13 Responses to “Your Dream Name”

1. Hi Kate,

   I agree, this has been an interesting topic. I have a tendency to like names that begin with “K” or “C”. So, if I had to pick a new name for myself, some possibilities would be: Kristen, Kate, Karlie, Casey, or Kelly.

   How about you? What would you pick?

   by Linda on April 20th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
   
   

2. I wasn’t kidding when I wrote that I wanted an exotic name like Wednesday. I think I’d be a Wednesday, or maybe Tuesday, Collins. That’s be a great pen name, wouldn’t it?

   Wednesday Collins

   P.S. Nobody take it! I have dibs!

   by Kate Collins on April 20th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
   
   

3. Well, my first name is Michele but I really like my middle name Lenore. I also like names like Melis (my husband calls me this), Carlie (I like that name too Linda!), Madeline, Chanel, Mercedes, and other rarely used names.

   I like that Kate, Wednesday Collins! It has a nice ring to it! Also, it sounds like a detective’s name which would fit your greatly since you write mysteries! Ta-da! I think you should go for it!

   by Melis L. on April 20th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
   
   

4. I really like the name Page but if we want different I would like something Ireland Page or maybe Reed Page. LOLOL

   by Pamela on April 21st, 2008 at 12:27 am
   
   

5. The Niles, trip sounds like it was a good way to spend the day. I would love to hear more about that.

   As different in just about every area as two people can be, that was my mother and I. I did however agree with her on at least one thing, my first name. I really do like it, and spent a good bit of time correcting people from using “Teri” as a nickname once I became an adult. My middle name is something altogether different. I really do not like it, don’t give it out, and here will be no exception. If I were to name myself, I would without a second thought dub myself, Olivia. It sounds so beautiful and sophisticated, something that could add dignity and refinement to my spunky, sassy and not so graceful demeanor. It rolls off the tongue so well. Last and most important, the name Olivia means a symbol of peace. Peace is very important to me. I really am a zero tolerance for strife and discord girl. Yep! Olivia it would be.

   by Teresa on April 21st, 2008 at 1:12 am
   
   

6. My father named me “Vanessa” I have NEVER liked ny name. My mom wanted to name me “Stormy” and i LOVE that name because it matched me~! My personality, temper… all i love the name Stormy ~! Vanessa Leah James was my MAIDEN name…. Stormy James would have been so cool…NO MIDDLE NAME….. just Stormy James……:O)

   by Vanessa on April 21st, 2008 at 9:41 am
   
   

7. Stormy James, Reed Page, Olivia, Mercedes, Casey — all very cool names. Would you act differently with those names? I used to want the name Mellie from Melanie in Gone With the Wind. I thought that was so romantic - Mellie.

   I have a tendency to call my friends and family members by shortened forms of their names — Val, Pam, Barb, Mar, Ker, Jas, etc. Teresa, I promise, if we ever run into each other again, I won’t call you Teri! Pamela, do your friends shorten your name?

   Kate

   by Kate Collins on April 21st, 2008 at 11:48 am
   
   

8. I ought to have answered the previous posting on names, but I will answer both postings in one…

   I hated my name as a child - Rudolf. Several reasons - it was unusual, and everyone else at school had normal names. Secondly, there was a certain Ghastly Tune about a certain red nosed reindeer…which I could never stand!!! Thirdly, it was/is a German name, which figures as I am half German. But being at school in the mid 60s not twenty years after the war was over, there was still considerable anti German sentiment…Not that I pretended to be anything other than what I was, but it didn’t help to have such a name that was so glaringly obviously German. (Fourthly, any adult who said ‘but you have a lovely name’ usually made me want to exterminate them there and then. They did not have to have my name…)

   It wasn’t until I was in my 20s that I got used to my name, and now I accept it as it is. Fair enough. So I would not want to change my name now, but just let people ask me why my nose is red…which people still do…Grrrrrrrrrrrr!

   by Rudolf on April 21st, 2008 at 4:39 pm
   
   

9. Mrs. George Clooney…….for obvious reasons.

   by Melissa Balsam on April 21st, 2008 at 5:49 pm
   
   

10. Yep a lot of them do shorten my name. LOL Pamela

    by Pamela on April 21st, 2008 at 7:07 pm
    
    

11. Melissa, too funny. Ha!

    Rudolf, I went to school with an extremely handsome boy named Rudy. I thought it was the sexiest name in the world. Who knew he was also a Rudolf? I can understand your frustration. Is it too late to start signing your name Rudy?

    by Kate Collins on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
    
    

12. I have to say that although I like my name now, I hate the name of Rudi/Rudy even more!!!

    by Rudolf on April 23rd, 2008 at 3:48 pm
    
    

13. But how ’bout just Dolph?

    by BettyC on April 24th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
    
    

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