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If you could have chosen your name at birth what name would you have picked for yourself?

Asked by gooch (3259 points) | asked April 27th, 2008 | 39 responses | “Great Question” (1 points) | Flag as…

Would you have chosen somthing different?

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glial's avatar

Legal name is Tommy (go by Tom) everyone assumes it is Thomas… So probably Thomas.

AstroChuck's avatar

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

Adina1968's avatar

Honestly… I love the name I was given…Adina. :-)

gooch's avatar

My name is Troy it doesn’t sound grown up to me. Even though I am. I don’t know what I would have named myself though. My mom named me after Troy Donahue… I was born in the 60’s.

PupnTaco's avatar

Joe. Although what I got (Dave) isn’t too bad.

johnny0313x's avatar

I would prefer aiden. I just always thought that was a cool guys name. And much more exciting then a boring name like john

iCeskate's avatar

bells or tara what I got was emily

Mtl_zack's avatar

im zachary, but i would like to be named joel.

peedub's avatar

I like that I was named after my great grandfather, but Pablo, the spanish version of my name, would be cool.

Peter Fitzentite has a nice ring to it.

Allie's avatar

I like the name I was given (Allison).

susanc's avatar

I’d rather have been named after my grandma Rosa.

Breefield's avatar

My name is Dustin Hoffman. I’d love the name Tyson, Timber, or a boy name that can be shortened to Bree. Maybe Brennan?

wildflower's avatar

I would’ve been happy with a name that could be pronounced and spelled correctly across different languages and doesn’t mean something different in a different language…..but I guess that wasn’t at the top of my parents list when naming me after my grandad.

flowerchild's avatar

I like the name I was given…Monica. My mom said that my dad took the day off from work especially so he could name me….He did take the day off when my brothers were born….

judochop's avatar

I think if I was given the choice to name myself it would have just been more of a sound effect like, umm or bamf or maybe woo.

peedub's avatar

Or a symbol…

wildflower's avatar

or: Princess Consuela Bananahammock

iwamoto's avatar

right now it’s camiel, camiel benjamin to be exact, and i don’t know anything more cooler to replace that…

any ideas? maybe iwamoto ?

Bri_L's avatar

Ernest. It was my twin brother’s name. and my grandpa’s name. He was an awesome guy. Also, when everyone guessed which one I was they always guessed ernie because it was more interesting.

Lightbringer's avatar

either johnny or mike

robmandu's avatar

Danger would be my middle name.

mzgator's avatar

My name is Dana. I don’t hate it, but my husband tells me I don’t look like a Dana? He says I have a “Dana personality”, whatever that is…..

I don’t think that, even if I hated it, I could change my name. My mom fell in love with the name when she was in high school. Her english teacher’s name was Dana. She had never heard that name before, and she thought it was beautiful.

TheHaight's avatar

I like my name (Hannah) but I’ve always loved the name Isabel. I think thats why people name there future kids names they like because they wanted that name :) like i’ll name my future child Isabel!

robmandu's avatar

@Haight, you’re right on there! But my wife wouldn’t let me make the boy’s middle name “Danger”.

(sigh)

TheHaight's avatar

Aw why not? That’d be so cool!!

robmandu's avatar

Well, there’s always the next one.

(OMG! What did I just say?!?!?)

TheHaight's avatar

Haha!!! Go for it!

buster's avatar

Frankenstein.

peedub's avatar

Uncle Fezziwig

boffin's avatar

Justin Case

Allie's avatar

boffin: A guy from Anti-Flag chose Justin Sane.

peedub's avatar

Mike Oxlonger
or
Guthy Renker Jr.

Allie's avatar

Ok. So I’m at my house with my friend Andy and I asked him what he would pick and he said he’d name himself Oliver Klozeoff. (Hint: Say it out loud.) Haha.

boffin's avatar

Not a “Flutherer”
...Doesn’t count…..

peedub's avatar

John Sweeny

wildflower's avatar

I’m sure I used to work with a John Sweeny…..or was it McSweeny…?

Allie's avatar

Or was it McLovin?

beowolf8379's avatar

maybe beowulf or wiglaf i dunno

tedibear39's avatar

My parents debated naming me Angela, and I wish they would have. Easier for people to get the right spelling and way hotter than my real name. (Teddi)

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