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[–] [email protected] 93 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Robert'); DROP TABLE Students

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Possibly more annoying choice: The right to leftoverride character

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can we call you little Bobby tables?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

that's how my parents call me, yeah

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I feel like Little Bobby Tables has grown up, and should now be Robert'); DROP TABLE loans;--

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Don't do it! Novelty license plates for that name are always sold out. I've been trying to find one for 30 years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I was visiting someone at Yale, and as we were walking through town I saw a car with an actual BORT license plate.

I was the only one who got a kick out of it though.

It was 2 phones ago, so not sure where the picture lives these days, but I have proof somewhere!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

SomethingUncommon

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not sure how uncommon you're looking for, but I think I already did this.

I chose Sage.

According to some quick googling (read: not sure how accurate this is), Sage wasn't in the top 500 names for my birth year, but my given name was top 100.

Though both names I've used have been trending towards more common for most of my life. Looks like my original name is now a top 35 most common, but Sage is still outside the top 100 for females and outside top 300 for males.(Really wish there was more data for the popularity of nonbinary names. I think Sage is probably one of the more popular enby names, so maybe it's not all that uncommon, depending on how you define it.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Okay, but are you a lawyer?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lol. Yes I am! How did you know?? 😜

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I get a sense about people.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Something old, like a name from Sumer, Akkad, Elam, maybe something Hittite.

Epirmupi, Shamsaki, Puzur-Inshushinak, Ninurta, Lugalzagasi, Tiglath-Pileser, Hattusili, Suppiluliuma.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Ea-nāṣir! πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would absolutely trust someone with this name in commercial dealings.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm loving the creativity here! To me though, "uncommon" implies that it's not like completely unheard of either. so, my choice would be "Midge"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's just Jim backwards.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Thanks, I hate it lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

New full name: Theophrastus Bombastus

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Dekkia.

I already use that name everywhere online, might as well put it on my passport.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nebuchadnezzar. It has an air of nobility about it and no-one would be able to spell it, ever.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

My username is my first name, and I'd say it's already pretty uncommon!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I've already got a name that puts me quite comfortably in the 1% of names used in my country. It's not as cool to have a uncommon name as you think. It's easy to get picked on, you never can buy those souvenir mugs or keyrings with 'your name' and it gets misspelled.

I mean I've written a book where my name is on the cover and one review managed to misspell it...

Otoh. I once met someone on holiday in Ireland that said 'i one met a kid with that name and it was in Croatia, about ten years ago'.

That kid was me. If I had a more common name we'd never have known.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I always thought Ziggy was a cool name.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Don’t change your name to that unless you play guitar. As a non-musical man who gets compared to John Lennon a lot, I’m doing you a favor.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Andromeda, probs. I'm a sucker for constellations and stargazing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes hi there my name is \n

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Common, the Rapper.

Not to be confused with Common, the rapper

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Biggus. Now guess what would I change my last name to.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Puck like Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream

Reason: that'd be hot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That was my name back in Japan. Had to change it because it would be too easy to vandalize, people could just scratch off the P and turn it into an F or whatever

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Octavious Shitwagon

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I always thought that Fox was a cool name for a dude ever since I watched the X-Files. If I had to change my first name, that's what I'd pick.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Throckmorton. Saw it in an example problem in my highschool physics textbook and I still think about it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I already did, but I won't be sharing it in a public forum :P

Doesn't apply for me, but nonbinary folk are great for this question because they all name themselves after random inanimate objects (which is 100% valid)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Uncommon in my culture: Makoto (disclaimer: I think Makoto might still be more common in my culture than my real name)

Uncommon in general: Kitty

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

"nil" or "null"

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