Do you have any issues with your first name? Maybe your parents adorned you with a weird one and it caused you a lot of trouble throughout the years?
Or maybe some pop culture character ruined your name – ‘Luke, I am your father” or whatever?
Or maybe people are just annoying about your name no matter what it is.
Twitter users sounded off about the problems they have with their names. Let’s see what they had to say.
1. What did I just say?
What's the biggest problem you have with your name?
My biggest problem?
Me: "Hi, I'm Marcus. Nice to meet you."
Business people: "Hi, Marcus. Do you go by Mark?"
Me: "No. If I did then don't you think I'd introduce myself as that?"
— Marcus Vance 🗡 (@MarcusCVance) January 9, 2020
2. Just “Beth”.
Me: “My name is Beth.”
Then: “Short for Elizabeth?”
Me: “No.”
Them: “So short for …”
Me: “Beth.”— Beth Vrabel: 🌻📚🗞 TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH (@beth_vrabel) January 11, 2020
3. Oh, Karen…
Nothing, until someone thought it was really clever to use it as a stand-in for every annoying-out-of-touch-racist-middle-aged-white-woman-who’d-like-to-speak-with-your-manager, and it caught on. pic.twitter.com/uCCupnCjZA
— Karen Walrond (@Chookooloonks) January 10, 2020
4. Just call me by my name.
“Hi, I’m Antje.”
“Yeah, I won’t even try to pronounce that. How do I call you?”
“You call me Antje.”
“No, seriously, if we have to work together, I need to call you something.”
“Yeah. Antje.”— Antje (@amiasmatics) January 10, 2020
5. You’re in my country.
White people telling me my name is “difficult” no matter where I am in the world https://t.co/N2Pe3dcajC
— Wagatwe Wanjuki ?? ?? (@wagatwe) January 11, 2020
6. “Women should have shorter, friendlier names.”
Same.
“Do you prefer Vicki or Tory or just Vic?”
“I prefer my name, which is the one I told you–Victoria.”
“That’s too long. Women should have shorter, friendlier names. Victoria is too https://t.co/6ULLPq7S1A‘s off-putting.”— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) January 10, 2020
7. I get it!
I mean my name is literally the funny bone https://t.co/xHW4dgldJO
— Hugh Morris (@hwfmorris) January 12, 2020
8. Cathy with a “C”.
Going through life “Cathy with a C”.. once registered for a conference by phone – said “Cathy with a C”.. got to conference..all my paperwork and badge were for Kathy Withacee
— Cathy A. Salazar (@LvlyWords) January 10, 2020
9. Clearly not a man.
Me: Hi, I’m Alex.
Everyone: Oh … I thought you’d be a man. https://t.co/OdjuRLSvY5
— Alex Stuckey ? (@alexdstuckey) January 13, 2020
10. Growing old with this one.
Me – My name is Miriam.
Person – That sounds like an old lady’s name.
Me – I’m growing into it.
— MimZWay (@MimZWay) January 10, 2020
11. Pretty infuriating.
Feel this. James, not Jim… but there are those who refuse to say James, “can I call you Jim?” “I go by James” “ ok Jim” guess I’m Jim in this conversation, perhaps I should make up a name for them… ?
— James Petrillo (@petrillo_author) January 9, 2020
12. That took a while.
“What’s your name?”
Dee.
“Dean? Hi Dean.”
Dee.
“Deena.”
No, Dee.
“Deanna.”
Just Dee.
“Dana.”
There’s no N.
“Dia.”
Dee.
“I don’t know what you’re saying.”
What comes after C?
“D?”
Yes!
“Your name is just one letter?”
With two E’s.
“Oh, Edie!”— Dee Hanson (@DeeHansonTweets) January 9, 2020
13. This is good.
Everyone used to ask me what Clyde was ‘short for’. Eventually after many refutations I relented and said ‘Clyde-O’Scope’. So my nickname became Scope, which made me sound like Byron’s rakish mate, Scrope Davies.
— Clyde ‘Scope’ Davies (@deadlyvices) January 10, 2020
14. A tough one.
“Can I have your name?’
“Yeah, it’s Miguel.” pic.twitter.com/NIpMV0Rylp— MDragmire (@MDragmire) January 10, 2020
15. He’s actually my dad.
“Hi, I’m Chesney.”
“Are you related to Kenny Chesney?!”
Yes, this has happened WAY too many times. No, I’m not joking.— Chesney Infalt (@ChesneyInfalt) January 9, 2020
Those are pretty interesting, I think?
Do you ever have annoying situations that arise because of your name?
Tell us all about it in the comments!