Brother Quote by Paula Poundstone

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit…

— Charles Dickens

People named their kids after me!

— Chad Everett

My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.

— T.I

When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I…

— Lizzo

I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the…

— Bil Keane

When I was a kid, we called every teacher, every parent - anyone over the age of 20, it seemed - 'Mr. or Mrs.…

— Faith Salie

I still do get all these letters from people saying they are not pronouncing my name correctly!

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my…

— Ariel Winter

I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.

— Toni Morrison

My grandma spelled my name wrong until she died. Like literally, birthday cards, mail, everything.

— Willam Belli

I think my parents were high when they named me.

— Jolene Blalock

My parents named me Arlette, and I changed it to Agnes when I was young. I didn't like it because I don't like names…

— Agnes Varda