# Your Given Name **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366 "2002-05-22T20:43:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![sophbella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@sophbella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sophbella)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/181 "2002-05-29T10:41:35Z")
Sophie Marissa + unusal last name. Have always been Sophie Bella or Sophie Rose, in effect my middle name is usually dependent on my mood. ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/182 "2002-05-29T14:42:38Z")
Steven Williams. Extremely common name among English-speakers, and therefore, I’m not afraid to disclose it in public. Vanity searches turn up thousands of results, so it’s like I’m hiding in a crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/183 "2002-05-29T15:13:39Z")
Kerri Suzanne. Last name too uncommon to print. There are two famous people who have a similar first name to my last name. (Think **Murdoch** or **Everett** , except spelled wrong ;)) If you google it, the only stuff you come up with is me. I hate my middle name. (No offense to any other Suzannes out there.) I usually go by the initial S. which confuses people for some reason. They ask what the S. stands for and they usually get a silly answer. My favorite answer is “Superfly.” I have actually convinced people that my parents were so enamoured with the 70’s era movie that they named me after it. You should see the looks I get. 😃 (Especially since I’m a goofy looking white girl.) I get my user name from these two. **pbrtallboy** used to write the S in front of Kerri on anything I put my name on. If you google my user name, you get some fantasy stories, and a link to a Skerri that is not me. (When I finally get my webpage up, I may have to send her a cease and desist! :D) ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/184 "2002-05-29T17:35:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vanilla \* > \*\*My last name is Hunter. > I love it. its my married name, my maiden name was stupid and always gotten wrong. > > The weird thing is, every time I give my name on the phone, its alwasy "Is that h-u-n-t-e-r? > > HOW ELSE CAN YOU SPELL IT??? > > :mad: \*\* I get that too. My last name is Rising, and I’m forever having to spell it and tell people how to pronounce it. I’m glad they don’t want to get it wrong, but c’mon people, it’s not that hard. My first name is Justin, and my middle initial is K. It does stand for something, but I don’t like it, so I don’t use it. ---
**Author:** ![Journeyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@Journeyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Journeyman)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/185 "2002-05-29T17:50:21Z")
Darryl ---
**Author:** ![grettle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@grettle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grettle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/186 "2002-05-29T18:34:09Z")
Julie Kristen here My little sister’s name is Kendall Jordan My parents thought they were really clever. (either way, don’t we sound like we were born to be in a pretentious southern debutante sorority? at least she lived up to the name. . . ) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/187 "2002-05-29T19:29:43Z")
Thomas Louis ‘Insert\_Italian\_last\_name\_here’ It was also my grandfathers name. Last time I googled it, I came up with a porn distributor in Jersey… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/188 "2002-05-29T20:37:09Z")
While we’re tangentially on the subject of how to properly pronounce last names. my last name is **NOT** pronounced “Nig” or “Engee”! I realize it may be unfamiliar to people, since it’s only two letters long and has no vowel in it, but really. Believe me, I get enough mispronunciations of it! (when I was younger, I got teased a bit over it) I’ll go over it again: Last Name: Ng Proper Pronunciation: Ing (yes, just like the last three letters of “running”, “playing”, “surfing”, etc.) One more thing: I am not related to Charles Ng. (I got that all the time when the guy was last in the news, albeit at least 12 years ago) Oh, and as for my middle name? Middle Name: Chi-Wah Proper Pronunciation: Chee-Wah (the automated Telecirc system of the Vancouver library used to have this computer robot voice that would pronounce the first syllable to rhyme with “high”) And if people call me “Lez-lee”, I’m not going to throw a hissy fit because you mispronounced it, but it does get irritating. The proper pronunciation of “Leslie” is “Les-lee,” for goodness sakes! So let’s go over all that again, just to be sure you get it: Full Name: Leslie Chi-Wah Ng Proper Approxmiate Phonetic Pronunciation: Les-lee Chee-Wah Ing (just in case any of you had any questions about how to properly pronounce the Chinese parts of my name) F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/189 "2002-05-29T22:40:38Z")
Oh, and by the way, if you get an email from me, you’ll notice it’s from “Leslie Flaming-Dragon.” A couple of months ago, for some reason, I decided that having the email come from my real name wasn’t cool enough. So I changed it. _shrug_ F\_X ---
**Author:** ![HerMajestyLorna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/190 "2002-05-29T23:46:07Z")
Lorna Cobban Quandt… It’s a fun name. ---
**Author:** ![misshannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@misshannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misshannah)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/191 "2002-05-30T00:47:14Z")
Hannah (no middle name) Walraven Once I saw a pack of tarot cards that had my last name on one of the minor arcana. It said walraven was the name of the Danish totem king of the ravens. Whatever **that** means. My mom couldn’t think of a middle name for **hannah**!?! Whatever. She named me after a little girl she babysat in the 50s who ate peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches. When I was a kid, there were no other hannahs. Now I hear it’s one of the fashionable baby names. Again, whatever. :rolleyes: If anyone was considering stalking me, let me just assure you, you’d be sorry you expended the effort. I’m pretty boring and unattractive. ---
**Author:** ![JRT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3e96dc/32.png) [@JRT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRT)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/192 "2002-05-30T05:13:14Z")
Jennifer Ruth ---
**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/193 "2002-05-30T06:45:59Z")
My name? Levi Tooker. My first name is pronounced like the jeans, but it seems the mispronunciation “lev-ee” is slowly becoming my nickname. It doesn’t bother me at all. And yes, all five [Google hits](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Levi+Tooker%22) are really me. Those links just shout geekiness, and I’m damn proud of it. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/194 "2002-05-30T23:53:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flamsterette\_X \* > And if people call me “Lez-lee”, I’m not going to throw a hissy fit because you mispronounced it, but it does get irritating. The proper pronunciation of “Leslie” is “Les-lee,” for goodness sakes! I’ve actually never had a problem with this. I introduce myself using either pronunciation as I really have no preference. I’m just pleased people don’t call me something vulgar. 🙂 The only slightly annoying thing is that I continually get mail addressed to **Mr.** lastname. But I can’t really complain because I’m using the masculine form, Leslie, instead of the feminine form which is Lesley. A little anecdote- my grandmother used to send me birthday cards addressed to “Lesley” when I was a kid and was unaware of the spelling differences. I thought she was kind of dumb to not know how to spell my name. Turns out she was just prodding my Mom because she thought my name should have been more conventional. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![zephonith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@zephonith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephonith)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/195 "2002-05-31T00:20:39Z")
wow, second post and i’m already revealing my name. don’t stalk me! (quakes in fear) anyway, it’s quite unique so no last name here it goes: Sana [japanese last name which literally means “big deer”] pronounced exactly the way its spelt from esperanto, meaning “healthy” (or latin meaning “sane”. ahh, the irony) apparently it’s becoming one of those names for people who don’t want kids with “conventional” first names (it’s even in a baby book) very multicultural name theres a pakistani actress with the same name (i found this out from one of the many 18/19 year old pakistani guys contacting me on icq asking me if i was muslim) theres also porn star called Sana Fey both my first name and last name are towns. which is why, when you google my name, you come up with links to the world cup ---
**Author:** ![SlightDistrurbance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SlightDistrurbance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlightDistrurbance)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/196 "2002-05-31T00:52:35Z")
Google turns up nothing on the last name so here we go… Roberta Sue McCllen Last name sounds like Muh Clul En… yeah its spelled right up there. And telemarketers hack it so very badly. My first name came from many uncles and other assorted relations, and the man who delivered me. (Unusual delivery, bad snowstorm, couldn’t get out couldn’t get in, he was a vet who lived up the road… ect ect.) Not sure where the middle name came from, mom thoguht it pretty says she. I find it irritating. But my kids are sure to hate me. Brandalynne Alexandria and Jeanette Nicole. (We call her Nikki) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/197 "2002-05-31T01:36:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LindyHopper \* > \*\*I lived in the same dorm as an Anastasia once. Her last name was Easterday; bet yours isn’t _that_ rare! 🙂 \*\* My health teacher in high school was Mr. Easterday. When I became a topless dancer, he came into the club once with a bunch of his friends and I had the DJ dedicate one of my stage dances to him (something about him having taught me sex ed or something I don’t remember) and he told me later that his friends bought his drinks for the rest of the night because of it hehe. I’m another of the boring Marie middle named girls. My mom’s middle name is also Marie. My birth name: Katherine Marie Huck Do you have any idea how much it sucked to grow up with a last name like that? I got this kind of thing a lot: “Kathy huck fucks plucked ducks” etc. I went by Kathy until about 5th grade, when I decided I hated it. I now go by Katherine. People who call me Kathy don’t live to tell about it. In high school, I lived for one semester with my dad in Florida. I told everyone there that I went by ‘Sparrow’, because I thought it would be fun to have a new name. It was really fun. I’d have kept it as a name if I thought I could get all my friends to start using it. I have a friend who was born David Smith who legally changed his name to Sebastian Nightshade. How cool is that? ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/198 "2002-05-31T03:04:57Z")
**hannahw** , my sister Hannah was a little girl in the '50s who ate peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches. My name: Crosby Swedish\_last\_name While it’s not that common (I’ve never met another), because of a small handful of show biz folks, everybody has heard it. A problem is that they’ve always heard it as a last name and will try their damndest to treat it as such. It’s like being named Smith Eriksen. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/199 "2002-05-31T03:21:15Z")
John Patrick (last name withheld due to illogical paranoia) The NurseCarmen nick comes from a local childrens television show. Every one loooooved the Nurse. Then, some 25 or so years later, when I was hopping on-line to kill some locals in Quake, I figured nobody would want to frag the beloved Nurse. I am neither a Nurse, nor a Carmen, but I play one on the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366/200 "2002-06-07T17:42:19Z")
It is a pleasure to meet you all. Anyone have any interesting artwork associated with their names? Things like family crests and such. I don’t know of any for mine, but I wish I did. Is there a single crest for the name Robinson? Or would two different Robinson families have two different crests? DaLovin’ Dj [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-given-name/110366.md?page=11)