Always like Nons Mo King :D

My mom told me if I was girl my dad wanted to name me Fortune. So I’m sure I would have become a stripper.

Family name?

Miss Fortune

Have come across a woman named La-a. Only, she got upset when it was mispronounced "La dash a," and would (clearly upset) correct that it is actually "La daa sha." It's a dash, not a daash!

Have also known a caucasian/American guy whose name is spelled Adam. But it's not pronounced "A-dam," but rather "A-dom." He also would get upset when it was invariably mispronounced.

Southwest agent totally wrong for making fun of the name publicly. But if you're gonna have (or your parents are going to give you) some wildly unusual name or a name with some pronunciation that deviates greatly from typical American society/phonics, don't be surprised if people botch it for your entire life. Don't name your kid something like ABCDE (izzat for real, or some sort of typo?), and then get all self-righteous when people don't know it's supposed to be "Ab-si-dee." If you want your kid to be called "Ab-si-dee," then name your kid Absidy, not something eyebrow raising like Abcde.

Nice that we live in a society with the leisure to manufacture such problems in life.

Hey, that there is a PSA. Don't change it!

Abcde is short for Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised when the kid in line at Disneyland was named Hawk. The brother had an unusual name too...I forget.

Jwasbury, there is a difference between a name(a choice), and a deformity(not a choice).

But then if someone had a different body that let them doing something amazing I'd still think a social buzz would be performed.

For example, a certain swimmer has unusual proportions, and his muscles recover faster.

If the flight attendant had posted a selfie would that be a problem?

What if the girl were named Snow White, and showed up to fly in costume?

This revolves around an unusual choice at the center.

Without the unusual choice what would have happened?

I drive unusual cars. People take pictures, they talk about them. If I didn't want to put up with it I would choose differently.

If you name a kid a name that is the first letters of the alphabet, has no phonetic punctuation, of course you are going to get attention.

I have an unusual last name, cashiers remark on it regularly.

Newspaper article quoting a guy shoveling snow.
Name was Heywood Jablome.

Distant cousin to Craven Moorehead.

If the little girl chose the name Abcde, then I can understand this point. Generally at age 5, your name is what was given to you by your parents, not by choice.

Minds that sharp probably couldn't spell it anyways...

The person complaining about it is the mom...

Her choice.

Renaming is also a choice.

Happened to a young lady I knew. People couldn't pronounce her name right.

Legal rename at a young age. I was also that young age and remember it.

She grew up fine.

I went to school with Peter Holder. Dad’s name was Richard.

A long time ago, when Michelin still sold Xs, my favorite tire dealer had a baby girl. Named her Michelle Lynn.
A very good friend had a son while he was in the Army. He Hated the Army. He named his son “Sir.” I never quite understood his explanation, but it had something to do with hating the Army.

I went to school in the mid 70’s with a kid who’s last name was Herpe. Back then I thought it was embarrassing but he was a decent kid and I don’t recall anyone making fun of it.

I saw him years later and he’d changed it to Smith.

Wasn’t there a kid in the news recently because his parents named him Adolph Hitler Jones (or whatever their last name was).

I always heard it as Nos Mo King.

Yeah, Michelle Lynn is fine. It's a normal name, and unless her last name was Michelin or it came up, no one would every think twice. Also, almost world-wide, folks would be able to pronounce her name.

ABCDE, pronounced as Ab sid ee is silly. The fact that there's almost 400 folks with that name doesn't really make it any better.

I also know a lady who married a guy with the surname Grogan. She took his name. :(