Hebrew. I’m named for a character in the old testament. I’ve met lots of people who share a first name with me.

My name came from a Catholic saint that was on the calendar the day I was born, along with a feminized version of my French grandfather’s name.

Family name (one character) is said/written first, then the given name (two characters for me… and I assume for most people).

Same here. My Chinese name was given to me when I was a kid upon enrollment at a [Chinese] school. Unfortunately, when my dad’s employer sent him to work in the UK we didn’t know anyone who spoke Mandarin. 王 is my given surname and quite common. My maiden name is famous in some parts of the world, not in America.

It’s not too late to change your name, you can have mine if you want.
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I got a odd religious name that I’ve since dropped for my Anglo name. It’s been a drag my whole life having a weird fucking name. So many people asking the same five or so questions everytime I meet someone. I’ve had a few hospital stays where every person who came made the same dumb small talk about the name. My last surgery the change of name forms had gone through and no one asked me why I’m called Andrew, which tbh was glorious.

First name is ultimately derived from Hebrew, it’s one of the most common names in the English-speaking world, and variations of it are similarly popular in basically every place where Abrahamic religious have a foothold.

It’s fine. I’ve met plenty of people with my name, I don’t particularly like or dislike it, it is just my name.

My last name is kind of interesting. It’s ultimately of Italian origin, but sometime after arriving in America someone basically decided that it sounded too Italian, dropped the vowel at the end, swapped out about half of the remaining letters, and created a new name that kind of sounds similar to the original.

Looking at it, you’d probably never peg it as an Italian name. Sometimes people look at it and try to pronounce it as if it were French, but that’s not how we pronounce it.

I rather like my last name. I probably use it more than my first. It’s got a nice ring to it, it’s unique, there’s rarely going to be anyone else around with the same name to avoid confusion, it’s got some fun family history to it, and as far as I can tell, it doesn’t exist anywhere in the world outside of my family.

Unfortunately, my family is pretty uncreative with male names, if you look at the top 100 names in the US from the last 100 years, my entire family tree can basically be found in the top 10 or 20. I’m aware of at least one other person with the same first and last name as me and there’s probably a good handful more, and there’s a solid chance they have the same middle name as me too.

I rarely see the extended family so not a huge deal.

Boring English name. It’s fine.

I met someone with my same first and last name when they called my name to come up to the podium at the airport gate and two of us showed up.

I’m a Norwegian with a pretty common nordic first name. My last name is a very rare one, and it denotes a very small area where my family is from.

I’m quite happy that you stick with your Chinese name. You should never give in to the pressure. I’m Belgian. My country has three languages and the French speaking friends always mess up the pronunciation.

When it matters, like when I’m certain I’ll meet them again, I correct the pronunciation. I became better at it and found words for reference. So when they pronounce the word correctly, they get my name too.

I’m English. My name is derived from an ancient Greek word that has been anglicised.

I have an extremely Jewish name despite being a worthless, filthy gentile. I like my name. Not crazy about the backstories.

I worked with a lot of Japanese in the past, and if they anglicized their name they would pick one that sounded like their Japanese name. Ryu became Leo, Haru became Harry. We had a Tommy (I can’t remember his Japanese name, it was similar to Tommy).

Or just pick one. Names aren’t that important in the US, unless you belong to some weird family dynasty.

My first name is Hebrew, it was supposedly the name of the father of David. My last name is Italian, apparently it was once a derogatory term.

Name is pretty much as Porguguese as it gets. And there are many people who share it. It’s not quite on the same level as “Smith” in the west. But it’s high up there. Coupled with an almost stereotypically common first name in Portuguese, there are probably thousands of us.

I don’t hate it. I used to. In fact being the only kid with a weird name in a rural high-school on the Canadian prairies, I quickly anglicised my first name by dropping the “o” from Paulo to Paul. I somewhat regret that, but what’s done is done. It’s been so long now, adding the “o” back would be weird for everyone.

From what i learned mine comes from latin meaning nobleman

Germanic/Nordic name. I’m an American. The name sounds like it comes from my European heritage, but it has no family history, just randomly selected. And my spelling is less common in America, which has led to a lifetime of having to spell it out or correct when it has been mistranscribed (literally, people would read it from a paper and transcribe it wrong when typing it).

Now that I live in the Netherlands, at least there are no transcription errors. People are less unfamiliar with my spelling here

Extant in Latin and roots in Proto-Indo-European presumably. I’ve met many with my name.