James (surname) Puns

If you had to go with the name Apollo St. James or Apollo St. Germain which would you go with and why?

Hello fellow komodos,

I've been thinking about this for years and decided that I want to get this over with. My grandparents were the last of my family who have chinese surname in their official names. My father and mother do not have their chinese surname in their official name. Why? Pak Harto.

Let's say that my chinese surname is Theo (張 or Zhang in Mandarin). And they gave me names like this: James John Theodore (not my real name obviously). So, it's not a chindo style surname, it's basically a western-based name that has the similar spelling as my surname. They thought it was cool, and yes I'm a Gen-Z.

And I kinda hate this name. I wouldn't mind at all if they gave me a chindo style surname like Suwandi, Tanuwijaya or Halim. But this, it's not a surname, it's basically a western-based first name. I don't mind having western-based first or middle name at all, but for last name, I want it to be based on my culture and history. Even chindo style surname has some history behind it, even though it's not necessarily pleasant.

So I decided that I want to change it for good, since discrimination based on name were long gone (or at least I hope so). I want to change it to my mother surname (example: Lim, so, James John Lim), because my father is an a-hole. And also I'm planning to study and work abroad (if opportunity is given) and explore the world. So a proper name would be much easier in the future. And also I don't want to be "cap" as a white-worshipping person because I go full blown western name.

I've talked to my family about this and they're fine about my decision. So, my mom asked this to a calo (like any other oldies when they want to do surat-menyurat), and they told my mom it's gonna cost about 2 jutaan and they can't guarantee the official will accept my application because the official need a "reason".

TL;DR this is my reasons:

1. Name discrimination were long gone
2. I want a "proper" name, so it's easier for me to do travel, study or work abroad
3. I don't want to be known as "white-worshipping" person
4. I want to change it to my mother surname
5. I want to appreciate this surname tradition

Question:

1. Has anybody experienced this process of changing names because of similar reasons?
2. How long did it take?
3. How easy is it to get done without calo?
4. Do I need some old school reason like "sakit-sakitan" or something like that? Or should I just say that "I want to add my real surname to my official name"?

Title says everything. What will be next, Ayaka Storm?

The original Burst name was Manyou no Ittou. Has no sense to suddenly name something to English when everything else is named in Japanese.

EDIT: Thank you u/chouginga_hentai, u/darkALYE and u/KaliumNa to point this out.

When translating "Manyou no Ittou" to english, the translation could be any of these:

1. Blade of Ten Thousand Leaves
2. Ten Thousand Leaves' Slash
3. Slash of Ten Thousand Leaves

However, by some weird reason, the English team decided to change it to "Kazuha Slash".

u/darkALYE mentioned that this is a pun due Manyou no Ittou's japanese kanjis being 万葉の一刀 (Manyou no Ittou), because Kazuha in kanji is also written as 万葉, but can be read either as Kazuha or as Manyou. "no Ittou" would been translated as "Slash", so that's why Mihoyo translated it as Kazuha Slash.

However, since all other names (Elemental Skill, Skill Effect, and Plunge effect names) are kept in Japanese, it is not logical at all to name the Elemental Burst as "Kazuha slash", so that's why I said that feels unprofessional to keep the japanese name on everything else, but not the Burst name, which is the Special Move of the character and the most iconic technique.

And regarding "Kaedehara Kazuha", I understand why is his surname kept, however, on the Team List it should been displayed just as "Kazuha", the same with Kamisato Ayaka once she is also released, mainly because seeing there the surname and name doesn't look good at all, the font turns very tiny, even show just Kaedehara alone could been a good choice.

I’m from Canada but my boyfriend is French, and he can often guess where someone is from based on their last name. I think this is super cool and would love to hear some tips so I can keep up with him!

For instance, he once mentioned something like surnames ending in “-escu” and some others are indicative of Romanian ancestry. I could be recalling that incorrectly, but stuff like that I find very cool and I would love to hear some from your country! Please don’t hesitate to say obvious ones, too. :)

TL;DR: I’ve proven beyond a shadow of a doubt the long-running fan theory that Michael Bay’s The Rock is the last chapter of Sean Connery’s run as James Bond 007, and have come up with a full narrative that is completely consistent with the continuity of the six Connery Bond films, Connery’s backstory in The Rock, and actual world history.

If you’d rather watch a video than read a 3000 word essay on Reddit, then you can do that here: https://youtu.be/9FdnevXjqdc

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The Rock was released on 7 June 1996 – exactly 25 years ago (greetings from New Zealand time). To mark this anniversary, I decided to go through the evidence – in WAY too much detail – that supports the fan theory that Sean Connery’s character in The Rock (John Mason) is James Bond. You have probably seen the odd article about it like this one, or this Reddit thread, or this entry on FanTheories.com, but trust me when I say that NO ONE has looked at this theory in this much detail and there is WAY more evidence than people think.

Plot refresher

The Rock is the second feature film directed by Michael Bay. It’s about a decorated US war veteran Francis Hummel stealing a bunch of chemical weapons, taking hostages on Alcatraz, and holding the US Government to ransom until reparations are paid to the families of the soldiers who died under his command.

FBI Director Jim Womack and the Department of Defence enlist the services of convict and former British special forces operative John Mason to help the Navy Seals break into Alcatraz, using his knowledge of the prison from when he broke out of it in 1963. Mason teams up with chemical weapons expert Nicholas Cage to break into Alcatraz and disarm the missiles before Hummel’s deadline.

The fan theory

Almost since this movie came out, there has been speculation that Sean Connery’s John Mason is in fact James Bond. This is usually based on some surface level lines about the fact that Mason was “trained … by British Intelligence,” that he was “a former SAS operative,” and the fact that he was captured in 1962 – the same year the first Bond movie (Dr. No) was released. The fan theory usually says that Bond’s escape from Alcatra

In the second round of this past NFL draft, I noticed that three players whose surname began with O were drafted in a span of five picks. I thought that was a strange coincidence. But it inspired me to check out this page: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/O/.

Eyeballing it, it seemed that quite a large percentage of the players were active in the league. I decided to graph it out.

Roster sizes have remained the same since 2011, so here's the graph of the number of active players whose surname starts with O, for every year since then. That is to say, there were 27 active O-named players in the league in 2011. And there were 48 in the league in 2020. A 78% jump, and I have no idea why.

https://imgur.com/a/l8NQ0D5

This data, of course, is just as useless as that neck size to passing yards graph, but at least this data is real.

So I’m pregnant with my boyfriend and I’s first child. I’m Puerto Rican and he’s as English and Irish as you can get. Because we live in England, I want our child to have an English first name but want to have their Spanish culture as part of their middle name. We don’t know what we’re having yet, but have found it impossible to think of boys names. Personally, I love names like Liam, James, John, classic names. and I like a lot of Irish boy and girl names.

For a girl, we’ve basically been set on Harlow Elena or Harlow Elisa. But is Harlow too out there and strange? Im definitely more into classic names and less of the uniqueness that’s been popular recently, but I don’t want to damn my kid if Harlow is too strange of a name.

If anyone has literally any suggestions that fit this English Spanish pattern, throw them out there. Literally anything you like and think sounds nice.

ETA: last name is Ramsden

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I (44f) was in a toxic relationship. My ex "Joe" (49m) met me when I was 15 and we started dating when I was 18. My mom was against the relationship and I moved in with at 19 because I thought that since she was never married she didn't know what she was talking about. I won't go into more details but eventually I wised up, reconciled with my mom, and moved away. Not that Joe made it easy.

I later met my other ex "Eric" (45m) and I told him about Joe and said that he might reach out to him. I warned him that Joe was a liar and just a terrible person. Fast forward to me being 7 months pregnant with our son "AJ" (20m). This was my first pregnancy and I was very nervous because it wasn't planned. I was worried that Eric would leave me after the baby was born and constantly asked him to reassure me that no matter what happened he'd still be here. Eric always did until one day he didn't and I started noticing that he was becoming distant.

Eventually he told me that Joe reached out to him and showed him pictures of him engaging in "adult acts" with a woman and said that it was me and that he was my baby's father. You can't identify who the woman is so Eric brushed it off at first but then he thought about how I was always getting him to promise me that no matter what happened he would never leave me, and now he had doubt. I told him the reasons why I needed to hear him say he'd stay, reminded him how crazy Joe was and even got others to back up my story, and told him that I don't even want to talk to Joe let alone be near him.

Eric said that he understood but, to ease his mind, he wanted a DNA test. I was upset and very insulted and asked what if I ever did anything to make him believe that I was a cheater. Eric admitted that I never gave him a reason so I said that there would be no test. We got into a fight and Eric said that he refused to sign the BC until a DNA test was done. I was hurt and moved out. I didn't talk to him and gave birth with my mom by my side. We took the test and Eric was the father, he tried to apologize but I didn't want to hear it. I would never deny access to our son but I felt like he wasn't reliable so I gave our son my surname so that incase Eric left him then my son wouldn't have to deal with his own name being a reminder of the father who might abandon him.

Now that AJ is a legal adult he said he was interested in taking Eric's surname and I was fine with that but he asked me why he never had his dad's name i

Not a massively serious one here, just a short rant about passive aggressive notes and texts.

I'm 40+2 (come on baby!!) and am receiving the inevitable daily/hourly messages from both sides of grandparents essentially asking whether we've had the baby yet (yes because of course that's the sort of thing we'd just forget to mention... also we texted you back 45 minutes ago and no we haven't had it since then).

The actual rant is about how MIL keeps tactfully removing my surname when she refers to our baby - we don't know if it's a girl or a boy and they get regularly referred to as 'baby OPSurname-SOSurname' as they will have both our names double barrelled (the names go well together and are both short so that's not the issue). Whenever MIL texts she always drops my surname from it and it's so obvious she does it. I always respond politely and just reinclude my surname.. she still doesn't seem to get the point.

She dropped round a disgusting 40+ year old baby towel for us yesterday (as a wonderful thoughtful gift) along with a note, again referring to our baby as 'baby SOSurname'.

I'm not losing sleep over this as I find it almost amusing at this point and baby will be registered with the double barrelled surname regardless so it's sort of a moot point. I just wish I knew what was in her head and why she does it, it's clearly not accidental. I don't think she's brave enough to actually bring it up of she has an issue either (see my last post for spinal activity).

I’m interested to know peoples opinions on surnames as first names. They seem to get a lot of hate on here and often called trendy, but they have a huge history in American culture, particularly southern culture. Especially women passing on their maiden names or other family names.

I personally grew up surrounded by surnames as firsts and never thought anything of it, until I joined this sub. I have always thought it was such a cool and meaningful tradition, and I love names that have an interesting history behind them. But honestly it sucks to see a part of your culture that you love being bashed all the time. Or maybe I’m just reading too much into a few comments?

So, what are your thoughts on surnames as firsts? If you hate them, why? Do you hate all surnames or just certain ones in particular?

Ones that are too out there like Whitman, Collier, Montgomery, etc?

Just sick of seeing the same names over and over? Like Jackson, Blakely, Collins, etc?

Do you consider any of them usable? Names that are somewhat established but not overused like Lawrence, Ellis, Bennett, etc? Or names that have already become well established like Tyler, Morgan, Blake?

I mean I get not liking them all, there are many in particular that I don’t like. I’m just referring to the general outlook on them as a whole. Whether you like them, hate them, or are indifferent.

Whatever your take is, I’m interested to hear it!

Just curious. I don’t have a surname; my name is in the form [given name] [child of] [father’s name], and I publish as [given name] [father’s name]. What do other people do?

Edit 1: For those asking “how could someone not have a surname”, I gave a few examples in a comment here, and other commenters have given examples from other cultures as well!

Edit 2: I’m aware of the options available and of the great thing that’s ORCID — was just curious what other people do :)

Long story short, I’m changing my surname due to a family break up and, were I male I’d also take the opportunity to change my middle name to Cedric. It’s my all time favourite name - it’s the only name that’s ever ‘clicked’ with me, it just feels right. The way it looks, the way it sounds, everything about it is perfect to me. Unfortunately, given that I am female with a 100% female first name (think Sarah or Louise), that’s not an option.

So I’m looking for your opinions - I know it isn’t usually used as a surname, but would it look totally out of place if I were to adopt it as my new surname? My rationale is that traditionally male first names like Scott, Michael, James are also used as surnames.

What do you think?

[some extra details - I’m female, early 20s, and from England]

Just curious, since we see so many different languages. I know not all names have a meaning/can be translated but I’m sure some can.

Something that is an uncommon word with a specific meaning, for example:

Kismet - destiny or fate

Overmorrow - the day after tomorrow

Doesn't have to be an English word either!

A little list, obviously not all of them:

Zúñiga, Zubieta, Zárate, Zamudio, Vizcaíno, Vergara, Veloza, Velazco, Velásquez, Velandia, Vargas, Valenzuela, Useche, Uscátegui, Urrutia, Uriza, Uricoechea, Mendoza, Leguizamón, Giménez, Goyeneche, Gorraiz, Godoy, Garay, Gaona, Gamboa, Galindo, Espitia, Eraso, Duarte, Chacón, Contreras, Cárdenas, Borda, Bolívar, Bohórquez, Bernal, Bayona, Atehortúa, Ayala, Avendaño, Arévalo, Araque, Amaya, Aguirre, Ibarra, Iriarte, Mendieta, Mojica, Muñóz, Olave, Olano, Orozco, Ortega, Ortíz, Ospina, Otálora, Ricaurte, Suescú

Here they are too fucking common, while this is backed historically, since basques went a lot to Antioquia and the southern cone, specially Chile, i wonder if elsewhere this surnames are common

also basques are believed to form a secret aristocracy that controls the continent but let´s ignore that

Do not steal this post, thanks

So I've made some posts prior to this about my bfs mother that absolutely loooves inserting herself into everything and making everything about her.

Well yesterday for the 1st time bf stood up to her😳

She was giving him the "silent treatment" for a few days cause he didn't come over to see her on demand as he had work to do, that didn't last long as she wouldn't stop ringing him NON STOP yesterday.

I don't know the whole conversation and he didn't tell me all of it but basically she was saying how he hasn't seen her in a month and what has she done to deserve this...he told her he saw her last week, but she said no that wasn't enough you only saw me for an hour!! Saying how there HAS to be a bigger reason to why he hasn't seen her, he told her that he has his own life and he's been busy. She was trying to manipulate him saying that she feels "let down and disappointed" because he doesn't want to see her everytime she demands to (which is like twice a week..)

Then ofc she had to bring up her dear grandchild into it how she won't see him often because her son doesn't even want to see her....and he said well you won't see him on demand no but you can still be involved. They were going back and forth about that and he said that we have our own lives. Then she said "well I want to be an important person in my grandchild's life!!" And he replied "it depends what you mean by important" definitely did not expect him to be that blunt but he is 100% right since she feels like she's going to be the 3rd parent, not happening.

Idk what else was said but she still was trying to guilt trip him because she wasn't getting the responses she wanted, saying how he isn't the same like he was before and that she feels like she's not a part of his life anymore 🙄🙄 then ofc she started crying.

The only thing that changed is that he's going to be a father...they were never really that close, she's only been demanding for him to see her this often since I got pregnant.

I told him this whole thing was her trying to emotionally manipulate him, I felt bad because he looked very stressed. I don't understand why these narcissists behave this way, as soon as they don't hear what they want to they make you feel bad like you're the one that's being unreasonable.

And Today, oh boy

She called him and started talking about our unborn child again. She asked bf what our son's full name will be and he told her, she got angry and said why is the surna

can anyone help me out? I’m an African-American trying to explore my African roots, and I’m looking for ways to trace back to my origin. I’ve always wanted to find out what my surname would’ve been. I want to find at least an original African ancestor or relative of mine, if any. Also, I tried to explain & title this the best I could I hope y’all understand lol.

All players in my title lineup played in last match (therefore substitutes who played could be included too), except for Andreas Christensen. I changed Rüdiger out with Christensen since Rüdiger didn't have a middle/surname.

I was thinking about this the other day - there was a story about recently passed Romanian singer Nelu Ploieșteanu, and I started to laugh about how weird it would be to hear in English - "George Bostonian" or "Jay Brookliner". What about in your language?

Hi there , I am considering applying to German universities but I really don’t why parents did not include my surname on my birth certificate at first. Not having surnames is common in north . This means that it’s only my name without surname in all official documents class 10 , 12 mark sheets Aadhar card. While registering at a an application portal I tried filling my surname with ‘-‘ but it failed it is mandatory to have a name there my name is harsh so should I fill in harsh again please help it’s really important. my_qualifications: grade 12 now doing bachelors.

I've been searching for the answer for mine since I was like 11 lol. Because in Spain almost everyone knows the backstory to their surnames and where exactly they came from. Some even have coat of arms.

My surname is quite uncommon in Romania, supposedly a Hungarian one, but even Hungarians that I've asked said It didn't sound familiar.

At school I've been bullied by kids that thought I was Asian due to It lol.

And whenever I search it Up It just shows that It exists in Romania and Hungary, India and Sub-Saharan African countries in certain tribes lol.

And I have always envied the Spaniards for having such easy surnames like Hidalgo, or even romanian ones like Ungureanu lmao

BTW: I am in now way asking anyone to disclose personal information, please don't do that haha. I'm just curious about whether my situation is more common than I thought in the Balkans, or if most surnames are more easy to trace back its roots.

Also, I've just foolishly deleted the post the first time because I forgot to put a flair or tag whatever theyre called.

But now I've realized I'm not even getting the option of using one lol

In the Netherlands, there are many crazy surnames such ‘naaktgeboren’ (born naked), ‘de koning’ (the king, or ‘anus’ (anus). This is because many Dutch were protesting against the occupying French (Napoleon), who mandated everyone to have a surname. Many people thus choose crazy surnames, which survive until this day. Does your country also have a lot of crazy surnames?

My only theory is that Superintendent McAfferty adopted Mac after Henderson's wife shot her husband.