Dad Quote by Deborah K. Ross

In America, people really struggle with my name, so I don't have a nickname as such. I've had Sharlito, Sheldon, Charldo, really interesting variations…

— Sharlto Copley

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave…

— Russell M. Nelson

“Mums answer is so unexpected and I am a litte stunned, actually. I wonder whether, had I known the reason for my name as…

— Rosamund Lupton

“And that. Why don’t you call me Étienne anymore?”

— Stephanie Perkins

I am a chilled-out person. But if people call me by my name, I hope they pronounce it right. I get called Baron, sometimes…

— Barun Sobti

“My last name comes after my first name, but it came before my first name, and it’ll be around after my first name dies…

— Jarod Kintz

But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange…

— John Green

A coach I had in Spain, Scott Roth, he used to call me Zinger. He would yell at me all the time, 'Zinger!' It's…

— Kristaps Porzingis

When someone gives you a nickname, it means your special to that person. -Reader's Digest

— YANIE-MyPrecious

I think you can tell a great deal from a name. For me, there are certain names that I hear, and I think, 'Urgh.'…

— Katie Hopkins

“I’m Briana Fallon. Do you have a conventional first name, too, or did your parents anticipate your future academic achievements when they picked your…

— Marko Kloos

When Andrew [Ridgeley] first met my family, he heard my mom calling me "Yorgos." He just abbreviated it to Yog, and unfortunately it stuck.…

— George Michael