{"id":16578,"date":"2024-04-20T15:08:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T19:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=16578"},"modified":"2024-04-20T15:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T19:08:41","slug":"did-you-start-using-a-different-name-when-you-moved-went-to-college-started-a-new-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2024\/04\/20\/did-you-start-using-a-different-name-when-you-moved-went-to-college-started-a-new-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Start Using a Different Name When You Moved \/ Went to College \/ Started a New Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter ErinInSoCal had a good idea for a post. She commented on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2024\/04\/13\/if-you-have-a-difficult-to-pronounce-name-how-much-does-it-bother-you-to-correct-people\/\">post asking how much it bothers us to correct a mispronounced name<\/a>, saying her daughter Beatrix is often called Beatrice, and her daughter&#8217;s nickname Bea (BEE-uh) is almost exclusively mispronounced Bee. Then she added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh well, she\u2019s turning 18 soon and going off to college, so she has the chance to reinvent her name if need be!<\/p>\n<p>(Which, btw Swistle, could be another interesting thread \u2014 who started using a different version of their name when they moved\/went to college\/started a new job?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I am SO interested to hear these stories. A friend&#8217;s daughter, named something along the lines of Haven Rose, started going by Rose as part of her new college experience. A co-worker mentioned that her Uncle Joseph is known to all his old childhood friends and most family members as Rusty&#8212;a nickname of his middle name, Russell, which he went by until he got his first job and thought he should use his first name to sound more professional.<\/p>\n<p>Did you seize a life transition as an opportunity to make a name transition? Or has one of your children done so?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter ErinInSoCal had a good idea for a post. She commented on the post asking how much it bothers us to correct a mispronounced name, saying her daughter Beatrix is often called Beatrice, and her daughter&#8217;s nickname Bea (BEE-uh) is almost exclusively mispronounced Bee. Then she added: Oh well, she\u2019s turning 18 soon and going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-4jo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16580,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578\/revisions\/16580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}