# People That Look Like Their First Names
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-that-look-like-their-first-names/335666
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 14, 2005, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-that-look-like-their-first-names/335666 "2005-12-14T23:47:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-that-look-like-their-first-names/335666/41 "2005-12-16T04:37:38Z")
[The cowboy hat will throw off the name recognition.](http://photobucket.com/albums/y6/taamo/005.jpg) It was part of a Halloween costume. Honest.
It’s Tom, by the way.
And, uh, **DiosaBellissima** , your username is very, _very_ appropriate. You’re gorgeous.
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-that-look-like-their-first-names/335666/42 "2005-12-16T04:44:38Z")
Nobody thinks I look like anything, huh? ☹😛
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-that-look-like-their-first-names/335666/43 "2005-12-16T04:45:57Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#):
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> OK, I’ll play. For the record, I apparently look like Stephanie, Kathy, Kate, and one person even told me I looked like an Amanda, which happens to be my middle name.
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> [Who do I look like?](http://photobucket.com/albums/a182/Harimad-sol/?action=view¤t=tkelly.jpg) Wouldn’t you know it, I’m wearing that shirt today.
You look like a Kelly to me. Then again, you look a lot like a friend of mine named Kelly, so that could be why.
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### Author:  [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-that-look-like-their-first-names/335666/44 "2005-12-16T04:51:58Z")
**Ace309** I was going to say Troy and that’s, well, sorta the same? 🙂
And thanks, but none of that!
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### Author:  [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-that-look-like-their-first-names/335666/45 "2005-12-16T05:00:57Z")
[http://winstonlf.com/hotaru/me/day2again.jpg](http://winstonlf.com/hotaru/me/day2again.jpg)
This is me. What name would you think I should be?
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### Author:  [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-that-look-like-their-first-names/335666/46 "2005-12-16T05:30:45Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#):
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> Nobody thinks I look like anything, huh? ☹😛
Weeeell, I _would_ say that it’d help if you posted a picture, but I don’t think I could credibly claim not to remember what you look like after all the various pic threads.
You always struck me as looking like either a Natalie or a Stacie (not Stacy though; they have darker hair).
> [@zweisamkeit](#):
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> This is me. What name would you think I should be?
Um…hot?
Failing that, Elizabeth or Amy.
**Rhinocerous** and **Draelin** , nope, not Jason, though I gotta say I can see where you get it. Hint: my entire name is Scottish in origin.
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-that-look-like-their-first-names/335666/47 "2005-12-16T06:09:51Z")
> [@Roland Orzabal](#):
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> Weeeell, I _would_ say that it’d help if you posted a picture, but I don’t think I could credibly claim not to remember what you look like after all the various pic threads.
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> You always struck me as looking like either a Natalie or a Stacie (not Stacy though; they have darker hair).
Post 21 has my picture 😛
One of those names is exactly on, spelling and everything - for a brief period in my later life, my mother was enamoured with a diminutive of Anastasia: Stacie. Yes, with an “ie”, she decided it was more “feminine”. She still calls me that sometimes, and sometimes she sends mail with that name on the envelope, because it’s shorter to spell. The rest of the world calls me Stasia, my mother still calls me Stacie from time to time, if she doesn’t use my full, proper name.
I try to forget about it. :smack:
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### Author:  [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-that-look-like-their-first-names/335666/48 "2005-12-17T03:09:52Z")
**Roland,** in that particular picture, you look like a Steve.
**Anastasaeon,** it’s hard to tell who you look like. I think you just look like an Anastasia, but that’s due to the fact that I know that’s your name and I can’t figure you out otherwise. I actually know a girl named Stasha (note phonetic spelling) and her parents named her that because they thought Anastasia was too long.
The OP of this thread is interesting to me because my perceptions of those names are completely different. Scott is a redhead or a strawberry blond. Actually he looks a bit like Eric Stoltz, due to a very memorable Scott I know who does. Jamie is a redhead too, but dark red, with very pale skin and freckles, who wears glasses and rarely smiles, like my cousin Jamie (who insists we call him James nowadays). Nathan has dark hair and dark eyes and not only does he smile a lot, he laughs a lot, too.
But I’m willing to consider **trublmakr’s** boys the one true Scott, Jamie, and Nathan. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-that-look-like-their-first-names/335666/49 "2005-12-17T03:35:44Z")
**Roland:** Mark. With a k.
**Harimad-sol:** Melanie.
**zweisamkeit:** Marcia.
**Anastasaeon:** Brenda.
**Ace309:** Shaun.
**Draelin:** Liz.
**rinni:** Deanna.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2005, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-that-look-like-their-first-names/335666/50 "2005-12-17T04:28:37Z")
Aw, thanks **Harimad-sol**. 😃
And yes, **Beware of Doug** , she is totally a Melanie! I didn’t think of it before, but once you said it, it hit me! Yes! And **Roland** is definitely a Mark with a K.
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### Author:  [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2005, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-that-look-like-their-first-names/335666/51 "2005-12-17T04:36:54Z")
> [@trublmakr](#):
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> Aw, thanks **Harimad-sol**. 😃
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> And yes, **Beware of Doug** , she is totally a Melanie! I didn’t think of it before, but once you said it, it hit me! Yes!
I think I’ve found my new Doper name at last. 😃
The funny thing is, I look at that picture and I can see it. I do look rather like a Melanie. People would call me “Mel” instead of…“Kel.” Hmm. :dubious:
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