New law: As of today every adult must legally change his or her first name. My new name is…

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Annie. No explanation needed.

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Scout.

  1. It’s the name of one of the main characters in my favorite book, To Kill a Mockingbird
  2. Easy to spell
  3. Hey, Boo!
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Ben Dover

(I use the name “Honey” at restaurants/McDonalds where they will call out my name.)

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Excellent. I will ditch “Julia” for the form I use 99% of the time anyway: Julie.

  1. I’ve always gone by it so it sounds natural to me.
  2. Where I’m from in Ohio, many people pronounce Julie as JOAL-ya. It’s excruciating. JOAL-ie (rhymes with goalie) is much more tolerable.
  3. I’m a casual person and “Julie” has always sounded less formal and more friendly to me.
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It’s a pretty name pronounced, like most Celtic names, but it always reads like “Slob-something” to me. Same for “Aoife,” which sounds nice but reads as… “Oof” or something.

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Buck.

I’ve thought it would be cool to change my name to “Buck Naked, M.D.”.

There was an episode of The Twilight Zone (starring Martin Milner of all people) which featured characters named Buck and Medea, which would be terrific names for a pair of small spaniels.

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Budgiesaurus

  1. I like budgies
  2. I like dinosaurs
  3. something something Budgiesaurus
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I choose Shirley

So I can say “Call me Shirley”

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Sara

  1. Almost universally pronounceable, used in many cultures worldwide.
  2. Short
  3. Sounds good with my last name
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Dean

  1. It is not subject to unwelcome nickname-ization, nor is is likely to be construed as a nickname.

  2. It’s unambiguously masculine.

  3. It’s not likely to be misspelled or mispronounced.

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Aw, hell, I forgot. The bastards would call me “Dino.” I know they would. Back to the drawing board.

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Princess Consuela Bananahammock

  1. I’m secretly Phoebe
  2. I’d like to marry Paul Rudd
  3. Yay Friends!
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Erastus

  1. He is one of my ancestors
  2. He had four wives and thirty-three children.
  3. Because of all the fucking, of course.
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Theophrastus Bombastus.

  1. It’s the manliest name ever!

  2. My name-sake was a cool guy.

  3. I think it’s old Greek mixed up with Latin, that’s cool.

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'Alex’andra

  1. I’ve thought about this before and I just like how it sounds
  2. Shortened version is unisex
  3. There is no part three, but if I was changing my first name I’d change my surname as well and take my mums maiden name :slight_smile:
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My name now, except it’s spelled the way people expect it to be spelled.

  1. Other than the spelling, it’s pretty common.
  2. I get to technically keep my name.
  3. I won’t have to spell it out for people when it matters.
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Jack

  1. It’s my grandfather’s name
  2. I like the name
  3. Hi opal
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Thomas.

  1. Thomas More.
  2. Thomas Becket.
  3. Tom Wolfe.
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Xbrtjkzv

  1. It’s weird.
  2. Its virtually impossible to pronounce.
  3. It confuses and irritates everyone.
  4. It’s worth major points in Scrabble. If Scrabble accepted proper names. And it were a name.
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I count 4, not counting the OP.