Is your name uncommon? - If so, has it given you problems?

[Lycalopex]

I've met people with the same pronunciation, but not the same spelling.

The most trouble it's ever given me is people not knowing how to pronounce it, or idiots misspelling it on my mail because they can't fucking read.

 

[Divine right to rule]

No, but I have 12 forenames. Just catholic things.

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

Someone said my name was the name of a protagonist of a novel.

 

[Starscream's Loyalty]

I don't think so. It's more of an irony name. The charcter has no loyalty really, and if he did, the very last place it would be at is the Farms due to how forbidden/impossible to understand the site is to outsiders. It's not, but whatever. Semi-layered meaning.

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

It's rather common, but I've never met another person with it

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

My name is uncommon for my generation, everyone else I've met with the name has been an old lady. People have looked at me funny when I introduce myself and it's a grandma-ass name. I do really like my name, but I'm amazed how much trouble it gives people. I often get called by a very similar and more common name, or any number of things starting with the same letter.

My nickname that I used up until high school would get me called all sorts of random shit and still causes problems to this day. No one can both say and spell it correctly. My doctor's office has the nickname on file and they pronounce it wrong every time I visit, and every time I'm there I ask them to remove the nickname.
I had to sit my family down and explain to them that I haven't used that nickname in 15 years, so if they come in to my workplace asking for me by that name they're gonna sound nuts.

 

[Brenda Holiday]

It was uncommon and everyone misspelled it until recently it has become super popular and now its just an ordinary name.

What I don't get is naming your child one of the most popular names of all time, lets say Ashley, but still wanting to be unique so you spell it for example Ashleigh. Its still one of the most popular names of all time and not unique and now your daughter is going to have to spell it for others for the rest of her life. What, did you think your daughter was going to introduce herself as "Ashley with a leigh" and people would think "wow, that's so unique..." I don't understand the thought process here.

 

[Chromeo]

I have a name that a troon would make up, except it's my actual name. I hate it when faggots named John or whatever go their whole childhood with their names easily pronounced, not mocked, printed on all kinds of souvenirs and keychains and pencils, then decide in their mid-20s they want MY fucking name. Talk about stolen valor.

 

[QuiteGuy]

Don't worry Muhammad, you're not alone!

 

[Wild at Heart]

Yeah, its pretty rare. I like it. Only met a few other people with the same name as me, and it made me not like them. One or two of them were actually assholes, but I can't imagine what having a common name does to your psyche. It means there is a common database for what values and meaning your name holds, and those are subconsciously fed into your mind before you are old enough to realize it.

People do say my name perfectly suits me, which I have no way to react to because its more of a third-person thing to appreciate. My advice is to name your kid something unique and not idiotic. Look back 100 years to common names, or name them after a historical figure. In my experience it gave me a blank slate to work from.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I have a very common name, one I’m not particularly fond of, but it’s not an unusual name. I tend to go by my middle name more than my first name anyway.

 

[ZsaZsaBinks]

Both my first name and my last name are uncommon.

Spoiler: Powerlevel

So uncommon, that I had to remove myself from the dark web because I was the only person with it in my whole country.

 

[Dysnomia]

My name's slightly unusual but at least it's a real name. The only trouble it gives me is that it's normally misspelled by other people, or I'm called by another name altogether.

This is my exact problem. I have given up correcting people. Same with my last name that is easily mistaken for Spanish then people think I speak Spanish. I don't.

 

[MrTroll]

I've always been proud to be a Gaylord.

 

[Bull Kike]

My parents wanted their kids to have unique names, so they gave me what they thought was an uncommon name. It wasn't until I went to Elementary School and had like three other classmates with the exact same name as me that they realized it wasn't.

 

[Pruto]

I have an extremely common name, which I fucking hate, would've preferred my parents trolled me with a weird nigger name rather than the one I got.

 

[Travis Touchdown (REAL)]

I've yet to meet another african male named Travis Touchdown (REAL)

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Mine is weird, but it gets mistaken for other names all the time.

Still havent found a Sonic OC with it so that's nice

 

[Peanut Butter in Peril]

My name is a common one, the first one at least and I don't know how common the last one is. I don't really care for it, its main use is for more official things. I've probably mentioned it before but my name also makes beaner types assume I fluently speak Spanish. I don't, fuck off we speak English here.

If it's not something important I usually go by my long standing nickname. It's basically my true name, so much so I'm visibly repulsed to hear my family and close friends actually use my real name over it.

 

[Silver Higgs]

My name derives from an old Celtic name and theres two forms that you can write, mine is the closest to the original but every fucking spellchecker corrects to the other form that's not closer to the original Celtic one. It's not Fucking fair man. Met a couple people that shares my name but mine is the only one that is written closer to the original one.