JUST CALL ME DEE

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I hate my name! That’s why I go by Dee. Plain and simple, Dee.

I was named Deirdre, supposedly an old Irish family name as my maternal figure’s family has Irish roots so I got stuck with this ugly name! She insisted that I be proud to be named Deirdre. However, she hated her given name and shortened it. Go figure!

The intended pronunciation according to my maternal figure was (dee uh druh) or (dee druh) but she couldn’t decide which she liked best. More often than not, it was pronounced as (dee er druh). In elementary school the teachers were the ones that mostly insisted on pronouncing the r after the i. 

My brother was named Ryan, another Irish name we were told. However, my sister was named René, our maternal figure said it was French. Funny how a French name gets used and while researching our ancestry I have never found anything related to France!  

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  • Kari Wagner Hoban
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    I actually love Deirdre but it isn’t my name, so I really don’t have a place to say anything lol.

    I don’t really love my name. There isn’t anything horrible about it but it feels too young for me or too perky for me. My dad loved the spelling Kari, which is how I ended up with that so I do love that story.

    When I was little, I wanted to be named Elizabeth because it had a Z in it. 🙂

  • Michelle
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    My parents named me Suzanne Michelle, then called me Michelle. Suzanne is my mom’s name. My parents were young when I was born – 19 – and my dad wanted to honor my mother by naming me Suzanne. I just wish they had turned it around and called me Michelle Suzanne. It would have made my life much simpler.

  • Marisa Stewart
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    I love your name!! It’s beautiful. If you had your “druthers” how would you like it pronounced? I like my name — it used to be unusual be nowadays you isn’t so. My brother who was only four picked out my name. And like you, my name is constantly mispronounced. In Italian it is pronounces Mah-REE-zah. When we came to the US it was anglicized to Mah-REE-Sah. Why people constantly call me Mah-rihs-sa is beyond me. The “i” in the Latin language is always a long “e”. But a rose by any other name is still a rose, right? So, getting back to your name — wear it proudly, Deirdre!

  • Jean | Delightful Repast
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    Dee, I just looked up how to pronounce Deirdre in Irish Gaelic, and it was deer-drah. It sounds a fine name to me. I always thought my name too plain and went through a phase when I was 10 or 11 adding an “ne” to the end, in the French manner, to jazz it up a bit! 🙂

  • Amy Johnson
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    I like the name Deirdre but it can be hard to pronounce so I like Dee better. I love my name! It’s very pretty and fits my personality. I also like that it is a younger, more popular name and that it didn’t age out so (like Delores, or Vivian) so that when you hear it you immediately think of an old woman. 😂

    • Dee | Grammy's Grid
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      Oh gosh Amy, I know what you mean by those old vintage names like Ethel, Lucille, Mabel, Eleanor, Hazel, and Mildred. I could go on but that’s enough!! I just cringe when I hear a newborn baby these days being named those old ugly names!!

  • Retirement Reflections
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    Hi, Dee – My legal first name is hyphenated (Donna-Lynn). I never disliked this name, but over time it morphed into just Donna. In the small town where I now live, we have three Donnas in my book club and an actual Donna-Lynn in my walking group. What are the odds?
    I actually quite like the name Deirdre as well as the name Dee. And the name Grammy Dee — well, that’s terrific!

  • Erica/Erika
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    Hi Dee, I drafted a story about my name about one week ago. The Universe is definitely putting the concept of names in my radar. The vintage names seem to be making a comeback. I like “Dee” and “Grammy Dee.”

  • Candi Randolph
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    I didn’t like my name, Candice, so much when I was young. I’ve always gone by Candi because I thought my given name was too formal. At this point in my life, I don’t mind either one. 🙂

  • Sylvia | Grace for a Gypsy
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    I like your shortened version, Dee. I think its cute, and goes great with Grammy! I like my name, Sylvia. My dad named me after a character in a Shakespear play.

  • Pat
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    My maternal grandmother was Ukrainian and her first name was Paraska. When she immigrated to the Us in the early 1900’s she was told Paraska translated as Pearl, so everyone called her Pearl. When I was born my mother wanted to name me Pearl after her. My Dad thought Pearl sounded old fashioned, and he convinced my Mom to call me Patricia instead. I like Patricia–I grew up in an Irish/ Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, so Patricia, with the nickname Pat or Patti were pretty common girls’ names.

  • Christie Hawkes
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    Hi Dee! I actually like the name Deirdre, but I respect your wish to be called Dee, and since I’ve always known you as that, it feels more natural anyway. I like my name now, but when I was a child, for some reason, I wished my name was Barbara. I have no idea where that came from! People occasionally shorten my name to Chris, but for the most part I am Christie.

  • the real cie
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    I like your name! My real first name is Cara, (pronounced care-ah) which means “beloved” in Italian or “friend” in Celtic, but from my experience, it means “everyone will mutilate this name beyond recognition.” When I lived in New Mexico, people pronounced it CAR-a, and then smirked because “cara” means face in Spanish. I get called Carol, Clara, Karen, Carrie, Cora, Carla. So, I decided to go with Cie, pronounced See, but half the time people want to pronounce it Sigh. I can’t win!

  • Beverly
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    It’s funny how so many people don’t like their names, isn’t it? Shortening of names seems to be a way to get around that. On the other hand, with my name, Beverly, I do not like the shortened version of Bev. Never have, never will. It’s awkward to correct people when they use Bev because I know they are just being friendly, so I usually just let it go. My husband tried for years to get his father to stop using Bev for me though. Finally, he just gave up!

  • Shelbee on the Edge
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    Naming our children is such a stressful thing. We never know if they will embrace it or hate it. I hated my name for most of my life…Michelle. It was the second most popular name the year I was born, 1974, so there was nothing unique or original about it. But then my father nicknamed me Micki the day I was born. That name has stuck with me for my entire life. I went through phases with that as well when I hated it, but sometimes I liked it because at least it had more character than Michelle. But it never felt very feminine to me. And I struggled with that. Then along came blogging and I branded myself Shelbee. I never liked the name Shelly as a nickname for Michelle, but Shelbee seemed to have a quaintness and femininity that I quite liked. And now there are different people in different segments of my life who call me any of these three names and I finally reached a point where I appreciate them all. I only hope I didn’t make a mistake in naming my children Archer and Ralph.

    Shelbee

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