Were you teased because of your name?

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If so, was it because your name is unusual? Would you choose a different name if you could? Do you know anyone who wasn't teased about their name?

Seems like some people are pretty scared to pick anything out of the ordinary in case their DC might be teased - I always thought people found something to tease you about, if not your first name then your surname, or the way you look, or what your family's like.

Am I wrong? Genuine questions.

scarlotti - The A on the end was in reference to my first name.

My surname is scottish and isn't dirty.

Tamarto - yep, think we're in the same clan!! Ditto the not dirty albeit the spelling. I am like Bruce Willis from Die Hard!

My maiden name was Scott. Nice and simple. My Dh's name is Scott - the amount of people who thought it hilarious to suggest that he take my name ... and that they were the first person to think of that ...

They weren't!

I did once meet a girl who was called 'Ginger'. Turned out her real name was 'Virgin'. This is in Texas.

Like Flamesparrow, as a child I could never find my name on any mugs or keyrings etc.

I have an unusual name and surname, and it was a fecking nightmare growing up in the 70s and 80s, and I have always sworn that I will never give my children stupid names.

I have an unusual name which is also a boy's name, the name of a famous male actor and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Yet, despite Blackadder and Mr Bean I got away with no teasing. I used to hate not having a 'pretty' name, but now I love it for a girl or a boy. (can you guess what it is yet...)

Instead, I got teased about my height (jolly Green Giant) and the fact that I was on the children's TV game show Run the Risk

Oh and my surname sounded like Bollocks. I forgot that because people used to call me Bollocks in such a matter of fact way like it was my actual name. I even had it t-shirt with it written across the front with the calvin klein logo as the ck. Classy!

ds name is unsural and irish not herd of another one , and noone knows how to pronouce it ,not helped as ds is unable to speak ,but it can be shorterned

no, Reality, I am not Mavis.

my name is unusal (only met two others) and I never was teased about it.

Mama, I cannot confirm that, but to this day, if I drop the soap, I leave it there and open another bar!

Yes- I was teased for both my first name and last name.

My first name rhymes with 'pain', 'champagne' and 'aeroplane' and it's quite old-fashioned and english

and my last name is highly unusual and rhymes with 'mong' and is also english

so I was very english in a very welsh school, something else to be teased about.

plus being quite slightly larger than the other super-skinny girls gave the bullies plenty of ammunition.

however, by secondary school I lost the puppy fat and became super-skinny whilst the bullies seemed to gain weight!

Ha!

Yes, and my brothers were too, we have unusual names, my dd has an unusual Irish name (not Niamh or Aoife), I agree with the op, children will find things to tease you about if that is what they want to do.

I once taught a girl with a surname that on paper looked like 'Sick', but was in fact pronounced differently (foreign), and her first name started with C. = Sea Sick.

I have a very maiden name (what a quaint expression). I was saved from real torment for quite a while because most of the children in my school had English as a second language (North London in the 70s). They didnt 'get' the full implications.

That changed when I went to school out of London. They gave me hell but only for a short while as I was an extremly agressive teenager.

Couldnt wait to get married. Ironically even though my married name is much nicer, people find it very hard to pronounce. Its said as its SPELT people

Don't forget, though, that name-teasing can be turned on its head: one boy in our year (with a very bog-standard name and surname) used to bully and tease everyone mercilessly, especially about their names... until we discovered that his middle name was (is) WINDERMERE. Happy was that day indeed!

Yes, I have never been able to get a pen/keyring/etc., with my name on it. It is a hurt that never fully goes away, even with the passing of time, is it?

a girl in my school was called snoj ram and man did she get teased by the bullies
me all i got was
amanda white had a fright
in the middle of the night
saw a ghost
eating toast
halfway up the lampost

everyday all the time till i ignored it

many moons on i can still sing it it just wont go away

Got the mickey taken out of my surname.

Changed it within days of my 16th birthday and then got the piss taken out of me by one guy for changing it.

He ended up being my first serious boyfriend !

For 31 years, and counting, people have sung my name at me.

And my maiden name rhymed with some unfortunate words.

My original name was an unfortunate word (think male appendage....)

Your name was PorkSword?

People vaguely attempted to tease me about my unusual and harsh sounding surname (I totally blame bloody Eastenders).

But to be honest I would just give them a long stare and say something fairly deadpan like "öh right. you're trying to make fun of my name. I get it - it's a funny namë." - whilst all the while making face.

But saying all that I was thrilled when I married my DH who and now have probably the 5th most common surname in the country.

I have a very unusual first name (which I love) and I was teased at school. But never about my name. I do get it speeled and pronounced oddly at times, but I'm not too bothered about that, as mostly peopel say very nice things about it, generally I am remembered easily, and I can use my first name only pretty much all the time, which I like. The only thing that irriates is recpetionists asking for my name, saying "what/pardon" and then obviously not telling the person who I want to talk to anyway, as I then have to give my name again. But that's a fairly minor gripe.

I've had the shortening thing too, but I just explain that if they call me that then I just won't respond, as it's not my name. It's never not worked

Nooka - i always wondered if you had a similar name to mine...did you get a kate bush song sang to you lots?

I have a fairly unusual name (I'm wondering whether it's the same 'Cornish' name that someone else mentioned further down the thread). I was bullied a little both at primary and secondary school, but not for my name.

I did however spend time at primary school pretending that my name was Clare (my middle name) as I was aware that my name was different. Now I love it, and in combo with my surname I am apparently the only person with my name in the country...

Like Nooka, I have an unusual first name, and I was teased at school, but not primarily for my name. I suffered because my Dad was headmaster of the junior school a lot of us were at. Then we moved to the other side of the country and I didn't have any problems.

Also get the mis-spelling and mis-pronounciation but agree it's a minor gripe as I've always loved my name.