I want to Franciscan University and there were so many Mary double names it was almost comical, including a student who was a religious sister named Sister John Mary
I love that the mum is angry that her daughter is ‘not learning to write her name correctly’ and completely ignoring the fact that her work is completely wrong.
But the paper is weird anyway. She wrote hat, where the picture of a hat is. But she got it wrong because apparently the word is hot. And cat has a picture of a crib...
Omg my siblings and I initials spell something. Cats, Eros, arts, Mars. No double names but two middle names. My parents thought they were hilarious. 😑
I have always been incredibly grateful my parents did not choose to do the traditional Hispanic last name. My mom’ maiden name is super Scottish and does not go with Hernandez at all. 🤣
My first exposure to the Hispanic double last names was in boot camp. A fellow in my platoon put both of his last names in the paperwork. It went in as a singe name: Cedenoescalante. The drill instructors just called the poor fellow "Alphabet". I think he revised the paperwork after he graduated to just go with Cedeno. (It's Cedeño, but I don't think they had a ñ.) Spending time in South America in more recent years, I've gotten quite used to the double last names.
We live in Mexico and I have to explain all the time why we don't have the two last names, and why I have the same last name as my husband. ;-) But, when your passport is used for all of your paperwork...
My full birth name is... LONG. Alexandria Shanti Veradisia Starks. Of course I want to change it. To Vivion Alexandri Shanti Veradisi Satya Starks-Grey-(then last name of person I marry) When I was a kid, hearing the full two middle names was a major problem. Meant I was in big trouble
My brother had a triple name because when the next door neighbor was trying to think of it (she had three sons of her own), she'd call him "Bobby-Joey-OhshitJim". Miss you, Jeanine!
I love this 🙌🏻😂 As a Latina, we carry 2 last names and they are never hyphenated. We have a first name, middle name, paternal last name & maternal last name. When women get marry they don’t get their husbands last name,. So when a couple have kids, this kids carry both of their progenitors last names. Fist their dads and then theirs moms. Women count too you know 💁🏻♀️
@@eugeniabarsukovaex: luis alvarez vega married maria lopez flores. Maria could change her last name to be alvarez lopez if she wanted. Their kids would have alvarez lopez as their last names.
@@elyssabarajas3554 or she could be maria lopez flores de alvarez (keeping her husbands paternal line but dropping the maternal) "In some instances, such as high society meetings, the husband's surname can be added after the woman's surnames using the conjunction de (of). Thus Leocadia Blanco Álvarez, married to a Pedro Pérez Montilla, may be addressed as Leocadia Blanco de Pérez or as Leocadia Blanco Álvarez de Pérez. This format is not used in everyday settings and has no legal value (with the exception of Argentina and the Dominican Republic)."
My grandfather from Mississippi's name went in the other direction, which is giving initials as a complete name. His was W.L. That's it -- that's the whole name: W.L. Stood for nothing but the sounds "double-you-ell", "Dub" for short. The Army was very perplexed and kept trying to give him fill-in names.
My uncle middle name was just an S he used to tell stories about having problems anywhere they insisted on full legal names because they wouldn't believe it wasn't an initial. Eventually he had it changes to Ses and told everyone the first S is silent.
My family has called my brother by his first two initials (GW) pretty much all his life, until he went to high school and started going by his first name. It's still really confusing when his fiance calls him by his name rather than his initials!
My sister is named after my aunties, Norah-May. Fortunately she wasn't named after my other aunts Ginnifer and Winifred. Ginny-Winny was a serious contender for about 5 months.
(laughing) As a French Canadian (double names are common for us too), I can so relate to these things. I've got friends, an uncle, cousins and a kid with double names. My kid often goes by the first portion only with his English speaking friends and while I try to respect his preferences, it makes a little old-fashioned bit of me twitch.
I'm an anglophone from BC, my mom gave me a double name for no reason. Simply just because she liked it that way. I love my name but it's caused problems trying to sign up for car insurance, banking system, etc because some systems don't allow spaces in first names (**** you, ICBC)
Pretty sure in Québec they had to pass a rule to restrict how many names you could give a child because it was getting too wild with the hyphens. I also remember a story book about a kid who hated having so many names (Marie-Soleil Lamontagne-Lafleur)
@@mimisparkles8765I had to look this up to see if it's true, and wow! Just. Wow. It went into effect this past June with a max set of 4 given names. You *know* things must've gotten to a level of absolute ridiculousness when even the GOVERNMENT has to step in! 😅😂🤣
Love all the videos. I grew up in New England where I knew zero double named people, moved to the South, married a Southerner, and proudly gave my daughter a double first name.
We didn’t realize my great-uncle’s name was Bill-Lee instead of Billy until we read his obituary. Should’ve figured. All his siblings had hyphenated names although none went by them.
I remember watching Coal Miners daughter & Loretta's kids all had double names. Not proper names, nicknames. Jack Benny? I thought why his he named after a comedian? But they were all like that. Patsy, Peggy not Patricia or Margret. And then tack the Sue on of course.
Same with my grandma, she was called "elli" all her life, even her passport and all official documents were on that name, like bank accounts and stuff like that, but when she died we found the birth certificate which said "Elizabeth". I think my grandpa knew but for me it was mind blowing.
Omg this reminds me of a high school friend in 9th grade who was named Lili-Ann but went by Lilly. She got into a lot of fights with the teacher over the spelling of her name, since she preferred Lilly over the weird spelling of Lillian
@@LanternOfLiberty she wasn't rude, she was sensible..if the lady has an emergency issue she should let doc take care of it instead of making a whole ish about her name/s!
@@originalmix2546 If you don't get proper names written on paperwork, there is a possibility of certain treatments and/or medical procedures bring performed on the incorrect patients. Names actually do matter.
Not Southern or even American but I love double names (without a hyphen 😂) and as a Nigerian with more names than letters in the alphabet I think the more the merrier 🤷🏾♀😂
@@redrooster1908 Oh, it can be much worse. I shouldn't tell this, but I will. A friend told me this, in whom I would trust my life with, honest as the day is long, so I know it's true. She worked at a hospital discharging patients. A woman was being discharged after giving birth to twin baby girls, she said the babies were just adorable. She asked her what names she chose...the woman said she found two names in a book that she thought were French, and she pronounced them in sort of a French-sounding way....on paper, though, they were "Syphilis"- with emphasis on "phyllis" (her mom's name)", and "Gonorrhea"- sounding like "ga-nora", and call her "Nora". I k i d y o u n o t. I'm even afraid to Google them! Can you imagine them on Facebook?? Oh lawd, I hope somebody helped rename them.
My southern grandmother and all my southern relatives always called me by my first and middle name. I find it endearing. This video is fun, especially the Mary part! 😊
I'm glad they included a few male examples as an Alabamian with a double name Tristan-Blaine this was very relatable, I have dropped Blaine in most settings but my family won't acknowledge that lmao
I wonder if after yelling for the first three for dinner, they decided that Frank saved their lung power. I grew up with a family of seven children, with the father a retired officer and the mother a retired military as well. Granted that half of them only had double names, it would have been a longer yelling for dinner for them. I had to admit even when we were 1/2 mile to a mile up the hillside, we could hear suppertime from the father for all his kids. Man, that is lung power, especially with seven kids. It was awesome him and the family.
My 20 year southern BFF has a double name that, as a northerner, I never got the hang of. Now it's just become a thing for us that I am the only one allowed to single name her as a badge of solidarity between us. That said, this video makes me feel really stonking bad that I never got the hang of it in the first place and that it ever came to that.
Did anyone else feel a sympathy pain for John Davidson when he realized he'd disappointed Mrs. Miller (who you know is his momma's friend and has been like an aunt to him his whole life)?
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@@kellyriddell5014 true. Although when he started work at 15, he was too shy to tell them he was called Billy. He worked for the same company for almost 50 years. We used to have to remember to ask for George if we rang him at work..and if he ran into someone down the street, we always knew if they were a work colleague or a person from his other life, family, scouts or church by which name they called him. If it was George it was work, if it was Bill it was everything else lol.
My parents were at a parent-teacher meeting when this couple introduced their child by saying: “Her name is Laura Grace, and we want her called Laura Grace.” We still laugh about it today.
But imagine how it must feel to have to struggle to get people to call you what you want to be called. You introduce yourself like that so you don't have to say it again
@@jaer2354 Well...I know its slightly off topic and my own personal thing...but I wanted to note the subtle but important difference between "WE want her called" and "get people to call you what YOU want to be called".
I went to school with a girl name Albert-Nita which came from her parents combined names. She did not like people calling her just Nita so you had to say the whole tongue tying name 🙄 😏 but I just avoided saying her name at all🤣🤣🤣
In my experience that isn’t common at all lmao, especially among friends. Maybe if you’re talking about somebody your aren’t familiar with or to somebody who may not know who you’re talking about. But among friends?
I’m southern and can some one explain this to me. I had no idea that people made fun of us because of double names. I thought every part of the country has this.
@@James-sm5vg probably mostly a southern thing, but not exclusively. My parents were merciful...because our last name is huge, all three kids have a short one syllable first name and no middle name. In school there was a Margaret Ann but I can't think of any others (west coast for reference)
This is quite amusing to me because I’m Australian & we do things the complete opposite. Not only will we not use your full name, but we’ll shorten it as much as we can & probably give you a totally different nickname if we like you.
They used to do that in the US as well. When I was a kid, everyone had a short nickname. I always felt the switch to more "official" nicknames was a little pretentious. It doesn't matter a lot, though - no matter what your parents want you to be called, your friends will eventually devise a nickname for you.
Same here in the Philippines. We have a lot of English/Anglo first names because of the huge American influence on culture here, but we can be so lazy that we'll shorten it to make it as monosyllabic as possible. Andrea becomes Drea becomese Drei. Colloquially, we just end up calling each other either 'girl' or 'boy' in our local dialectic versions because remembering names is honestly too exhausting in 2021 lol
I don't have a double name, but my momma does call me Lily Kathryn when I'm in trouble. Unfortunately as a kid I was in trouble so much that lots of people THOUGHT I had a double name.
My Mom's... You're too big for your britches, girl....angry name for girls was "Eloise Piffen-Poffer". Or Queen of Sheba if you acted high & mighty, snobby.
I went to St. Mary's in NC for 9th grade (private college-prep all-girls high school, tuition higher than Snoop Dogg). I've never seen so many double first names, and I've lived in the South a total of 26 years.
In Finland you can have four names, and each can be a double name, but double names have to be hyphenated. A-B C-D E-F G-H, and then some have hyphenated last names, meaning ten names in total. We number the names, and the one we go by is called kutsumanimi. Kutsuma, this form doesn't exist in English... in it's basic form it's kutsua=to call, nimi=name, so basically it translates to "the name one is called by". With Finns I use my first name, but with everyone who doesn't speak Finnish, I either use my second or third, depending which is easier to pronounce. I also know many families that use the second name as the main name, and many who use different names with different people. So their childhood friends might call them by their second name, UNI friends by first and coworkers by third. In all formal papers we have to write our whole name, then either underline, circle or write separately the name we are called by. The name you are called by doesn't have to be your official name, it can be shortened version, for instance Jonathan to John (not a Finnish name, but an example that is easy to understand).
German has a word for it as well: Rufname = "call name". And we also underline our Rufname but only if it's not the first name. I think legally we can have up to 6 or 5 names but the most I've ever seen are 3.
A good friend of mine was named Laura Lee Elizabeth Montgomery...she had all kinds of problems, just filling out forms getting the entire name in the space.
My husband’s side does multiple middle names for their kids, most of which are family names. For example, his little sister is Mattie Johanna Rose Irene. His younger brother is Gabriel Emory Patrick Scott. Our older niece was named after her dad (his name is Michael, so they named her Michaelon Vivian Irene Faith. Michael + Lynn).
@@brittaniesidebottom this sounds great for when everyone wants to name the baby. We don’t even have a middle name where I live and when there is a new baby choosing one name can make some people upset.
@@brittaniesidebottom Holy Cow! I would have to take a breath between the middle names!😂 Lord forbid they marry into a Latino Catholic family like my friend Mary Katherine Elizabeth did! Her husband came with FOUR LAST NAMES!
My mom didn't intend to give me a double name, but when we lived in Oklahoma, I became Laura Lou. My mom had a heck of a time trying to explain to my teachers that I'm just Laura. I spent a lot of years as Laura Lou. It never bugged me, but wow, did it drive my mom bats.
I had a teacher give me the nickname Debbie Sue although I was just Debbie and my middle name was Lee. I loved it, and it made me feel special. I later learned her name was Debbie as well.
Same for me, lots of people called me Laura Beth when it was supposed to just be Laura, Beth was just a middle name! It drives me crazy to this day lol.
Ooohhh Ya'll gotta do one on nicknames! I have cousins, Punkin, Preacher, Cat, Monkey..... you get the idea. And yes we have double named relatives, but my momma was from up north - so we escaped it in my immediate family. 😆
I don't have a double name but I gave my late daughter a double middle name in honor of both her grandmothers. Her name is Kadance Ruth-Ann. She would've turned 18 this year ❤
Awww thank you for the love. It's been 18 years since I gave her back to Jesus ❤ I'm trying to make her a big sister it just hasn't happened yet. Praying it will soon though 💜💗
Growing up, the Catholic girls were Mary Pat, Mary Therese, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Catherine, Mary Kathleen, Mary Grace, Mary Colleen...and yes, they went by both names.
@@gracehaven5459 for the longest time growing up I had no idea if my grandmother's name Mary Ann, Mary middle name Ann, or Maryanne. Confused the heck out of me for years.
More interesting to me is the Southern, or maybe just Tennessean, practice of naming a child, say, Tanner Joseph, and calling him Austin ( for example).
My mother has never been called by her first name, since they brought her home from the hospital. I’ve worked in healthcare/medicine for a while and so many charts have things like John David “Carl” Smith. Like calling someone Butch or Missy or Buddy is one thing. Calling someone a whole other name though?!
I grew up in the midwest and northeast. When I attended university in Texas I became aware of that phenomenon! First day of classes doing role call, half the people went by totally different names. LOL
We do that here in Trinidad and Tobago too... we call it a “house name” or “home name”. Something to do with not wanting people to know our real names in case someone with “bad mind” wants to practice Obea (black magic) on us lol
My parents are Indian immigrants, and I always found it so weird that my mom, and all of her siblings, names that they go by are COMPLETELY unrelated to their actual names...people don't even know what my mom's real name is haha...the other day a friend tried to give my mom a check for something and she was shocked when my mom told her she couldn't cash it cuz it didn't have her real name...they've been friends for more than ten years 🤣🤣 My parents always told me it was just an Indian thing, so it's interesting to see that it's also an American southern thing lol
I'm so southern even my CAT has a double name! It's Thelma Mae after my dear late aunt. (Oh yeah, that's another thing we do here- name our pets after dead relatives.)
It’s surprising to know how two totally unrelated cultures from entirely opposite parts of the world have occasional similarities. I come from a state in Southern India and we have double names too. I have struggled my entire life trying to explain to people from my own country and in the US what they should call me. I gave up later and I’m currently going by the first half of my double name 😂. It’s relieving to see there are other people from a different country like me
Don't hold it against them. They can not help it if they do not have a high enough intelligence to comprehend double names. It is too much for their brain to process. I am from South East Texas. A lot of us have the double names. Here in America they are quick to make fun of, and criticize Southerners. This is because we want freedom and deny socialism and/or big government. Now they can make fun of us, but God forbid should we make fun of them. Part of that double standard the Yankees (Northerners) love to practice. But I do not let it get me angry. I simply understand why they do what they do. They fear us Southerners because our religion gives us an inner strength, they do not possess, because they do not have religion. It is why they are trying to destroy religion. When they make fun of us, it is like the stupid kid that is always jealous of the smart kid. Once you understand this, you learn to just pity them, shake your head, say a little prayer for them and move on. There are a lot of low intelligent people out there that are always trying to bring down the rest of us. India: I love your architecture. You are a beautiful people with a rich heritage. Be proud.
I knew my dads family was southern, but now I understand why he spells my name differently than my mother, and used to come down to my school when he saw and heard them saying my name wrong. 💀💀 he used to tell me, “correct them every time, that’s not what I named you,” and to this day that’s exactly what I do.
I don't have a double name, but I did live in the deeeeeeeep south for a little while and everyone in that town referred to you by your first AND middle name. So I became Samantha Joy. They also refer to you by who's grandkid you are, so I was introduced as "Samantha Joy, Martha Jane's granddaughter." It feels like redneck heraldry. lol
Reminds me of naming conventions in Latin America. Ironically the specific country where my family's from doesn't follow this convention and most of us only have *one* single name, with the exception of my grandmother. My little sister does have a compound first name made up of two common names but there's no hyphen or space between them.
OMG I never even even noticed at 0:52 the lady in the car is more concerned about "Sarah" than the fact her kid flunked an assignment. I am dying over here!!!!
My mom's name was Virginia, she answered to any variation of it, Ginny, etc. Me I was a stickler for answering to my name and would correct people all the time. Then I just stopped and answered to any variation of Anne, Annie, whatever.
While I don't have a double name, my given name is a nickname. I now prefer to be called just the one name, the nickname (without my "slave" last name, aka my married last name---most people butcher its pronunciation anyway). The biggest thing is: just call me for supper!!
When I was little, I went by a double name. Not because I was really southern because Florida is a traditionally southern state. It was because I was named after my dad & it helped lessen the confusion in the house. So, he was Norm & I was Norma Jean.
I had an Aunt Norma. Well, that was her legal name; I only ever called her Aunt Boo. She too was a Norma Jean. I hated my middle name (Jean) until I realized that it was a family name. I never thought to ask why, but every one of my mom’s 7 siblings that had a girl gave her Jean as a middle name. G1: Myra Jean, Norma Jean G2: Berniece Jean, Stephanie Jean, Shirley Jean, Lori Jean, Paula Jean
Cecilia Ann gave birth to Cathy Ann, Mary Jo, Patty Lynn, and Kelly Suzanne. Cathy Ann had Brandon Mitchell and Corey James while Patty Lynn had Lee Ann Marie. Now Cathy Ann, Mary Jo, Patty Lynn, and Kelly Suzanne had five cousins: Sara Jo, Cindy Lee, Sally Anne, Jennifer Lee and Heather Dawn. The cousins' Momma was Suzi Q and Linda Lee. The three sister's Momma was Jessie. Bless my Gramma's Heart.
My great grandmother was named after her father and often gets "Mr"d in paperwork even though her middle name is Marie... I guess after you've had 11 boys and girls, you can't be bothered to strictly gender the 12th.
My mother was "Betty June". The older she got, the more surly she was when people called her "Betty". By 93, she would have a full out hissy fit if you addressed her as anything but Betty June. I made sure the obituary didn't just start with Betty June but then referred to her as Betty June the rest of the time. Didn't need the feeling she was growling at me from Above...
I think it's sweet and wonderful that you made sure they referred to her correctly the whole time in her obituary since you knew it meant so much to her that people got it right. June is a beautiful name so if that was part of my name, I would make sure people remembered it too!
Yep, that was me throughout school...or "your parents should be ashamed of themselves for not giving you a middle name...mmmh hmmm" headshake of disapproval. Or once, "were your parents too busy or lazy to give you a middle name?" Now those were fighting words---kicked my cousin's butt---never liked her anyway...
My favorite things about the double names is it tell me who’s known my family longest. People where my mother is from will call me by my first and middle even though I don’t have a double name. Same for my sister and father. People basically everywhere else don’t use my mother’s second name and at first she tried to tell them different, but she gave up a while ago. So now I know who all the old family friends are based on how they start a conversation with mother dearest.
My great grandmother was an Anna-Elizabeth and she got irritated if anyone tried calling her anything else for short lol. As compared to my younger sister who is an Anna-Michelle and she exclusively goes by Anna besides legal paperwork
@@EeveelutionStorm omgoodness, did she get her last rites? 😳 I'm a nurse and I always try to get what the patient goes by for names in case family calls or if the patient prefers me to call them by something specific.
In San Antonio, I lived next door to (mother) Billy Kate (that was on her birth cirtificate), and her daughters Donna Kay (always Donna Kay) and Sue Ann (always Sue Ann to outsiders, often called Twosie in the family, as she was the second daughter).
@@cmyk8964 I'm a software developer laughed way more at this then I should've 🤣 Also worse if you have the W^ character in your name which isnt supported by unicode
A long name with a space in it is fine. The real problem is when you get into things like "I only have one name" or "I have two completely different personal names and which one I use depends on the language it's being used in.", "My name can be written in any of three different writing systems, including two that are phonetic and one that's logographic", "I don't have a surname, I have a patronymic, which is NOT a surname and should NOT be used as a surname under any circumstances", "The order that my name is said/written depends on which language you're speaking and I'll re-arrange your name and/or transpose it between writing systems to match my language's depending on whether you did the same to mine, unless you speak English.", "My surname has a prefix that should not be treated as part of the surname when sorting." "But my surname has a prefix that DOES affect how the name is sorted.", "I have a first name, a patronymic, and a surname, but the patronymic is not a middle name and should not be used as one", "I not only have a double personal name, but also two surnames either one of which can be doubled up using a hyphen." , and "I have the misfortune of being Elon Musk's son"
Right? And if anybody in adulthood should make the mistake of saying your total entire name, you get flashbacks to being in the deepest shit as a kid :P :D
Triple name and double surname because, you know, Mexico! Oh! And whole my life I only used my third name but now I live in the States and only use my first name because is easiest and I am married so basically I have a name that I use in Mexico and other for the States.
At my daughters Catholic school, she has Mary Elizabeth, Mary Grace, Mary Frances and just plain Mary, we call her Mary Mary.
Mary Mary????? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I want to Franciscan University and there were so many Mary double names it was almost comical, including a student who was a religious sister named Sister John Mary
Mary Mary? Oh, kinda like the gospel singers, lol.
This brings memories of Catholic school. I even had a cat named Mary.
Ahaha, wow! I only know the names Anne Marie and Marybeth. Thats amazing 😂
I love that the mum is angry that her daughter is ‘not learning to write her name correctly’ and completely ignoring the fact that her work is completely wrong.
No, she had 2,5 questions right.
Brooke H . I don”t know the American grading system, but she had BAG and JAR right and she got a half point for SON (the correct word was SUN).
@@OP-1000 yeah in the US getting only 2 or 3 answers right out of 12 would be a failing grade.
Rose K . I was reacting to original comment. They said her work was completely wrong and I pointed out that she had 2,5 questions right.
But the paper is weird anyway. She wrote hat, where the picture of a hat is. But she got it wrong because apparently the word is hot.
And cat has a picture of a crib...
Overheard a lady call her children in a public bathroom once. She called about 6 different names but actually only had 2 girls.
And my biggest worry in naming my kid was making sure their initials didn't make a word by accident
me too!
Omg my siblings and I initials spell something. Cats, Eros, arts, Mars. No double names but two middle names. My parents thought they were hilarious. 😑
I know someone whose initials are AKA
Mine spells RAW
My granddaddy’s were JEW, so my uncle & my cousin are both JEW as well.
I didn’t think of that and Melissa Ann Porter was not happy.
When you're southern and Hispanic, we got quadruple names and no hyphens
I have always been incredibly grateful my parents did not choose to do the traditional Hispanic last name. My mom’ maiden name is super Scottish and does not go with Hernandez at all. 🤣
😂🤣😂😂
My first exposure to the Hispanic double last names was in boot camp. A fellow in my platoon put both of his last names in the paperwork. It went in as a singe name: Cedenoescalante. The drill instructors just called the poor fellow "Alphabet". I think he revised the paperwork after he graduated to just go with Cedeno. (It's Cedeño, but I don't think they had a ñ.) Spending time in South America in more recent years, I've gotten quite used to the double last names.
when ur name is Jaci Lynn Maria Garcia
We live in Mexico and I have to explain all the time why we don't have the two last names, and why I have the same last name as my husband. ;-) But, when your passport is used for all of your paperwork...
"I love monograms like every other God-fearing southern woman"
MrBj is a crazy monogram
All proper southern lady loves her a monogram
Okay This!!!!😂😂😂
This spoke to my soul! 🤣
Well, I do believe someone had "JC" monogrammed on his robe back in the day.
"Do you have a middle name?"
"Lee."
-50,000,000 girls in America
Ann is another 50,000,000
the fear this strikes in my heart as someone from a regional culture where being called your double name means you're in big shit lol
LMAO! exactly! I never KNEW I had a middle name until i was in trouble!
Right! Northern part of USA for one.
My full birth name is... LONG. Alexandria Shanti Veradisia Starks.
Of course I want to change it.
To Vivion Alexandri Shanti Veradisi Satya Starks-Grey-(then last name of person I marry)
When I was a kid, hearing the full two middle names was a major problem. Meant I was in big trouble
Oh we still get that. It’s just a long list of names where each one escalates your panic
What'd you do? If you got a middle name level asswhooping what did you do?
As a Mississippian, 'Mary Rae Helen Bader Johnston' is so Mississippian it may as well be a mayonnaise sandwich.
Yeah I read that in a southern accent 😂😂😂
@@Lilly-dk5bg 🤣 I lost most my southern accent , but it kicked back up
when I read it ...
I always put a slice of beefsteak tomato on my mayonnaise sandwich.
@@momstermom2939 Fried Green Tomato w/ Spicy Mayo is Yummm 😋
Oh, I love this. You're completely right, of course. I grew up in Vicksburg and I well remember mayonnaise sandwiches!
I grew up with a double name,
My mother always called me "Joshua Damnit!"
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@@sasquatchdonut2674 Supremely underrated! I think i had a triple name, then! LOL
I was not expecting this comment I'm dead 🤣💀 dude got me in tears.
My brother had a triple name because when the next door neighbor was trying to think of it (she had three sons of her own), she'd call him "Bobby-Joey-OhshitJim". Miss you, Jeanine!
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I love this 🙌🏻😂
As a Latina, we carry 2 last names and they are never hyphenated. We have a first name, middle name, paternal last name & maternal last name. When women get marry they don’t get their husbands last name,. So when a couple have kids, this kids carry both of their progenitors last names. Fist their dads and then theirs moms. Women count too you know 💁🏻♀️
So if mom and dad have two last names each, which of the four last names will the kids get?
Actually you can get your husband's name and still give your kids yours
I loved it when my Latino students explained. It makes perfect sense.
@@eugeniabarsukovaex: luis alvarez vega married maria lopez flores. Maria could change her last name to be alvarez lopez if she wanted. Their kids would have alvarez lopez as their last names.
@@elyssabarajas3554 or she could be maria lopez flores de alvarez (keeping her husbands paternal line but dropping the maternal)
"In some instances, such as high society meetings, the husband's surname can be added after the woman's surnames using the conjunction de (of). Thus Leocadia Blanco Álvarez, married to a Pedro Pérez Montilla, may be addressed as Leocadia Blanco de Pérez or as Leocadia Blanco Álvarez de Pérez. This format is not used in everyday settings and has no legal value (with the exception of Argentina and the Dominican Republic)."
My grandfather from Mississippi's name went in the other direction, which is giving initials as a complete name. His was W.L. That's it -- that's the whole name: W.L. Stood for nothing but the sounds "double-you-ell", "Dub" for short. The Army was very perplexed and kept trying to give him fill-in names.
Same for a friend of mine KC. His army name tag read K-only C-only because they did not use single letters.
My uncle middle name was just an S he used to tell stories about having problems anywhere they insisted on full legal names because they wouldn't believe it wasn't an initial. Eventually he had it changes to Ses and told everyone the first S is silent.
My family has called my brother by his first two initials (GW) pretty much all his life, until he went to high school and started going by his first name. It's still really confusing when his fiance calls him by his name rather than his initials!
I know someone like that in my church's district. They are older so I think that was common lol.
@@amazinggrace5692 I'm surprised they didn't use "Casey"
“Oh, so you’re DOCTOR Jacobs-Waters.” 😂
That actually ruffled my feathers a bit!
That one cracked me up.
@@LadyEowyn lol yeah
@@esppupsnkits4560 me too lol
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My sister is named after my aunties, Norah-May.
Fortunately she wasn't named after my other aunts Ginnifer and Winifred. Ginny-Winny was a serious contender for about 5 months.
I was about to say, well, at least they sound good, she was lucky, when I read the rest of your comment and realized she was extremely lucky
Oh that poor baby... dodged a bullet only to end up WinniGinni
Heavens to Betsy. Rhyming on double names is a no-no. Norah-May is nice though.
Ginni-Winni Hilli
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(laughing) As a French Canadian (double names are common for us too), I can so relate to these things. I've got friends, an uncle, cousins and a kid with double names. My kid often goes by the first portion only with his English speaking friends and while I try to respect his preferences, it makes a little old-fashioned bit of me twitch.
And we have double last names. I feel bad for the kids with 4 names
I’m French Canadian too and I usually refer to my friends with nicknames or initials, I agree that double names are a pain
I'm an anglophone from BC, my mom gave me a double name for no reason. Simply just because she liked it that way. I love my name but it's caused problems trying to sign up for car insurance, banking system, etc because some systems don't allow spaces in first names (**** you, ICBC)
Pretty sure in Québec they had to pass a rule to restrict how many names you could give a child because it was getting too wild with the hyphens.
I also remember a story book about a kid who hated having so many names (Marie-Soleil Lamontagne-Lafleur)
@@mimisparkles8765I had to look this up to see if it's true, and wow! Just. Wow. It went into effect this past June with a max set of 4 given names.
You *know* things must've gotten to a level of absolute ridiculousness when even the GOVERNMENT has to step in! 😅😂🤣
Love all the videos. I grew up in New England where I knew zero double named people, moved to the South, married a Southerner, and proudly gave my daughter a double first name.
We didn’t realize my great-uncle’s name was Bill-Lee instead of Billy until we read his obituary. Should’ve figured. All his siblings had hyphenated names although none went by them.
LOL - I'm dying. That's so good.
I remember watching Coal Miners daughter & Loretta's kids all had double names. Not proper names, nicknames. Jack Benny? I thought why his he named after a comedian? But they were all like that. Patsy, Peggy not Patricia or Margret. And then tack the Sue on of course.
Same with my grandma, she was called "elli" all her life, even her passport and all official documents were on that name, like bank accounts and stuff like that, but when she died we found the birth certificate which said "Elizabeth". I think my grandpa knew but for me it was mind blowing.
Hilarious that it wasn’t even “William-Lee”. 🤣😅
*_Humans are hilarious._*
Omg this reminds me of a high school friend in 9th grade who was named Lili-Ann but went by Lilly. She got into a lot of fights with the teacher over the spelling of her name, since she preferred Lilly over the weird spelling of Lillian
“Oh so you’re DOCTOR Jacobs-Waters” 😂😂 the shade
I would have told that rude M.A. to go back to New York.
@@LanternOfLiberty she wasn't rude, she was sensible..if the lady has an emergency issue she should let doc take care of it instead of making a whole ish about her name/s!
@@originalmix2546 If you don't get proper names written on paperwork, there is a possibility of certain treatments and/or medical procedures bring performed on the incorrect patients. Names actually do matter.
That was savage!
Was funny until the nurse had attitude problem. There was no reason to be like that.
I'm so happy my grandfather asked me why I wanted to burden my son with all those names 🤣. Wise man. Thanks Gramps.
Not Southern or even American but I love double names (without a hyphen 😂) and as a Nigerian with more names than letters in the alphabet I think the more the merrier 🤷🏾♀😂
"And Mary......this just says Mary. Is that a typo?"
😅🤭
Could be worse. This week a co-worker had a baby girl she named Ziva. White people in Wisconsin USA. Poor kid
Mary Kate Olson the TV child star. I always thought her twin got cheated a bit....just Ashley.
@@redrooster1908 Oh, it can be much worse. I shouldn't tell this, but I will. A friend told me this, in whom I would trust my life with, honest as the day is long, so I know it's true. She worked at a hospital discharging patients. A woman was being discharged after giving birth to twin baby girls, she said the babies were just adorable. She asked her what names she chose...the woman said she found two names in a book that she thought were French, and she pronounced them in sort of a French-sounding way....on paper, though, they were "Syphilis"- with emphasis on "phyllis" (her mom's name)", and "Gonorrhea"- sounding like "ga-nora", and call her "Nora".
I k i d y o u n o t.
I'm even afraid to Google them! Can you imagine them on Facebook?? Oh lawd, I hope somebody helped rename them.
@@redrooster1908 Yeah, lol, that's pretty bad.
My grandfather once told me that southerners love their kids so much, they named them twice.
That's a wholesome explanation
Oh gosh, this sounds so sweet... And makes perfect sense now
Home sweet ________
Harsh love you mean.
@@ryanwells7842
That‘s gods way of loving children.
That and through his priests. 😇
My southern grandmother and all my southern relatives always called me by my first and middle name. I find it endearing. This video is fun, especially the Mary part! 😊
I'm glad they included a few male examples as an Alabamian with a double name Tristan-Blaine this was very relatable, I have dropped Blaine in most settings but my family won't acknowledge that lmao
My grandfather's siblings were named Irma Lee, John Dee, and William Earl (aka: Willy Merle) but his name was ....... Frank.
🤣🤣🤣 Gotta love it!
I wonder if after yelling for the first three for dinner, they decided that Frank saved their lung power. I grew up with a family of seven children, with the father a retired officer and the mother a retired military as well. Granted that half of them only had double names, it would have been a longer yelling for dinner for them. I had to admit even when we were 1/2 mile to a mile up the hillside, we could hear suppertime from the father for all his kids. Man, that is lung power, especially with seven kids. It was awesome him and the family.
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Willy Merle is a good nickname
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Once knew a Charley-Lee. Could never get passed the cruelty of giving a kid the same last syllable twice.
Lol I know a Charlie Lee
Could be worse, Charliey- Lee Leigh..
Imagine the pain of Stan Lee. If he didn’t shorten his first name he would have been Stanley Lee.
@@stopthenames Charlie-Lee Leigh Lee
@@stopthenames i was gonna say
My 20 year southern BFF has a double name that, as a northerner, I never got the hang of. Now it's just become a thing for us that I am the only one allowed to single name her as a badge of solidarity between us. That said, this video makes me feel really stonking bad that I never got the hang of it in the first place and that it ever came to that.
The funniest was the ER personnel telling the patient , she would have to "re-do" all her paperwork. That was so real it's hilarious. 🤣
Did anyone else feel a sympathy pain for John Davidson when he realized he'd disappointed Mrs. Miller (who you know is his momma's friend and has been like an aunt to him his whole life)?
Yep
I felt bad for him, too, bless his 💜
Yeah, I felt bad for HIM. "Auntie" Miller can suck eggs for all I care, let the man be a MAN and choose his OWN NAME!
@@ruthcampo4377 i think you had a slightly different reaction then the rest of us
I laughed so hard when he said "I don't even know how to skateboard" because the JD I do know is in fact a skater in his 30s 😂
“I actually go by ‘John’ now”
Lady: 😨
I cannot like this comment it’s at 420
Who goes by just "John?" That's unheard of.
@@MustyChalupa you can like it now, its past 1k now.
John Jacob Jingle Hymer Shmit? That's MY name TOO!
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As a two-name girl with no hyphen, I felt these women’s pain, being shortened all the time.
One ought to be polite and considerate at all times here in the South and, as such, go by one name. And that’s that!
4:04 "I tried going by JD, but...I don't even know how to skateboard." 😂😂😂
Which is amazingly accurate 😂
Thing is.... I tried to get my son to go by JD as well, but it’s so hard to holler at him as JD. His full name just comes out easier.
Lmao
But do you drink?
But for real though. This line is ingenious. This is some seriously next level clever humor.
My dad was named George Henry. The only person who called him that was my Grandmother. Everyone else called him...Billy...😕🤷🏽♀️
My Dad is George Darrel...and he is called Billy too lol.
@@virginiaviola5097 🤣
Naturally!
Ah yes, the common nickname for George (or Henry, for that matter)... Billy. rofl
@@kellyriddell5014 true. Although when he started work at 15, he was too shy to tell them he was called Billy. He worked for the same company for almost 50 years. We used to have to remember to ask for George if we rang him at work..and if he ran into someone down the street, we always knew if they were a work colleague or a person from his other life, family, scouts or church by which name they called him. If it was George it was work, if it was Bill it was everything else lol.
This is hilarious! I was asked once why I referred to my brother in laws by two names. Idk, because their mom did... lol
“I tried going by JD, but I don’t even know how to skateboard!” This one got me laughing 😆
It's the most JD thing ever hahaha
? I don't understand this joke
@@hanwentian5079 me too
@@hanwentian5079 JD is a typical skateboarder name
@@justanotheranimeprofilepic but why?? lol :)
Matt is totally believable as a teacher, especially when he's so exhausted and disappointed. 😁
Reminds me a lot of my geography teacher in high school actually lol
Poor Matt, he must have 50 kids in that class 🤣🤣🤣
He is a very funny guy, but its like he isn't even trying, which makes it all the more amusing.
The mouthed "whatever" really sold it for me
Lol thats why the teacher would just state the last names in my classes🤣
4:21 I figured that would happen. By the time he gets through all the double names, class is over.
Now we can start our lessons @the buzzer. Man, I was in stitches 😂😂😂
My parents were at a parent-teacher meeting when this couple introduced their child by saying: “Her name is Laura Grace, and we want her called Laura Grace.” We still laugh about it today.
But imagine how it must feel to have to struggle to get people to call you what you want to be called. You introduce yourself like that so you don't have to say it again
I so get it. I'm Rhonda Marie and I want to be called Rhonda Marie, no hyphen. LOL!!!
@@jaer2354 Well...I know its slightly off topic and my own personal thing...but I wanted to note the subtle but important difference between "WE want her called" and "get people to call you what YOU want to be called".
I went to school with a girl name Albert-Nita which came from her parents combined names. She did not like people calling her just Nita so you had to say the whole tongue tying name 🙄 😏 but I just avoided saying her name at all🤣🤣🤣
@@jaer2354 I already struggle with my singular name and now I just go by my middle name (Emily)
"I tried going by JD, but I can't even skateboard."
I'm not sure why that made me laugh as hard as I did but dang that was funny
Right! It was all silent giggles for me until that one and I’m still laughing about it 😂
Me too because we call my nephew JD but it's for his first and last name, Justin Davis. But he's into football, baseball and basketball
I don't know either but that's the biggest laugh I got outta this entire video. I have no idea why, but it was SO funny!
Sorry, I thought it was stupid. Talk about stereotyping.
@@gayled3059 I mean that’s kind of the point of this entire channel though isn’t it? Making light of stereotypes and cultural tropes
At the beginning I was fully expecting him to keep going with the Aidens.
I'm a Yankee and my husband is from Southern Georgia. Even the pace of your videos is spot on. 🤭😚
I had a Chinese friend who I called Winnie Lou. Eventually she asked me why I kept calling her by her first AND last name 😮 🤣
Lol
Funny thing is, it's really common to use the full name in Chinese, even among friends xD
@@soaringaegis what full name? Lol
@@ThevralLee they mean saying the person's entire name rather than just their given name
In my experience that isn’t common at all lmao, especially among friends. Maybe if you’re talking about somebody your aren’t familiar with or to somebody who may not know who you’re talking about. But among friends?
My babies think they have double names, little do they know they’re just always up to no good and getting caught 😂
That's hilarious
My sister's name is pronounced like Lizzie nd my mom used to call her Mary Elizabeth when she was naughty hahahaha
My niece is always her first and middle name! Whether she's being super cute or super bad.
I’m southern and can some one explain this to me. I had no idea that people made fun of us because of double names. I thought every part of the country has this.
@@James-sm5vg probably mostly a southern thing, but not exclusively. My parents were merciful...because our last name is huge, all three kids have a short one syllable first name and no middle name. In school there was a Margaret Ann but I can't think of any others (west coast for reference)
I was given a double name, but dropped the second name when I was 5. My mama and relatives were APPALLED! 😂
When she pulled out the jar of coins I laughed so hard because I also have a jar of coins I've been saving up my whole life
Thanks, you clarified that part. It looked completely odd for me until your comment.
This is quite amusing to me because I’m Australian & we do things the complete opposite.
Not only will we not use your full name, but we’ll shorten it as much as we can & probably give you a totally different nickname if we like you.
That’s Australian English in general, so I hear lol. Shorten all the words as much as possible 😆
@@Ilicia_08
Yep we shorten most words lol 😂
They used to do that in the US as well. When I was a kid, everyone had a short nickname. I always felt the switch to more "official" nicknames was a little pretentious. It doesn't matter a lot, though - no matter what your parents want you to be called, your friends will eventually devise a nickname for you.
Same here in the Philippines. We have a lot of English/Anglo first names because of the huge American influence on culture here, but we can be so lazy that we'll shorten it to make it as monosyllabic as possible.
Andrea becomes Drea becomese Drei.
Colloquially, we just end up calling each other either 'girl' or 'boy' in our local dialectic versions because remembering names is honestly too exhausting in 2021 lol
i train with a girl called danielle but we shorten it to dave
I don't have a double name, but my momma does call me Lily Kathryn when I'm in trouble. Unfortunately as a kid I was in trouble so much that lots of people THOUGHT I had a double name.
My mom did the same thing! I was always "Leslie Rae" when I was in trouble!
Yes, I would get so scared when I heard “Kennley Justina Marie!
I always thought my middle name was a double name but it’s just Justine. :P
@@adakaitekota316 What is Adakai Tekota?
My Mom's... You're too big for your britches, girl....angry name for girls was "Eloise Piffen-Poffer".
Or Queen of Sheba if you acted high & mighty, snobby.
There is so much wrong with the south. Honestly this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
This is to funny. My family has so many of these..John Michael, Little John Michael, MaryHelen…loved this video lol.
I went to St. Mary's in NC for 9th grade (private college-prep all-girls high school, tuition higher than Snoop Dogg). I've never seen so many double first names, and I've lived in the South a total of 26 years.
I have a friend named Hannah-Grace, so do avoid confusing her with the other Hannahs and "Blank-Grace"s we just call her Hyphen.
Not HG? 🤭
@@aiko9393 there might be another blank-grace that name starts with an h
The disrespect damn thats stone cold
Lmao
aw, my daughter's name is Hannah Grace (no hyphen, and she goes by Hannah) 😊
In Finland you can have four names, and each can be a double name, but double names have to be hyphenated. A-B C-D E-F G-H, and then some have hyphenated last names, meaning ten names in total.
We number the names, and the one we go by is called kutsumanimi. Kutsuma, this form doesn't exist in English... in it's basic form it's kutsua=to call, nimi=name, so basically it translates to "the name one is called by".
With Finns I use my first name, but with everyone who doesn't speak Finnish, I either use my second or third, depending which is easier to pronounce. I also know many families that use the second name as the main name, and many who use different names with different people. So their childhood friends might call them by their second name, UNI friends by first and coworkers by third.
In all formal papers we have to write our whole name, then either underline, circle or write separately the name we are called by. The name you are called by doesn't have to be your official name, it can be shortened version, for instance Jonathan to John (not a Finnish name, but an example that is easy to understand).
The Finns are way ahead even in names
That is interesting! Appreciate you sharing it.
Wow that's amazing. Learned something new today. Thank you 😊
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German has a word for it as well: Rufname = "call name". And we also underline our Rufname but only if it's not the first name. I think legally we can have up to 6 or 5 names but the most I've ever seen are 3.
Everyone did a good job making these scenes. That said, I particularly liked the performance of the actors in the "John" skit.
A good friend of mine was named Laura Lee Elizabeth Montgomery...she had all kinds of problems, just filling out forms getting the entire name in the space.
When he roll calls " Mary Katherine" " Mary Elizabeth" I giggled. I had a friend in grade school named Mary Katherine Elizabeth. THREE NAMES, YA'LL!
My husband’s side does multiple middle names for their kids, most of which are family names. For example, his little sister is Mattie Johanna Rose Irene. His younger brother is Gabriel Emory Patrick Scott. Our older niece was named after her dad (his name is Michael, so they named her Michaelon Vivian Irene Faith. Michael + Lynn).
@@brittaniesidebottom this sounds great for when everyone wants to name the baby. We don’t even have a middle name where I live and when there is a new baby choosing one name can make some people upset.
Are the parents Jane Austen fans cuz it looks like they tryna fit a whole family in one name
I’m Kathryn Elizabeth 🤣
@@brittaniesidebottom Holy Cow! I would have to take a breath between the middle names!😂 Lord forbid they marry into a Latino Catholic family like my friend Mary Katherine Elizabeth did! Her husband came with FOUR LAST NAMES!
Every time he said “Ann” my southern brain interpreted it as “and”. That’s the problem when a double name starts with “Ann”.
I thought the same thing had to go back and rewind it lol
I grew up Laura Ann Thornton. In first grade it took up the whole front side of a sheet of tablet paper!
aaaa so it’s Ann... i was like ”where’s the joke” with tht one 😅
Auto-captions interpreted it as "and" Was very confused for a moment before realizing he was saying "Ann". Lol
Thats how I feel when people say the word "actually" around me and I think their saying Ashleigh.
I went through highschool in Springdale, Arkansas years ago, and watching this video brings back memories.
"Our system couldn't process all those names" broke me 😂
"This just says 'Mary', is that a typo?" OMG 😂
My mom didn't intend to give me a double name, but when we lived in Oklahoma, I became Laura Lou. My mom had a heck of a time trying to explain to my teachers that I'm just Laura. I spent a lot of years as Laura Lou. It never bugged me, but wow, did it drive my mom bats.
Cousin Mary Louise in Minnesota, has been "Weezie" for 80 years
I had a teacher give me the nickname Debbie Sue although I was just Debbie and my middle name was Lee. I loved it, and it made me feel special. I later learned her name was Debbie as well.
That's so cute that in your case it's the reverse of this video.
Same for me, lots of people called me Laura Beth when it was supposed to just be Laura, Beth was just a middle name! It drives me crazy to this day lol.
Ooohhh Ya'll gotta do one on nicknames! I have cousins, Punkin, Preacher, Cat, Monkey..... you get the idea. And yes we have double named relatives, but my momma was from up north - so we escaped it in my immediate family. 😆
As someone with a Paul Don in the family, this video hits home.
I don't have a double name but I gave my late daughter a double middle name in honor of both her grandmothers. Her name is Kadance Ruth-Ann. She would've turned 18 this year ❤
I'm sorry for your loss. 💔
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Awww thank you for the love. It's been 18 years since I gave her back to Jesus ❤ I'm trying to make her a big sister it just hasn't happened yet. Praying it will soon though 💜💗
So sorry. Love the name & hope she’s a big sister very soon!❤️
Awww...so she passed away? RIP.
...John Jacob Jinglehiemer-Schmidt, ...
Yes and you can’t forget the general from Seussical the musical
@@JAF1323 I'm not familiar with that name.
It’s somebody from a play.
That's my name too!!!
Ohhh yaaaa know it from the go fish guys 😁 wish I was still a child...
Haha, so true! My grandma's from Texas and she calls me Emma Jean all the time!
😂 I was cracking up during John’s part.
Growing up, the Catholic girls were Mary Pat, Mary Therese, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Catherine, Mary Kathleen, Mary Grace, Mary Colleen...and yes, they went by both names.
Yup. Mary Ellen, Mary Francis, Mary Rose, Mary Bernadette...
Don't forget Mary Ann
Mary-Lee
My cousin is Mary Helen. I was an adult before if dawned on me that they used her first and middle name because her Mom's name was Mary.
@@gracehaven5459 for the longest time growing up I had no idea if my grandmother's name Mary Ann, Mary middle name Ann, or Maryanne. Confused the heck out of me for years.
More interesting to me is the Southern, or maybe just Tennessean, practice of naming a child, say, Tanner Joseph, and calling him Austin ( for example).
This is beyond true in Kentucky too😂😂
My mother has never been called by her first name, since they brought her home from the hospital. I’ve worked in healthcare/medicine for a while and so many charts have things like John David “Carl” Smith. Like calling someone Butch or Missy or Buddy is one thing. Calling someone a whole other name though?!
I grew up in the midwest and northeast. When I attended university in Texas I became aware of that phenomenon! First day of classes doing role call, half the people went by totally different names. LOL
We do that here in Trinidad and Tobago too... we call it a “house name” or “home name”. Something to do with not wanting people to know our real names in case someone with “bad mind” wants to practice Obea (black magic) on us lol
My parents are Indian immigrants, and I always found it so weird that my mom, and all of her siblings, names that they go by are COMPLETELY unrelated to their actual names...people don't even know what my mom's real name is haha...the other day a friend tried to give my mom a check for something and she was shocked when my mom told her she couldn't cash it cuz it didn't have her real name...they've been friends for more than ten years 🤣🤣
My parents always told me it was just an Indian thing, so it's interesting to see that it's also an American southern thing lol
I love this channel.
So true. I moved down south and have been struggling to remember all the names😂
I'm so southern even my CAT has a double name! It's Thelma Mae after my dear late aunt. (Oh yeah, that's another thing we do here- name our pets after dead relatives.)
I have a dog named Agnes
She's very tiny, she's a Chihuahua mix
Quite an uncommon name for a dog
My dogs name is Hershey Harry Hernandez lol
Ahahahaaa, mine does, too!!! 😂🤣😂🤣😅😅😅
@@geezeymlpandlps1312 My chihuahua are Maggie May and Flogging Molly Mae. 🤣😂
I have a cat named Little Bit (short for Little B!tch because she peed on everything the first week I had her).
It’s surprising to know how two totally unrelated cultures from entirely opposite parts of the world have occasional similarities. I come from a state in Southern India and we have double names too. I have struggled my entire life trying to explain to people from my own country and in the US what they should call me. I gave up later and I’m currently going by the first half of my double name 😂. It’s relieving to see there are other people from a different country like me
We Sikh have the double name thing nailed har preet jas deep gur jeet Navdeep ... Hahaha
Don't hold it against them. They can not help it if they do not have a high enough intelligence to comprehend double names. It is too much for their brain to process. I am from South East Texas. A lot of us have the double names. Here in America they are quick to make fun of, and criticize Southerners. This is because we want freedom and deny socialism and/or big government. Now they can make fun of us, but God forbid should we make fun of them. Part of that double standard the Yankees (Northerners) love to practice. But I do not let it get me angry. I simply understand why they do what they do. They fear us Southerners because our religion gives us an inner strength, they do not possess, because they do not have religion. It is why they are trying to destroy religion. When they make fun of us, it is like the stupid kid that is always jealous of the smart kid. Once you understand this, you learn to just pity them, shake your head, say a little prayer for them and move on. There are a lot of low intelligent people out there that are always trying to bring down the rest of us. India: I love your architecture. You are a beautiful people with a rich heritage. Be proud.
@Wreck and Carey You know it baby!
@@reesaserik3759 Wow. You seem like a jerk.
Nothing against southerners. Just you.
@@icarusgotooclose And I expect you call me a jerk based on your own experience of being a jerk. It takes a Jerk to know a Jerk, yes?
I knew my dads family was southern, but now I understand why he spells my name differently than my mother, and used to come down to my school when he saw and heard them saying my name wrong. 💀💀 he used to tell me, “correct them every time, that’s not what I named you,” and to this day that’s exactly what I do.
Hi 👋 how are you doing?
I don't have a double name, but I did live in the deeeeeeeep south for a little while and everyone in that town referred to you by your first AND middle name. So I became Samantha Joy. They also refer to you by who's grandkid you are, so I was introduced as "Samantha Joy, Martha Jane's granddaughter." It feels like redneck heraldry. lol
Reminds me of naming conventions in Latin America. Ironically the specific country where my family's from doesn't follow this convention and most of us only have *one* single name, with the exception of my grandmother.
My little sister does have a compound first name made up of two common names but there's no hyphen or space between them.
OMG I never even even noticed at 0:52 the lady in the car is more concerned about "Sarah" than the fact her kid flunked an assignment. I am dying over here!!!!
Lol I dropped my double name when I was like 8 and I think my mom still hasn’t forgiven me for it 😂
Could I ask your name to see if I agree with mom?😂
Me too! Sue (formerly Sue Anne)
@@suedorroh1566 i applaud you
@@suedorroh1566 and now its sue dorroh?
I dropped mine too! My dad is more disappointed than my mom.
A kid in my year is called a triple name. James-Brian Austin. He goes by Dallas, his grandfather's name.
Ok so I’ve been binge watching this channel so much over the past few days that I hardly notice their accents anymore. I’ve been converted.
By high school, those teachers are either just calling last names or telling you to check yourself in on the list by the door lmao
True
Not in my high school
"I'm just so tired!" - I've totally been there with my double name. I've gotten to the point now I just respond to any variation of my name.
same!!!!
My mom's name was Virginia, she answered to any variation of it, Ginny, etc. Me I was a stickler for answering to my name and would correct people all the time. Then I just stopped and answered to any variation of Anne, Annie, whatever.
While I don't have a double name, my given name is a nickname. I now prefer to be called just the one name, the nickname (without my "slave" last name, aka my married last name---most people butcher its pronunciation anyway). The biggest thing is: just call me for supper!!
Me too. I even get called Marybeth or Elizabeth.
If someone calls me Lee I won't even notice they're referring to me its so bad
Mary Lou, born in Pittsburgh PA. Same thing
When I was little, I went by a double name. Not because I was really southern because Florida is a traditionally southern state. It was because I was named after my dad & it helped lessen the confusion in the house. So, he was Norm & I was Norma Jean.
I had an Aunt Norma. Well, that was her legal name; I only ever called her Aunt Boo. She too was a Norma Jean.
I hated my middle name (Jean) until I realized that it was a family name. I never thought to ask why, but every one of my mom’s 7 siblings that had a girl gave her Jean as a middle name.
G1: Myra Jean, Norma Jean
G2: Berniece Jean, Stephanie Jean, Shirley Jean, Lori Jean, Paula Jean
Cecilia Ann gave birth to Cathy Ann, Mary Jo, Patty Lynn, and Kelly Suzanne. Cathy Ann had Brandon Mitchell and Corey James while Patty Lynn had Lee Ann Marie. Now Cathy Ann, Mary Jo, Patty Lynn, and Kelly Suzanne had five cousins: Sara Jo, Cindy Lee, Sally Anne, Jennifer Lee and Heather Dawn. The cousins' Momma was Suzi Q and Linda Lee. The three sister's Momma was Jessie. Bless my Gramma's Heart.
This sounds like an SAT math problem :P
@@florindalucero3236 like "What's the father's name?"
There ya go!
Lord have mercy 😂
@@StormCrusher94 Harold Lee
The worst is when they have double names and you still cannot figure out if it’s a boy or girl.
No, the worst is when the census lists your great AUNT as a boy. Because her first name was Willie.
@@lyllydd I used to know a lady named Russel. I wonder if they’re related...
My great grandmother was named after her father and often gets "Mr"d in paperwork even though her middle name is Marie... I guess after you've had 11 boys and girls, you can't be bothered to strictly gender the 12th.
@@ThinWhiteAxe Russel’s family had a patriarch who declared that the next child born would be named after him, and so she was!
🤣😅😅🤣Bobbi Lee😂😂
Ahhhh reminds me of my aunts… Bonnie Ruth, Doris Ann, Betty Jo, Ivy Dell, Bertha Mae, and my mama Lois Marie. 😂
Having been born and raised in Kentucky, this is hilarious and so true! 😂
My mother was "Betty June". The older she got, the more surly she was when people called her "Betty". By 93, she would have a full out hissy fit if you addressed her as anything but Betty June. I made sure the obituary didn't just start with Betty June but then referred to her as Betty June the rest of the time. Didn't need the feeling she was growling at me from Above...
I have twin aunts called Betty June and Betty May their entire lives. Their actual names were Elizabeth Magdalene and Magdalene Elizabeth.
Hissy fit, if that's not a southern phrase 😄
I think it's sweet and wonderful that you made sure they referred to her correctly the whole time in her obituary since you knew it meant so much to her that people got it right. June is a beautiful name so if that was part of my name, I would make sure people remembered it too!
@@kellyriddell5014 I also made she went with a Kleenex in her pocket, because she was never without one..... 😄
My great aunt was named Betty Jean and that just reminded me of her
Mary???? This just says Mary. Is that a typo?
Yes. Yes, it is a typo. 😂
😂😂😂
Yep, that was me throughout school...or "your parents should be ashamed of themselves for not giving you a middle name...mmmh hmmm" headshake of disapproval. Or once, "were your parents too busy or lazy to give you a middle name?" Now those were fighting words---kicked my cousin's butt---never liked her anyway...
I thought it was going to be Mary-Mary!
@@tuvelat7302 LOL!
My favorite things about the double names is it tell me who’s known my family longest. People where my mother is from will call me by my first and middle even though I don’t have a double name. Same for my sister and father. People basically everywhere else don’t use my mother’s second name and at first she tried to tell them different, but she gave up a while ago. So now I know who all the old family friends are based on how they start a conversation with mother dearest.
I only knew a couple of kids who were called both names. Usually if your mom called you by both names, you were in big trouble.
When he got to the Marys he forgot Sister Mary Clarence.
I was waiting for Mary Ann and Ann Marie
Don’t forget Sister Mary Elephant
@@kayeb7809 it’s from sister act....
And Mary Robert, Mary Patrick, I forget the rest of the Mary nuns
@@kittyelf1485 Alma... Lazarus...
My grandma would get so irritated when people would call her "Margaret" instead of "Margaret Ann" 😂
That’s my grandmas name also!!’
@Allison Gargiulo lol people are funny and fun
My great grandmother was an Anna-Elizabeth and she got irritated if anyone tried calling her anything else for short lol. As compared to my younger sister who is an Anna-Michelle and she exclusively goes by Anna besides legal paperwork
@@EeveelutionStorm omgoodness, did she get her last rites? 😳 I'm a nurse and I always try to get what the patient goes by for names in case family calls or if the patient prefers me to call them by something specific.
@@EeveelutionStorm that's great and I'm glad you guys can laugh about the incident with the name after the fact.
In San Antonio, I lived next door to (mother) Billy Kate (that was on her birth cirtificate), and her daughters Donna Kay (always Donna Kay) and Sue Ann (always Sue Ann to outsiders, often called Twosie in the family, as she was the second daughter).
“I don’t even know how to skateboard.” … had me rolling.
As a former database manager, I giggled way too hard at this.
You know you’re no longer a database manager when this is funny and not horrific.
@@cmyk8964 I'm a software developer laughed way more at this then I should've 🤣
Also worse if you have the W^ character in your name which isnt supported by unicode
@@Stettafire You sure about that? ŵ
One of my friends favourite tests on databases is "De'ath" because, some databases cannot handle the ' (I spent 2 years as a database tester)
A long name with a space in it is fine. The real problem is when you get into things like "I only have one name" or "I have two completely different personal names and which one I use depends on the language it's being used in.", "My name can be written in any of three different writing systems, including two that are phonetic and one that's logographic", "I don't have a surname, I have a patronymic, which is NOT a surname and should NOT be used as a surname under any circumstances", "The order that my name is said/written depends on which language you're speaking and I'll re-arrange your name and/or transpose it between writing systems to match my language's depending on whether you did the same to mine, unless you speak English.", "My surname has a prefix that should not be treated as part of the surname when sorting." "But my surname has a prefix that DOES affect how the name is sorted.", "I have a first name, a patronymic, and a surname, but the patronymic is not a middle name and should not be used as one", "I not only have a double personal name, but also two surnames either one of which can be doubled up using a hyphen." , and "I have the misfortune of being Elon Musk's son"
Don't have a double name but I do have a double surname. It's the norm in Portuguese and Hispanic tradition
Im lisa ann cofreros Wilson
Right? And if anybody in adulthood should make the mistake of saying your total entire name, you get flashbacks to being in the deepest shit as a kid :P :D
Triple name and double surname because, you know, Mexico! Oh! And whole my life I only used my third name but now I live in the States and only use my first name because is easiest and I am married so basically I have a name that I use in Mexico and other for the States.
I feel your pain.
@@migueldelmazo5244 my parents are foreigners
"Do people call you Margaret?" "No. That's not my name." "Exactly!"
🤣 my daughter's names are Oakley Ann and Haley Mae, and their teachers always try to call them by half of their name!