Re-naming ceremonies

Today 'Gertrude' is being Johnny to my Fanny.

TMI ?

Do you remember the Craddock Classic, when Johnny said, "Goodnight, and may all your doughnuts look like Fannies"

Or was that an urban myth.......?

I changed my name at 16. I only use my old name on official documents, it feels very weird now if anyone uses it. I have been Jane for over 50 years

The older women, who are the subject of part of this thread did have 'normal' names, and from this distance it is a bit difficult to see why they changed them. It may have been a whim, or a reason now forgotten. Certainly my younger friend who changed her name had one that seemed reasonably common. It was at the time she decided, associated strongly with a slightly annoying, and now forgotten celebrity.
I did meet someone whose family stopped calling her by her given name of Ethel after the Crippen case, although it is, interestingly, not a name that has returned.
Many of us will remember Myras who changed their names, and I know one whose family decided to keep it.

I think it's a great idea when you get older. I mean, imagine being named Grace for example, and being small and dumpy and with a tendency towards tripping over, dropping or spilling things, knocking things over....?? You could then choose a more appropriate name such as Dyspraxia.

I have often felt like a Nausea.

I sometimes worry that some of the current names, are OK for children but, would their owners like to have that label when adults, or worse still, grannies.

I worked with a Health Visitor who said she was pretty sure she was going to see a baby called Chlamydia one day.

Anya

Well my name did change 6 years ago. It became, guess what ? -Gran! I'm more than happy with that.

I've mentioned this previously but my Mum was christened Alice (after loads of other Alices) was known in the family as Babs (which meant people thought she was called Barbara). DS1 couldn't say Nana so all of her 6 grandchildren called her Anna. In the nursing home she was called Duchess or your Highness.

When people ask me what they should call me I always say madam!