Nope. Welsh. Johann is the German equivalent. Dozens more cognates are listed on this page.
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
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 Bernard his name is prounounced Bernerd. His name is the only one I’ve heard said that way.
<Lewis Black paraphrase>
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
</LBP>
I’m Charlotte, named after my great-grandmother. My grandpa called me Charlie, so I’ll go by either name.
Am I the only Rhonda?
Of course.
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.
Ken.
You’d think that there’d be one other Russell on this message board…
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.
As if you couldn’t tell by my username, my name is errrrrrm Liam
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
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.
I lay claim to this thread in the name of Dougs everywhere!
…or at least this particular one…
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
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.
Pronounced Jzan vee ev? or Jenna veeve??
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.
I keep thinking Bene Geserit for some reason when I read that name
Declan
Here’s a clue to my name…
And no, my name ain’t Homer!