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BigMoe to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year ago

If you had to change your first name to something uncommon, what would you change it to?

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If you had to change your first name to something uncommon, what would you change it to?

BigMoe to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year ago
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  • riccardo
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    93•1 year ago

    Robert’); DROP TABLE Students

    • Stern
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      15•1 year ago

      Possibly more annoying choice: The right to leftoverride character

    • @theedqueen@lemmy.world
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      11•1 year ago

      Can we call you little Bobby tables?

      • riccardo
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        that’s how my parents call me, yeah

    • @Truck_kun@beehaw.org
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      8•1 year ago

      I feel like Little Bobby Tables has grown up, and should now be Robert’); DROP TABLE loans;–

    • Amerikan Pharaoh
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      4•1 year ago

      Lil Bobby Tables, we call him

    • @WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world
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      3•1 year ago

      I was going to write SQL Injection as well! You beat me to it

  • @Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works
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    29•1 year ago

    Bort

    • @son_named_bort@lemmy.world
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      25•1 year ago

      Are you talking to me?

      • @Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works
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        4•1 year ago

        No, my son is also named Bort

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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      13•1 year ago

      Don’t do it! Novelty license plates for that name are always sold out. I’ve been trying to find one for 30 years.

      • anon6789
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        7•1 year ago

        I was visiting someone at Yale, and as we were walking through town I saw a car with an actual BORT license plate.

        I was the only one who got a kick out of it though.

        It was 2 phones ago, so not sure where the picture lives these days, but I have proof somewhere!

      • anon6789
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        6•1 year ago

        Found it!

    • @Mango@lemmy.world
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      3•1 year ago

      Now why is that the first thing that came to my mind too??

  • @Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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    27•1 year ago

    SomethingUncommon

  • Sage the Lawyer
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    22•1 year ago

    Not sure how uncommon you’re looking for, but I think I already did this.

    I chose Sage.

    According to some quick googling (read: not sure how accurate this is), Sage wasn’t in the top 500 names for my birth year, but my given name was top 100.

    Though both names I’ve used have been trending towards more common for most of my life. Looks like my original name is now a top 35 most common, but Sage is still outside the top 100 for females and outside top 300 for males.(Really wish there was more data for the popularity of nonbinary names. I think Sage is probably one of the more popular enby names, so maybe it’s not all that uncommon, depending on how you define it.)

    • HopeOfTheGunblade
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      11•1 year ago

      Okay, but are you a lawyer?

      • Sage the Lawyer
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        5•1 year ago

        Lol. Yes I am! How did you know?? 😜

        • HopeOfTheGunblade
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          6•1 year ago

          I get a sense about people.

    • @TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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      4•1 year ago

      Cool name. I have nothing productive to add, but Sage against the machine just came to me as I was reading your comment. Please feel free to do with it as you wish.

  • Hegar
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    16•1 year ago

    Something old, like a name from Sumer, Akkad, Elam, maybe something Hittite.

    Epirmupi, Shamsaki, Puzur-Inshushinak, Ninurta, Lugalzagasi, Tiglath-Pileser, Hattusili, Suppiluliuma.

    • DessertStorms
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      Ea-nāṣir! 😂

      • @yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml
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        7•1 year ago

        I would absolutely trust someone with this name in commercial dealings.

        • @Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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          Not once you get your first cart full of sub par metals, you wont.

  • Remy Rose
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    13•1 year ago

    I’m loving the creativity here! To me though, “uncommon” implies that it’s not like completely unheard of either. so, my choice would be “Midge”

    • Lemmy_2019
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      That’s just Jim backwards.

      • Remy Rose
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        6•1 year ago

        Thanks, I hate it lol

  • @anarchost@lemm.ee
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    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Robert%27);_DROP_TABLE_Students;–

    • BigMoeOP
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      4•1 year ago

      I remember that one

  • @doctordevice@lemm.ee
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    New full name: Theophrastus Bombastus

    • @andrewta@lemmy.world
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      4•1 year ago

      That would be first and last. Not just first name

      • @idiomaddict@feddit.de
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        5•1 year ago

        He’s currently Jim Bombastus

        • @doctordevice@lemm.ee
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          3•1 year ago

          *Gasp* I told you that in confidence!

    • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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      Do they call you Mister Bombastic?

  • Dekkia
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    Dekkia.

    I already use that name everywhere online, might as well put it on my passport.

  • Meloræ
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    11•1 year ago

    My username is my first name, and I’d say it’s already pretty uncommon!

  • @spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    Nebuchadnezzar. It has an air of nobility about it and no-one would be able to spell it, ever.

    • @Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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      Peasants shouldn’t be able to spell the names of nobility

  • @ikapoz@sh.itjust.works
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    11•1 year ago

    Batman bin Suparman

    • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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      Or this one:

  • @Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    I’ve already got a name that puts me quite comfortably in the 1% of names used in my country. It’s not as cool to have a uncommon name as you think. It’s easy to get picked on, you never can buy those souvenir mugs or keyrings with ‘your name’ and it gets misspelled.

    I mean I’ve written a book where my name is on the cover and one review managed to misspell it…

    Otoh. I once met someone on holiday in Ireland that said ‘i one met a kid with that name and it was in Croatia, about ten years ago’.

    That kid was me. If I had a more common name we’d never have known.

    • @Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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      2•1 year ago

      Any relation to the name “Otto”?

      • @Akasazh@feddit.nl
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        None at all, though I do know someone by that name

  • @Rockslide0482@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9•1 year ago

    I always thought Ziggy was a cool name.

    • @WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5•1 year ago

      Don’t change your name to that unless you play guitar. As a non-musical man who gets compared to John Lennon a lot, I’m doing you a favor.

      • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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        2•1 year ago

        Not all Ziggies play guitar.

      • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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        As a non-musical man who gets compared to John Lennon a lot

        Is that you, Ringo? 😛

        • @WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Dammit, you found me again, Paul!

  • Vanth
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    • walden
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      3•1 year ago

      Geathel?

      • Vanth
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        deleted by creator

        • walden
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          Wait, that’s a real name?

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