This troper is the Aerith of his group of friends. There's Luke, Geroge, Ryan, Alex, and me...Kemys

Sometimes, this Troper gets the feeling her aunt and uncle just never wanted a girl. In birth order, her cousins' names are Prometheus, Bartholomew, Amadeus (yes, after Mozart) and...Shelly.

This Troper's Mother was quite insistant on giving her child the Irish equivalent of Rosie which is Roisin, and this girl later ended up in a class full of people with fairly normal names. Registration was always a CMOFwith confused teachers calling out a variety of pronunciations such as 'Roysin' and even 'Raisin'!

This tropette and her brothers are Phoenix, Sphinx and Gryphon. With friends with names like Mel, Hannah and Jason, we stick out a bit.

This troper and his sisters are named (in order from most to least common) David (5th most popular name in the year he was born), Heather (number 8), Brooke (number 92), and Laurel (Number 542). Granted, Heather made top ten (for her year) but it was virtually unheard of not long before that. Laurel still is virtually unheard of. However, David has been one of the top ten names for over a century.

This troperette plays in an RP that had a yaoi couple named Josh and Lureschone. My character was a YaoiFangirl. Do the math.

This Troper's best friend has two brothers and a sister. The boys have really common names, but the parents decided to name their daughter Glenda. I have never met another teenage girl named Glenda, although all of the boys shared their names with several others in their class at school.

This troper's given names come from Gaelic. Seven of her four siblings' eight names between them are Hebrew in origin, and the eighth is Greek in origin, a slight variation on their mother's name, and belongs to the child who shares her birthday.

T.T. goes to a US college with a Korean sister school, and we have a lot of Korean exchange students. They are remarkably tolerant of the constant name-butchering from people who have never had to wrap their tongues around anything more complex than "William."

This troper's ex had cousins named 'Phil', 'Alex', and 'Keena.'

This troper's real name is Shekinah. Brother? Dustin. Granted he's adopted...

This troper used to learn in a (German) school full of emigrants, so her classmates' names ranged from 'Isabel', 'Clara' and 'Max' to 'Nadjezhda', 'Ladta', 'Nga' and 'Pascale'. Heck, this troper had a friend whose name was 'Ivanna Wu Luba' - I guess that none of it sounds normal in English, but Luba is practically the most eccentric Russian name, and Ivanna is obviously Russian as well. The 'Wu' part is Chinese.

Kind of subverted since my first name is Marcin (Martin) and my second is Ezekiel. I still think this should be my first name :D

This troper managed to escape this foul destiny thanks to her father. Her mother had decided that she wanted a Middle Ages name and was ready to call her Gondomar, like a character from a chivalry novel. Against names as Eva (Eve), Antonio (Anthony) and David, that would have surely hit the "Aerith" part. Fortunately, her father was able to convince this troper's mother to call her a variation of her mother's name that was far more common.

This troper just started a new job. His coworkers' names are Akari and Bob. Close enough? He's also from Hawaii, where polysyllabic names are commonplace. For instance, this week's winners of the Aerith Prize are... Madison Keli'ikuniaupunia'oemma Mera Pacarro for sheer length, and Scyralin Scottlynn Rydasha Butay for inventiveness. Claiming the Bob Prize is Ria Aimi Pena.

This troper is friends with people with names like Jessica, Alex, Kevin, y'know, all the "normal" names. Then there's his friend Ramezees. Yes, named after ''that'' Ramezees, and has the god complex to match!

This troper's name isn't bad in itself, it's the spelling that's bothersome 'Rebekah' while her sister is 'Jacqueline' (also a funny spelling but far more common after Jacqueline Kennedy) and her brother is 'Nicholas'. Of course...our Mother wanted to name me 'Cassondra' so what I got is better in the long run, kind of.

This troper and her brother both have obscure Irish Gaelic names, this troper's name is Tailltiu pronounced talltee, and that's odd in a class with 3 people named Alex, 2 people named Lauren and 2 people named Matthew ,and also faces the constant problem of people mis spelling or mispronouncing her name.

This troper dodged a bullet. His father wanted to name him Lineker. Yeap, after Gary Lineker. What did he get? Ashley. Which is a boy's name too, I'll have you know. He was named for the character from GoneWithTheWind, which is a source of embarrassment. Had he been a girl, he'd have had Jody.

Same troper's ex dodged an even ''bigger'' bullet. Named Abbey, other possible names were Blodwen (she's Welsh, which doesn't really excuse the fact that that name has about as much ring to it as a rotten blancmange) and Shadow.

This troper's name is Kate,one of most common names in her country next to Ann.But Her sister's name is Roxanne,which is well...less common.Well,in eastern-european countries names are serious business.Her friend Samuel had rough time during primary school.Bonus points if you survive without a breakdown untill highschool,then your very unusual name suddenly becomes very cool

This troper and her brother both have Gaelic names. This troper's name is Deirdre while her brother's name is Seamus. At school, during role call on the first day or whenever we had a substitute, hilarity ensued. At dinner one night with her family, her mother (named Eden), brother and herself were all laughing and joking about the different names they were called by mistake. Then her dad (named Jim) said, "Boy, and to think, the worst I've been mistaken for is 'Tim'"

My cousins are named Alex and Dakota. No, Dakota is not a family name, and we don't have any connection to the states or anything like that. Also, they're both boys.

Me and my friends. Brittany, Katilyn, Olivia, Michelle, and..... Cammi. Guess which one I am.

This troper's named after a constellation. Her sister's named after an obscure character in classical Greek mythology. My first middle name is an old, German family name; my other middle name is my Cheyenne name. My sister's middle names are an old Gaelic family name and her Cheyenne name. This troper's mother is named Karma, with the same dual helping of German/Cheyenne middle names. Her brother? Oh, he's Nick.

This happens all the time at this troper's schools. She's an expat, and bounces to a new international school in a new country every two years. The mixing of names is always epic. Nikolas and Risa and Samantha and She'walay, all in the same classroom.

Well, I'm a variation. My younger sisters are named Emma and Sarah. My cousins are named Lachlan, Renee, Scott, and Jake. Perfectly normal. But me? I get a screwed up name out of a David Eddings book. And his books are ''fantasy,'' which makes it worse.

My friend Winona has a brother named Jed... and a sister named Hanukkah. There is also a boy in my class whose name is Tom, and his brother's name is Steele.

My name is Hana, which means 'flower' (it also means 'nose' but that probably wasn't intentional). My twin sister's name: Emily. So its Emily and Hana.

However, it's also a bit of a subversion as her mom has stated that the name, derived from 'Emiri', means 'pretty as a picture'.

Hana is also an alternative (and closest to the original Hebrew) spelling of "Hannah", so it might be a case of either "Aerith and Aerith" or "Bob and Bob".

My little sister's name is Hana, and our mother got it from her African doctor's last name so it wasn't plain next to yours truly's moniker. Yes, our mother narrowly subverted this trope.

Common when a school gets exchange students. In this troper's senior year, the exchange students were: Alice, Mary, and Do-Gyun.

I'm an American of Indian heritage who grew up in a predominantly Irish Catholic or WASP Boston suburb. All of my friends had traditional Western names and Irish or English surnames. I was the odd one out. All the teachers mangled my name and I particularly stood out in early grade school, where being different was evil. College was the opposite, though.

My cousin has three kids and she likes unusual names, but one of her kids is the odd one out. Her kids are Rahel (pronounced Ray-El), Vegas (named after exactly what you think) and... Shawn. Shawn is just so normal compared to the other two. This trope would have been subverted had Shawn been a girl, as his name would have been Imara.

Firefly Imara?

This Troper went to the same highschool with the Oregon highschool tennis player Demetrius Fang. Demetrius is most used by African Americans and Latins, and he is the only Chinese I know with that name. Another classmate is named {{Moe}}ko. Yeah, I don't know whether her parents intended.

Most of my friends have very common names, but there is one notable exception among the crowd. Because of this person, my list of friends includes: Ryan, Kyle, Grant, Matt, Alex, and ''Nyssa'', which is (according to TheOtherWiki) Greek for "beginning", Latin for "end", Arabic for "woman", Hebrew for "sign", and Scandinavian for "a friendly elf or fairy".

My one sister is named "Jana", a name no one in America can seem to pronounce correctly. It's Jan-uh, but she's gotten everything from "John-uh" to "Yan-nah". We also have an extremely odd last name, and my sister used to joke that if anyone called for her and couldn't pronounce her name, don't take the call, it must be a creditor.

This troper's cousins: Rachel, Heather, Gilgamesh and Ray-Ray.

Some of the people in this troper's group of artsy-friends are Jess, Katie, Sarah, Morgan, Becca... then Nirvana, Spike, Zara and Tamra.

In this troper's family, his grandparents had Spanish first names. His mother and her siblings all had Italian first names. This troper's name? Greek. Never mind the fact that this troper is Filipino.

The "generation" of my family are named James, Franklin, Catherine, and Timothy. I, on the other hand, got a name much later used for a certain blue fish in a Pixar movie. At least a much larger percentage of the population spell it right and it is a family name, so it isn't all that bad.

This troper literally once wrote a story starring three characters, an unnamed first person narrator, Aeris, and Bob. This was to differentiate between the two, as Bob was more down to earth and Aeris was part of some mystical order looking for a chosen one.

This troper's old class. A Hannah, two Jades, two Brionys, a Laura, a Christina and... a Cameo and a Champagne?

This Troper's maternal family -lives- on this trope, when we decide not to reuse old family names. Among my cousins, I have a Blodwyn, a Yidr, a Romana, an Olaf (we're Welsh), a Sabella, a Mygghan, a Lexington, a Meredith, two Fletchers (though that is a family name), an Ace, and a Kal-El. Me? I was named after a European country, and only because my dad pulled veto power on my mother's original choice of "Arwen".

Hold up...''Kal-El''!? Are you by any chance related to Nicholas Cage?

Not so much a first name case, but my family name is Missimer. Go ahead, try and say it, odds are you won't be able to pronouce it correctly the first time.

This troper and her three friends. Her name is Kaya and her closest friend's name is Kika. Her other two friends' names? Xena and Fara. Okay, maybe Fara isn't that odd, but Xena?

{{AnneBeeche}}: My mother has the plain Katarzyna (Polish derivative of Catherine) as her given name, while my uncle, her brother, has the old-fashioned Polish names Jaroslaw Miroslaw. Both are still common names in Poland, but it's still a case of AerithAndBob within the family.

This troper sits next to two guys in his English class. Bob....and Chibuzo (He's from Nigeria).

I am a very odd case... My birth name is Elwyn (its Celtic), and although I love that name dearly, I decided to change it in highschool to Zane (which is almost as strange sounding). Elwyn always sounds too feminine to me and everyone who hears it... My love of emoticons doesn't help this when I'm proud enough to use my birth name online... TT_TT

This Troper is in the midst of writing a story. Of the character names he has: twins Satcheldies and Echo, their sister Olivia, their mother Kennedy, and father Tycho. Tesla (also the StoicWoobie) and Nikolai. D'Arcy (bonus points for MissingMom), her girlfriend Gertrude, and...D'Arcy and Gertrude's (neither of them know) Punk dad Matt. He gives it a handwave by setting it TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.

This troper's friends include people named Allan, James, Ana, Mac, Stephen, Mike, Bart, Lara, Patrick, Mikki, Addy, Rurick, Seva, Cashews, Chewey, Hyuii, Koji, Viel (Vi-YEL) and Ysah (EE-sah).

This Troper has had trouble with players in games wanting to name their characters mundane things when she and the other players have named everything odd fantasy-names. The only one where she actually accepted this kind of thing was the World of Darkness game. The names: Jack, Arianne, Chiyoko, Ira, Justin, and John.

In this troper's homeroom, there's a Richard, Ian, Kayla, Lindsay, Jake, Sami, Coty, Liz, Jessica, Rachel, Ethan, Dillon, Brittany, Courtney, Kelly, two Ashley's...And a Rory, Emylynn, and Burgundy.

My name: Tara. My boyfriend's name: Mark. My best friend's name: Madison. My other best friend's name: ''Siyany''. Parental justification: "It sounded cool."

My three friends names are Jane, Zoe, and Kaylee, whose parents wanted something unique. Unfortunately, my name is not Inara, or River, which would have made things more hilarious.

My sisters names are Jolly (supposed to be named after actress Julie Andrews, but..., Lila, and Hala. This troper's name is Zeynab. The last two are somewhat justified, since my family is Lebanese, but Zeynab is still an odd way of spelling it, and Hala is somewhat uncommon, as far as I know. The only one with the completely Western name (Jolly) is the only one of us to actually be born in Lebanon.

This Troper's mother named him and his brother unpopular names ''on purpose'', her reasoning was that she doesn't like following fads, and wanted us to stand out. This Troper is Zachary, his brother is Joshua. Neither of us have met more than 4 people with the same name, so it must have worked out. As if having Asperger's Syndrome didn't make us both stand out enough.

Double subverted(?) with this tropette, Abigail. The year I was born, my name was barely in the top 100. Look now, and it has been in the top 10 for the past couple years.

The Chinese students at my college choose more Western sounding names so we don't have to mangle their own names. Most of them have normal names like Richard, but some of them pick something a little different ie. Kimi, Heidi and Apple.

This overheard conversation always cracks this troper up: #QUOTE# Student: Wow, Saoirse. What a strange name. Is it ethnic? #QUOTE# Saoirse: Yeah, it's Irish. #QUOTE# Student: Cool! Are your parents from Ireland? #QUOTE# Saoirse: Yes. #QUOTE# Student: Do they have cool names too? What are their names? #QUOTE# Saoirse: Kathy and Patrick.

I have a friend named Amarah. My name? John.

This troper suffers from this, there's Trisha, Maddie, Lindsey, and... Relin.

I have this problem in my family. My name is Monae (female), my mother is Afeni, after the slain rapper's mother, my grandmother's is Patsy, and my older brother? He's Anthony.