Tell me about your first name.
 

When you introduce yourself to someone, what do you want them to call you? Is it the name that's on your birth certificate? A nickname? A shortened version or your formal name? Do you just make up different names on the spur of the moment, leading to a web of deceit where you can never see more than one acquaintance at a time?

Poll coming as soon as I can properly introduce it.

Haha, mine is a shortened version of Eddie that is on my bc.

I have two birth certificates and three first names technically..

I use the name on the birth certificate that doesn't make me sound like a Portuguese immigrant... (Emanuel Louis)

Shortened common name. Named after my uncle who died before I was born.

I don't have a bith certificate / Barak Hussein Obama

Everybody calls me by my last name.
I descended from Robin Hood and Little John.

I have the same first name as Rainman. Always kind of hated that there is no real option for shortening it (NO, that is not acceptable!). For this reason I wished for a long time to have been given the name James. So many options (not as many as William or Richard though)!

I’ve always ended up with nicknames. Spott was what my friends called me growing up in KC. Everyone at work calls me Chucky because of my resemblance to John Gruden.

Share the same first name as my father. I was given a nickname when I was young and it stuck.

Little Hood?

Dang two people on this site named Rain? What are the chances?

I was named after Jesus Christ. About 1,963 years after.

I don't use my first name anymore. I go by my CP handle.

DAMIT!

NO!

God Damnit ..... ...... ........

I had 5 names growing up, according to my mom.

My Dad wanted to name me after his uncle, my mom wanted to name me what's on my bc. So my mom got to name me but everyone calls me what my dad wanted to name me.

Nicknamed clit?

Not on your poll, so picked "fit none of these categories."

Both my sister and I have always been called a nickname from our middle name. ****ing parents need to be flogged for that shit btw. ****ing give your kid a first name you are going to use.

Those two made a kid together?

I always thought they were both dudes. Who knew?

Interesting question. As I have gotten older and meet people in casual situations I pay less attention when they say their name and flat out say "I'll remember virtually everything about you to a t except your name". My view is a name is just something trivial your parents puked up when you were a baby and is extremely subjective depending on what is popular at the time (ie Jenny, David, Thomas, Sarah, and now Kaitlyn, Hailey, Emma) which is assigned from birth with an exaggerated significance attached to it. If I met Kevy here in person with a blank slate, I would love to hear about relevant data extrapolated from a sea of information and all his other various quirks and unique qualities. "Kevin" is the least interesting thing about him in my mind and the last thing I would devote any energy to after the fact. Rainman is a thousand times more accurate as it basically states: severely overclocked upstairs, hilarious, and absolutely quirky and unique.

However, I do love it when an incredibly bright or interesting person was saddled with Tiffany/Tammy/Chad etc, the irony makes it hilarious to me for whatever reason.

Hello everyone, I am a park ranger and I will be leading you on the tour. All of the park rangers were, at one time, guards, myself included. My name is John Johnson but everyone here calls me "Vicky".

So did I. Well, not that many. Whenever I got in trouble mom would yell my sisters name, then my brothers name then the dogs name (Chief), before she got to mine.

I kind of like have a non-shortenable name myself, but then again I'm the type of guy who would use the formal version of my name anyway. I'd be the guy constantly saying, "My name is not Ted. It's Theodore."

That said, I like it when people cut the last syllable off of my name. It implies fondness and familiarity. I think only one person in my life has ever done it, which tells me a lot about my charm.

My first and middle initials are J. I have always been called J or JJ.

If you like, you can call me Kev. But nobody ever does.

Like you, I also find incongruous names funny, but pretty much only with children. There'll be some bratty kid running around, and you'll hear the parent say, "Atticus! Stop eating that feces!" or "Victoria! Don't bite Wilhelmina!" Maybe the name will fit when the kid's an adult, but sometimes they really don't match the kid.

I catch myself doing that now.:D

So when you see someone you've met previously and can't remember their name do you just call them man or lady during conversation?

Didn't you see how they dressed?

Parents gave me a pussy French name and I got the shit kicked out of me in elementary school because of it. Started using my middle name in the 5th grade, which is a Native Hawaiian name that ends in a vowel. Now people think I am female. I'd rather people think I am female than I am a frog.

Fine.

Little John and Robin Hood had a baby and named it Bowman.

:hmmm:
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Every Hawaiian word I have ever seen ends in a vowel. Is there some gender thing about it?

Short common name that is NOT on my BC. WTF puts a short common name on BC? If that is the case then it's your name and not a short common name.

Got me ROFL

No, names are gender neutral in Hawaiian. There are also no masculine or feminine nouns in Hawaiian like in other languages. People assume because it ends in a vowel that I am female (especially in emails).

I always figured your first name was Terra[n]ce.

I actually call any Kevin I like Kevy for some strange reason, cool or you stuck on Kev?

Irony is hilarious to me, plus you can sort of tell when someone was given a name that no longer fits as an adult introduces themselves in somewhat sheepish fashion.

My first love was a Shanna, and immediately I said I can't work with that so called her by her middle name which probably led to my indifference towards names in general. A good litmus test is imagine the name in a sexual situation: "oh Tammy yeah just like that, oh Shanna". Just terrible names in my opinion, generally the longer the name, the more variations (James/John), and syllables the more I like them. Vanessa, Melissa, Elizabeth are great female names in my opinion.

It's mostly in casual situations that lead to one on one conversations. Names are no problem at work because I have emails and org charts for reference so learn them easily. Friends and circles of friends are also easy because they are usually group settings so people will say "Well back in college Tom over here was a wild man". I am a regular at a bar type setting that isn't a bar, so when you interact it is usually one on one where you never say their name nor do you have other people saying it, you also have no emails, texts, or org charts to reference. It is only a casual setting problem for me and I do clearly state I won't remember.

Rainman is a great example, if he sat at the bar next to me and we bullshitted for 20 minutes the last thing in the world that would stand out to me would be "Kevin", but I would be enthralled by his unique taste in women's cars, various quirky traits, and propensity to imprison himself and call it vacation.

To answer your question directly, yes it always starts with "hey" but then quickly delve into questions about their daily life or something I found interesting about them during our previous interactions. I also occasionally mix in some crudeness/absurdity, like if the Rainman scenario happened again and I saw him a week later. "Hey, my favorite seaman is back again" would be a strong opening possibility. Hard to get angry when I tell you at first meeting I devalue names and then remember virtually everything about you and am generally curious to know more. Weird to some but normal to me.

Interesting. I always get an uneasy feeling when I see someone I have met before and I can't remember their name. I don't avoid them or anything, but I hope during the conversation that there is never a need to call them by their name.

Life's too short for that bullshit, plus if you remember things about them that is more important than forcing yourself to memorize some arbitrary title assigned the second they entered the world. Or use nicknames, know what I mean poolboy. :Poke: Totally kidding on that btw

If anyone asks me if I prefer Dave or David, I say David. I never reference myself as Dave. Being called Dave is weird for me for some reason.

I'm terrible with remembering names so I usually tell them that right up front when I meet them.

They call me Mr. Geezer. (with apologies to Sidney Poitier)

"Hey there chief!"

My name is Daniel. I go by Dan and pretty much my nieces/nephews and my grandparents refer to me as Danny.

"Are you a good boy, Danny?"

My family calls me Daniel

Everyone I know from the military and all my friends call me Mac, which is a rip-off off my last name.

I go by Mac mostly

What’s 459?

Me too

Poolboy. ROFL

Little update on that. I was walking my dogs last night and the neighbor's wife was out in their front yard pruning their rose bushes and she asked me if I was going to come over and shit in their yard this weekend. I apologized to her for my actions over the last weekend and then told her that of course I wasn't going to shit in their yard, but if she would like some shit in the yard that I could bring my dogs over. She didn't accept my apology or laugh at my joke. Oh well, she'll get over it eventually.

You should totally shit in her yard now.

Or at least pull a John Matrix.

First rule of Chiefs Planet: never call anyone by their real name.

rumor is, Dane's first name is Francis

My mom wanted to name me Kristen. She liked the K name wince my older brother's name also started with a K. However, my dad din't like it because people would call my Kris or Krissy or something. He didn't like shortened nicknames. So, I go by the name as printed on my birth certificate. It also has to capital letters. :)

I happened to read that previous thread, if I hadn't this would be a very curious post indeed.

Kristen is a great name, but for some reason when I meet a Kristen or a Kirsten I can never remember whether it's one or the other.

For some cruel reason my sister and I both go by our middle names. It's been a hassle to this day at work and other places

My first name. I wish I had gone with my middle name though.

There's something a bit ironic about the fact that my first name exists almost exclusively within the jewish community and my last name is so german it has 9 letters and one syllable.

I have a unusual first name... it was a source of dread and embarrassment in grade school because it was similar to a local restaurants name I was made fun of till High School.. Then girls discovered they liked the “unusualness” of it and I took full advantage of that :D
Now it gets miss pronounced or mistaken for another name... I have only met one other person with my first name and unfortunately he has passed away...
There are times I wish I was named Tom or Bob or something simple...

I go by my first name Shelby! As it is the name of the late Chad Everett's wife. Who also passed away. Born in Vietnam and adopted. Plus my middle name is Thuy Linh a Vietnamese name.

People are always trying to shorten my name. I hate that...

I'm. Gay.

Did Chad Everett's wife save your mom's life, or was she just a really big fan?

Have you considered going by your middle name instead?

Kinda depends on who they are. If I expect to have some kind of at least passing relationship of any sort, it’s the common shortened version of my name. If I don’t know them or expect to really get to know them better, it’s my formal name.

In print, it’s always my full first name.

It was my number when I was a kid racing dirt bikes, then turned into part of my call sign later in life

I always introduce myself with my first name. My family and wife, commonly use a couple nicknames I have based on my middle name. I really have no preference.

Middle name usage is much less common than I expected. For some reason, I thought that more than 5 percent of people would go by their middle name.

I go by a nickname.

Who told you about Sparkleberry Manor?

Every time I see this thread, I read it as "tell me about your first time", which would probably be a much more interesting poll...

Well with a screen name like "Shag" is there any wonder why you'd say that? :hmmm:

I was named after Frankie Carbone, the guy who was frozen in Goodfellas.

I go by my African name


Farah Labdouni

My birth certificate says Timothy. I introduce myself as Tim. Most of my friends usually end up calling me Timbone.

I was named after my father, a Vietnamese PSC inspector from the Vung Tau Port in Vietnam.

I predict that your Christmas gift this year will be several packs of cigarettes.

That and a $200 Visa gift card.