To be pissed at my name being laughed at constantly

Yes I've got a Thomas Thomas in the Welsh part of my family tree.

Surely in that situation you'd go to the effort of Googling and find out which particular language it's a problem in? "Asian" covers 60% of the world's population, whereas even if it was Mandarin that's only about 15%.

@NotAmazonAlexa I am a medical professional and I am shocked to hear that you have had this experience. I can’t imagine any of my colleagues commenting, let alone laughing. I would definitely complain, totally inappropriate behaviour and it is belittling at a time when you are vulnerable.

Which part will you change?
It is unfortunate when parents name their children without much insight!

At school I had a teacher called Sue Spender! (She was a miss so hadn’t married into that surname)
My brother went to school with a Jamie James… and my dad went to school with a Robin Hood!

You hear of people with the surname Davison naming their kid Harley and you just think what morons the parents are… there was a post on mumsnet not long ago where a woman was asking if she was wrong for not wanting to call her unborn son Ted Bundy! (Theodore) because her husband and inlaws were pressuring her too! I do hope she held her ground and refused to call the poor kid that!

You’ve not actually said what your name is… I don’t believe for a moment that Alexa on its own would generate so many jokes?!…
Now that your procedure is done and hopefully a success I would be lodging a complaint and saying how unprofessional you felt it was if staff to mock your name in such a childish and belittling manor!
I would absolutely call people out on it.. just a simple ‘oh… because I’ve never heard that one before!’ Would turn the joke back on them and make them feel very daft and unoriginal !!

The Karen meme has got boring.
just another way of society shutting down women with an opinion!

‘okay Karen’
’stop being a Karen’ etc …

I don't have an Alexa so honestly didn't make that connection. I actually had to read the thread to find out! Alexa is a lovely name. Lots of cars/technology/trainers etc are named after people/gods. I'm suprised people do that to you, because the name was around a long time before amazon's product.

You want to try being in my position, my name is so “hilarious” that I’m actually changing it legally. I’ve had hassle everywhere I’ve gone for years and nobody believes it’s my real name.

outing but - Annabelle Lecter. Obviously I’ve gone by Belle for years

Alexa is a lovely name. That is incredibly moronic of the hospital staff. I would make a proper complaint, it's completely unprofessional and unacceptable behaviour.

If it is Alexa, I'd just say Alexis to stop the jokes

It’s horrible to laugh at anyone’s name. Professional people should know and do better. They aren’t five year olds in a playground 😰

DD has a classmate called Alexa. In lockdown when they were all online learning , every time the teacher said her name about 20 devices went off asking what she wanted 🫣

I always think of the scary Disney film Watcher in the Woods as the ghostly girl was called Karen. Still my favourite film (even though it has aged poorly)!

Funnily enough the pariah name from a few years ago was Sharon, which rhymes with Karen. Did Darren ever get a bad rap…?!

It sucks as I've always loved the name for a baby name but it's totally off the cards now. But you are not being unreasonable. Like you say fuck Amazon 🤦🏼‍♀️

It’s a Welsh thing too although less common nowadays. Years ago common for boys to be called Lewis Lewis or William Williams!

Siri is a name though, and laughing at it is just as rude as laughing at Alexa.

There is a very popular creator on Tiktok called Siiri Parks.

I think it's a beautiful name and it's a shame it's now synonymous with the Amazon speaker. I was obsessed with Alexa Chung in my late teens/early 20s and Mulberry recently re-launched their bag named after her.

Selfishly, I'm a bit nervous about my name (Jessica) being ruined the same way Karen has. I've noticed a trend on social media where my name is being used as the Millennial version of a "Karen", and I saw a Tiktok where someone was stopping people in the street to ask them the bitchiest name, and most people immediately said Jessica

Parents registering their babies with stupid and ridiculous ‘names’ is not OK either.

I am cringeing at all the people saying, could be worse eg Siri, Google etc with laughing emojis. Do they really think they are being original or funny? 🤯

I don’t even associate Alexa with Amazon. I think of Alexa Chung if anything. It’s a great name. The staff were unprofessional.

And I would cringe so much at anyone who found this funny. Probably the same ones on MN who snort their tea out at banal comments and are easily amused. The only person I can imagine doing this irl is my dad and he is a socially incompetent idiot.

I don’t understand why they would laugh. It’s a lovely name. I don’t even think of Amazon when I think of the name Alexa. I think of Alexa Chung who is really
cool!

How flaming unprofessional not to mention rude of the medical staff, but a sad indication of falling standards in every section of society.

I know an Alexa too, would never occur to other people I worked with to make fun of her name or anyone else's, and certainly not a patient. maybe next time member of staff comes up to you start laughing at their name

Yes, this! I worked with Mohamed Mohamed. Some parents, really. But he is Arabic, so obviously in a different culture this is probably not unusual.

I'm a teacher and we once had Alexa and Siri in the same class (international school).