# What's your name? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 17, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698 "2004-10-17T19:04:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/181 "2004-10-19T21:19:50Z")
> [@Nightwatch Trailer](#): > > “Evan” is originally, what, German? Nope. [Welsh.](http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk/helps/patronym.htm) **Johann** is the German equivalent. Dozens more cognates are listed [on this page.](http://www.worldzone.net/art/alternika/alias/j.html) ---
**Author:** ![SamIAm336](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SamIAm336](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamIAm336)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/182 "2004-10-19T21:38:32Z")
Delores- at work and with friends Lori- with family and anyone who hangs around them Except for my aunt Sharon who calls me Lori Rose because we share Rose as a middle name ---
**Author:** ![foxymoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/183 "2004-10-19T21:40:02Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > My name is Bernard. For some reason, it’s an extremely rare name yet everyone has heard it and knows how to spell it, unless they’re a total dumbass. In my entire life I’ve personally encountered only four other Bernards, and two of those were calling for tech support. I’ve heard of a handful of others here and there. My dad’s name is Bernard, but he’s called Ben (or Benny, by his mom). His parents chose the Midwesternized version of the German pronunciation, though, so instead of the more common Ber **nard** his name is prounounced **Ber** nerd. His name is the only one I’ve heard said that way. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/184 "2004-10-19T21:41:32Z")
> [@SamIAm336](#): > > Delores- at work and with friends > Lori- with family and anyone who hangs around them > Except for my aunt Sharon who calls me Lori Rose because we share Rose as a middle name \ When you open a thread called “What’s Your Name” and see that the last post is by someone named “ **SamIAm336** ” you have a certain expectation. That expectation is NOT Delores, with Lori or Lori Rose behind it! _thrusts finger angrily at air_ \ ---
**Author:** ![moonstarssun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/185 "2004-10-19T22:21:10Z")
I’m Charlotte, named after my great-grandmother. My grandpa called me Charlie, so I’ll go by either name. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/186 "2004-10-19T22:42:47Z")
Am I the only Rhonda? ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/187 "2004-10-20T02:32:46Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > Well Kelly means warrior. Warriors need to stick together 🙂 Of course. > [@tremorviolet](#): > > “Lee” because it’s law that every Southern girl have the middle name “Lee” or “Ann”. That’s one reason why my middle name _isn’t_ Ann, the other being that it was my mom’s middle name already. My middle name is Amanda. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/188 "2004-10-20T02:45:11Z")
Ken. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/189 "2004-10-20T02:59:19Z")
You’d think that there’d be one other Russell on this message board… ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/190 "2004-10-20T03:16:28Z")
For reasons that my parents can no longer remember, they started calling me by my middle name, Scott, even though they gave me a perfectly good first name of Michael. So I’m Scott to just about everyone, although on official documents my first name is Michael. ---
**Author:** ![klintypooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3da27b/32.png) [@klintypooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/klintypooh)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/191 "2004-10-20T03:28:31Z")
As if you couldn’t tell by my username, my name is errrrrrm Liam 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Malinalda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@Malinalda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malinalda)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/192 "2004-10-20T03:32:20Z")
After four pages, I am the first Margaret! And to the Julia’s - My best friend is named Julie Anna. Not Julia Anna, or Julia Ann, or Julie Anne…all of which misspellings she suffers - usually on official type documents. We who love her call her Jewel 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/193 "2004-10-20T03:53:44Z")
I’m Donna, and I get the feeling the name is getting more unusual as time goes by, although it wasn’t all that uncommon when I was in school. There was a poor unfortunate girl in my third-grade class with the same name, so the teacher asked us our middle names. Mine’s Carol, hers was Marie. Now, “Donna-Marie” just flows better than “Donna-Carol,” so she was stuck with that appellation _all the way through junior high school_. By the time we reached high school, there were finally enough people in our class who hadn’t gone to elementary school with us that she was able to put her foot down and drop the “Marie.” But I’ll bet she still hates my guts, and I can understand that. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/194 "2004-10-20T04:03:45Z")
I lay claim to this thread in the name of Dougs everywhere! …or at least this particular one… ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/195 "2004-10-20T04:08:42Z")
Nikola aka “Nick”. Called Nick almost universally, with the exception of my ( now deceased ) Serb grandmother, occasionally my mother ( not Serb at all ), receptionists and telemarkers, and once in a blue moon others. I get an awful lot of mail addressed to **Ms.** Nikola… and not uncommonly surprise at my gender from receptionists et al. As a rebuttal I usually I have to resort to hoping they’ve heard of Nikola Tesla ;). Never cared for my full name as a child, fond of it now. Have personally run into only one other in my life ( he was Italian, whereas mine comes from the Serb side of the family ). When, as on occasion, full names come up, for some odd reason when informed that I’m a “Nikola, not a Nicholas”, a surprising number of people have thereafter taken to referring to me as “Nicholai”. Go figure :). - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![AntaresJB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/196 "2004-10-20T04:59:07Z")
Antares Janeva (Can you guess my last initial?). Tara to just about everyone. My parents decided they wanted to name me after something celestial, and they decided on Antares (we’ve always pronounced it Ahn-TAHR-ays, not Ann-TAIR-eez). If I had been a boy I would have been Orion. As it stands, they decided if they were gonna name a kid Antares, they had damn well better give her a nickname and just call her that. So I’ve always been Tara. Janeva is from my two great-grandmother’s names, Jane and Eva, squashed together. I usually have to say “yes, like the convention. Only spelled different.” Ta da. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/197 "2004-10-20T06:32:19Z")
> [@Kitten Goes To Paris](#): > > First name Summer, middle name Genevieve. Pronounced Jzan vee ev? or Jenna veeve?? ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/198 "2004-10-20T07:00:52Z")
Oh, and Laura Mae. I was named after my two great grandmothers. Went by Lori through my school years, started using my given name in my early 20s because it sounded more professional, even though I didn’t really care for it, I thought it sounded stuck up. It eventually grew on me though, now I think it’s okay, though I’d much prefer something sexy and more fun 😃 I always wanted to be a Vicki. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/199 "2004-10-20T07:08:10Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I like the name Jessica. I keep thinking Bene Geserit for some reason when I read that name Declan ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698/200 "2004-10-20T07:10:42Z")
[Here’s a clue to my name…](http://www.fortunecity.com/bennyhills/billmurray/341/homrjokr.wav) And no, my name ain’t Homer! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-name/269698.md?page=11)