Comments on: On Having a Weird Name; Or, Why I Couldn’t Have Nice Things

By: Tatelyn Collis

Tatelyn Collis — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:29:02 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1c2OfAzDTI

By: Tatelyn Collis

Tatelyn Collis — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:25:46 +0000

Hmm, my name is Tatelyn. I know the pain of “Ohh that’s unique” as well as not cool keychains, necklaces, or pencils.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:58:33 +0000

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By: Hollan Miseferi

Hollan Miseferi — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:20:19 +0000

I can totally relate. No one got the name “Hollan” right. I was always “Holland”…and often got asked “Are you Dutch?” “Are you from Holland?” NOOOOO! So, for a long time, I went by Holly. A lot of people still call me that, but when I went to college, it was time to re-introduce Hollan…and I haven’t looked back Beauty name by the way!

By: Whitney Ratliff

Whitney Ratliff — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:19:54 +0000

“Whitney” is apparently less common than I thought, I get called Wendy or Brittany an awful lot :/

By: Ashvina Naidu

Ashvina Naidu — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:33:44 +0000

That”d be Shuh-zee-yah.
Yes?

By: Emily Renner

Emily Renner — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:47:08 +0000

My mum’s name is Levineke, and she went through the exact same thing. In fact, during roll call when there was a long pause, she would just respond with ‘here!’ to spare the teacher…
Of course, she gave me one of the most popular names in the world… I can never get anything personalized, because Emily is always sold out!
Though you wouldn’t believe the number of times I get called Emma. Stop dropping syllables, people!!!

By: Megan Younce

Megan Younce — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:48:38 +0000

AMEN!!