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?

@burnoutbabe

Rowan isn't weird to me but one of my favourite kids books has a large family and a daughters called rowan. I never assumed it wasn't a name for a girl, though I know a male one too

Loved those books, with Nicola, Lawrie, Ann and Karen?

It's a lovely name.

Oh and Ginty. How did I forget Ginty?

My best friend. Her surname before she married was a synonym for "nasty". She loathed it but felt obliged to keep it until marriage allowed her to change it without any raised eyebrows. Compounded by her first name starting with the same letter as her surname- think "Natalie" known as "Natty" so Natty Nasty- she was unmissable & stood out a mile on lists! People refused to believe it was real, audibly sniggered & she was told it's a great name for a drag queen a few times!

She's got a perfectly "normal" surname now. She's something along the lines of Natalie "Natty" Long. She doesn't miss being "Nasty"!

Also went to uni with someone who changed their surname from Dick to sonething like Richardson before they went into secondary teaching!

@JarOfFarts

Sod it- I'll name change after this.

It's Lysander

I think its lovely, is it LYEsanda, or LEEsanda?

I do full my full name
They say 'is that a Disney character ' or 'is that a stage name' I think it's my surname that does it coupled with my first name

I worked with a Dr De’ath. And a Dr Love. Also had a gardener whose name was Tony Gardiner.

I would be surprised to meet a woman called Lysander, certainly. I was in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at school as Hermia and Lysander was a very blokey bloke!

I know a dentist called Payne- an Army Dentist. Major Payne the Dental Officer.

I have a surname which gets tittered at on these threads and I love it. It's short and memorable. And it's a great way to weed out people not worth bothering with (ie those who question why I would keep such a name).

And to much surprise I chose to keep it when I married even those my husband name is a synonym for awesome.

@ScarletFever Lysander doesn't have an 'a' at the end, it has an 'er'. It is Lie-sand-er surely?

Not since I changed my surname when I got married, no. Until then? Loads!

I love the name Lysander. If my daughter had been a boy she would have had it as a middle name.

@mizu

I do. Took my husband's name when we married nearly 20 years ago and let's say it is a verily famous boxer's name.

Francesca “Frankie” Bruno??

[quote Apolloanddaphne]@ScarletFever Lysander doesn't have an 'a' at the end, it has an 'er'. It is Lie-sand-er surely?[/quote]
It's Lie-SAND-er (I don't know how else to write pronunciations)

[quote Apolloanddaphne]@ScarletFever Lysander doesn't have an 'a' at the end, it has an 'er'. It is Lie-sand-er surely?[/quote]
yes- i suppose you are right, er not ah

but LYE or LEE?

I worked with a woman who hated her name and used a basic nn of it. Lee..
Hated it so much she gave it to her poor dd though..
Alethea..

I've never had that reaction, I get "oh a Bible name?" Sometimes. The only person I knew who had a bad reaction to her name was.a girl called Candida. I must admit I was like "did i hear that right?" And hesitated which i am sure a lot of people must do.

My brother shares a name with someone famous. People think he’s bullshitting a lot when he says his name.

My physics teacher at school.was Mr Newton .

I used to work with Richard Whittington. Apparently he was related!

'Fucking is your middle name?' How unusual

I book I read has a girl called Lysandra

I really like it

@ScarletFever

Not Lysander but Lysandra

I don't get asked if I'm taking the piss but a lot of people think I'm joking when I tell them my first name as it's the same as a popular singer. To be fair I'm glad I ended up with that and not some of the obscure Welsh names my mum had on her list

I went to school with a Jo King. People knew she was joking

I went to uni with James Brown. An insufferable twat, not that his parents would have known that at the time of naming him but surely they would have heard of James Brown?

I did NCT with people who had the surnames Cross and Hall and they had to do a lot of extra checking when it came to names - no George, Victoria, Albert for them!