Talula does The Hula

first i am glad that judge helped that child. there are children who were given a name as a joke by their parents and it is so wrong. the poor children. my name kathleen, i didn't like as a child. but i was called kathy and that was better. but when i became an adult i heard irish people say kathleen and it sounded good. that gave me a different look at my name. i don't mind it now. but i am usually called kathy.

Lost all my response again before posting it so will try and get it right second time!! This seems to be a craze in New Zealand. Did you also hear about the couple that called their child 'No 16 Bus Shelter' and the court did not stop that!! Parents of twins that wanted to call them Fish and Chips were not allowed though! I am not very keen on my middle name but don't have to use it too often luckily.

I did change my name. My birth name was Marigold Awakening. I changed it to Cyndi when I was 16. My oldest brother had it worse than i did, though. he was born, Summer in the moonlit garden. He went by Summer until he was 10 when he decided he would be called bryan. The folks indulged him. When he was 17 he legally changed his name.

I am glad they changed the name too poor little thing. I also did not appreciate my real name when my mother named me.....Jill is my pen name.....so I use it here. But as I have gotten older....I have become accustomed to it and so it's really not that bad. Jill is the name a friend gave me and I like it better then my real name!

My name isn't my favorite, and I could very well change it if I wanted to but I really don't want to. I think the worst thing about my name is not my first or middle but my last name. I will be getting married soon so my last name will become my middle name, not as bad but still not my favorite.

I love my name. My mother love my name so she give it to me. My sisters name are, Monaliza,Analiza and my name is Lizabeth. There's always Liza on each of our name.Fun right?

I love my name, I do not share it on mylot for personal reasons (I am afraid of stockers), but my name is great. How these parents can give their children such terrible names is ridiculous? Those children have to live with those names for the rest of their lives. I already know the name that I want for my children. Katherine will be my daugther's name, and Thomas will be my son's name.

well honestly likewise here i really dont like my legal name...but had to content with it since it was what my parents like my name to be..and i will always respect it ..

I don't mind my name...wouldn't have a clue what name I would prefer. The story goes was that my father was a Gone With The Wind fan, so named me Melanie. When my mother called my great-grandmother up to tell her the decided name, she remarked "Why are you calling her that down south name for?" LOL...I guess Melanie is popular in the southern states. I did get a bit of ridiculing though about my name, cause at the time, it just wasn't popular..no one had heard of it...being surrounded by Marys, Janes, Jennifers..and don't ask how my name was mispronounced, even by my teachers...sheesh

Some parents just have no class at all. What a tag to stick on a little child. Yes, I am going to change my name as old as I am. I am going to change it to the name my Birth Mother wanted me to have. The name that was on my original birth certificate. It is expensive on my tight budget, so I am saving up for it and will do it after the first of next year! Shalom~Adoniah

I believe a child needs to feel like they have someone in their corner. I am pleased to hear that the judge is in her corner. A name should not a statement , but your first gift to your child. I personally would not change my name.

I have a pretty normal name (Lisa). It's ok. My middle name though is the same as the county I was born in though, for some odd reason (Marin). My mom says it was after a lady who was very important in the area but, who knows. My daughter has a very traditional name but at the same time it is original too. People might give her a hard time about it when she gets into high school but it's not something she will be made fun of for either. I am given a little bit of a hard time because people always want to know why I named her what I did. I named her after Spider Man's girl friend, for those of you who know the comics/movies (Mary-Jane).

wow. i would be devastated if that was my name so i'm really glad that the girl got her name changed. my name is Asheen. i actually like it alot cause it's not a typical name but i'm also glad that it's not an outrageous name. it's just perfect for me.

That would be a weird name. Does the law system have the right to do that?

I've grown to like my name. I write it the way I like it and that's what I go by. I look at the good things about my name. People think it's a neat name, although you hear it more than you use to it is still a less common name and whenever someone finds out my name I get serenaded! My son is the one with the unusual name, but not so unusual that he wants to change it. His first name is spelled differently than others with a very common name and his middle name is Storm.

sarahruthbeth 22 hi Ihate my first namePatsie as its in the dictonary meaning someone who is a pushover for mean people, a patsy in other words, what a stinking name to give an' innocent baby. I would not have minded patricia but patsie, yuck. I should have had it changed but my husband liked it so I just sort of gave up a lot of my friends just called pat and i co uld stand that.

I read that too! I have a very long name but it does not make me embarassed. And I thank God for not making my parents play on my name, I wouldn't want to have a "Talula does the Hula" name. I have 3 names with a total of 19 letters, well that does not include my mother's surname and my father's. If I'll include that I'll have a grand total of 30 letter. Too long? Yes! But I'll never change it. Because that is my identity and I even write it all whenever I have to. And it's also nice because I can play with my names and get lots of nicknames. :)

I've never been crazy about my name, Judy, but, I realize it could be worse! It's just not a name I would have chosen if we could choose our own names. But what's always bothered me more than the name is WHY I was named that. My brother is six years older than I am, and when I was born my parents more or less let HIM name me. Judy happened to be the name of a girl he had a crush on (now again this was at the age of 6, I think she was actually a bit older than him), so they named me that. In my opinion this is a really bad way to choose a baby's name. It's not fair, for one thing, because I never had a younger sibling to name, and my brother got a name chosen by our parents, not by me or some other six-year-old. It's just always bugged me that my parents didn't have some name THEY liked that they chose that and instead just let my name for life be because of some passing fancy of my then six-year-old brother.