If you had to change your first name to something uncommon, what would you change it to?

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Bort

Don't do it! Novelty license plates for that name are always sold out. I've been trying to find one for 30 years.

I was visiting someone at Yale, and as we were walking through town I saw a car with an actual BORT license plate.

I was the only one who got a kick out of it though.

It was 2 phones ago, so not sure where the picture lives these days, but I have proof somewhere!

Now why is that the first thing that came to my mind too??

Not sure how uncommon you're looking for, but I think I already did this.

I chose Sage.

According to some quick googling (read: not sure how accurate this is), Sage wasn't in the top 500 names for my birth year, but my given name was top 100.

Though both names I've used have been trending towards more common for most of my life. Looks like my original name is now a top 35 most common, but Sage is still outside the top 100 for females and outside top 300 for males.(Really wish there was more data for the popularity of nonbinary names. I think Sage is probably one of the more popular enby names, so maybe it's not all that uncommon, depending on how you define it.)

Cool name. I have nothing productive to add, but Sage against the machine just came to me as I was reading your comment. Please feel free to do with it as you wish.

Something old, like a name from Sumer, Akkad, Elam, maybe something Hittite.

Epirmupi, Shamsaki, Puzur-Inshushinak, Ninurta, Lugalzagasi, Tiglath-Pileser, Hattusili, Suppiluliuma.

I'm loving the creativity here! To me though, "uncommon" implies that it's not like completely unheard of either. so, my choice would be "Midge"

Dekkia.

I already use that name everywhere online, might as well put it on my passport.

Nebuchadnezzar. It has an air of nobility about it and no-one would be able to spell it, ever.

My username is my first name, and I'd say it's already pretty uncommon!

I always thought Ziggy was a cool name.

Don’t change your name to that unless you play guitar. As a non-musical man who gets compared to John Lennon a lot, I’m doing you a favor.

I've already got a name that puts me quite comfortably in the 1% of names used in my country. It's not as cool to have a uncommon name as you think. It's easy to get picked on, you never can buy those souvenir mugs or keyrings with 'your name' and it gets misspelled.

I mean I've written a book where my name is on the cover and one review managed to misspell it...

Otoh. I once met someone on holiday in Ireland that said 'i one met a kid with that name and it was in Croatia, about ten years ago'.

That kid was me. If I had a more common name we'd never have known.

Puck like Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream

Reason: that'd be hot

That was my name back in Japan. Had to change it because it would be too easy to vandalize, people could just scratch off the P and turn it into an F or whatever

Hey Pac-Man! How's Namco treating you these days?

I always thought that Fox was a cool name for a dude ever since I watched the X-Files. If I had to change my first name, that's what I'd pick.

Throckmorton. Saw it in an example problem in my highschool physics textbook and I still think about it

Uncommon in my culture: Makoto (disclaimer: I think Makoto might still be more common in my culture than my real name)

Uncommon in general: Kitty

I already did, but I won't be sharing it in a public forum :P

Doesn't apply for me, but nonbinary folk are great for this question because they all name themselves after random inanimate objects (which is 100% valid)

I’d probably pick the unique name of someone very famous, in the hopes that I could still hide myself online by having references to me shoved 10 pages deep

Zach, short for Zachariah. Variation of my fursonas name Zachary (well, technically Zach because he prefers using that over the full name).

Also the name of a Fire Emblem Heroes character I totally want to get more screen time because I think he's cool, as a casual.

My first name is already uncommon, or even rare. At least in the US; it might be more common in Europe, though still probably uncommon there.

But I always liked the name "Hiram." Not just uncommon, old-timey as well.