now, I'm going by a name that sounds like the middle syllable of my Chinese name, and I felt a lot more comfortable with it :)

Although I thought name change is a simple process (in the states at least? I could be very wrong), and that it just cost money and time to go through all the paper works. Sorry to hear about your stories, especially you Wolf, getting bullied because of your name is a terrible thing. D: