More name stuff.
A friend elsewhere reminded me many boomers and early GenX folk don't use their birth names - they go by nicknames that may be nothing to do with their actual birth certificate name.
I realised of my immediate family, mum, her brothers, dad, his brother & wife - and all their *kids* - none of them use their biological name. three quarters use entirely different names. the rest use similarish nicks.
It's just me. only me, who uses the name on my birth certificate.
Holy wow.
June T. Michael
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Moving to Germany, where most people use their legal name in their daily offline life, including parents, spouses, friends with each other, being adamant they can't call me by the short form, as "that's a distinct name, not the same, we don't do this here". (Think of Tatiana / Tanya - not my real name, just the pattern.)
Name culture is diverse :D
Flesh
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •You ask people to call you "Homo sapiens"?
Nanoraptor
Als Antwort auf Flesh • • •Miga
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Graham
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •I had a family member who went by Scooter for his entire life, well into his 70s.
I also had a coworker where he and all his brothers had the first name Michael, so they all went by their middle names.
Names are weird.
Alan Francis
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Anonymous Freak
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •GenXer here.
Other than online pseudonyms, I go by a "common shortening of my given name."
In high school, I was on yearbook my senior year.
One obnoxious prick insisted on deadnaming the one trans kid at school at every opportunity.
I discovered that he went by "not his given name." He went by a nonstandard shortened version of his middle. (Think "Johnny" when his middle name was "Jeremiah".)
His parents named him "Merlyn".
You bet your ass I made sure he was listed as that.
WooShell
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •WooShell
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •My uncle goes by a shorthand of his real name, as do/did all the women in my family.
I'm only using my real name with family, to everyone else (incl coworkers) I'm Woo or WooShell as I had that nick since the 90s..
Petherfile
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •The Stage Rabbit (he/him)
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •FlyingCowMan
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •my dad never used his birth name, even as a kid.
These days he mostly uses it as a filter for telemarketers. Anyone calling him by his legal first name is trying to sell him something.
Hugo "Dark Satanic" Mills
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Both my dad and a maternal great grandfather went by their official names... but in both cases, that wasn't the name that was originally anticipated by their parents.
Dad would have been Paul, but was born on March 17th, so ended up as Patrick.
GGF was christened Cecil, but we think the vicar had an attack of administrative deafness on being told that the baby's name was Thistle.
vulgalour - Free Range Queer
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