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[Doc]

Or maybe your greatgrandmother stole the baby, replaced it with a dead one and just couldn't bear to change the name.

'My Baby is dead and now it's a boy!'
'Oh what a shame. By the way I just gave birth...'.
'You were pregnant?'
'Oh sure, now don't worry about that; check out dear little Ornetta.'
'That was my baby's name!'
'Uh... yeah, I thought naming my baby after yours would comfort you in your time of mourning.'

[Lister]

I am a III, so my only problems with my first name are the fact that a) companies confuse me with my father, b) people who didn't know my dad was Jr. call me Junior, c) There is usually no way to properly enter my name in a form, and d) Being "the third" automatically implies some elite upbringing in The Hamptons or servants or something.

By tradition, I could have been called either Trip or Trey.  I'm glad that didn't happen.  The odd thing is that they were going to call me by my middle name but decided not to, and now my nom de internet is very similar to that.

My sister's kids are all named after other members of the family, so: Mary Nobles (technically first and middle), Frances, and James III (who goes by Hughes, his middle name).

[Drygioni]

I am a III, so my only problems with my first name are the fact that a) companies confuse me with my father, b) people who didn't know my dad was Jr. call me Junior, c) There is usually no way to properly enter my name in a form, and d) Being "the third" automatically implies some elite upbringing in The Hamptons or servants or something.

No kidding, I'm a III too. Do you actually have to refer to yourself as 'the third' in forms and so forth? Is **** Jr. Jr. acceptable? Luckily, I don't sound like I have servants as my name is common among the proles. If I was Rupert the Third, that would be a different matter.

Of course, I am now going to name my son the same as myself so he can be 'the Fourth.'. It's not punishment; it's tradition!

[misterqueue]

I hate hate hate being a Jr.  I hate it more than life itself.


Wait.. that didn't come out right.  That didn't come out right at all!

[slink]

I like my first name, but I did change it myself.

We should ask what Slink thinks of this thread.

Funnily enough...
I think, much like you really. Although, occasionally I wonder what the hell...
That said, if you were to take my real first name, which I did keep, I do like that. I just hated what it was contracted into for daily use.
My mother changed her name slightly in about the late 70s (to Jodie), when no one was called that, and then everyone ended up being called it in the 90s. I've had, three or four female friends, one girlfriend and a male friend called Jodi or Jody.

Now, what of hating your surname?

[Drygioni]

Now, what of hating your surname?

Hey Slink! You probably don't know who I am.

My surname: It is the worst Scottish surname ever. Wombat will know this.

[wombat]

My surname: It is the worst Scottish surname ever. Wombat will know this.

I cannot confirm anything about Judy's real name, as the name the Judy supplied to me was clearly cleverly made-up to sound like a character in something Great British to a ridiculously over-the-top degree.  He did the same with his address, even.   

As for surnames, I have no fondness for my own, but the Technical Staff's is useful because no one can pronounce it properly when they see it written down.  Thus we always know when a stranger is calling to try to part us from our money. Along with the callers who ask for Mrs. Technical Staff and Mr. Wombat, neither of whom exist as such.

[slink]

Hey Slink! You probably don't know who I am.

My surname: It is the worst Scottish surname ever. Wombat will know this.

Howdy. I think I was around, at least in my... lurky sunset phase, for your arrival.
And so I ponder, being a Scot... Wemyss? Farquhar? No, they're great...
McDonald as it's dreadfully Scottish?

[side_show]

I've always hated my surname.  Always.  I wanted to change it when I was young but missed the chance.  Now everyone knows me by it, and I've been published under it and will soon be produced under it, so it's basically too late.  It does help because there's only four people with our surname in the entire city (the other three being my parents and sister), so if someone knows our last name, they know us.  Also, like Wombat, I enjoy knowing when a telemarketer is calling for me, because it is basicaly impossible to get the name right.

[Mite]

I'm pretty eh about my surname, and I'm pretty eh about my husband's too, so I've (so far, anyway) been too lazy to change it. However, since I'm going to start publishing relatively soon (academically anyway), it's kinda now or never as far as changing my name goes. I don't want to start to build up a reputation with one name and then switch to another.

So many forms, though...

[misterqueue]

If my Grandfather hadn't had it changed when he boated on over here, my last name would've been Schmielewski (Pronounced: Chhem-uh-less-key  with a lot of phlegmy stuff going on the front end.)  I am not sure if this is better or worse than my current surname.

[theinevitable]

man, I am so upset about my last name. I have such a boring White Guy last name. and everyone else in my family had cool last names. it was cool surnames all the way down, and then this guy marries my grandma and ruins everything.
It's a chain, like:

Munro - Blaney - (boring last name that is mine)
and on my mom's side:
Hoare (i swear to god this was it. I laughed so hard.)--Avendaņo-- Aguilera-- Barahona-- (boring last name I have now.)

I am angst(y) about it.

[slink]

man, I am so upset about my last name. I have such a boring White Guy last name.

I had the commonest surname from one whole region of the country. Probably about the second most ocmmon surname in the country... And my mother's maiden name was only a few letters off from my father's surname.

If my Grandfather hadn't had it changed when he boated on over here, my last name would've been Schmielewski (Pronounced: Chhem-uh-less-key  with a lot of phlegmy stuff going on the front end.)  I am not sure if this is better or worse than my current surname.

I often wonder whether I should have chosen a surname with a little more ethnicity to it. The one I went for gets mispronounced enough as it is. If I were you I'd so revert to Schmielewski! But I'm crazy...

[misterqueue]

I often wonder whether I should have chosen a surname with a little more ethnicity to it. The one I went for gets mispronounced enough as it is. If I were you I'd so revert to Schmielewski! But I'm crazy...

I'm seriously considering it.  Or taking on my mom's maiden name which is "Unger", but then my last name is soooo bland now it's not even funny. 

If I ever do the whole "Change my entire name" as I plan, I will finally be able to rest knowing that my tombstone/urn/unmarked ditch will not be a creeping horror of nomenclature.

[slink]

If I ever do the whole "Change my entire name" as I plan, I will finally be able to rest knowing that my tombstone/urn/unmarked ditch will not be a creeping horror of nomenclature.

It's wonderful. Particularly when away working with people with similarly interesting names, and you're not bombarded with myriad questions about it being so very strange. Small towns can be ever so frustrating.