# Is There a Song or Poem With Your Name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2012, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512 "2012-05-30T05:15:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/41 "2012-05-30T22:49:45Z")
Well, there’s always [my user name song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKSe3kTSAiQ). IRL, I’m easy to look at and hard to define. Or off on a turn around. Or frowning. Or the poet in Stevie Nick’s heart. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/42 "2012-05-30T22:59:16Z")
There is a play called Ross,and two albums by Diana Ross called Ross,my first name. My last name is used a bunch. ---
**Author:** ![FrigidLizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@FrigidLizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrigidLizard)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/43 "2012-05-30T23:10:56Z")
I share the first name of one of Adam Duritz’s lost loves, so it pops up in a couple of Counting Crows’ songs. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/44 "2012-05-30T23:17:27Z")
My surname is mentioned on Pink Floyd’s debut album _The Piper at the Gates of Dawn_. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/45 "2012-05-30T23:53:04Z")
Sahirrnee is the title of a song. My real name, not very sexy or angelic or whatever it takes to be mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/46 "2012-05-31T01:08:11Z")
I’ve never been to Indiana, but I’ll still submit [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ILt3wNTZ7Q). ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/47 "2012-05-31T03:05:37Z")
My name is the name of an Allman Brother’s song, which is a great song but has no words. So to make up for it, people think it’s proper to sing “Jessie’s Girl” to me even though I’ve never gone by “Jessi” and the “Jessie” in question in the song is a boy and we don’t know the name of the girl. I’m guessing the 25% of us girls born between 1979 and 1981 have the same problem. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/48 "2012-05-31T03:11:40Z")
> [@Olentzero](#): > > [Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea2EuozaJ7s). Both first and last names make an appearance, but in separate verses. Bertha?😃 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/49 "2012-05-31T10:02:10Z")
Nope. Like I’ve said before, it’s a really uncommon name. My last name pops up occasionally, though, as a first name. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/50 "2012-05-31T10:41:19Z")
At least two. I much prefer [this new one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMC7aSQFFH0) to the one that gave my parents the idea. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/51 "2012-05-31T11:45:29Z")
Yup, a 150-year-old song celebrating an Irish rebel who martyred himself fighting against the English. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/52 "2012-05-31T11:46:01Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Bertha?😃 I’ma give you _SUCH_ a pinch! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/53 "2012-05-31T11:51:40Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > My mother named me after a Rolling Stones cover of a Bo Diddley song. … > > I abandoned that name about 20 years ago and I’ve been Maggie ever since. There are _lots_ of Maggie songs. Actually, I’m pretty sure the Stones never covered _Bring It to Jerome_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/54 "2012-05-31T13:52:30Z")
> [@Olentzero](#): > > [Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea2EuozaJ7s). Both first and last names make an appearance, but in separate verses. > [@Baker](#): > > Bertha?😃 Ulysses? ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/55 "2012-05-31T14:24:22Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > My mother named me after a Rolling Stones cover of a Bo Diddley song. There is also an older, more famous song by Nat King Cole that uses my name, which people used to sing at me. That irritated me - I was _not_ named after a painting, dammit. > > I abandoned that name about 20 years ago and I’ve been Maggie ever since. There are _lots_ of Maggie songs. moooooona lisa mona lisa mom had named you…😃 ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/56 "2012-05-31T14:26:38Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > You don’t tug on Superman’s cape. > You don’t spit into the wind. > You don’t pull the mask off the ol’ Lone Ranger > And you don’t mess around with 74westy. Dammit 74westy, I’m a Doper, not a…oh wait… ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/57 "2012-05-31T14:28:42Z")
My first name is big and bad, but it’s also dear. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/58 "2012-05-31T14:32:49Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Ulysses? Actually I think it would be kinda cool to be named Ulysses. But no. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/59 "2012-05-31T14:40:43Z")
Paul McCartney mentions me along with Vera and Chuck. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/60 "2012-05-31T18:58:14Z")
I have “Wendy” by the Beach Boys, and even though I want to stab through the eye anyone who tries to spell my name this way, “Windy” by The Association will always hold a special place in my heart. The school band at the HS where my parents taught were learning it and marched by in parade formation to play it in front of our house after I was born. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512.md?page=4)