To ask if anyone else gets an "are you taking the piss?" reaction when you tell them your name?

[JarOfFarts]

Luckily I have a thick skin! 😂

Does anyone else get this reaction, or other strange ones?

No. What's your name?

As always.... pointless thread without your name.

Sod it- I'll name change after this.

It's Lysander

I think it will become less common as more and more people have "unusual" names. I have certainly met more children with unusual names than adults. I would be surprised to meet an adult called Lysander, but not surprised to meet a 3 year old with that name.

I'd just think 'Oh, your mum must have been a Jilly Cooper fan...'

My name's boring and traditional

All the time for my surname!

Lysander is a beautiful name & it shows the ignorance of the uneducated oaf who reacted negatively.

There are name suggestions on the baby name board which makes me go wtf often. Here are a few gems for a girl:
Collins
Brighton
Holland
Gage
7even (as number 7)

Might be worth telling these hormonal women looking for unique names your experience.

If you like your name, then ignore what others say, and if you don't like it you could change it to something you do like. I can't imagine that many people are so openly offensive about it?

“I'd just think 'Oh, your mum must have been a Jilly Cooper fan...'”

...or Shakespeare...

As a fan of both Jilly Cooper and then Bard I like it, although I can imagine you do get some interesting reactions.

Gage? As in Pet Sematary?

I may have been tempted by this for a boy (huge SK fan)

My DS' have got "boring" names (I and they both like them).

I usually introduce myself as Sandy

I love lysander, my midsummer night's dream is my fav and was it also used for Buffy?

My son was almost a Lysander. I love it . We went with something equally out there at the time, 13yrs ago, which has now soared in popularity, especially on MN.

Is it an “are you taking the piss?” reaction or a “wow, wasn’t expecting that” reaction? Are you a man or a woman? I’d be fairly surprised if a woman told me she was called Lysander, but in the grand scheme of things it’s not that weird a name in itself.

Someone mentioned Buffy the other day! I've never seen it, so I didn't get the reference.

If you want another twist to the tale...my middle name is

Fucking

SPENCER!

No piss taking as such, but I’m brown, my name isn’t a ‘brown’ name and I have had people (especially in business meetings) who clearly weren’t expecting a brown person and clearly unhappy about my browness. By the time January comes round and I’m not as tan I get “oh your name doesn’t sound Italian”.

@ComtesseDeSpair

Is it an “are you taking the piss?” reaction or a “wow, wasn’t expecting that” reaction? Are you a man or a woman? I’d be fairly surprised if a woman told me she was called Lysander, but in the grand scheme of things it’s not that weird a name in itself.

An "are you taking the piss" way. Don't get me wrong, I don't cry into my pillow- I find it quite funny actually! I just wondered if anyone else had the same reaction when telling people their name.

My db does because his first and second names begin with the same syllable. I had a school friend who thought I had made him up because nobody would be so mean as to call their child that!

@JarOfFarts

Luckily I have a thick skin! 😂

Does anyone else get this reaction, or other strange ones?

ooooo just testing out the quote function

Forgot to answer your other question: I'm female.

Simon for some reason my TTS isn't reading the quotes for me, so i can't use them! 😂

Offtopic but I the buffy character is Xander which I thought was derived from Alexander.

OP I love your name, it is unusual and I may do a double take if I met you but not in a taking the piss way, more in a that's very cool way

Our surname sometimes gets a few odd reactions- especially teamed with DHs professional title. It was actually featured on a radio talk show once in disbelief...

Is it something like "Tooth" and he's a dentist?

When you put my first name and surname together it sounds really posh (and the name is unusual). So I tend to get a bemused reaction when people come face to face with a fat, jolly, 50+ working class mumsy sort.

I just laugh at it all.