Got named Lunette by a friend when we were 12, feeling self conscious about it now. Should I keep going by it?
The name being Lunette. From a non-French perspective I love the name so much, and it meant so much more to be because my friend who lived in France at the time (born and raised; she is French) gave me the name. we were both 12 and met online. I told her I wanted a new name because I hated that my first name was given to me by my dad, and because the name he gave me was directly tied to a religion I no longer want to identify with. I don’t want to say my old name, but I love everything about Lunette. the double ‘t’ and everything about the name and she told me back then that it meant “Little Moon”. But recently another friend of mine asked me why I wanted to be named Sunglasses or Toilet. (she learned this in her French class). And after looking into it & seeing other reddit posts that have discussed this, I feel so stupid. I feel embarrassed and it made me question my friendship with my friend who gave me this name. We havent spoken in over a year so idk how me ‘confronting’ her about it would go. But I’m 22 now and have gone by this name for a whole decade and feel that it’s a part of me but this feeling of embarrassment is getting to me, if I am being honest. It’s hard to admit it. What do I do?