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This is my name- spelled Lindsey.
And let me just say that as someone who has had this name for thirty years now I have never once liked it.
Not even when I went to Mexico for a summer and watched people cock their heads sideways trying to figure out the pronunciation of a name they were unfamiliar with (although that was at least a little unusual).
I had a Lindsay once tell me the only thing good about me was my name. I was either four or five so maybe this was the beginning of my disdain for my name. No idea.
I had a Lyndsey intentionally hit me in the face when we were playing dodgeball and she was only a few feet away (and on my team!) and she hit me so hard that I hit the ground passed out. She did this strictly because she didn't want to share a name with me and I was a new kid at her otherwise small, private school where she was used to being the only one.
That was the point that I started trying out other names (at a teacher's suggestion) before Indy (LINDseY) seemed to stick. A little contrived, but I've been using it for so many years now that I'm over it.
There were a number of years where I told people my name and they immediately asked, "Oh, like Lindsay Lohan?" so that was perfectly terrible, but thankfully seems to have passed.
My grandparents' generation can never understand it the first (and usually second) time they hear it.
"Lucy? Leslie? Lindy?" is pretty much expected every time and I did reach a point where I stopped correcting people.
Anyway, all that to say that as a Lindsey, I don't like it at all.
But the weird part, I like it on boys and as a surname. It's like it just changes everything for me.
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Evgeniy • Anastasio • Dashiell • Brooklyn • Sebastian • James • Nikita • Silviu • Hadley • Caius
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And let me just say that as someone who has had this name for thirty years now I have never once liked it.
Not even when I went to Mexico for a summer and watched people cock their heads sideways trying to figure out the pronunciation of a name they were unfamiliar with (although that was at least a little unusual).
I had a Lindsay once tell me the only thing good about me was my name. I was either four or five so maybe this was the beginning of my disdain for my name. No idea.
I had a Lyndsey intentionally hit me in the face when we were playing dodgeball and she was only a few feet away (and on my team!) and she hit me so hard that I hit the ground passed out. She did this strictly because she didn't want to share a name with me and I was a new kid at her otherwise small, private school where she was used to being the only one.
That was the point that I started trying out other names (at a teacher's suggestion) before Indy (LINDseY) seemed to stick. A little contrived, but I've been using it for so many years now that I'm over it.
There were a number of years where I told people my name and they immediately asked, "Oh, like Lindsay Lohan?" so that was perfectly terrible, but thankfully seems to have passed.
My grandparents' generation can never understand it the first (and usually second) time they hear it.
"Lucy? Leslie? Lindy?" is pretty much expected every time and I did reach a point where I stopped correcting people.
Anyway, all that to say that as a Lindsey, I don't like it at all.
But the weird part, I like it on boys and as a surname. It's like it just changes everything for me.
--☆--
Evgeniy • Anastasio • Dashiell • Brooklyn • Sebastian • James • Nikita • Silviu • Hadley • Caius
Natalia • Miruna • Gratiana • Eugenia • Maximiliana • Anemona • Valentyna • Daciana • Feodosia • Harmony
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