But my IRL name is Pontiac Firebird Cad. Are you suggesting …
It was worse for kids born in the 70s. I knew a girl in high school whose first and middle names were “Donnie Marie”.
Oh man. Nice.
Whenever I hear Jenna Jameson’s name, I can only think of one thing: a gag from a non-porn movie. Spoilered anyway cuz it’s kind of off-colour:
Two weird dudes are talking about porn.
A: Man, I love that Jenna Jameson.
B: She’s alright.
A: What are you talking about?
B: Eh, she only does girl-girl stuff and that gets kinda old.
A: [flabbergasted] What?? Are you some kind of a fag??
(paraphrased from memory)
It occurs to me that having the same name as a prominent porn star has one huge advantage: You’ll be un-Googlable. Anyone who would try to dig into your background will meet a flood of porn links, and probably a visit from their boss or IT dept.
The names of my Daughters boys are, Ronin and Aryton.
Just is case someone needs to know their Names.
She named them that because she liked the names. They were not family names just names she found in a baby naming book. My DADDY was not happy with the names. He wanted her to name the boys family names.
She didn’t like those names though. She did throw in my DADDY’s name for a middle name.
He was pacified with that.
( provided for your amusement!)
I assume you meant Ayrton, as in Senna, and that three typo is yours, not your daughter’s?
I would quibble with you about Senna being a “semi-famous car racer.” Although, as a Brazilian, he may not be as well know to the average American as Mario Andretti or Richard Petty, worldwide, Senna is probably as famous (and highly regarded) as any race car driver in history.
My grandsons name is Aryton. We call him Ary. The car racer misspelled his name, that is just shitty of him. She probably googled it to see if anyone famous had his name, after the fact, and told me that little lie. She claims she got the name from a baby book. IDK, she’s kinda strange. I begged her to give them ordinary names. But " NOOOO, Mother these are my kids!" Whadya gonna do?. She is a grown up woman who doesn’t necessarily listen to me, much.
His older brother calls him Air-head, which I predicted.
PSA: For the love of all things decent, if you are going to get “creative” with your kids names, do it as their middle name, then they get to chose what to go by. My first name is commonly a woman’s name, and if fact I have never met another male that shares my first name. The other week in urgent care, they didn’t want to call my name because there were no women waiting and I finally had to help them out. Occasionally, if someone is paying attention to my credit card, they see my first name middle initial and assume it’s my wife’s card or that it’s not me. It’s a pain and I go by my very common middle name.
We used the middle names of both our kids when they were growing up. We wanted to give them an easy way to switch names when they were older to suit themselves. The younger one switched to his first name, he says he just liked making the change. The older one stuck with his nickname based on his middle name. Sorry your first name is problematic. I’ve known a few people who go by <First Initial> <Middle Name> <Last Name> because they didn’t like their first name. I think they were able to get credit cards and some Ids with their names that way.
You could always legally change your name. I know men named: Carey, Stacy, Francis, Connie, Marion, a guy named Victor who everyone calls Vicky, Pat. And the most famous Boy named Sue.
How bad is your name, really? Are you just extra sensitive, because it is your name??
We gave our guys fairly traditional but not extremely popular first names and less heard of but not “creatively” spelled middle names. I hope this gives them some options for what they want to be called as they go through life. I absolutely despise the cutesy spellings that people foist on their children. I get that y sounds like a vowel. It was unique about 20 years ago, now it is just irritating.
I went to Jr. High and High school with Jenna Jameson, always wondered if it was the same person, as the family gave off a very creepy incesty vibe.
It’s none of the above but closer to Sue than any of the others. Like I wrote, I’ve never met another male with my first name in the US. I don’t want to actually use it because then it would be much easier to identify who I am in real life.
Teased mercilessly growing up and thus learned how to fight. Also learned fighting doesn’t exactly stop the teasing, but it does make people around you more careful about pushing that particular hot button, and giving a shithead a deserved bloody nose or worse is actually satisfying. Shit, I have had managers at global 50 companies, real corporate jobs, that teased me about having a girls name. Thought they were being right clever, too. It’s really hard to be professional when that goddamn schoolyard BS raises it’s head. Whaddya gonna do? Grin and bear it, joke along? Nothing else really in a professional setting. That said, it does give one empathy for some of the things a person of color might have to deal with.
I know a couple of little Ronins. It doesn’t seem that weird a name to me. Aryton might confuse me at first, because of Ayrton Senna. But so many kids have unusual names nowadays, it’s almost normal to have an unusual name. The name at my pre-school that got the most negative comments about “Why would they give the poor kid a name like that” was for a boy called Henry. It was seen as an old man’s name.
Oh I understand you not wanting to publish your unusual name. No worries there. That’s terrible you’ve had that issue since grade school. Sorry I was being so silly.
Weedy, I like their names now, it took a minute , but they do fit their names… But OTOH I like Henry, Harry and others, but I am kind of a old fogey.
There are some Harrys too - short for Harrison. Or just the name on its own. But Henry is too old-fashioned for some reason.
He’s ahead of the game. BabyNameVoyager reports that it was a respectable 29th-most-popular in 2015, after a big dip in the '80s. So in another 15 years he’ll seem like a hip 18-year-old
Francis was a man’s name first and its female version is usually spelled Frances.
My mom used to smoke Tareytons.