# Rename me! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827 "2005-08-27T02:02:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/1 "2005-08-27T02:02:40Z")
I chose my Doper name after my favorite book heroine. However, I am getting a little tired of the name. (I’m not worthy!) Suggestions solicited here. I’m toying with the idea of naming myself after someone who actually existed, as long as it isn’t someone alive now. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/2 "2005-08-27T02:05:34Z")
Viceroy Fizzlebottom. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/3 "2005-08-27T02:15:09Z")
**Edward Drinker Cope**? He sounds kind of tasty. You could be a fake modernized Parisian as **2luze lawtrek**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/4 "2005-08-27T02:15:29Z")
While I like that, it would add to my “lady looks like a dude” problem. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/5 "2005-08-27T02:15:52Z")
Irahsane-Luna. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/6 "2005-08-27T02:18:04Z")
How about Isadora Duncan? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/7 "2005-08-27T02:29:53Z")
Florence Nightingale Marie Curie Julia Child Anne Bonney The Queen Of Pizza ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/8 "2005-08-27T02:31:09Z")
Znarf Zlits ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/9 "2005-08-27T02:37:38Z")
My suggestion: **Sweet Jane**. Bear with me here; the thought process went something like this: What do I know about Harimad-sol? Well, I know that she’s bisexual. Wait, wasn’t there a two-faced Roman … Janus! She should go by Janus. Oh, but that was a guy, and she needs a name that is definitely feminine. “The Goddess Janus?” “January Queen?” Hey, how about “Janine?” Hmm, I like Janine … but it’s just a name, not much of a Doper name. What else do I know about her? Well, she seems very sweet … “Sweet Janine?” Meh, not quite right. Oh! Oh! “Sweet Jane!” ( **Misnomer** wanders off, happily singing the Cowboy Junkies to herself…) ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/10 "2005-08-27T02:39:28Z")
**Harimad-Sol** - It’s a big name to live up to, but you could still be Harry if you wanted. Or **Aerin**. Or pick a newer McKinley herione and be **Sunshine**. StG ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/11 "2005-08-27T02:44:45Z")
Dunno if it would work for you, but if I were bisexual, I might call myself **Bi Bi Birdie**. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/12 "2005-08-27T02:47:03Z")
I’m going to change my name to **Fusion Chamberlain**. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/13 "2005-08-27T03:08:44Z")
Great choices! I don’t know about **Aerin**. I thought of that before, but then I saw **AerynSun** and thought it might be confusing. **Bi Bi Birdie** is cute, but I think I’ve been talking about my sexuality a bit too much, so maybe not. I did consider **Pendulum** briefly in that vein. As it happens, Marie Curie and Julia Child are two of my heroes, so that’s pretty cool…and Anne Bonney…lady pirate! Pirates=nifty. The Queen of Pizza…hmmm. Suddenly I’m hungry. I could appear alongside **The King of Soup** , however. I was half-heartedly trying to make someone change his name to **Corlath-sola** , but as he hasn’t read the book, I have stopped. I like everything suggested so far. So hard to choose! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/14 "2005-08-27T03:15:13Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > Pirates=nifty. [This is how I would have looked at my wedding](http://www.authenticwardrobe.com/Pirate/Pirate14.gif). ☹ [sub]I may buy the outfit anyway. 😉 [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/15 "2005-08-27T03:24:05Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > [This is how I would have looked at my wedding](http://www.authenticwardrobe.com/Pirate/Pirate14.gif). ☹ > > [sub]I may buy the outfit anyway. 😉 [/sub] Please do! And post many pictures of yourself in it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/16 "2005-08-27T03:24:08Z")
Might I suggest [Zasu Pitts](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0686032/)tain? ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/17 "2005-08-27T03:25:36Z")
Have you gone to that site that does the anagram of your name? Might be some good one’s in **Harimad-sol**. Do you care for the musical stylings of **AC/DC**? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/18 "2005-08-27T03:43:41Z")
**Hojo Hominigrits** ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/19 "2005-08-27T03:47:48Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > ( **I’m not worthy**!) I flash back on the scene from Wayne’s World were they are on their knees saying this to (IIRC) Alice Cooper. Could be a keeper. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827/20 "2005-08-27T03:51:31Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > Please do! And post many pictures of yourself in it. It’ll be a while. Looks like we’re starting a film in October, and I’m buying equipment. Fun clothes have to wait. I wonder how it would be if I got the outfit and just wore it? You know, like when I go to the market, etc. Anyway, **Anne Bonney** is a good name. [And there’s an action figure](http://www.accoutrements.com/products/11333.html). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-me/318827.md?page=2)