Re-naming ceremonies

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

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.

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

Anya

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

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 have often felt like a Nausea.

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.

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 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

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

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

TMI ?

Today 'Gertrude' is being Johnny to my Fanny.

I worked with a nurse who had been named Hortensia at birth after her father's barge - she like to be called Tensia which was much better.

DDIL and DS bump currently know as 'Endymion Mungo Davidoff Jnr! We just have about 3 weeks until we know real name. Can't wait!
DD was a day pupil at a boarding school and due to what was going on politically at the time, the school had a lot of girls from Hong Kong with barely pronounceable names and they always adopted an English name for ease, however they tended to use names from slightly old films of the fifties so there was always a couple of Graces, and Doris(es)

But if you give them normal names to start with they will not need to change.

But the people I know who changed their names went from rather outlandish/unusual names to very ordinary ones as they didnt like being mad un of! You can't win when naming your children!

Don't ask me why, but before my children were born theor dad and I always referred to them as 'Englebert Needlerooser' ...so there was a lot of renaming at birth for our 2DDs and 2DSs.

Jane ten I called my daughter euphemia, well oighrig, it's the same thing! She didn't like it.

I will take Salome as a new name

I rather fancy Talula for my new name.

I'd love to be Chrysanthi. My dad grew those huge chrysanthemums. When I worked with students, I had a girl called Chrysanthi, and I was so jealous!!

I would actually quite like to be really called Phoenix, or failing that, Devon.

Dirty Gerty

At school I knew a girl called Charmaine. I thought it was the most wonderful name in the world. Funny how your tastes change.