Top Ten Times You Wish You Had Another Name

The Top Ten
1 Everyone spells it wrong.

Lesson learned: don't write a deliberate misspelling on your child's birth certificate. I'm sure they'd love being called George, but would hate being called Jorge.

People spell my name wrong and they pronounce it wrong too. It gets a little annoying but I still love my name.

My name is Arijana I go by Ari and neoprene spell my name like "air" they also pronounce Arijana like Ari Jana, like no it's pronounced Arianna Ari jana sounds stupid.

This is relatable for me. In real life, almost no one can spell my name right...

2 You're one of the 23 or more kids with the same name in school.

I can very much realte to this item, because I have one of the most common names ever, so I'm often stuck with more than one person in my class with my name. So when the teacher sahs my name, I always reply with "which one? ".

I have a pretty uncommon name, and yet there is STILL a girl with my name, just with a different spelling (the ironic thing is that she is my friend) It gets really annoying sometimes.

You can stick your head in the cafeteria in my school and scream my name and about twenty girls say, "I'm here! ".

3 People find a mean nickname using your name.

People make fun of my name whenever I leave Tennessee to go somewhere. Luckily I stopped the haters at a camp I went to by slamming one of their heads into a wooden wall

In my name it has portion of it that says man, and I'm a girl...

I would hate that so much! Nice list, Sofia!

There's this kid in my school called Bartek, but everyone calls him Fartek!

4 Nobody says it right.

My name either gets spelled wrong, gets pronounced wrong, or people call me a similar name which is not my name. This is why I want to be named Tiffany.

People misspell or mispronounce my last name all the time and it's not even that confusing. Not confusing at all, actually.

This is more of the case with my LAST name. Hardly anyone even knows how to say it, not even some of my friends!

5 It's really uncommon.

I would actually enjoy an uncommon name because it would make me stand out from all the people named James, Noah, John, or Matt...

I'm happy that my name is uncommon because it makes it seem special.

Only 8,000 people have my name in the US.

My name is Ayasha and it's very uncommon
So when I have friend who has the same name as me, we become famous because our name is same

6 Everyone points out how it's a celebrity name.

The boys used to say to me (I'm a girl) you know there's a boy soccer player with your name to tease me, it never worked though.

7 It has more than 12 letters.
8 It's frustrating when nobody ever remembers your name.

It's either too uncommon or too popular.

9 Everyone calls you by another name, or your surname.

This is especially true of me because I have a common name. But my last name can work for a first name, though.

Story of my life.

10 It's perfectly fine in your own country, but when you're traveling, everyone spells/says it wrong.

Ever since I moved here, only 3 people have spelled my name right at first.

The Contenders
11 When you just think it's ugly

I hate the name I was given. I never could stand it. I'm a girl but I really like Rex. I don't care if the name is masculine. I like that name, it starts with my favorite letter in the alphabet, and I'm kind of a tomboy anyway so that would actually suit me pretty well. I really do wish my name was Rex.

12 When someone hates your name so they make fun of it
13 When a TopTenner puts your name on a top ten worst names list

Boi that's sad

14 When people are always calling you similar, but still wrong, names
15 When you have the same first name as someone next to you in the register
16 When you are a Jr
17 When somebody bullies you because of it
18 When your first name goes well with your last name i.e. Cannon Ball, Harry Dick, Tim Burr
19 When it's similar to your surname
20 When it is from a different culture
21 When it is an actually word i.e. Mark, Fern, Chevy
22 When a stupid fictional characters has the same name
23 When an evil or stupid person has the same name
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