“I Hated It So Much I Legally Changed It”: 30 People With The Most Stupid And Unfortunate Names Describe How Life’s Going

I would get annoyed just coz it's not a disney film.

I am a person who changed her name legally. I was only 25. I was rebelling. I didn't have a stupid name, but I hated it. Ok, I'll tell you part of it: "Penny." The kids were cruel: "You're not even worth a nickel, that why your parents named you Penny!" It wasn't so much the kids, I grew up...but I never felt like my name was me. It didn't feel like me. I had no identity. And I hated it. So when I was 25, I told no one, I went to the courthouse, asked how to do it, they gave me the papers to sign, $10, I paid another $3 while there to have it notarized and recorded in the court, and there you have it. $13, in 1995, in Alabama. I didn't even need a lawyer. My parents were crushed I'd done it, but it was done. That's the only part I regretted, was hurting them. Now, way more than a halftime later, I feel like I have an identity, and I don't regret it at all. I love the person I've become. And I feel like my name IS who I am. :-)

A friend's mom was telling me that when she was a young woman, West Side Story had just come out. Her name was Maria, and they would play the song Maria at dances, and the men she was dancing with would sing it to her, which she enjoyed :)

OMG Anastasia is not a Disney film and if that's the only reason why people know who she is then I'm leaving earth.

Know what you mean. I get "Hey Jude" sung to me like people think it is the first time I have heard it.

What's most annoying probably is that everyone thinks he was named after the book character. That must suck

I used to look after a boy named Harry Potter. He would have been born before the books came out too

Did they name him Harry? ....Because Harry is short for Harold / Harrison / Harvey or Henry. If yes then just go by the proper name Harold Potter.

OMG!

I have friends who named their blue-eyed blonde-haired daughter Elsa--two years before the movie.

Reminds me of the character on Jen and the Holograms

It's going down I'm yelling Timber

My surname rhymes with lairy, hairy, fairy, gosh some people can be very unoriginal.

Kims in the house!!!

I wouldn't have put those two together - Kimber and timber... You're welcome. I do like the name.

Just write Daniel ^3 and everyone will think the last bit is a smiley!

I was at school with someone called Stewartie Stewart. He was Scottish (so yes, UK).

The longest running soap in the Netherlands had a guy named Daniel Daniel! Tell people he's named after that guy. Wow, totally exotic:p

I used to work with a guy named Robert Roberts-Roberts. Poor guy. The Red Robin was Bob Bob Bobbin' along... Sorry...

Well, America does have a singer named Phillip Phillips so this is just slightly surprising.

Docto.doctor give me the news🎶

Nominative determinism!

Sounds like a start of a comedy bit Like Who's on First. Who's your doctor? . . .

I met a doctor whose surname was "dañino" which means "harmful". Also there was a famous gynecologist (male)whose last name was "salido" what would roughly translate into "horny" but even worse

My first 2 letters of my name … is D. R. Soooooo I've been called doctor sooooo many times it's not funny anymore,

This is why I try very hard to pronounce people's name correctly. I teach at a taekwondo school in Canada and get many nationalities as students. I usually ask for clarification when pronouncing a name to make sure I learn it correctly.

I'm white and figured it out before the phonetic breakdown. People are silly

I have such a simple four letter first name. It's an older name from my family so I know that everyone has heard it at least once and i still get people who cannot pronounce it, spell it, ask me if it's short for something?? People are just willfully ignorant. If you can learn how to order Starbucks then you can learn how to pronounce a name properly. It just shows basic respect. Edit for spelling

so you're literally "strange place fortified by god"?

That doesn't actually sound too difficult.

Wow flashback that it completely forgotten! I went to school with a Bailey and her sister was Brandy. Hahaha thought they were just normal names at the time but now looking back i had “ah, I see what you did there” moment