Did your parents give you a crummy name?

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I heard that it was an Indian custom not to immediately name their kids, but to let them somehow name themselves, by their personalities and likes.
I never would have taken my middle name EVER! Do you think some names don't fit the person. Maybe we should follow the Indian custom? Did your parents give you a crummy name?
 

MY name is not uncommon, but I've always hated it because when I was little in fact all through my childhood, and school. there was not one other girl in school with my name.. so I felt different and odd one out because of it..

Even today...people know my name very well.. everyone thinks of it as a fairly common first name.. yet if you ask people how many they know with my name they suddenly realise they don't know anyone..or maybe just one..

..so even from the time I was very small when people asked me my name I always invented another name...

ETA for those of you here who know my real name... yes that's indeed the real, hated one, in case you're wondering.. I didn't give you a fake one.. :D
 
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I don't mind my first name, even though it is an alternate spelling of a common name and I have to correct the spelling all the time.

My middle name is also an alternative spelling of a common name and I have never liked it. It's also pronounced oddly. My problem is that people always add the "missing letter", no matter how careful I've been to make sure they know THAT'S THE WAY IT'S SPELLED, DAMMIT!

When I was 17 and getting my first passport, I went down to get a certified copy of my birth certificate and found that the spelling of my middle name had been changed. On the file copy (remember, this waaaay before computers), my middle name had been crossed out and the "corrected" name written in in pencil with a date on it. I protested and was told that my parents must have changed it. Nope. Just fix it. Nope, can't. BUT I HAVE MY ORIGINAL RIGHT HERE IN MY HAND WITH THE CORRECT SPELLING!!! Sorry, can't do anything about it.

I assume some clerk happened to look at it and said, "Oh, looky here, somebody spelled that poor girl's name wrong. I'll just change it for her."

So, my mother and I had to appear before a judge to get it changed back.

I have many documents, including my high school diploma, that have the wrong spelling of the middle name, but it just wasn't worth the effort to get it corrected.

Thanks, Mom.... Oh, and she got the whole thing from the newspaper obit of an old lady down the street. Creepy.
 
I hate my name. I can't stand to say it or see it in writing. I don't know who that person is. My last name was changed to my stepfather's more common last name when I was 7. Never legally, we were just told to use it. My first name does go much better with the more unusual last name of my dead beat bio-dad.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I heard that it was an Indian custom not to immediately name their kids, but to let them somehow name themselves, by their personalities and likes.
I never would have taken my middle name EVER! Do you think some names don't fit the person. Maybe we should follow the Indian custom? Did your parents give you a crummy name?
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My middle name went out of fashion long before I was born!!! I was named after an uncle who had died.

My first name? Nah, I'm good with it.
 
I disliked my real name early on. When I was old enough to be a rebellious teen my friends called me Mongoose, there was a song in the 70's with that title. When I learned to sing and play guitar in bands, it became my alias. Online, I assumed it again as a non de plume. I may have it carved on my tombstone or no one will know where I went. Frankly, I'm not quite sure where I'm going. (?)
 
I have no idea why people give their children two names and then call them by the middle name. That happened with my mother. She would be addressed by her first name in public places. It got tedious asking them to call her by her usual name.

My name is just ordinary.
 
This show was not a sitcom. However this weird trailer does its best to make it look like one.


I posted it in reference to "Pepper" which made me think "pepper sprout" which is in the song "Going To Jackson" which the unlikely father & daughter sing along to at the beginning of the pilot episode.
 
I always think of the way parents use all three names when they are calling you out. Did it a few times on my ex, she didn't care for it. One bit.
 
My grandmother died months before I was born and I was given her name, Gertrude, for my middle name. When I was about 10, I came to hate it. For the first time I was in a co-ed class and at the beginning of the year our teacher read out our full names to check the roll. The boys thought it very funny to call me Dirty Gertie. The other source of mirth was a boy whose middle name was Septimus.

Now that I am old, I have grown into my name, especially after I have learned more about my grandmother. I am proud to bear her name now.

My classmate went on to become Professor of Paediatrics at a Sydney university.
 

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