Comments on: Video: What’s your name?

By: Izabelle Weise

Izabelle Weise — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:35:27 +0000

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By: Lee "Tsali"

Lee "Tsali" — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:19:38 +0000

My family has a strong Native American background through our father, and even though we have different mothers he was the one that named us. My older siblings were all legally given their Native names, Tavia, Jon Mingo, Sancira (San si ray) (it means “Morning Star”), Taiawagi (Tah Ee Ah Wa Hard G Gee) (Holder of the Heavens), and Manitou (Mon ee too) (spirit), and then my little brother and I were named Daniel Corey and Lee Steven (although I was named Lee because my father never knew his own, so in a way he was trying to get to know my grandfather, who died when my dad was born). Although we were given Native names, we were rarely called by them, and in my search for my own personal identity I started going by Tsali once I got to school (it’s my third year in college now). Sometimes I lie and tell people that Lee is short for Tsali (Teh sah lee), copying how most people call my older brother Tai (Tie). I’m really thinking about changing my name to Lee Tsali, since I don’t like Steven (ironically, this is the first time one of the mothers of my dad’s children had influence on a name, and it’s because she always had a Steven in her life).

By: Eli

Eli — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:04:09 +0000

I’ve finished reading your blog and I wanted to reply to some of the posts, but I am afraid that my commentary might be unsolicited especially if they are too long or not particularly interesting. So that’s why I made a post here if you have some time to waste.
http://kiselazelka.blogspot.com/2010/06/whats-your-name-my-whole-name-is-elitsa.html

By: Dax

Dax — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:35:48 +0000

My name is Dax. It’s of french origin, but it really have it roots on the gauls that inhabited the northern part of France, many many years ago. I like my name, short and easy to remember. I’m not French or live in France; actually I live in Panama (Republic of), my dad is of spanish descendant and my mother is chinese, so go figure. My mom named me after the main character of a novel she was reading when she was pregnant. This is where things get weird…. my second name is Tennessee. Yes…. I’ve said it! I was named not after the state but after Tennessee Williams, an american author. So living in a country where everybody speaks spanish was a little bit tough for me. Nobody could pronounce or spell my name correctly. I still struggle with it. but I’m happy about my names. They are unique, on a country that everybody is named Juan, Pablo or Carlos.

By: Debojoti Basu

Debojoti Basu — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:03:54 +0000

My name means “God’s light” in hindi. It’s pronounced “They-bo-jo-thi”. I used to have a lot of trouble with it when I was a kid, I was pretty adamant not to shorten it or anything, but people in N.A. (bless their souls) can’t make such sounds come from their mouths, so they called me anything under the sun, from deboti, to deBOjoti, debra, and some fun ones like debohottie and debohotstuff. It’s all fun and games but I agree that mispronunciation is a distortion of who I am, and it I think has greatly affected my early years. Not quite fitting in, with the added + of being an immigrant. People have decided to change me because it is easier to do so and remain ignorant. I admit I have grown accustom to it. I’ve embraced the abbreviation “Deebo”. I wonder if I would have grown-up to be different if I had forced people to say my name right…I love my name, it’s a reflection of my culture, of the love my parents had for me and my brother (who also had a similar name, and changed it to Dave) and i think it’s sweet. I think though that since we adapted our names better to our society, we were more easily accepted and things just became a little easier. I sometimes wish I hadn’t made such a sacrifice of my morals to appease a severely ignorant (albeit, against their will perhaps) nation of easy to remember mostly two syllable names…I definitely do appreciate people who put an interest in it and I understand affectionate or friendly nicknames, but i suppose it’s just the society. Even back where my name originates, things are starting to change…I should start an army of interesting name-d people and party about, then maybe we can gain popularity and eventually rule the world…

By: Tania Dudina

Tania Dudina — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:03:15 +0000

My official Ukrainian name is “Tatiana,” but everyone in my family called me “Tanya.” When we moved to the U.S. just in time for first grade, I decided to start off as exclusively as “Tatiana” (because I thought it sounded more mature), and I tirelessly corrected everyone who called me anything else. Then for some perfectly logical reason I can’t quite recall, I decided by the second grade that hereto-forth I shall only be called “Tanya”. THEN in middle school, I got so sick of teachers calling me “Tatyana,” that I convinced my mother to legally change my name to “Tania” (with – I thought – prettier and less Russian-looking spelling than “Tanya”). And so I remain until something possesses me to try something new. What I’ve learned though is that names are like uniforms, you feel different depending on what you have on, so choose carefully.

P.S. Ella I love, love your blog.

By: Mark Giles

Mark Giles — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:17:43 +0000

My name is Mark. I was named this because my parents wanted to leave their “mark” on the world. My job is being a camera assistant in film and television. In the course of my job I take a lot of marks, so I think I was aptly named. I thought of the cameras as soon as your sister said her name.

By: Marcus MacGregor

Marcus MacGregor — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:42:50 +0000

I love my name. When I was born my parents were under a lot of pressure to name me after various family members. Name him after uncle Jack or Grampa James and so on. In order to not show favouritism to anybody my dad, a history major, researched it and named me after nobody in the family.

You see, Marcus means the son of war, Mars. It is the most common name for a Roman emperor. Now when the Romans got to Scotland, they looked at the MacGregors and said’ “You know, I’ve had enough of conquest. Let’s build a wall and go home” Not a lot of Roman/Scottish overlap.

So I’m the only Marcus MacGregor. When I want a username of marcusmacgregor I get a “sure”, rather than “would you like marcusmacgregor2784?”. It actually weirds me out when I don’t get it. That’s usually when a Mark or a Mcgregor alters their name slightly. Although marcusmacgregor.com is currently held by a name camping company. LOL. I think they can wait until it expires.

When I google myself I get, me, me ,me, oh yeah I remember that, oh man who’s talking about me now. It’s like an instant scrapbook.

If you know another Marcus MacGregor, email me at my hotmail account.

By: Yann

Yann — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:22:13 +0000

My name “Yann” is a Brythonnic Celtic version the English John, the Danish and German Jan and the French Jean, one of the most spread name in Europe with equivalents in pretty much most Latin and Germanic languages. This version is from the western region of Brittany in France. Now living in Netherlands, where the equivalent Jan is quite common, Dutch keep (usually on purpose on calling me “Jean”, although i do my utmost best to act as un-French as possible. Though not a French name per se, it seems to only be used there, principally in Brittany.

By: James

James — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:18:29 +0000

My full name doesn’t fit on licence application forms (and most other government forms). The number of middle names went up in 2002 when the NSW Police Force told me to either change my name or fill in a new application using my then full family name. Counting my current given names and family name I have 5 (the rest of the kids have 5 names, but 3 given names and 2 family names). Another thing my parents decided, all the kids names start with J. Being the eldest, I got the new clothes and the others got hand me downs. Getting mail and phone calls were interesting. When asked which J K they wanted: female narrowed it down to 1, but when wanting male, there were still 3 to choose from. And if they asked for Mr. K there were 4 to choose from (Mrs K only 1, Miss K only 1).