My given name is Barbara. Plain & simple. My little brother called me "snaggle-toof''. How did I like it? Not! Then until I was 24 it was Bobbie, then mom forever, even when I'm not, so I guess that is why I chose it for this board. I feel kind of honored now, but it bugged me when I was younger. Guess it was because of 7 kids. They all have nice names. Short and easy to spell.

Mine is Barbara too. I didn't have any nicknames growing up except that people shorten it to Barb which I don't like. I can be quite rude to anyone who calls me Barbie!

I taught for 30 years and in all that time I taught only 1 Barbara. I think it is sort of an old-fashioned name of the 30's and 40's and the other Barbara's I know are all about my age or older. I was named after my aunt.

lol Barbara, My comp name has been Ivy- after my cat for 13 yrs

I named my daughter Genesis. She was the first one. When her brother was born I wanted to name him Leviticus, or Exodus, but his father named him Keith. Never have liked his name. I have always just called him K. Genesis didn't mind the name.

My middle name is Beatrice and until Beatrice Arthur became known no one ever pronounced it right.
One of my cousin's name was Jim but the family called him Bimbo even into adulthood.
So things could be worse.

I never cared for my name either. It's Terri Lee, after the Terri Lee doll (what was my mother thinking?). Growing up in the sixties and seventies it was pretty common, there was 4 of us in my 4th grade class and we went all the way through high school together. Most people always want to spell it with a 'y'. My daughters are Traci (with and i) and Holli (with an i). When my third daughter came along I couldn't come up with a name I liked to keep that pattern going so she is Christa, but her middle name is Lee.

My first name is fine - Diana, but I figured I would lose my last name if I ever got married. Unfortunately, or fortunately because he is still my number one guy even after 20 years, I married the last name of Heiney. It proved a real problem for our son in his younger grades. Even the teachers. We even offered to change our name for him but he declined. It is however a good thing that he comes from many generations of large farming stock in past generations on both sides and now has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

My name is Mary Jane. When I started school, the middle name was dropped and I became just Mary. My mom's family still call me Mary Jane so I know when the phone rings and someone asks for Mary Jane...it is a relative. It was the 50's and if your name wasnt Debbie, Mary, Diana, Kathy, Donna, Barbara or some form of Susan, you weren't "anybody."

My name is Kathleen Shawn
named after my great grandmother and her daughter(my Grandmother) which were both named Katherine and Marian Kathryn.respectively
Shawn is because I'm Irish and Scottish.I guess

I didn't like my name at all when I was growing up. We moved a lot so I was frequently the "new" kid and even the teachers would mispronounce my name when school first started. My first name is Kana pronounced Kayna. My last name was german and very different so I knew at least one of the names would be mispronounced. I was very glad to marry a Davis. I love my name now as I never have to worry about being confused with someone else.