TIL: Today I Learned
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Actually everyone calls me Hobbs irl these days, not even David.
One of you has to change his name. I can't have you both using the same first name.
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Or maybe you could change your name. Come, join us in a harmony of Daves, Davids, and Davys.
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We are legion.
Actually the Michael's are legion. FFS every 3rd coworker I have is named Michael.
Fear not, when the bombs drop, we will reign supreme.
If memory serves, there's a character in a couple of the Anne of Green Gables novels with that name.I usually say my name is David in public or in professional settings. People are incapable of spelling "Davy" it seems like, especially here in Vancouver where there's a street spelled Davie. I've also received a few phone calls from people who pronounce it like "Davv-eee" which is just nonsense.
In just about all my personal relationships I stick with Davy.
I've never met another person IRL with the same spelling. All I've got going for me here are Crockett and Jones.
In my experience, way too many people are called John. Two of my close friends are called John and it gets worse from there!
on John
not anymore in West Europe
worldwide John (as such) ranks 10 because of NA and East Europe
This is a nice site to check out:
http://www.top-names.info/names.php?S=M&C=1
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Note the "with local variants." Add 'John' and 'Juan' and you should be handily in the top three.
My real first name is a pretty common one, and definitely so in my generation and the one after. One year when I was working in musical theatre, there were FIVE of us with that name - the stage manager, one of her crew, two of the dancers, and me. It got so confusing that when the director yelled out, "_______!" and got five people answering her, some other way had to be found.We are legion.
Actually the Michael's are legion. FFS every 3rd coworker I have is named Michael.
So the director started calling me by the name of the crew I was running: "Props!"
Going really through the list on that linked site is a lot of work
But just glancing through it shows that John and local variant are not that high aggregated.
perhaps that site is not representative enough
but it does list 150,000 names in all, and shows all countries.
Probably also Ivan.
Overlaps with a variant of Eugene, some say.
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Yes, and the Serbian variant Jovan (which is also my father's name).
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So you rebut him by admitting he was right inside spoiler tags? Interesting tactic.
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We are legion.
Actually the Michael's are legion. FFS every 3rd coworker I have is named Michael.
Where I work there's one team of 4 - all of which are called Paul!
needless to say they're referenced by their surnames!
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