interesting, my brother is John Ross but he is named after the Antarctic explorer's uncle whom we are related to.what else that's interesting is that all of my family's names end in 'n'.Laggyteabag said:I like my name (Joe), but when its combined with my middle name (Ross) people start to realise that im named after "Friends" characters. Oh well, at least i can be happy that neither of my names are "Chandler".
Teachers used to do that all the time to me especially substitutes and I got tthe shit teased out of me.Oddly enough the only time it happened in college my friends ended up making fun of the teacher for it instead.karmachameleon said:Woo! Another Eli!UncleUlty said:I'm okay with it as it was a pretty uncommon name when I was younger(Eli), at least where I lived. Not that I hear it more often I kind of get jealous and protective of my name. I know it's silly but I can't help it.
I'm actually the only Eli I've ever known, so it still seems rare to me.
When I was younger I didn't like it -- I wanted to be Eric. I thought that was the epitome of awesome names. Now I'm content with the rarity of my name.
Unfortunately, when I first attend a new class, and the professor takes role, they tend to pronounce it like the girl's name, "Ellie". Which confounds the fuck out of me. Eli is very simple to pronounce: Ee-Lye. Simple.
PotluckBrigand said:Congratulations! I entered you in my "Coolest Name" contest and you won! Your prize is nothing except you get to go through life with a badass name.BrotherSurplice said:Alexei. Its pretty unusual where I come from (Britain). I have yet to meet any other Briton called Alexei and have only heard of one other; the Liverpudlian comedian Alexei Sayle, the man I am named after.
But in answer to the question, yeah I do like it. Its not massively wierd, and only seems unusual to most people I meet because of where I'm from, but it's unusual enough to be interesting to a lot of people.
However, if one more person tells me its a girl's name I will beat them to death with a portrait of Alexei Leonov.
Ashley (the boy's name) wins runner-up. It's true here in the US it's almost exclusively a girl's name, but I always thought it sounded cooler for a guy.
What have you done to our beautiful name?EeveeElectro said:It's okay.
It's actually spelt Emily but I thought that was crap and boring, so I've been spelling it Emilee for the past 5/6 years now. Just thought I'd try be different in the sea of Emily's at my school xP
Yeah, it's how my friend and I, who also has a name that people mispronounce often, (Kamal, pronounced Kuh-Mall) use the professor's ability to pronounce our names as a gauge to determine what kind of teacher they'll be. It ends up being pretty accurate, I think.UncleUlty said:Teachers used to do that all the time to me especially substitutes and I got tthe shit teased out of me.Oddly enough the only time it happened in college my friends ended up making fun of the teacher for it instead.karmachameleon said:Woo! Another Eli!UncleUlty said:I'm okay with it as it was a pretty uncommon name when I was younger(Eli), at least where I lived. Not that I hear it more often I kind of get jealous and protective of my name. I know it's silly but I can't help it.
I'm actually the only Eli I've ever known, so it still seems rare to me.
When I was younger I didn't like it -- I wanted to be Eric. I thought that was the epitome of awesome names. Now I'm content with the rarity of my name.
Unfortunately, when I first attend a new class, and the professor takes role, they tend to pronounce it like the girl's name, "Ellie". Which confounds the fuck out of me. Eli is very simple to pronounce: Ee-Lye. Simple.