I think my name is an asset. My first name is a very popular name, especially when I was young. I always knew other girls with my same first name and I never thought much about it, and as an adult I like it. I like being one of the many in that way, feel connected to them, even though it isn’t really a meaningful connection of any sort. When I meet older people they almost always say, “oh, that will be easy, that is my daughter’s/neices/granddaughter’s name.
My maiden last name is extremely uncommon, and I liked that too. People find me when they look for me, because there are so few with my last name. Especially now with facebook, there is one other girl with my first and last name, and that is probably in the world. She happens to live in Chicago. My maiden name is a little tricky to spell and pronounce for most people at first, which never bothered me. I don’t mind if they say it incorrectly, or ask me where it is from, etc. I dropped my maiden name when I married, but I still use it in facebook and when I get in touch with people from the past.