History Main / EmbarrassingFirstName

* "Beat" from {{The World Ends With You}}. His true first name, "Daisukenojo" is so stupid, Neku wasn't even able to recognize it as a name when he first heard it (he thought 777 was cursing at Beat).
** Especially painful for him, considering that it's just a more sucky version of the perfectly nice japanese name "Daisuke". Had his parents just held back the last three Kana, they would have saved him lots and lots of suffering.

* In LoisMcMasterBujold's [[VorkosiganSaga Barrayar]], Lieutenant Koudelka ("Kou" to his friends) and Miss Droushnakovi ("Drou" to her friends) are embarassed at their wedding when they have to publically admit to their first names, Clement and Ludmilla. (Drou continues to go by her nickname even though she chooses to take her husband's last name)

* In [[LoisMcMasterBujold Barrayar]], Lieutenant Koudelka ("Kou" to his friends) and Miss Droushnakovi ("Drou" to her friends) are embarassed at their wedding when they have to publically admit to their first names, Clement and Ludmilla. (Drou continues to go by her nickname even though she chooses to take her husband's last name)

* Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. He used his initials professionally, and his friends called him "Plum".

* The male lead in David Palmer's ''Emergence'' told the narrator, with a [[AdamAndEvePlot suggestive smirk]], "Just call me Adam." She thought that was pretty cheesy (they were both ''eleven'' years old), but didn't blame him nearly so much after she found out his parents christened him, "[[OverlyLongName Melville Winchester Higginbotham Grosvenor Penobscot-Jones IV]]."
* In HopeWasHere, by Joan Bauer, the title character changed her name to Hope at the age of 13. She absolutely hated her original name; Tulip.

* Blossom from [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/ Rhapsodies]] has the first name of Petronilla. While she doesn't go out of her way to keep it a secret she prefers that it's only known as an initial.

* A certain Middle Eastern name can become this if it's Romanized as Shithead in America, or as Shyteed (spelled similarly to "shyted") in Britain.

* NYPD officer [[http://www.slate.com/id/2116449/ Loser Lane and (to a lesser extent) his brother Winner]]. Funnily enough, as said in ''Freakonomics'', "Although he never hid his name, people were uncomfortable using it. 'So I have a bunch of names,' he says today, 'from Jimmy to James to whatever they want to call you. But they rarely call you Loser.' Once in a while, he said, 'they throw a French twist on it: ‘[[ItsPronouncedTroPAY Losier]].’' To his cop friends he is known as Lou."

* The main protagonist of ''TalesOfVesperia'' is named [[GirlsLove Yuri]] Lowell...Really do you ''need'' to even make fun of that?
** Well, it is a male name in Russia, isn't it?
** Yes it is. It's pretty much the equivalent of George.
*** Many gamers and anime fans are probably familiar with [[HeyItsThatVoice Yuri Lowenthal]], and if not that, then Yuri from {{Dirty Pair}} would also have desensitized them to the name.
*** And for a certain group, there's [[ShadowHearts Yuri Hyuga]]. His mother was [[spoiler:passing as]] Russian.

* In ''[[{{Fallout}} Fallout 3]]'' there's an NPC soldier who uses the code name "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Captain Gallows]]". No one in the Brotherhood of Steel (not even in the [[TheSquad Lyon's Pride]] ) [[TheQuietOne knows his real name]], to the point where there's a large betting pool for whoever finds the name. If the player has a high enough speech skill then they can convince him to reveal that his real name is [[spoiler: Irving]].

*** It becomes a certainty when a celebrity has such a name. "Misha" is a diminutive of "Mikhail / Michael," but Mischa Barton has ensured that the name now has a severe case of "girl-cooties."
** Now utterly demolished by Misha Collins.
Similarly, there were several Byzantine emperors called Alexis, but Joan Collins' character of Alexis Carrington from the '80's soap Dynasty has meant that few men in English-speaking countries now bear the name.

*** It becomes a certainty when a celebrity has such a name. "Misha" is a diminutive of "Mikhail / Michael," but Mischa Barton has ensured that the name now has a severe case of "girl-cooties." Similarly, there were several Byzantine emperors called Alexis, but Joan Collins' character of Alexis Carrington from the '80's soap Dynasty has meant that few men in English-speaking countries now bear the name.

* Meet [[http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080208/NEWS05/80208042 Landocalrissian Butler]]. No, he's not a smuggler, or a card player, but he seems to be quite a scoundrel.

* In one episode of ''Life Support'', the character Penne finally gets her revenge on her parents for giving her an awful name by sending them to Germany and getting them arrested under its strict child-naming legislation.

* ''ZetaGundam'' has a male lead named Kamille, who naturally hates his feminine-sounding name. He eventually falls in love with a girl named Four, who has similar issues with her name (in her case, because it signifies that she is a number rather than an individual).
** It becomes hilarious when you realize there never would have been a ZetaGundam if he hadn't been named Kamille, and the AEUG probably would have lost or at the very least have a longer and blooder war.

* ''ZetaGundam'' has a male lead named Camille, who naturally hates his feminine-sounding name. He eventually falls in love with a girl named Four, who has similar issues with her name (in her case, because it signifies that she is a number rather than an individual).

* People with the first name Rachel. Apparently from an Old English place-name meaning "high hill", the etymology being Old English ''raecan'' (literally "reach") and ''hyll'' (hill, the -el bit of the name). Association with Rachel Uchitel and Tiger Woods hasn't helped...