What is your RL name and is there a reason why you're named that?

[Hatman 🍁]

Carl Erwin after my grandfather who passed away 5 months before I was born. Else I would've been named Ryan Patrick.

Im confused. In the OP you said your name was Jacob Thomas Matthews II.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Carl Erwin after my grandfather who passed away 5 months before I was born. Else I would've been named Ryan Patrick.

Your last name would've been different, too?

Also, welcome back.

No, my middle name is Erwin.

My name would've been Ryan Patrick Schulz.

But thanks.

Im confused. In the OP you said your name was Jacob Thomas Matthews II.

Yeah, I lied about that. Internet aliases ftw?

[Free Palestine]

My legal first name is Bobby.  Not Robert -- Bobby, it says that on my goddamn birth certificate.  Because my father is an idiot.

I hardly consider it my "real" name.  Anyone who I give a crap about knows me by my preferred name, Morgan.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

My legal first name is Bobby.  Not Robert -- Bobby, it says that on my goddamn birth certificate.  Because my father is an idiot.

I hardly consider it my "real" name.  Anyone who I give a crap about knows me by my preferred name, Morgan.

That's better than the lead singer from the band The Used. His birth name was Robert McCracken and he chose Bert to be the name he went by.

Bert

Not Rob, not Robby, not Bob, not Bobby, Bert

[Free Palestine]

My legal first name is Bobby.  Not Robert -- Bobby, it says that on my goddamn birth certificate.  Because my father is an idiot.

I hardly consider it my "real" name.  Anyone who I give a crap about knows me by my preferred name, Morgan.

That's better than the lead singer from the band The Used. His birth name was Robert McCracken and he chose Bert to be the name he went by.

Bert

Not Rob, not Robby, not Bob, not Bobby, Bert

I also don't care for my surname, which is Polish and starts with an S (and seems to be common in south-eastern Poland).

And, my parents (well...my mother calls me Morgan if my father isn't around) call me "Bob."  I'm not sure if it's worse when my father uses the full form.

It's such a terrible thing, when you have to be called names you have no affinity for.  My father lies to himself and thinks I'll grow out of it, but that's crap.  And I've hated my legal name nearly all my life.

[California8429]

Alex for Alexander the Great.

My middle name is my dad's and his is his dad's

[memphis]

I was named for my father's cousin, who died of cancer at the age of 19. I've long thought it a heavy burden to be named after somebody who died so young and tragically. As if I'm supposed to be a replacement, like the Simpsons' cat, Snowball II. But whatever. It's now my name and I'm sticking with it.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Gabriel. My dad liked the name, and it's pretty Hispanic.

[Redalgo]

Christopher Martin Clark Cunningham - I usually go by Chris and oft condense the full name down to C. M. C. Cunningham when ending a memo, email, letter, or the like. On forms I sometimes have to drop the second initial or use a shortened first name, or letters in my surname are liable to get clipped off and cause me all sorts of grief.
 
The first name was changed from Lance after I was adopted at a couple weeks old, and the fact that my birthday is December 25th probably had a big role to play in the selection, ironic as it is considering how irreligious my dad is and I eventually became years later. Martin and Clark were the names of my grandfathers on the maternal and paternal sides, respectively. The surname Cunningham presumably traces back to Scotland but so far as I can tell his side of the family is of predominantly Irish and English heritage.

I don't really love my first name but on the other hand have yet to think of anything else that rolls well off the tongue, and it seems much easier to take on a lot of varied pseudonyms and nicknames depending the kind of setting I am in than to go through the awkward process of getting anything changed... which would be needlessly disrespectful of my folks, anyway, and in all seriousness would probably leave me having second thoughts after-the-fact. So it does not really matter. Things are fine the way they are.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Zachary

I was born the same day as this guy so my parents gave me a name that began with Z kind of in honor of him (my dad is a huge Twins fan.)

[morgieb]

Morgan Campbell are my given names.

Morgan - paternal grandma's maiden name.
Campbell - maternal grandad's first name, plus his mum's maiden name.

I would've been called McKenzie if I was a girl :/

[Niemeyerite]

Julio is my real name, of course.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

David, because...I don't know. I think it's St. David of Wales.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Gabriel. My dad liked the name, and it's pretty Hispanic.

Well, never mind. Turns out I was named after Peter Gabriel.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Christopher Martin Clark Cunningham - I usually go by Chris and oft condense the full name down to C. M. C. Cunningham when ending a memo, email, letter, or the like.

Too bad you can't go with C. C. C. C. because of "Martin".

[Donerail]

Samuel, go by Sam. Not sure why though.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Christopher Martin Clark Cunningham - I usually go by Chris and oft condense the full name down to C. M. C. Cunningham when ending a memo, email, letter, or the like. On forms I sometimes have to drop the second initial or use a shortened first name, or letters in my surname are liable to get clipped off and cause me all sorts of grief.

My first and last names are both in your name!

[Insula Dei]

Christopher Martin Clark Cunningham - I usually go by Chris and oft condense the full name down to C. M. C. Cunningham when ending a memo, email, letter, or the like. On forms I sometimes have to drop the second initial or use a shortened first name, or letters in my surname are liable to get clipped off and cause me all sorts of grief.

My first and last names are both in your name!

Clark Cunning? Sounds like a Marvel villain.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

Georg.
Apparently it's common on my dad's side of the family.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Georg.
Apparently it's common on my dad's side of the family.

I can only thing of the Von Trapp family when I hear that name.

[Хahar 🤔]

Zachary

I was born the same day as this guy so my parents gave me a name that began with Z kind of in honor of him (my dad is a huge Twins fan.)

You're named in honor of Zoilo Versalles? That's seriously awesome. He was one of the worst players ever to win the MVP award (even though he deserved it that year).

[k-onmmunist]

Louise.

And no.

[Torie]

My first name is named after my mother's college, Stephens (my aunt also went there, and guess what, her daughter is named Stephanie for the same reason), and my middle name is my mother's maiden name.  She "owned" me.  But I got back at her, and then some.

The earliest known Dunn is found around 1750 owning an island in Mathews County, VA holding a fishing patent from the King to work the estuaries in Chesapeake Bay. Family lore promoted him to an "English sea captain."  The internet demoted him back down to his true station.