16 Things Only People With Unique Names Will Understand

[name_m]Ah[/name_m]! It’s so exciting meeting another [name_f]Jemima[/name_f]! :slight_smile: We don’t have the pancake mix here (Australia) so I often say ‘like the Puddleduck’ too! If all else fails, there used to be a doll called [name_f]Jemima[/name_f] on a popular kids’ show called Playschool, so that would usually get a reaction :slight_smile: I still think the mispronunciations are worth it - I love my name! You have great taste :wink:

Haha! [name_f]My[/name_f] mom has a very unusual name that’s actually fairly phonetic but she still gets it mispronounced at her all the time – it’s Chrisann but telemarketers and such will say anything from [name_m]Christian[/name_m] to [name_u]Lou[/name_u]-ann. That’s probably the only problem she gets from the list. A big one they missed is people always wanting to call her by a nn instead, even when she introduces herself as her full name.

On the flipside I have an extremely common name – so common that there was a girl in my school with nearly the exact same full name (even our unusual last names were the same but for one letter). We used to get each other’s school stuff all the time and once I was nearly grounded for her bad grades. It was no fun to be consistently mixed up with another person. We laugh about it now whenever we see each other at local bars now that we aren’t in school and having our records mixed up anymore.

All my older relatives spell my name like [name_u]Page[/name_u]. I don’t even correct them because if they don’t know by now that it’s [name_f]Paige[/name_f] then what’s the use.