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 “white girl name” with a middle name like marie or rose. spent a lot of middle school going by daisy.
i also am greatly tired of the “deja vu” jokes.
my mom got my name from tyra bank’s character in “higher learning”/a tony! toni! toné! song. i guess that’s cool. she just spelled it very phonetically, which didnt help people’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 ☀️ i like that at least. i wouldn't have minded the name raven, and i think my mom’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.
