What's your first name? (Given at Birth)

[Ihazpaws]

My first name was Aatu. I definetly did not like that name because it was nickname for Hitler in Finland. My surname also starts with "H" so other kids called me Hitler because of Adolf Hitler = A.H and because my name literally was same as Hitler had as a nickname. Also many gives that name for dog for some reason.

Anyway my current name is Aada (because of sexchange). I told my parents that they have to give me new name because otherwise I would feel like throwing away a name they gave me when I was born. They chose Aada because it's similar, it's common, it's simple and it is like super normal name. There is nothing special in that name other than it's pretty common name right now. They knew that I wanted to have name that has nothing special linked to it.
Aada is like Ada but is pronounced way differently since Fins pronounce letters differently than English person would.

[Stelio Kontos]

Ιωάννης, Ioannis in English.

English analogue would be John.

I like it. I usually tell xeno friends/gfs to just call me 'Ion'.

[Dr Assbandit]

Toothry Sevin

I'm going to be so very disappointed if that isn't your actual name.

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Ιωάννης, Ioannis in English.

English analogue would be John.

I like it. I usually tell xeno friends/gfs to just call me 'Ion'.

Ion is a fantastic name. Though I'm not sure how Ioannis turns into John .

[Stelio Kontos]

Ion is a fantastic name. Though I'm not sure how Ioannis turns into John .

Not sure either, but it's been that way for centuries. The diminutive form is Giannis. Similar to Giovanni (John in Italian), Johann (John in...Germanic, I think), and Ivan in Russian.

I think the original Hebrew name was Yohannon. From there the Greeks took it, then it spread through Europe.

[Dr Assbandit]

Not sure either, but it's been that way for centuries. The diminutive form is Giannis. Similar to Giovanni (John in Italian), Johann (John in...Germanic, I think), and Ivan in Russian.

I think the original Hebrew name was Yohannon. From there the Greeks took it, then it spread through Europe.

I think a lot of these names especially Abrahamic ones evolve over time such as Joseph and Younis are actually referring to the same person religious history wise.

[KrazyK923]

Matthew. Dad named me so after an angel or saint or apostle or something else in catholic mythology.

Whoops turned out he was a gay atheist instead.

[Santura]

I don't tell people my real name so, my nickname that I chose is Rae. No it's not a short version of something like Rachel. My nickname is nothing like my real name.
As for my real name, no story I assume. Probably just picked it cause it was a common name at the time.

[kail]

Alex.

My parents picked it, common name I guess.

It's alright.

[Theodarzna]

Hint: A common and even popular Welsh girls name.

It starts with an L but isn't the ɬ sound of the Ll.

[endersblade]

Was named after a character in a religious book I have no affiliation with, involving a den of animals. Needless to say, I hate it. I actually went by my middle name, which is 'the average - ' name, for a time.

The only people who actually refer to me by that name are family - my friends and others call me Darien. Long story, don't feel like getting into it.

[ls-]

Russian: Valériy
Chinese: 永康 (Yongkang)

Both names have the same meaning, Valeriy originates from Latin valeo - be strong, healthy, etc. 永康 literally translates as forever healthy. These names aren't so popular among younger people.

Non-Asian people prefer to call me Val, almost all Asians prefer to call me Yongkang, it's easier to memorise, as they say

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I like both of them. The only peeve is when people stress "iy", like in French name Valery, whereas in my case "e" is stressed, as in Spanish Valerio. Some people even fail to repeat it correctly after me, thus I prefer to use Val instead.

It's gets really weird, when I'm around my buddies who're from different parts of the world, half of them calls me Val, another half calls me Yongkang, it confuses strangers a lot. Some people tried to call me Khan (that's how Kang sounds), but I always stop them.

[Dismembered]

Melissa. I like it fine unless somebody calls me smelly melly. I'm not even smelly.

I loled a little bit because we have something like this in Germany too for the name Ursula, it is called Uschi die Muschi haha, I won't translate it now, pls no bannerino mister moderino.

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What's your first name only?

Michael

And what's the story behind it?

From the Hebrew name מִיכָאֵל (Mikha'el) meaning "who is like God?". This is a rhetorical question, implying no person is like God. Michael is one of the seven archangels in Hebrew tradition and the only one identified as an archangel in the Bible. In the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament he is named as a protector of Israel. In the Book of Revelation in the New Testament he is portrayed as the leader of heaven's armies in the war against Satan, and is thus considered the patron saint of soldiers in Christianity.

And do you like your name?

I love my name because it can be used in any language, I just love my name

[MissAnonymous]

Sonja. I like it in real life exchanges. I like hearing it; I think it sounds great. But I hate the spelling. My biggest pet peeve is people phonetically sounding out the J (Son-JUH). The J in Sonja makes a y-sound instead. I wish it were spelt Sonya or Sonia instead, so I could avoid that terrible mispronunciation.

The story is simply that it was my grandfather's favorite name for a girl, and he had only grandsons until I came along. He pretty much twisted my parent's arms to get me named that... which is odd, since he had 3 daughters of his own, but meh, what can you do? Maybe it wasn't his favorite until later in life, hard to say. I never asked.

[turboether]

I was named after a Welsh prince.

[Radio]

Mathew. (Not Matthew)

Named after a good friend of my mother's in high school, atypical spelling included.

The name has given me a surprising amount of first world grief for such a simple alteration. At best it's constant mispells by other people in emails, at worst it's getting official documents or billing accounts misnamed due to the person filling it out. The issue is further compounded by having a short, simple but foreign surname.

Despite this, I have become oddly stubborn and proud of my minor and trivial claim to being a special snowflake.

[Floofi]

Kyle, no story that I know of, meh/10.

[Lochton]

First name is, Morten.

No story behind it, was given at my birth because I apparently looked like a 'Morten'. The name itself as a string off the old name, Martin.

[Narveid]

Joachim

It's a bitch when I'm travelling, as I've yet to meet a native English speaker who's able to pronounce it without a lot of help.

[Super Kami Dende]

Named after an American President. Not because of the who he was/what he did but because my Father heard the Name on TV and liked it.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Hint: A common and even popular Welsh girls name.

It starts with an L but isn't the ɬ sound of the Ll.

I don't know Welsh and I won't Google and cheat. So I'll say Linda.