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Amy is my real first name-- I was named after my great and my great-great grandmothers. I HATED the name growing up in the 1970s and 1980s-- there were always at least 3 other Amys in every class I was in or wherever I worked. However, now that I'm not exposed to hordes of people born the same year as I was I kind of like it better. I probably will never ever go back to being called Amy, but the sound of it isn't like nails on a chalkboard anymore. It's got some history. It's firmly OK. It will seem a little outdated to the current generation-- I remember going to school with a Barbara and a Sharon who were my own age and thinking it was weird that they had "Mom names." It would be like that.