Do you like the name Nicole?
My name is Nicole too, and people call me Niki which I prefer. It is really common and I wish my parents would have given me a name that's a little more unique, but it's not so bad. It'd be kind of ridiculous to spend however many years going by Nicole, then changing your name just because you're not too fond of it. If you really hate it that much, go by your middle name if you like it more. Just look on the bright side, at least your name is Mildred.
Which name do you like?
Ranking from 1 - 10, 10 being my favorite. Girls: 6 Maya 2 Giorgia 2 Yenni 4 Katarina 2 Ryanne 4 Sydney 6 Siliane 6 Sheyenne 6 Brianna 6 Reina 3 Carly 4 Taylor 6 Chanel 6 Bianca 6 Heather 8 Melanie 6 Stephanie 6 Kiara 10 Amber 8 Julie Boys: 3 Samir 3 Emari 8 Gabriel 7 Lenard 2 Kourtney 1 Elder 4 Daniel (nickname Danny) 4 Nathan 6 Brendan 5 Hector 3 Sivon 3 Dami 5 Michael 4 Tommie (or T.J.) 2 Dane 3 Patrick 1 Houston 2 Tyre 4 Marquis 10 Randy ;)
Do you like the name Jaylynn?
My husbands name is Jason and my name is Lindsey. We are expecting our thrid baby in May and can't agree on girl names. His Grandma thinks we should name it Jaylynn if it's a girl because it's a combo of our names, but I'm not sure if I like it. Suggestions???
Would you like to change your name?
NO.First of all, I like my first and middle names…even though many people misspell or mispronounce them. I’m used to that. I like my names, and I’m happy to keep them.Secondly, I got married almost a year ago, and I did change my last name and took my husband’s. This was the result of months of thinking about it and talking about it and thinking some more. I made pro and con lists. I asked some women why they’d made the decision to change or keep their family name. Part of my struggle was that I was over 30 when I got married, so I had outgrown the youthful ideas of romance and was more forged as an independent adult. Part of me railed against the idea of this particular tradition. My husband was supportive either way; he recognized that it had to be solely my decision, since I was the one who would have to do all the paperwork, and reconcile a new identity, and visit the social security office, and visit the DMV, and get a new passport, and visit the bank, and call the credit card company, and let our landlords know, and, and, and…Ultimately, I’m happy with my decision, but I completely support any woman who chooses not to take her husband’s name. Answering to a new name is a very strange experience. It’s been almost a year and I’m still getting used to it. It doesn’t sound strange anymore, and I’ve adjusted my signature, but it still looks odd when my full name is written out. I’m also at a very weird point where my maiden name is starting to sound wrong, too. Changing your name does funny things to your sense of self.I’ll certainly never change my name again - because it’s a huge pain in the ass. I’m planning to keep the husband, so it shouldn’t be an issue.
Why are names so important?
People give certain names to their children for various reasons - to honor someone, like a favored relative or famous person (like your uncle Michael, or John F. Kennedy); because the name itself translates to something special (like my name, Timothy, translates to "serving God"), to provide a sense of uniqueness in the world (like the name of someone I knew in college gave to her daughter - Tanji), or to be frivolous (as in the case of parents who might name their child "Lucifer" or "Messiah" or "23"). In some cultures which use descriptive phrases or nouns for names, as in some Native American tribes, it is seen as bestowing the gifts or talents described in the phrase, such as Running Rabbit or Flying Arrow. In any case, the name a person bears through life is something he or she must carry, and it is sometimes the only thing others have to judge you by before they meet you. Your name travels ahead of you like a portent of things to come, a thing from which others make assumptions about people.For instance, because of trends in naming children, you expect people (in the US, anyway) named Caden and Olivia to be children, Travis and Zoey to be in their 20s or 30s, Mark and Michelle to be in their 40s, etc. Surnames also say something about a person's heritage. O'Donnelly would be an Irish name, Bellini would be Italian, Hernandez would be Spanish, etc. And by knowing a person's heritage, one makes certain assumptions about the values they hold or do not hold, about the foods they prefer, and about how they raise their children.Are these assumptions always fair or accurate? Of course not, but people continue to make assumptions, regardless. That is why, when naming a child, one must take things like this into consideration. That's what makes it such a horrible forehead-slapping what-were-they-thinking thing to discover another human being has been named something frivolous like "Satan" or "Candlestick". It already proves the parents were frivolous, and by extension the children are assumed to have been raised to be just as frivolous as the parents, and thus are irrelevant as people.
What does "our name is our virtue" mean?
I was intrigued by the same lyrics too. I think that what Jason Mraz is saying is that we need to rid ourselves of personal "vanities" and be no more artificial with each other than our names would imply.