Its not a bad name. But when you are being bullied in school by being called Valerie the Ballerina(sound similar in my language) and being a boy, its not the memories I would like to keep.
I dont know my name in English language. Wiki write that my name is Grigory. But foreign passport write that my name is Grigorii. I dont know. Also I prefer the English name rather than the Russian. IMHO, They are beautiful sound. And many russian people in the Internet (or IRL; for example: in some active game) write in nickname or alias Enlgish name and very-very rarely write Russian name even if they are fictional.
My name is Aaron and many call me Eren and Erin, Krowy and ron.... I got the nick name " Krowy" by keeping a crow as a pet...funny how later I found out it meant cow in Polish.