29 People Answer The Question, “What’s The Biggest Problem You Have With Your Name?”

In a super interesting and sometimes hilarious (but also equally infuriating) conversation, Twitter user Marcus Vance asked people what their biggest name problems were. And let’s just say, there are plenty of them.

Do you ever walk into Starbucks and give the barista your name—only to end up with something that barely resembles it scribbled onto the cup? How did Peter become Tiffany? What about having a name that no one can pronounce? Does it take forever to get someone on the other end of the phone to understand who the hell you even are? And what about the dreaded double-barrel surname? Oh, the horror!

By the way, the author of this article—hi, my name is Lisa Marie Basile—gets either, “Are you named after Lisa Marie Presley?” (God, no), or “Oh, like Bastille Day! Are you French?” (I’m Italian, and there’s no T in my name). 

You’re (sadly) not alone, Mark — er, we mean Marcus. 

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