I love my first name but I despise my middle name so much that my children don't even know what it is. I wouldn't change my first name to anything else but I have told people my middle name is Elizabeth. However, people who really know me know that Elizabeth couldn't be my real name because I had an aunt by that name and Jews don't name after the living. I do hope to get a grand-daughter named Elizabeth, with no shortening.
My kids all seem to like their names, except for difficult child, who likes his first name but officially changed his middle name to just the initial when he turned 18. H and I gave a great deal of thought to each child's names, first middle and Hebrew...
I also love my last name so I use it professionally, although H's name is cool, too. Lucky for him, his dad's biological father had such a horrible last name that I once told H that if it had been his last name, none of my children would be named after him.
