For some odd reason as a kid i HATED the letter Y and I resented the fact that it was in my name. but I like it now. people always tell me that itā€™s a cool unique spelling and call me ā€œEthyn with a Y.ā€ my friends tell me they absolutely cannot picture me as an ā€œEthanā€ lol. my father wanted to name me after my uncle and grandfather, a very traditional name, but my mother insisted on something ā€œnew ageā€ lmao. but it honestly surprises me how often people canā€™t pronounce it. I donā€™t think itā€™s that crazy.
Jun 8, 2024

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not many people my age are named it which is why i used to hate it as a kid, but i've grown to love it. precisely because it's not "fitting" for my age practically everyone in my life calls me nicknames, which are fun and silly, but are also NOT my name, so it can get tiring sometimes lol. i honestly adore it now and when someone close to me (so professors/academic figures/etc. don't count) uses it i kind of percieve it as a sign of respect, even an act of love. it's intimate, really. i'd love it if people used it more :').
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never liked my name growing up because most of elementary school was spent in florida. it was a huge culture shock coming from the north then being one of like two or three kids of color in my class at any given time. i wanted a stereotypical ā€œwhite girl nameā€ with a middle name like marie or rose. spent a lot of middle school going by daisy. i also am greatly tired of the ā€œdeja vuā€ jokes. my mom got my name from tyra bankā€™s character in ā€œhigher learningā€/a tony! toni! tonĆ©! song. i guess thatā€™s cool. she just spelled it very phonetically, which didnt help peopleā€™s mispronunciation of my easy name but (to me) looks very dumbed down on paper (day-JAH) and then people pronounce the j really hard idk. most of my friends call me day ā˜€ļø i like that at least. i wouldn't have minded the name raven, and i think my momā€™s other name contender was tia (like sister sister) but that would have kind of rhymed with my last name so im good on that.
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it kind of sounds like a spell or like a distant european tongue or something when you say my full and middle names... i used to get bullied for my name but now I love it
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