How about Homeretta? She went by her middle name. Sister of a woman I knew decades ago. Dad of course was Homer.
My parents thought it would be a good idea to give me a first name and middle name, and call me by my middle name (Emily, which I’m still called by.)
There were so many problems with that in school. Teachers calling out the names of the students on their class list for the first time, would always call me by my first name, and I’d have to correct them every single time. (And repeat this when we had a sub.)
I’d get notices from school addressed to Firstname Lastname, without the name I’m actually called by even in there. Some teachers/school staff even got used to referring to me by my first name, and ended up thinking that was the name I was usually called by.
When I applied for university, I decided to just put my name down as Emily Lastname. I was never called by my first name in university. Finally!
There was a famous Egyptian singer/actress named Umm Kulthum.
I’m a middle named called child too. Mine is shortened to a nickname. So when my Daddy was finished chewing the teachers out, every year for calling me my first name I was then called the full version of my middle name. I still get the willies if someone says it too loud.
(Yeah, I kinda called called up to the teachers desk alot)
You don’t seem to like your last name either.
Not very much.
It’s like a ring tone.
I worked with two Bayou Cajuns called “Ruckus”. At the time i just assumed it was a popular nickname, but maybe that’s a given name down there.
My great grandmother’s name was Francine, but everybody called her Fanny. A perfectly common and cromulent nickname in her childhood. By the time her grandkids came along it was giggle-worthy in the US, and downright vulgar in Ireland.
In one of my school classes there were seven different variants of my name - none of us spelled it the same.
It should be “Umm [something]”, not just Umm (that would be naming the kid “mother”, not out of the question but seems unusual?)
That is not a “name” (her name was Fatimah) so much as a teknonymic “kunya”, like the masculine “Abu XYZ”. Anyway, there were a lot of Umm Kulthums including a daughter of Mohammed so there should not be anything regrettable about it.
Also, it’s pronounced “Oom”.
Would that make her father an Oom papa?
I saw the name “Mykynzey” many years ago. This is why kids hate their parents.
How about Prezleigh and Lennyx?
i do hope there was a polish last name to go with that.
Or Constantine. I had a graduate school professor of Greek descent (he himself was a proud New Yorker) whose given name was Constantine, but he went by Connie once you got to know him.
unfortunately, my ex GF schoolteacher had a student named “Vagina”–that child will need therapy
Oh, that’s unfortunate.
Why?
I have no more words…
(Gah! I hope it was a female student)
How old was the kid? Rick and Morty had Principal Vagina (“no relation”)
The mother of a friend of mine really wanted a boy so she could name him Kenneth. The friend’s name is Kennita.
Thanks, I know this thread is oldish, but I’ve just gotten around to reading it, and I was going to log in just to call bullshit on yet another racist urban legend.
The “LaDasha” story is always delivered to me the same way, as an account from the tellers inlaw, who is an elementary school teacher. Funny how even the relationship of the teacher to the bullshit spreader is always the same. It’s baked in to the legend now.
My best friend has told me this story. He won’t accept that it is bullshit. It is very frustrating.
Mrs. Trees has a “Made up black name”, that she is embarrassed by. I think it’s pretty, but she gets mad if I say her “government name” in public. She goes by a shortened version. Stories like this don’t help her with accepting her name as a legitimate one.
Her mother really boned her on the middle name. Possibly a “made up name”(all names were made up at some point). Her middle name is spelled one way on her soc. Card, and another really stupid spelling on her birth certificate. Her mother is an idiot.