Aren't Our Nora and Tom the McWaringles? Okay, not legally.

My father suggested that family friends B. Lamb and V. Munn should acronym to Nnummbal, to be pronounced "Numb ball." They decided against this, and kept their names.

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They decided against this

Can't imagine why.

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Here's the bit where I chime in with my sister's friend's mother who changed her name on marriage to Moyston Cummings, and thinks that's perfectly okay.

I only know the friend, who doesn't share that last name, and I don't think I could be formally introduced to the mother without dying on the spot.

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I don't know how your friend manages to introduce her without dying on the spot.

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I tried like hell to get Joe to take "Miracleborn". He didn't go for it.

"Wayne" or "Kent" he would have gone for.

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who changed her name on marriage to Moyston Cummings,

This is me, being 12.

A lot.

wipes off monitor.

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If the Moyston-Cummings managed to screw up the monitor I'd really be impressed.

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Hee. You people are funny. I was Kristin MiddleName DexH'sName MyLastName while I was married (and he was FirstName MiddleName HisLastName MyLastName), but the four initials thing drove me batty. I changed legally back to Kristin MiddleName MyLastName when we divorced. Nice, especially since California makes you spell out your **entire** legal name on your license and mine didn't fit. My actual last name was bumped down a line, so people were constantly using the wrong name during ID checks. Annoying. Now it fits nicely again.

In terms of nicknames, I went by Kat for a while (my initials), but it never really felt like my name. It's still a nickname my best friend from back home uses, but otherwise I'm just Kristin. Some of my close friends call me Kris, which is fine, but I am Fay in that it annoys the crap out of me when people I don't know well shorten my name. I had a cow-irker back in CT who I didn't particularly like in the first place, and she called me Kris from day one. Grr. Made my resolve not to smack her in the face every time she opened her mouth much more difficult.

In non-name news, I am at work and enjoying not having a class first period. It's the first day since school started that the rotation allows me to be free in the morning. And by "free" I mean "free to slounge around on b.org."

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Some hyphenate, some concatenate (my mother is professionally MaidenName MarriedName, but socially just MarriedName),

That’s exactly what I want to do, I shall concatenate! I now have a word for it

But to my parents it felt like wholesale rejection, like I didn't want anything to do with them. I'd hurt them needlessly enough with the whole eloping thing, so I went ahead and kept them all.

Would that my brother had your wisdom.

I am now finding that hyphenating is considered outre or weird most of the time. Lots of people comment on my name, and most of the comments are negative. (And just to add to the weird, DH says that he gets lots of compliments on the name, LOTS.)

Yes, because he’s progressive and concerned about his wife’s need, but you’re uppity and are rejecting tradition. shakes fist and screams “Whippersnapper!”

It stuck to the point that now almost everyone I know only knows my name as Drew and are a bit surprised when someone from my past calls me Andrew.

Intellectually, I know that your name is Andrew, but you’re just not an Andrew. A Drew, yes, but not an Andrew.

trying to picture you as spencer...

are you for hire?

Only if his first case is to find the miscreant who replaced the S

Just ask Wentworth Harry Hugent Sylvester Constantine George Augustus St Elmer Mundle.

Heh. I have a great grandmother with nine first names. Her mother was told by several relatives that she would get a gift if she named my GG after the relative. So, she named her after ALL of them.

I have to come out and make it clear that it's not my name, even though this invariably comes across as rude, because otherwise I'll be wanting to knife them.

Oh, yes, that I get. Some people try to call me “Stephie”, and I shut them down very quickly. Steph is fine, Stephie is fighting words. I usually just look at them quizzically and say “do I LOOK like a Stephie?”

Eventually, it will be Aimee Middlename Mother'sMaidenname Father'sLastname Conat Radcliffe.

BWAH

I tried for a brief while to go by "AJ" in high school. It didn't catch on.

It’s hard to change your name with people who know you. You either have to do it when you make a transition, or with a complete stranger. My dad tried to do that when he went to college – he wanted to be called Hawk. And this is pre-Spenser novels (to come full circle)

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Oh the joy of names. I would like to drop my first name as my family never used it and I don't particularly like it (Joanne). I've gone by a shortened version of my middle name since birth. I would never have changed my last name, much to the chagrin of my most serious boyfriend's father. Had we gotten married (thank GOD we didn't), it would have been an Issue cause it was important to the future FiL and to me. Perhaps if I married young I'd have felt differently but I've done too much I'm proud of with my name. GF and I have talked about the kid thing (what last name would we use). I like both of our last names so I don't think I'd care either way. The name wouldn't make the kid less mine. Maybe just pick the one that sounds nicest with whatever name we chose.

We have been teasing GF's mom with the notion of using a combination of her name (Lynette Odelia) and my mom's name (Deborah Ann). "Little O'Deborah! Sweet Debette! Adorable Lynebrah!" Hehehehehehe. She's really taken to calling the phantom grandchild O'Deborah.

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