I have no fake names lined up. Which is why I just use my own name everywhere. I just registered somewhere with a fake name for the first time!

My first name came from the newspaper. While pregnant with me, Mom saw someone in the Wedding announcements whom she thought was so pretty, and thought that was a good name, Andrea. My middle name is a bit of a family name, insofar as it is the same as one of my aunts' middle names, Lea.

I never settled on an alternate first name (other than the brief period in adolescence in which I wanted to change my name to Andriana). But I have often thought that if I needed an alternate last name, it would McAnally, my paternal grandmother's maiden name.

The short answer is, I was named after my father. I'm a Jr., which was far from unusual for first sons in the early '60s. If I'd been a girl, I'd have been named Elizabeth, but I don't know why.

Not sure how my grandmother came up with Frederick George for my father. But she was quite fond of classical music in her younger days, and there is a composer named George Frederick Handel.

Oh, but reading that Peter Dinklage interview reminds me that I do have the best porn name: Angel St. James. Also that I walked away from The Station Agent wanting to date Dinklage more than Cannavale, and who could have predicted that??

So very sorry for your loss Jilli. Much peace to you and your family.

My head hurts me so much that I want to cry. Fuck this.

My porn/drag/stripper name of choice is Baba Ganouche. Which I think goes pretty well with my sister's online pseud, but hers is just a Jamaican town name.

My mom was named after her grandmother (traditional in Irish families), but got saddled with another family name for her middle one which she really hates, Agnes. I believe Dad was named after a family member in his dad's side in Sweden, and he also got a family name from his mother's side for a middle one, Albert.

My father was named after two astronomers. I gotta say, pretty random for a small-town Jamaican boy. He goes by neither. He uses his mother's surname as his first name.

Sara was named both for my mom, whom I adore, and for Sara Crewe. Her middle name, Grace, is mostly for the grace note she is to our family, and because, uh, it sounds pretty.

I've always had psuedonyms, pen-names and stage names. They change over time, but I'm always planning them.