My friend got mocked for years in middle school and high school, because her first name is Rain. People are very immature.

People always seem to like my name..I mean it's all pretty and of course it's awesome being named after a greek demi-god, but when you have a silent H in your name, being called CHA-ris repeatedly (should be ca-ris) is almost as annoying as being called chairs, or chris. I just go by Caz now.

This Troper's first name is Martha and she ''HATES'' it. I usually go by Marti... Which gets me mistaken for guys all the time over the phone. :/ But I was going to be named Carol Carolyn Carroll if my mother hadn't intervened...

This troper knows someone in real life who goes by "Waffle." Given that she's a 7channer, this makes some sense. She also has more balls than anyone else I know. Her real name is Susanna.

I demand to know what's so embarrassing about this name. ''I've'' never encountered any problems with it... except for that 'Oh Susanna' song, but that only happened a few...ten...twenty... and err... okay, I'll just stop now.

it's mostly because the name ''really'' doesn't fit her personality. I don't know, really. I'd have to ask her.

This troper met a guy named Lance. Lance, as much of his friends learned, was his middle name. Real name? Dorcey (pronounced Door-see but the spelling lent to the more popular "Dorky" pronunciation). It didn't help that this came out in a Comedy Club meeting.

I used to absolutely dispise my first name when I was younger, but I've grown the really love it as I've gotten older. ... So psuedo-inversion? (The name is question is Nova. Although, it does get a little annoying when people tend to think your real name is a nickname. Or when it's CONSTANTLY misspelled as Nora.)

In high school, when learning the "lingo" surrounding prostitution, I got some flak for being a "john" (the client, if you're unfamiliar)

This troper's first name is Sebastian. I spent most of primary school being reminded that is was the same as the crab from Disney's TheLittleMermaid. I never got a real nickname, despite this (unless you count "Seb" or the less pleasant "Se''bastard''").

Sebastian can be shortened to the very cool Bastian (Bastion). In high school, this troper knew a guy named Sebastian who insisted on being called Sea-bass. His wacky sense of humor made him very popular.

This troper had a physics teacher who refused to reveal his first name. The way our timetables were printed gave us only his first initial - S - and the class started placing bets on what the name actually was, with some ''very'' embarrassing options becoming popular choices. We were all quite disappointed when it turned out to be Steve.

Similarly, this troper's AP Euro teacher is a big, hardy former farmer who coaches a basketball team. His name is Stacy.

This troper's English class was disappointed to find out, after months of speculation, that Mr. R. Sharpe's first name was Richard, not Razor.

This troper's cousin, Chris, has a friend everyone calls Newman, which is his middle name. His first is Christine, and people can't call him Chris because of this troper's cousin.

Are you sure he doesn't ever say Hello Newman?

Everybody calls this troper's father by his second name. His first name isn't really embarrassing, he just prefers his second name.

This troper's first name is Raymond. Now, he dares you to associate him with Ray Romano. On the other hand, the katakana for his shortened first name, レイ (rei), has a nice ring to it.

Sometimes, your First Name doesn't have to embarrassing until you say it with your last name. It's not really EMBARRASSING, per say, but accompanying my last name, it just doesn't sound... ''right''... it doesn't roll off the tongue. I guess Nathan is no good with ANY double syllable last name.

I can attest to the same problem, Nathan doesn't work with double syllable last names, I always feel weird saying my name. Though on the other hand, I consider my middle name to be embarassing too..., but overall, Nathan Niles Olney just sounds straight up awful. Plus nobody ever pronounces my last name right. Ever.

Similarly, Cole doesn't work with ANY two-syllable surname. It needs at least three, unfortunately for me.

This one's not totally embarrassing; just unique. This troper's full first name is Earl Andrew. In this troper's country of origin (Philippines), Earl isn't a common name so people would always keep repeating "Earl" as if they had to get something off their tongues / giggle at how "foreign" it sounded. Coincidentally, this troper's nickname is made up of the initials, "EA." Figure out what people shouted upon hearing that one.

This troper's brother's name is Brook, which used to be a popular boys name, until the popularity of the female version Brooke - made popular by Brooke Shields - made it obscure. Now whenever I mention him people assume I have a sister, and whenever he introduces himself for any sort of documentation he has to clarify that there's no e.

Same with this troper's father. This has led people to assume my parents are lesbians (NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat), that my mother's name (Patrice) next to his on mail is a misspelling of Patrick, as well as to uncountable iterations of the same conversation with telemarketers:

Telemarketer: Is Brook ***** in?

Me: No.

Telemarketer: When will she be back?

Me: ...Never. *hangs up*

Oddly enough he finds his comparatively normal middle name (Devon) to be more embarrassing, and in fact lied about it to my mother for years.

Syphilis (pronounced "S'Phillis) and Female (Feh-mall-ee). This tropers wife met the mothers of these young ladies while working for for family services in an area of Missouri known as the "Lead Belt". I would draw a connection there, but that's probably not politically correct.

Whoa, they're not urban myths? :o

This one probably is, but it's too funny to pass up: Asshole. Pronounced "Ah-Sho-lee".

All false: http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp

This troper went to school with the son of a Mr and Mrs Pipe, who for some godforsaken reason decided to call him Dwayne.

This troper's name isn't exactly embarrassing, but too common. Take one of the most popular girl names in the country, and two of the most popular surnames, and gotcha! Lots of girls with the exact same name. Unfortunately, her aunts got into an even worse issue, since they don't have middle names (no, they aren't Asian, it's just that gramps forgot... Every single time).

This troper almost had either "Reinhart" or "Sterling" as his first name (his mother is a strange person...) He was eventually given the first name of Colin. The name itself isn't embarrassing, but the source could be: he was named after Colin Chapman, the founder of Lotus Motors (he likes lotuses, so he's actually fine with that.) Guess why "Sterling" was on the list of possible names...

This troper has a first name that, when revealed to people they will either A) Quote/sing the song it came from (which is, yes, what my mother named me after) or B) Tell me it's a yeast infection. Yay. (The name in question is "Candida" by the way.) This is also assuming people can even ''pronounce'' it, although my favorite variation is being called Canada Dry by my shop teacher after too many failed attempts to call me by my real name.

A senior who helped teach my freshman year gym class was always referred to as Mack. This troper found out it was short for Mackenzie (a fact Mack kept under wraps because it's unanimously a girl's name in these parts). When this troper's friends were giggling about it, Mack walks into the room and a boy who didn't understand what was going on asks Mack, "Who's name is Mackenzie? They're talking about a Mackenzie. Who is she?"

This troper has a friend whose first name is biblical and so obscure I never remember it, and everybody calls that person Fluffy. Including his parents.

Is he terrible, perchance?

This troper's name is Jedidiah. Biblical, obscure, and prone to jokes about TheBeverlyHillbillies.

This troper despises her first name, Alexandria. She goes by Ally exclusively. It's not that she thinks it's an ''ugly'' name--in fact, everyone tells her "but it's so pretty!"--she just thinks it's too fancy, and doesn't suit her at all. And don't even THINK about calling her "Alex."

This troper's name is Alexandra, and doesn't like it for the exact same reasons you do. However, I prefer being called Alex, and got a little mad when one of her science teachers decided to start calling her "Allie" for no reason. He managed to confuse the rest of the class with it too...

This troper's first name is awfully difficult, both to write (if you hear it said out loud) and to say out loud (if you see it written down). Her parents named her after... a music group. Plus, she's Spanish, so she has no middle name (but she's got a second surname to compensate) -- most of the time, she goes by her initial.

This troper, having gone through life thinking her name was Caley, as do all the family, as that's what her parents call her, has found out that on her birth certificate First name - ''Caledonia''.

This Troper's Aunt "Helen" died some time ago. I recently learned that Helen was her middle name, her real name was Stephania.

Just gotta say, that's a '''brilliant''' name! I love it!

This troper knows a boy named Starlit. And a girl named Moonlight. The latter has it a bit better off, though.

This Tropette's friend goes by Claire. It's her middle name, her first name is Julia. She squirms if you even say "Julia" near her. It's the weirdest thing.

This troper knows two sisters; one of them is named Moonriver, and the other Novastar. I think they have another sister too, but I can't recall her name.

Lysergic isn't really a good name though.

It is if your middle name is Acid and your last name is Diethylamide.

This troper used to know a girl named Michael. Needless to say, she preferred to be called Michelle.

Could've been my sister. She grew to accept it though.

One of this troper's college professors always used her middle name -- if she was being formal, first initial and middle name. Then, end of semester, the course evaluation forms came around. The college computer system apparently couldn't deal with just an initial at the beginning, it printed the forms with her full legal name. "Cornelia" really didn't fit her ....

This troper's name invites far too many references to a certain Disney princess. I don't feel the need to go by a nickname or anything, but I am NOT a little mermaid!

You're lucky. This troper's name invites too many references to a less desirable princess...Fiona from Shrek. I used to go by my middle name (Elizabeth) for a while, but thankfully the teasing has died down. Mostly.

This troper's parents cut to the chase and just named her Princess. Behold my ignoble victory and don't you dare click on that Page History button.

You're lucky. Here, Ariel is this.

This troper's mom is a teacher, and had a student named Twuu Love. Seriously. I have no idea if the kid got teased, but every time his name comes up, jokes about ThePrincessBride ensue.

This troper had a Japanese exchange student in his Japanese class. Umm, yeah. Anyway, for the longest time, he thought her name was Yuki, which is a common girl's name. Eventually he was corrected - her name was Yu''u''ki, which is a common ''boy's'' name. The trope was subverted by the fact that Yuuki actually liked her name (it helps that it means "free spirited" which is appropriate)... and then ''double'' subverted by the fact that her ''real'' name was ''Thireena'', which she ''was'' embarrassed by.

This troper has a friend who knows a guy named Genocide. Poor guy.

This troper has been unable to convince her cousin that Colby Oberon is a poor name for a child. Particularity when he reaches high school and his peers all learn that Oberon is the name of the King of the Fairies. Her other two children, Devon Blair and Quincy Gideon are only slightly better off.

This troper knew a kid in high school whose Satanist father and Protestant mother had compromised and named him Lucifer Christian.

How is that even ''accomplished?'' (The relationship that produced the poor soul, not the name.)

It's not ''that'' hard to imagine. All the original troper mentioned was the religions of the two; assuming neither of the two act like a {{Jerkass}} over the other one's religion it would be like any other relationship.

This troper's brother is named Willie. Just Willie. Needless to say, after a certain movie about a whale came out, kids were quick to make jokes.

A classmate of this troper has a name which joins the names of his mother and his two brothers. Another prefers to be called by her middle name, because she considers her first, Maria, to be a "maid's name".

This Israeli troper's friend is named "Nimrod", which is a perfectly normal (biblical) name here in Israel. Unfortunately for Nimrod, his family moved to America for a few years when he was a kid. He didn't like it.

This troper had a particularly mean homeroom teacher that nobody really liked and had been nicknamed 'daughter of Satan' and 'hellwoman'. One day she let slip that her first name was Dolores. More than two-thirds of the class were HarryPotter fans. The news spread and now we have the reputation of being 'Umbridge's Class.'

This troper's grandfather's first name is Cornelius and he goes by Joe. He grew up down the street from ''another'' Cornelius who went as Joe.

This troper's family friends all go by their middle names. Neither of the first names are embarrassing (Except maybe Everett.))

If my mother hadn't already apologized a dozen times for it, I would be shouting my head off at her for this one.... My name is apparently a boy's name in Jamaica (where my mother comes from), as well as east of the Atlantic. Unfortunately, in North America, Courtney is a girl's name.

Subversion with this troper. While I'm fine with Andrew, I prefer to be called Drew and was only named Andrew since my parents found it more satisfying to yell up the stairs. Meanwhile, if he ever writes something in a school, one of the characters, Stewart Dent, would be an inversion, hating to be called Stu and preferring Stewart.

This troper had a friend named Andrew in elementary school whom I teased mercilessly for sharing the name of a monster-hurricane. I think he got it a lot because he eventually started to like to twirl around with his arms out and pretend to BE a hurricane.

This troper finds her first name (Mary) painfully embarassing, especially given what I was supposed to be named-- Alice. I also have a classmate named Rose who (being pseudo-gothic as fuck intended to change it to Bramble. Mercifully, she didn't.

This Troper's friend is a swim teacher, and had a student from Vietnam (I think) with the first name Phuc. Yes, pronounced that way. They call him Frankie.

In high school, a girl that everyone had known by her middle name, Hope, began calling herself Revi instead. Her real name turned out to be Revolutionary Hope.

This editor's first name is Alex. Didn't used to be embarrassing, until a bunch of other parents of my generation started calling their ''girls'' that.

This troper's name is Carol, and my Latin teacher once passed out a page with the root meanings of all our names...I was much teased for being "manly".

This troper had a latin teacher named Daniel who went by Ka'ala.

This troper's middle name is Alexis, and he suffered plenty for it in grade school. God damn you, Alexis Carrington!

I know a kid, last name Sung. His first name is Sam. I want to strangle his parents.

One of my good friends is named Oscar. He does not approve. As such, when in "official" situations, he goes by his middle name, but with friends even ditches that in favor of the completely-unrelated "Art". I suspect that he's going to change his name as soon as he can legally do so.

This troper once heard a girl with the embarrassing LAST name of Falagaipupu or something to that effect.

This troper's grandfather's first name is Kaylee. He didn't find any fault with it until he joined the army.

MutantRancor here. My paternal grandfather's first name is Estil. No on'e entirely sure why, because all six of his brothers have/had normal names. He goes by his middle name, Sherl, which isn't much better.. It rhymes with "furl" or "curl," and is most definitely not pronounced "Cheryl," though he doesn't really bother to correct people when they mispronounce it.

I just remembered--my maternal grandmother also goes by her middle name. Her first name is Mary. Her middle name is Joann (pronounced Jo-Ann). I believe that she goes by Joann because Mary was just extremely common when she was growing up. She doesn't seem to be embarrassed by it, but I was a teenager before I found out Joann wasn't her first name.

Averted by her sister Clarabel, who is called Clarabel by everyone except friends and family (who use my mother's childhood mangling of her name, Keb, or Kebbie). I don't even know her middle name (though I did at one time).

Although it's definitely on the girly side, this troper has always been very fond of her full name meaning. It's "Princess (Sarah) Prettyhair". No, she's not kidding. Her last name is an old, and rather unique German name that means Pretty Hair. This is, of course, disregarding for a moment her ''middle'' name, Jo- but, if left in, her full name meaning would be "Princess He will enlarge Prettyhair", and that... just doesn't sound right.

Schoenhaar?

This troper went to school with a boy whose last name was pronounced "Do". His first name was Remi, which isn't an embarrassing name in itself, but combined with his last name... If you know solfège, you know there is no way this wasn't intentional. She hopes he has a good sense of humour.

This Troper is friends with a girl who goes by her middle name, Lee; her given name is Jennifer. She has a speech impediment that makes it difficult to form the "Sh" and "J" sounds, so it's really more out of practicality than embarrassment.

This troper has a friend named Rita, whose sister is named Katrina... and their brother, Kenny, was apparently a typhoon out in the Pacific that same year, although he doesn't seem to have done as much damage.

Seriously? I thought I was the only one! This troper has two cousins named Andrew and Katrina. She's on record as saying if a hurricane gets named Stephanie (the [[OddNameOut Odd One Out), she's going to Canada.

This troper's first name is Donald; for some reason, people used to call him Ronald [=McDonald=] and DonaldDuck throughout his childhood. Which is odd, since Donald is actually a very common first name.

This troper remembers many years ago at summer camp there was a kid named Donald, unfortunately for him, his last name... was Duff.

This Troper, while the name might not be entirely embarrassing, has a Highly Irritating First Name, in that it is the most popular girl's name for her region, and she's not especially popular, so it's rather confusing to hear someone yell it in the hallway at school and it not be her. I have no idea how to get anyone to call me anything else, unfortunately.

My parents named me Angela. I /loathe/ the way it sounds, to the point of literally cringing whenever someone says it. Though there was a time in my life I almost tolerated it, when I was playing Silent Hill 2, which inspired me to try and convince people to pronounce it 'Ayn-Gel-Uh', until I decided it sounded worse than the way I already said it. It gets worse when people abbreviate it to 'Angel' which just feels awkward, and going by 'Angie' leads people to sing Angie by the Rolling Stones to me...Though I will admit that I like when my friends and brothers call me 'Ang'. HOWEVER I still plan to swap my first and middle names when I'm old enough, so I will then be known as Jean.

My name is Gray. I thought it was bad when people called me "Purple," but now they just cut the crap and call me "Gay."

My full name is Kathleen. My nickname is Kate or Katie. Kathleen and Katie both feature in songs that usually get sung to me by older customers at the store where I work. Not to mention, there are at least six Kathleens in my family. This led to an amusing incident at the hair salon. I was there, as was my second cousin (daughter of my mother's cousin). We're both Kathleen and go by Kate or Katie. My mother called the shop to speak with me (a family friend works there), and about ten minutes later the other Katie's mother called her. Unfortunately the woman who answered the phone assumed it was my mother again. I got chewed out over a car problem for nearly ten minutes. The best part - we didn't realize the connection until later. Oh, and the other Katie's mother is named Kathy - it's short for Kathleen.

This Troper's full name is Rosaria. I love it but people either look at the spelling and pronounce it wrong (It's Roh-ZAH-ree-uh, emphasis on the ZAH) or hear me say it out loud and spell it wrong.

This troper knows a guy with an embarrassing last name--Sucks. The look on the MC's face during graduation was priceless. ("Next up we have Owen... Sucks?")

This troper's first name is "Riley." There isn't anything really wrong with it, I just don't like it that much. In spite of this, I've never gone by my (in my opinion, much better sounding) middle name, "Ashton."

This troper has a really odd situation with first names. All the males in my family have the first name of Richard, while we all go by our middle names. I constantly have to tell people to call me by my middle name. Also, I'd rather not be called Dick.

This troper is fine with "Chris", but loathes "Christopher" for no explainable reason and will not answer to it.

The reason this troper has her first name was because she was supposed to be named after her great-grandmother Olive, but the great-grandmother HATED her name to the point of threatening to haunt her mother if the troper was named that. Hence, a compromise: a similar name, but different enough not to be embarassing. Hence, Olivia.

This troper's mother was going through a Feeling Her Roots phase when she had her two children, and thus dubbed us "Sebastian" and "Katrine" (pronounced KAH-trin. Yes, she spelled it wrong). My brother goes by his middle name, while this troper stubbornly insists on trying to get people to say her name properly, as she utterly loathes being called "Kat". Thusfar, I've been largely unsuccessful.

Averted with this troper, fortunately. She's female and has the nice name of [=MacKenzie=]. If she'd been a boy, her name would have been ''[=McLeod=]'' (pronouced "[=McLoud=]").

It's spelled [=McLeod=].

Thank you.

This tropers name is not embaressing, but it is strange, and for those curious it's Grant. When he looked it up, he only found 5 or 6 people, all basketball players for some reason. Which I am also terrible at, which makes it even stranger. I got it because my dad wanted to name him after his grandfather, who was Gordon, but decided to put a variation on it because someone, I think my mom, didn't like it.

This troper's name (Hayley) isn't embarassing as such, it just gets a bit tiresome when no-one knows how to spell it; unfortunately though, I have no middle name for me to go by as an alternative. The only person I have known to use her middle name used it for practical reasons; if she hadn't, she and her husband would have been Gwyn and Gwynneth to friends.

This Troper was going to be named Echo Forrester, or Christine Noel. The first one was a combo of fun word/family name, and the second one was for the fact I have a December birthday. My parents settled on an equally annoying first name Kyrie. Which gets mispronounced every single first day of class, and often more days than that. It was really bad when I was in middle school and was a little bit of an unwanted lady killer. It's also the latin word for God. Why did they pick this out? They liked 80s music. I also have two siblings with weird names, and two siblings with really bland names. Whenever my sister or I get fast food, we lie about our names. She goes by Kim, and I go by Sky.

This troper had the unbelievably bad luck to have a four-letter name, two letters of which he has difficulty pronouncing due to a heavy New Brunswick accent. His middle name, Nicholas, seems downright archaic in modern society. Shortening that to Nick seemed to be the best, if not particularly good, option ... well, up until he starts playing {{Left 4 Dead}} 2. Yay ... needless to say, this is a point of contention with family.

This troper's cousin went to high school with a girl whose first name was Silvery Blue. She just went by Blue.

This Troper has a classmate that goes by his middle name, Colten. His first name is Briar.

My real name, as in the name my parents gave me, the name on my birth certificate, is Stevie. I'm a guy. I'm not embarassed, but professionally I go by Steven because it seems to make things go more smoothly.

This troper has a friend who didn't like his birth name, got it changed, and STILL likes to go by his last name, Bolster. This amused me to no end when I found out that Bolsters were pillows.

This troper knows of an elementary student whom a teacher friend of mine teaches. His name is James. It's pronounced, "Jah-mez."

This troper prefers to go by his middle name, Lyzander. Most people just use "Zander."

Rhiannon isn't really a terrible name just a bit annoying to have to spell out for people and is a bit bleh, I also can't go by my middle name because my middle name is Foster. I always wished my mother had given me an actual name for a middle name.

Although it's not as bad as some of the other examples on this page, this troper's first name is Taylor. I'm a guy, and the only other Taylor I know personally is a girl. And I can't go by my middle name because it's the equally embarrassing Delancey.

This troper plans on changing her first name as soon as she can find a job. Everyone's first assumption when they hear my name is a certain zip code and/or a certain TV show about a certain zip code. (It does not help that my parents had financial aspirations behind both my sister's name and my own name, however indirect they are.) As much as I love all things geeky, do not even think of invoking StarTrekTheNextGeneration on me simply because I don't care for the series or the characters, for that matter. I've been planning on changing my first name since I was in preschool, which just goes to show how much I really, really hate my first name and the only reason I hadn't done so earlier in life (say, after high school graduation) was to not explain to my parents why my college diploma didn't have my birth name printed on it.

This is gonna need some explanation. This troper is an American living in the UK going to an international school. I've got a Swedish classmate whose name is 'Fanny.' Funny enough for the American, but even worse in the UK. Normally not a problem, seeing as most people in this international school don't speak English as a first language, and if they do, they're from America, where 'fanny' doesn't have quite as bad a connotation. When Fanny applied to UK universities, she decided to switch around her first and middle names so that she was Charlotte on the application forms.

My aunt was named "Nympha".

This tropers first name is Scott, which is less embarassing than annoying. Not only is Scott the most boring name since Bob, but I take phone calls for a living, so I'm constantly having to hear 'Beam me up, Scotty' when I answer the phone at work. My friends have learned the hard way to not do this, or that I don't even reply to Scotty.

This troper has the name "Shayla". It's an excellent name, I'd like to name my daughter it. Quite rare though; I've never met someone else in real life with that name. This troper however is both a {{Transsexual}} FTM and androgynous, plus the name has caused him troubles (mispronunciations and such).

When I first went to college, I noticed that a number of people in my year had rather odd names. I was relaying this fact to a friend of mine, which went basically like the conversation from ''{{Friends}}'' on the main page. ->'''Me:''' So there's this girl named Absaline... ->'''My friend:''' Absaline? That sounds like something you use to scrub the floor. She didn't seem very comfotable with her name herself. There was also another girl who wasn't too fond of her name, but I don't even know how to spell it.

My first name is Gabrielle. I hate it because teachers would always call me "Gabriel" even though my name wasn't cut off on the roster. I go by Gabi now, but some people never learn. I also have a sister named Lexus, Lexi for short, and she always gets called "Alexis". Sometimes we just want to scream, "IT'S LEXUS, LIKE THE CAR! NOT ALEXIS!!" Her name could also count as an AwesomeMcCoolname, because she's named after a car.

Shannon Lindsay is a fine pair of names to give your daughter, this troper will not deny that fact. His parents, however, didn't name either of their daughters this.

Note for parents-to-be: if you name your daughter Catherine and shorten it to Cate, you are setting her up for a lifetime of misspelled everything. Also please realize that Cate rhymes with more words than you could have ever imagined, and there WILL be some elementary school teacher who thinks it's funny to mention said rhymes constantly. This Troper likes her name, but it does come with some liabilities.

This troper's real name is Yvette. The only people who use her real name to address her are her father, and substitute teachers. The latter, by the way, never, ever, EVAAAR fail to mispronounce it. She is known by everyone else in the entire world as Evie. (This troper has to admit, though, it's not much better.)

This mixed-nationality troper's first name is Andrea. Which is fine in many countries (including Argentina where she was born), but caused a lot of trouble for her as a Greek national since there it's considered an exclusively male name. It led to an amusing situation where she was called up for compulsory military service when she turned eighteen and had to spend the whole summer proving her gender to avoid an arrest warrant for draft evasion. (Greek bureaucracy - oy vey.) To add insult to injury, she also has an EmbarrassingMiddleName that resoundingly fails the Senator/Stripper test. ... Her parents were obviously smoking crack.

This troper knew a girl named "Honey". No, seriously. Honey. Her first name was Honey. That was given to her to by parents who actually exist. I was dumbfounded. She refuses to be called Honey by anyone and insists people call her "Kelly". I don't know why, either. It's not her middle name or anything. She probably decided that she could make up her own name since it's too stupid to be called Honey.

Not first name, but last name. It's what I'd like to call "The grass joke". Because people say I should name my child Grass so his/her name would be Grasshopper, and they all think that's just '''''SO FUCKING HILARIOUS, HAHAHA.'''''

This troper's name is Bonnie. Enough said.

"My Bonnie lies over the ocean, my Bonnie lies over the sea..." Yeah, I can see how that could be annoying.

When This troper's class started reading TheOutsiders, our Honors English teacher was telling us about how the sixties and such were strange times. Then she told us the story of a certain child her Mother's friend who worked as a nurse remembered. The nurse handed this new Mom her baby. The mother looked at her hospital wrist band thing, and gasped. "They named my baby for me! Gonorrhea, what a beautiful name!" The sad thing is that this kid went (or is still going) through life with the name Gonorrhea.

I'll be kind to myself and assume that having any of the pretty names my mom had originally planned for me would grow to be old hat... because no matter how many people say they like the name Brooke, I'm sick enough of it that I would change it in a split second. I currently go by an uncommon diminutive of my common-as-dirt middle name when I'm online.

This tropette, despite being a tomboy, hates her more-commonly male name of Cameron. So, she's always gone by the more feminine nickname of Cammi. She's been asked before by a teacher why she goes by the girlier one instead of her given name.

This troper knows a girl named Joonyper, this troper thinks it's awesome and would love to named that if he were female. #QUOTE# '''Me''' I dunno, I like it, I guess.

Subverted with this troper's older brother. He's called Anuk, a name that is usually spelled "Anouk" and that is exclusively a female name. He's not embarassed by it at all. However, whenever I start talking about him, people automatically assume I'm talking about a girl, which leads to a lot of snickering on my part.