[Sweet_Sunflower29]

I don't mind it so much anymore, but growing up it was a pain not being an 'Amy'

I've always told my parents that they were years ahead of their time regarding the spelling of my name. Trying to find anything personalized was impossible growing up, and in HS, I decided to to by my middle name for a while. Not that it was much easier; my mom liked the name Danielle, but named me after my dad, whose first name is Donald, hence Ami Dawnielle.

[pollyannaish]

My husband was a little ahead of his time, and I a little behind the times so we both grew up without any of those personalized things.

We were both disappointed when they started showing up.

Ironically, the same thing appears to be happening to our son who is just sick about it. Fortunately it is running about ten years back, so it doesn't matter. I think the same thing will happen to our daughter.

[Question_Assumptions]

One of the baby name books I've read had a short section that basically said that no matter what you name a girl, she's going to go through a phase where she doesn't like the name, either because it's too common or too unique. I know of at least two people who have names spelled wrong because the parents goofed on the birth certificate.