What is your name? What about your daughter?

My name is Joel. I always liked the fact that it isn't an overly common name, but never really thought much about it otherwise.

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I really wish my mom didn't name me JasoninHalifax. It's really awkward to write out.

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It's not bad. I've never been a really eloquent speaker though so people have trouble understanding it when I say it. Nothing wrong with the name itself though. I quite like it.

Edit: oh yeah. It's Aaron.

Named after the greatest QB who ever lived - Aaron Rodgers! You are blessed!

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Who?

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Actually, it was when my parents opened the baby-name book, saw Aaron as the first name, and they both went sure, I like that.

But yeah, if it makes you feel better, it was the Aaron Rodgers story ;)

You Canadians will never understand. Go back to your fucked up "football" fields with your goal posts in the end zone.

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the jason part of your name is cool.
the rest...meh.

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I'm ok with my first name. Handed down over multiple generations. Passed my first name onto my son, but broke with family tradition and his middle name is Aaron which is what he's always gone by. My last name is truly terrible, but there isn't anything I can do about that. My wife however, chose to take my 4 letter 1 syllable last name over her 13 letter 4 syllable maiden name.

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Psst. Aaron wasn't named after Doug Flutie, the greatest QB who ever lived...

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Pronounced "Ay-ay-ron"?

I sure do because it is the BOMB! 😄

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Does that cause you any problems when you go through airport security?

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No because I use one of my many pseudo names.

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I have a great first name. Its my middle name that sucks.

be a man and do tell then.

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Yeah I like my name short easy to spell, common enough to not be odd, but rare enough that you don't meet one every day.

Ben

My mom was a bookkeeper/accountant. I often wish she just named me Chris.

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So you are ok with "just"?

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A.A. Ron Rodgers.... if you don't get it Google it

Fucker ... I was going to make him work for it

Nope, I got it. That skit kills me.

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I never did like mine. So when I went to college I changed what I am called. The other is still my legal name, but I do not use it.

Sure, its fine. Brian. Seems common but it really isn't. I don't meet to many Brians.

Everyone screws up my last name. They're all r-worded though.

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Mine is Scott. Never cared for it. I think it stems from people calling me Scotty when I was a kid. I really hated that (despite being a big original Star Trek fan). Never liked people doing the "y" or "ie" thing to the end of people's names. For that matter, I could never understand why parents would give their children names and then not use them. I am referring to naming your child William but already knowing you're going to call him Bill, or Jim for James, Liz or Beth instead of Elizabeth, etc. Why not simply name your child what you're going to call him/her? Anyway, even as a kid I would tell people who called me Scotty to not to that, that my name was Scott. That didn't work in most cases. Oh well. I think I'd better not mention my daughter's name because if she ever somehow found out, oh boy.

No. Every loser character in movies has my name.

My parents really knew names. My name is great. I have the best name. Nobody's gonna beat a name like mine.

So is it Todd or Mark?

My brother and I are the 8th and 9th kids, by the time they got to us they got tired of picking names so they just went with the most generic names they could think of.

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Yes- my name is Richard, so I can be a Dick if I choose to. :-)

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Casey - Don't really hate it, don't really like it, never thought much about it.

It does kind of suck having a uni-sex name at times.

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I'm good with mine. Only problem is that both my first and last are common as either first or last names. There are a couple people here at work who consistently call me by my last name - doesn't help that there are 3 or 4 people here for whom my last name is their first. Every now and then, when I have to give my info to someone and they ask for my last name, I tell them and they repeat the request for my last name, as if I'm such an idiot that I don't know my own name.

Could be worse - you could be Steele Johnson (U.S. Olympic diver) - I'm guessing his parents wanted him to grow up to be either a porn star or a private investigator.

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Like Bruce/Catlyn?

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No, they are strictly feminine.

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My name is Allison. I like it; not too common.

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I like mine now. It was something of a trial as a kid. It's an unusual name so it got (and continues to be) constantly misspelled and mispronounced - I like the distinctiveness now but it made me a target from time to time in my school days.

I know this world is killing you

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I'm fine with my name but I don't have a middle name and that really throws some people off. Some systems force you to enter a middle name so I'll get things with NMN as a middle name.

As a chubby kid, I hated my last name...Wideman.

I had a tall skinny friend in 3rd grade who's last name was Longsby. We took a lot of crap as a pair.

According to some movie, I have the saddest name ever. My wife reminds me of this quite regularly. I don't really care about it one way or the other.

That's funny. It was Brett just a few years ago.

Brent who?

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Little Boy?

Fat Man?

Shane?

Barack?

Usain?

Joel?

Could be worse. There is a soccer player in England and his last name is Windass.

Are you now T-Bone?

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Knew a guy in grad school whose last name was Jernikov - obviously known as "Jerkinoff". At the same time there was a woman in my group whose last name was Handwerker. I always thought they should get married and she should hyphenate her married name just for the comedy factor.

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Nope, Koko.

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My parents gave my oldest sister a nice name that was unusual at the time. 4 other parents in the same area had the same idea. The movie "Heathers" was the last straw and she decided to start using her middle name.

I have the same problem, don't know how many times I've had to re-do paperwork because someone mixed up the names. Pain in the ass but it did get me out of a hefty traffic fine once!

As for the OP, Im pretty neutral with my name, Ive always considered it a bit nerdy, but don't really care.

My name is a non-factor but it makes me laugh when my friends call me Timbo

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I hated my middle name when I was a kid but now like it a lot. It's unique and a family name. We gave my son the same middle name and he thinks it's pretty cool. I'm named after my dad and the middle name is his mom's maiden name.

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she's 23. Tell her to change it if she doesn't like it. It's a pretty simple process to legally change your name in the US.

My name is Alison - almost everyone in North America spells it with two Ls. Even when sending messages to my work email address alison.lastname@work.com "Hi Allison..." The correct spelling is right there in the To: line!

Aside from the British spelling confusing people, I like my name. Couldn't imagine being called anything else.

Funny. My son's girlfriend is named Alison (one L). My natural instinct is to use two Ls when writing her name. When I did that years ago when they first started dating, she would promptly correct me by saying "It's Alison, NOT ALL-i-son!"

She's a bitch, but that has nothing to do with her name ...

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is this the girl you referred to as zombie bait?

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BINGO! Good memory. I'm about 99% certain she will be my daughter-in-law within the next two years so I guess I need to start learning to love her ...

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Every name has its drawbacks...my last name (Brown) was a pain in the ass during middle school, bunch of idiots loved making shit jokes out of it. Middle name became a 'thing' in a movie shortly after I was born so got a lot of dumbass jokes about that but not many people knew the middle name anyway. My one real complaint is that I'm the third, and it weirdly became a hassle while I was in college because my SS card didn't have 'III' so I had to go through this whole process to verify my name, getting my birth certificate and updating my license and CC's.

All in all it's a simple name that everyone can pronounce and I sat in the front of the class whenever they were alphabetical which, being a nerd, I liked. I could've done without the shit jokes but otherwise it's solid.

I will never, ever hear your name without thinking of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw

"Where is a-aron right now?"

Key and Peele are awesome.

We told her that. My wife also told her that regardless, she and I would still call her by the name that we gave her. I doubt she'll change it. She has been softening on it over the last year or so. Her late teens were brutal though, it was almost an everyday rant.

And then she'll probably be your ex=dil in the future. My brother married someone I hated and my dad, who likes EVERYONE, even thought he shouldn't marry her. Thankfully she no longer related to us.

My name is fine, though people misspell it half the time. And now one of my best friends here has the same name so I'm Cathy with a C and she's Kathy with a K.

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My daughter's full name is Abigail Grace .... and I introduce her as Abigail but usually call her Abi Gee.

I used to do that, at least up until junior high then I got over it. My junior high and senior high were pretty multicultural, I lost the moral high ground when I couldn't spell my friend's Pakistani, Polish, Arabic, etc. names.

If people are writing down my name I tell them I'm "Alison-with-one-ell" as I know they'll misspell it.

I like her full name and the nickname very much.

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I have no middle name, my dad doesn't have one and he didn't feel like I needed one I guess.

Whats it like to have a middle name?

Fantastic! It allows me to double dip on coupon offerings.

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It allows you to know when a parent and/or significant other is really pissed at you ...

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I am good with Ray


but who the hell can remember if it's Alan, Alen, Allen, or Allan

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What do you expect when your me rhymes with a part of the female anatomy?

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Dolores!

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having a surname "Truelove" can be a burden, but I have lots of cousins. Still gets comments when showing I.D.

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I am also Aaron, though I go by my middle name. Some

The problem I have with Aaron is that we get more butt dials and erroneous emails ccs than anyone else

It's a family name. I am very happy that I got this "oldie, but goodie" instead of Gertrude. Being called Gertie for short, would have been insufferable as a child. Trudy is not so bad, but I'll take what I was given and keep it.

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At least you don't have it as bad as this poor bastard.

Or Alynn, Alyn, Alynne if you're a girl.

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I have been called Bridgett, Gertrude and Gretchen, all of which are not even close to my name. It too is an old one.

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You are a wise man and you are absolutely correct. That's why acknowledge the need to start learning to love her ... or at least fake it well ...

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Quick question on being a "III."
I know about a half dozen 3rd's including my brother and they all hate being the 3rd aand pretty much exclude it whenever possibly. Now on the other hand I know a few "IV" and they all love it and include it in everything even the dumbest things, this includes my nephew.

Did you like being the "III?"

I never really liked my last name, and didn't go well with my first name. Partly due to the fact that I never was really that close with my stepfather anyhow. Legally changed my last name to my mother's maiden name and to the side of the family that I was always closer to anyhow. Now it's much better, and has a little alliteration to it. Never changed it back to my biological father's last name, because I wouldn't know him if he walked past my house. And, I changed my username here, and I like that better too. Better all the way round for me. I think it really kindled a change in my life by legally changing my last name.

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Gnothi Seauton.

I like that it's a tie to my pops and grandfather, I dislike that it's caused me some unnecessary red tape and sorting out documents to get 'III' recognized on government paperwork. I also kinda dislike the pressure--real or imagined--to the 'tradition' of carrying on the name to a future son, I honestly don't want a IV (and I really dislike the middle name, which is the main reason for not wanting to pass it down another generation) but I think being a 'III' adds a little bit of that pressure.

Also, there's the issue of multiple people in the same family with the same name, so while my dad has always been Ray I've been stuck with Raymond among family members, and I much prefer Ray. As I said in my first post it's a minor gripe and every name comes with their own drawbacks but if I had a choice I'd probably not be a 'III'. Though i dodged some bullets--i.e. not being named after my maternal grandfather (James Brown...would've been awkward as a pasty white Irish kid).

He's the fifth greatest Packer QB of all time, right behind Favre, Starr, Dickey, and Randy Wright.

Hutterites have it right...

Dan
Dave
Chris
Paul
Gideon
James
John
Andy
Mike
Sam

Which in turns into Chris the mechanic, Chris the welder, Danny hogbarn, Andy the gardener, Andy the machinist, Gideon combines...

Well I think get the idea - the person becomes related to the job they do rather than the name they have.

Well I just received an email from the university where my law school is located. It was from the new Vice President of University Relations asking for donations to the university. His name is Richard P. Virgin. Yep, that's right, Dick Virgin.

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My father has a copy of this book that always made me laugh as a kid (still laugh when I see it when I go home). Though apparently Richard Bong was a badass.

One of my favorite places to camp and yes, this is the real sign. At the start of WWII, the federal government bought a huge parcel of land in south-central Wisconsin. The plans were to turn it into the world's largest air base. It would have dwarfed the current Air Force bases in the U.S. It got delayed, then funding was diverted. So, the land was turned into a recreational area and wildlife preserve named after Richard Bong. This sign in on I-94 near the WI/IL border and, growing up, used to make me crack up.

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Yup yup. Grew up in Madison and have driven past (and recreated at, though only with alcohol) said area many times. Good stuff.

Funny. I didn't really think about it until re reading this thread, but I have to spell my name for everybody. It's become, "Aaron, (pause,) a a r o n." It's been spelled Erin and Arron more times than I can count.

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Exactly. You'd think people would know how to spell it.

Is it Aaron, or A-A Ron?

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