The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Happy Name Yourself Day.

In honor of the holiday, the QotD is: Do you wish you had a different name?

Would you change your given name if you had the chance? How about your stage name?

For me, being a junior has been a pain in the ass over the years. And since I recently became the victim of identity theft, I've been thinking more and more about tossing away bits of my name. Maybe getting rid of the middle name and the junior. As for my stage name, I love being Niveous.

In real life, I hang with lots of hippies, burners, and pagans, many of whom have chosen names for themselves. Many of these strike me as kind of silly*, but I do often wish I had a name different from my real one. "Jon Eric" is a shortening of my actual legal name, but even this I find too clunky sometimes. I haven't yet heard any other name I find suitably "me," though, and I've got a considerable body of work under the name Jon Eric, so I'll be sticking with it for the foreseeable future.

*Names that real people I know have taken for themselves:
Snoo
Osk
Aria
Savanni
Huggles
Fractalia
Purple
Athene
Io
Gallows

i like bill. sometimes i'd like to dump the william. i actually did use 'bill' in the wedding, vows and all.
heuristics inc. is fine. occasionally i wonder if it is hard to spell. but i like to pick new names for new collaborations. that's fun.
-bill

There is not one Charles/Charlie/Chuck joke that I have not heard. I don't know what I'd pick, but I don't think it's up to you. Like George picking his nickname on Seinfeld. The del Stinko name was not thought out very well, but I guess I am stuck with it. Paco is cool, del Stinko is kinda dumb.

Generic wrote:In real life, I hang with lots of hippies, burners, and pagans, many of whom have chosen names for themselves. Many of these strike me as kind of silly*, but I do often wish I had a name different from my real one. "Jon Eric" is a shortening of my actual legal name, but even this I find too clunky sometimes. I haven't yet heard any other name I find suitably "me," though, and I've got a considerable body of work under the name Jon Eric, so I'll be sticking with it for the foreseeable future.

*Names that real people I know have taken for themselves:
Snoo
Osk
Aria
Savanni
Huggles
Fractalia
Purple
Athene
Io
Gallows

Suddenly "fluffy" doesn't seem so bad.

I hate my real name but I haven't come up with anything better for real-life purposes.

My name "Chris" isn't very masculine. Especially when people call me Chrissy or Chrissy Pissy. But Christopher is ok. Charlie (Paco) calls me Chrispy, so that's kind of cool.

Billy's Little Trip is different, so eh, it's fine. But the origins of the name have sort of faded away. So have no problem with a new one. Or just simply going by BLT.
I like my art submission name, William L. Tripowtski.

My real name comes from an author whose book my dad illustrated, and my middle name after the doctor who, legend has it, saved my dad's life when he was a kid. So there's no changing those. I didn't like my name when I was young because I never knew another Roy except my namesake and that wasn't cool at the time. My best friends' girlfriend in HS called me roymond, and that stuck. In college there were four Roys in my dorm, so I got to feel what's it's like to be a David or John for a change.

I go by Fluffy pretty much everywhere. But I guess if I changed my real name legally I would probably go with the name of the main character of my "will never finish" novel.

Morgan Kefka Barros