# Dec the Halls with Rants and Howling

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 30, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-the-halls-with-rants-and-howling/739049 "2015-11-30T19:22:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dec-the-halls-with-rants-and-howling/739049/16 "2015-12-01T07:51:06Z")

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From last month’s thread, re. trying to get my name written the same way in every gummit database:

> [@NaNoRantMo (November Mini Rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanorantmo-november-mini-rants/736347/300):
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> They have trouble with **Nava**?

Lemme put it this way: if my legal name was Nava, there would be  
some databases where it would appear as N. Ava  
others listing Naba  
some with Nevaeh  
and a few where I’d have simultaneous entries as Nava, N. Ava and Nebaeh

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