# Hey, Satan! There's another Satan out there... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 12, 2001, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-satan-theres-another-satan-out-there/54206 "2001-02-12T22:48:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-satan-theres-another-satan-out-there/54206/1 "2001-02-12T22:48:58Z")
> [@](#): > > _From the New York Times_ (Registration required) > SHANGHAI — During high school, Zhou Chen was flipping through the dictionary when she found the perfect name for herself: **Satan**. “It’s too easy to have the same name with someone else with the common names,” said Ms. Zhou, 24, who has used Satan for the last six years with English-speaking foreigners. “I have yet to meet another person named Satan,” she says. > > Although one of her co-workers keeps trying to persuade her to change her name to something a slightly less sinister, Ms. Zhou is undeterred, saying she likes the name both for its sound and its supernatural connotations. > [More\>\>](http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/12/world/12NAME.html) ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-satan-theres-another-satan-out-there/54206/2 "2001-02-13T00:00:39Z")
I guess she has never met Miroslav Satan, who plays for the Buffalo Sabres. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-satan-theres-another-satan-out-there/54206/3 "2001-02-13T06:26:50Z")
How ironic… I picked my name because a random Asian woman had the name! Oh well… Off to play some hockey now… * * * Yer pal, [Satan](http://www.members.tripod.com/jmspoofe/sdmb/satan.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-satan-theres-another-satan-out-there/54206/4 "2001-02-13T10:54:58Z")
It could be worse… the woman could have chosen the name “Drain Bead”, and then Satan’d be REALLY confused…