Name Perception Quotes

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.

My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, 'Why don't you ever call me Tiger?' He says, 'Well, you look more like a Sam.

What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name.

Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name.

My nickname at school was Caveman. When I tell people my name is Kayvan, some insist on going 'Caveman?'

In many ways I'm similar to Barack Obama, who also has a strange name but was raised by a white American mother. His background is far more complicated than his name would suggest. Furthermore, the fact that I was a child during the hostage crisis has caused me to equate being Iranian with being alienated.

I think you can tell a great deal from a name. For me, there are certain names that I hear, and I think, 'Urgh.' For me, a name is a shortcut of finding out what class that child comes from and makes me ask, 'Do I want my children to play with them?'

Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.

In many countries, when I gave the name 'Rap Monster,' I often heard that it was 'too much.'

It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think? They're named 'Dave.'

Sometimes I introduce myself to people, and their reaction reminds me that it's insane that my name is Beanie.

If you'd have asked me five or six years ago when I first got the name, I'd have thought this is wild, a quarterback named Duck, but now it's cool.

Growing up in Holland, I always thought my name was boring, but in the U.S., all of a sudden I have a very cool name.

Zayn is a cool name.

I wanted to change my name when I first started because I thought, 'No-one is going to believe that it is my name.'

Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.

and there's something about having an especially different name that makes it difficult to imagine what you would be like as a Jennifer.

Sebastian, en Español, is a bad ass name.

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

Cumberbatch - it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn't it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn't keen on me keeping it.

[A prospective political candidate] should have a pleasing name, easy to pronounce and spell, and one suggesting statesmanship and Americanism, unless it is a name popular to nationalities and races among the electorate in his particular area.

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous.

I'm actually called Bang, a quite common name in Denmark where I'm from, so it's not like me trying to come up with a very stupid name for people to remember me or something.