You'll always be He-Ate-Bat-Soup to me, mon criquette.

I always wanted a French name like Madeliene or something that rolled off the tongue. When I was young I wrote under the name Taylor.

My parents named me Jill because there was no shorter version so I wouldn't have a nickname and be made fun of by other kids. They forgot to think of the fact my fathers name was Jack.....um hello.... Jack and Jill!! I was ridiculed mercilously(sp) for that all through school!

My Moms family was all double named like BennyDon, Helenbeth etc... so I guess she was trying to save me from that.

I'm pretty sure that pretty much no matter what your name is someone will figure out a way to make fun of it.

Being named Alex at the height of Family Ties popularity got me my fair share. And in the absence of that there was Alex Trebek to play off of.

The key isn't to avoid names simply because teasing can be imagined (though some names more explicitly invite it) it is to train your kids to not get upset by it. (Or get genetically lucky, as my parents did, and produce a child who was just always oblivious enough to not care about getting teased for whatever reason.)

When I was little I wanted to call myself Amanda. No idea why. I certainly wouldn't choose that name at 18, or even now.

Honestly, in this day and age, we DO choose our own adult names. I'm perfectly comfortable responding to Morrigoon.

My name was pretty immune to any sort of alliterative, rhyming, pun-ish teasing.

There was plenty else to tease about, but the name was never an issue.

Greg Schmeg... and... and... yeah, not much to work with there...

There would be if he was British.

Yes, but if you're a big enough dork to be using "Smeg" (read: me), you've really got nothing on me.

Strange about Amanda... I was going to be named Amanda Joanne but my father was really adamant about me being named Jennifer. So, I'm Jennifer Marie - same middle name as both my grandmother's. My daughter also shares that middle name.

I used to want to be named Alexandria or Isabella. Big names that seemed feminine and powerful.

I hate the shortened version of my first name and my middle name is just awful.

My mom wanted to name me Heidi, but my dad did not want me to be teased with "Hedi, Deidi, the wind blew through my nightie."

Ohhh-kaaay. I'm sure that would have caught on. :rolleyes:

After meeting my birth mother, who was very young at the time of my birth, she told me that if she had been allowed to keep me, my name would be Missy Anne.

I can't say that appeals to me, but I don't really have any better ideas.