Do you have an unfortunate name? Or know someone else that does?

[DrMadelineMaxwell]

It's been drawn to my attention by DH this week, that because of my habit of trailing the end of the word away to a squiggle when I'm signing my name, I've been signing everything as TWat_ for quite a while. He found this hilarious.

And I can't even blame him for his unfortunate surname beginning as I was another name beginning with Wat...before I married.

Ohhhhh ok ok I do now

Mehboob

@Fionasmammy

Annus: arabic muslim name Nina nannar the news woman

It's a Hebrew, girls name actually:

www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Annus

Mike Cock. Actual colleague. Lovely, amazing, talented man. But 🤷‍♀️

The surname Wank.

She's American and apparently it doesn't mean masturbate over there

@BrassicaBabe

A lovely customer named Olive Branch. By marriage

I really hope she's a professional mediator.

I know someone called Robin Banks and a man called Terry Bell lives in our village.

I worked with a woman called Daria Flynn-Stone years ago, she had been Daria Flynn before marriage to Mr Stone. I assume she had a sense of humour because she must have chosen to double barrel her name.

Our next door neighbour when i was growing up was Vernon Strange. He was quite odd, you never saw him and his curtains were always closed. Every window.

@BlackberrySky

I once came across an American man called Randy Bumgardner. Always had a giggle at that one!

You came across him? How unfortunate

m.youtube.com/watch?v=jl1Zfz-Widc

Fanny Chmelar 😂

I was at school with Anthony Pratt, and worked with I. Blewitt.

Also worked with Ms. Annal who everyone called Ms. Anal.
And my hydrology professor at uni was Dr. Flood.

I very briefly dated a Wayne Kerr

Worked with a Chinese lady called Wai Ting (her parents don’t speak English).

School knew a boy called William Williamson, and his Dad was also William Williamson (so really my classmate was William Williamsonson?), North Wales, I wonder how far that went back in the family?

My DH used to go to a vet when he was younger called Peter Nutt, making him peanut, better still his wife was Hazel.

I used to know a Robin Hood.

In the rural area I live in there are two Robin Hoods - although one is a female, so Robyn.

Pratt and Cox are very common names here, no-one thinks anything of it!

There is a family called Schat - I always hoped I never had to phone them and ask for one of them by name, then I found out it is pronounced Skat.

I know someone called Alexa. Not an inert ate name as such, but it must be such a pain in the backside these days.

then I found out it is pronounced Skat.
Not sure that’s any better tbh!

@LyndaSnellsSniff I know Robbie Robinson and Richard Head, I think we must both be from a town beginning with Hor?

Probably massively outing but oh well.

Went to school with kids named Tom Cruise, Edward Case and Mel Gibson.

My favourite is I worked with someone called Iona Dick.

I wish I was making this up

Oooh and as a child we lived next to Richard Richards.

I know a teacher called Mr Cockshott

I once worked with a Jacqueline Hyde
That's brilliant

I used know a Drew Peacock. I was always surprised given his surname that he had shortened his first name from Andrew to Drew.

Tess Teacle (married name)
Chris Cross (married name)
Kelly Kelley (married name)
Carol Carole (married name)
Wendy House, with a brother called Maxwell.

My grandparent’s Doctor is Dr. Bottom-Whetham (pronounced wet’um)

I know a sweet young lady called Youme

Her parents looked into each other’s eyes and said: “it’s because you and me made her” ... they then split up before she was in school and she’s saddled with the name.