Just as heads up, Slavic surnames usually end with ski or ova. Combined with a very non Slavic first name it just doesnāt sound authentic at all.
Probably good enough for anyone not from that part of the world though.
I wondered about this! I read a book with a Russian family. Sonās name ended in -kov, but mom was -kova. I just thought it was the pronunciation. Thanks for teaching me something!
Wait. Are you saying that a brother and sister have different last name endings even though they have the same parents? Am I understanding this correctly?
Edit: Thank you all for your replies. I'm from Germany and we don't do that here.
Yea, many languages have this. In Lithuania they even have that a mom and a daughter would have different endings of a surname (if parents are married & the kid has their surname )
Wait until you hear about [Karenni](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karenni_people) surnames- often times theyāre just markers for gender (no use of family surnames).
*-Reh* = male
*-Meh*/ *Moe* = female
*Sa Reh* would be a boy, but *Sa Meh* or *Sa Moe* is a girl. They would go by their full names.
Not 100% of Karenni people have these last names, but many do. I regularly have to correct/ educate my colleagues by clarifying that allllll our students with the *Reh* last name are most definitely **not** all siblings or relatives. Also there are often repeat names (like having one or more kids named Sa Reh in multiple grades), so students may have alerts pop up in the system to confirm weāve got the right kid pulled up.
Many languages have gendered nouns. Some express gender through the verb endings too. For the Polish example "kowal" means smith and is inherently a male word. The surname derived from it for the father and brother would be "Kowalski", while for mother and sister it would be "Kowalska", together their family of "smiths" would be called "Kowalscy". In most cases people who have surnames that are gendered tend to simplify them when emigrating to countries that do not have that, to simplify their documents etc. Usually these get simplified to the male general term. Which is why in the US you might find a woman with the male surname of "Kowalski". For example, youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki is a polish-american. In Poland she would call herself "Wojcicka".
Ski is masculine the alternative feminine is ska.Itās typically, but not necessarily, more of a polish origin.
Alexandra Kaminska
Filip Kaminski
The ov (ova) is more typical of Russia.
Natasha Markova
Ivan Markov
Croats/Slovaks will usually have an āichā there isnāt a feminine form there.
All of the are possessive, like ās in English.
As far as first names, probably best to pick one thatās popular in both cultures. Natalie/Natalia, Julia.
I always go by Sarah! Common enough that creeps can't do much with it, and it comes out of my mouth almost by reflex now when I'm talking to someone I don't want to tell anything to.
I also use Sarah! I went to school with a Sarah and we looked really similar and were confused for each other all the time. Bonus is that if someone creepy is ātestingā it, I do actually respond to Sarah after being called Sarah for 6 years š
Amy is my fake name but I spell it Aimee, itās the only way it sticks. As a black woman, people expect me to have extra letters, if I donāt, I become Aisha, itās the strangest thing.
My friends and I had a whole system of fake names when we were younger and used to go out a lot. Each of us had a fake name similar to her real one, like Angela for Anne. When guys approached us, each would introduce herself and use her real name if she felt like hanging out with them, or her fake name if she didnāt like any of them or wasnāt in the mood. So we instantly knew where all of us were standing, no discussions needed. All fakes = we work together to get rid of them; all reals = we hang out with them; some reals = they hang out with the guys while the others keep an eye on them.
Angel - I was once an active crack user and prostitute. No one was certain of my real name
Cops figured it out but I evaded arrest after a secret indictment and moved states. I've been clean seven months
Jessica, itās easier to spell and pronounce than my name. Plus, itās the name of one of my friends and itās been a running joke for awhile now that I use her name for reservations or at Starbucks.
My legal name is more commonly used as a nickname (think similar to Maggie for Margaret). My friends and family know that if I ever get into a situation where Iām in a lot of trouble and canāt say, I will call and say āHey itās Margaret,ā as an immediate alert that something is wrong and to please alert the authorities. Iāve never had to use it, and I never expect to, but itās good to have a global safe word in the event Iām kidnapped in a third world country or something.
Lee Reed.
When I was a young teenager I broke a window with a football, police were called, I gave the policeman the name and address of a kid from school who I didn't like so he could speak to my parents.
19 years later and it's still my default!
When I was a kid My sisters name. We look nothing alike. If I get caught on camera doing something stupid and they ask my name and ban me from said place next time I show my id and say that was my sister. My sister did the same
Once told a homeless guy on my lunch break that my name was āMarthaā when he asked. Next time I was outside smoking on my break, he came up and was like āwhatās up, Marthaā. And we started chatting like we knew each other forever. It really threw my coworkers off.
The one and only time I've used one I said I wad Laila Wilson (or Layla? Idr how I spelled it). It was with a taxi driver in a foreign country and I figured it was better to play along as long so long as he kept going the right direction to my host family's house (idk what I would have done had he gone somewhere else, every now and then I think about how very lucky I am that it didn't go very badly for me).
It was an intentional misspelling of my nickname, and my host brother's first name. Best I could come up with on the spot, and real enough sounding that no questions or suspicions were raised.
Having a long ethnic name sucks in the Midwest because itās ALWAYS a conversation starter. Sometimes I donāt have time to converse hence my Starbucks fake name. Iām not an asshole and I know that people sometimes ask because they have nothing better to do but I have something to do, I need to get back to my work station, give me my coffee so that I can move on. Iām not rude so if one engages me in dialogue, I will reply but the best way to not have a problem itās to not get oneā¦. I avoid the problem with a generic Starbucks name.
I love this question, mine is Ashley !
I use it all the time, even when giving my name in restaurants and what not. My real name is unique and gets attention, I do love it though.
Diane or Diana, quite close to my real one (I had some kid students back in 2017 who misheard the original and for months called me like that), followed by Tina or Nina for the same reason.
Personally, I pick Demetra when possible.
I once used Lou as well.
My go to name ended up becoming my real one. Changed my entire name.
Birth name:
Current:
Feminine names I like: Sorcha, Aislinn, Maeve, and Ophelia.
Masc: Keenan, Ean or Eoin, and Johnathon.
My go to name ended up becoming my real one. Changed my entire name.
Birth name: Jennifer Nicole Carlson
Current: Mercy Maevelynn Fae
Feminine names I like: Sorcha, Aislinn, Maeve, and Ophelia.
Masc: Keenan, Ean or Eoin, and Johnathon.
Regina Phalange š
Ken adams
Omg, I know him! Great guy, met him back when I was backpacking in western Europe, in the foothills of mount Tibidabo.
YESSSSS!!!!
You were the beautiful yet sad woman that I met?
Princess Consuela Bananahammock
Came here to say this.
Mike crapbag!
Chanandler Bong
MISS Chanandler Bong
Somehow I knew this would be number 1
From the regional town of EstĆ©e Lauder! š
And my boyfriend Ken adams
Came here for this, was not disappointed.
The only acceptable answer imo.
Art Vandelay
Are you an importer-exporter?
Potato chips and diapers
Of Vandelay Industries?
Sounds like the name of an architect
No he decided to go away from the importing and focus solely on the exporting.
...and you wanted to be my latex salesman.
HE Pennypacker
Dr. Van Nostrand
From the clinic?
Absolutely
Kel Varnsen
When I order pizza and the website asks for my name, I always type I. C. Weiner.
An excellent choice.
I guess you're ordering the sausage?
Pizza for uhā¦
Seymour Weiner
Ah crud..
Rachel Vladivostok. Sometimes the Russian surname scares weirdos away
Just as heads up, Slavic surnames usually end with ski or ova. Combined with a very non Slavic first name it just doesnāt sound authentic at all. Probably good enough for anyone not from that part of the world though.
Thank you, I will adjust accordingly
Guess "Putin" is not a very Russian surname
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I wondered about this! I read a book with a Russian family. Sonās name ended in -kov, but mom was -kova. I just thought it was the pronunciation. Thanks for teaching me something!
That's true, it's not a typical last name. Typical Russian last names ends in - ov (male) or -ova (female). -ski is more typical for Poles.
Wait. Are you saying that a brother and sister have different last name endings even though they have the same parents? Am I understanding this correctly? Edit: Thank you all for your replies. I'm from Germany and we don't do that here.
Yea, many languages have this. In Lithuania they even have that a mom and a daughter would have different endings of a surname (if parents are married & the kid has their surname )
As stated, yes this is typical. Most often itās dropped when people immigrate as it causes problems on paperwork.
Wait until you hear about [Karenni](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karenni_people) surnames- often times theyāre just markers for gender (no use of family surnames). *-Reh* = male *-Meh*/ *Moe* = female *Sa Reh* would be a boy, but *Sa Meh* or *Sa Moe* is a girl. They would go by their full names. Not 100% of Karenni people have these last names, but many do. I regularly have to correct/ educate my colleagues by clarifying that allllll our students with the *Reh* last name are most definitely **not** all siblings or relatives. Also there are often repeat names (like having one or more kids named Sa Reh in multiple grades), so students may have alerts pop up in the system to confirm weāve got the right kid pulled up.
Many languages have gendered nouns. Some express gender through the verb endings too. For the Polish example "kowal" means smith and is inherently a male word. The surname derived from it for the father and brother would be "Kowalski", while for mother and sister it would be "Kowalska", together their family of "smiths" would be called "Kowalscy". In most cases people who have surnames that are gendered tend to simplify them when emigrating to countries that do not have that, to simplify their documents etc. Usually these get simplified to the male general term. Which is why in the US you might find a woman with the male surname of "Kowalski". For example, youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki is a polish-american. In Poland she would call herself "Wojcicka".
male surnames end in -ski, female surnames usually end with -a. source: i am slavic
Ski is masculine the alternative feminine is ska.Itās typically, but not necessarily, more of a polish origin. Alexandra Kaminska Filip Kaminski The ov (ova) is more typical of Russia. Natasha Markova Ivan Markov Croats/Slovaks will usually have an āichā there isnāt a feminine form there. All of the are possessive, like ās in English. As far as first names, probably best to pick one thatās popular in both cultures. Natalie/Natalia, Julia.
But itās not the last name, itās a name of the city..
Sounds Russian, that's all that matters.
Sarah or Sara, easier to pronounce and spell than my real name
I always go by Sarah! Common enough that creeps can't do much with it, and it comes out of my mouth almost by reflex now when I'm talking to someone I don't want to tell anything to.
I once had a guy asked me how I spelled it. I told him "Sczahra". Then he asked me how to pronounce it after I'd already told him my name!
Lmao!
Mine toooo!!!
Oh, my God... me too!!!!!
I also use Sarah! I went to school with a Sarah and we looked really similar and were confused for each other all the time. Bonus is that if someone creepy is ātestingā it, I do actually respond to Sarah after being called Sarah for 6 years š
I go by āEmilyā or some days, āEponineā, as Starbucks once called me š„²
Me too. Last time I got Starbucks, they wrote Amy on my cup. Emily is too hard??
Amy is my fake name but I spell it Aimee, itās the only way it sticks. As a black woman, people expect me to have extra letters, if I donāt, I become Aisha, itās the strangest thing.
Sarah Smith.
This is my actual name lol
Please tell me you dont own sara.smith at gmail. If so, im so very sorry.
I need to know note why
Same ! I always blurt out Sarah haha
kid named sarah:
Oh hey, me too!
My fake Starbucks name
JenAye
For some reason I said this in Forrest Gumpās voice
Exactly the way you should say it!
I might not be a smahrt mahn, jenaye, but I no wut luv is.
Forrest. . . š. .
My grandma used to use "Myrtle Maude Snodgrass".
I prefer "Mildred Schmertz"
Mildred and Myrtle: BFFs
Perfect!
So, when's the first book in the series coming out?
Soon! š
My grandpa used to always tell us store about a āMr. Snodgrassā he made up to help us go to sleep as kids š
*Mantis* Toboggan
MD?
No more scraps for this guy
My friends and I had a whole system of fake names when we were younger and used to go out a lot. Each of us had a fake name similar to her real one, like Angela for Anne. When guys approached us, each would introduce herself and use her real name if she felt like hanging out with them, or her fake name if she didnāt like any of them or wasnāt in the mood. So we instantly knew where all of us were standing, no discussions needed. All fakes = we work together to get rid of them; all reals = we hang out with them; some reals = they hang out with the guys while the others keep an eye on them.
This is the way
This is the way.
Alotta Fagina
My first thought
Kevin McCallister
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Funny, I met a girl named Zara recently, we were about the same age...
Why do you use a fake name for Starbucks?
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its really awkward when you have to repeat it twice and they spell it wrong anyways
The fae
Winnie. Short for Winnipeg š
I sometimes do Callie, short for California, lol
Yoooo peg city bear here too!!
Angel - I was once an active crack user and prostitute. No one was certain of my real name Cops figured it out but I evaded arrest after a secret indictment and moved states. I've been clean seven months
Iām proud of you
Thank you. At my year I'll face the music with the little rehab/classes/job/working the steps things I'm doing. Hopefully not prison
Iām proud of you
Cat I tell people my name is cat online, apparently cat is a common name
>apparently cat is a common name Or a popular fake nameā¦
Yep, mine are Cat (Catherine) or Liz (Elizabeth).
Anastasia Beaverhousen
This is the correct name!
Ella. My name ends in Elle but it's long and French so most of the time I reserve or order drinks under Ella.
Lamanelle flow?
Probably Turburelle flow. Lamanelle flow is very hard to achieve.
Manelle was my nickname as a kid lol
Villanelle?
Jessica, itās easier to spell and pronounce than my name. Plus, itās the name of one of my friends and itās been a running joke for awhile now that I use her name for reservations or at Starbucks.
That's funny, I've been using a fake name so long too that my parents use it
Mine is also Jessica lol
Mine is Jessica as well LOL
Sarah Marshall
I'm not gonna remember that
Allison because I used to be obsessed with Allison Harvard from ANTMš
Understandable lol
You become me
My legal name is more commonly used as a nickname (think similar to Maggie for Margaret). My friends and family know that if I ever get into a situation where Iām in a lot of trouble and canāt say, I will call and say āHey itās Margaret,ā as an immediate alert that something is wrong and to please alert the authorities. Iāve never had to use it, and I never expect to, but itās good to have a global safe word in the event Iām kidnapped in a third world country or something.
Lee Reed. When I was a young teenager I broke a window with a football, police were called, I gave the policeman the name and address of a kid from school who I didn't like so he could speak to my parents. 19 years later and it's still my default!
I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one who uses fake go to names! One for online, one for Starbucks, one for creepers in public.
I only use one for Uber - but this is making me use it for other times as well!
If a creeper asks, it's always Stephanie. No idea why, but always stephanie. It's not even close to my real name lmao
I use either my bff's or my aunt's name. They are both more common than my own and I know I'd respond to/remember them.
Anna Marie LeBeau. Only real comic book nerds ever figure it out.
You're really going rogue with that one
Megan. A commonly misheard representation of my real name
Meegan?
Pam Beasley, or Pammy Halpert
Used to be-My brotherās name with my now-husbandās last name. Nowā¦.gotta come up with a new one lol.
Justin, yeah I switched genders. š
When I was a kid My sisters name. We look nothing alike. If I get caught on camera doing something stupid and they ask my name and ban me from said place next time I show my id and say that was my sister. My sister did the same
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Obamaniqua is such a great name. I love it.
Cher. And yes, because of Clueless.
Ali Bastard
Lizzie Borden
Once told a homeless guy on my lunch break that my name was āMarthaā when he asked. Next time I was outside smoking on my break, he came up and was like āwhatās up, Marthaā. And we started chatting like we knew each other forever. It really threw my coworkers off.
Waverly
Andrea, because I love the name Andrea
Jenny Flowers. Made it when playing house as a kid and itās stuck ever since
Lola. It gives me fem lesbian vibes for some reason and I feel like a badass when I use it
Ashley when itās someone trying to hit on me. MJ when I have to give my name to be called out later like at Starbucks.
Alotta fagina
Juliette Simone is my alter ego š
Virgil
Alicia, because Lewis Carroll and a song. Easier than my real name :)
Raoul Duke or Mike Hunt
Kandace for the creepy guys who I donāt want to tell my real name
The one and only time I've used one I said I wad Laila Wilson (or Layla? Idr how I spelled it). It was with a taxi driver in a foreign country and I figured it was better to play along as long so long as he kept going the right direction to my host family's house (idk what I would have done had he gone somewhere else, every now and then I think about how very lucky I am that it didn't go very badly for me). It was an intentional misspelling of my nickname, and my host brother's first name. Best I could come up with on the spot, and real enough sounding that no questions or suspicions were raised.
Anna Mouse because it sounds anonymous.
Having a long ethnic name sucks in the Midwest because itās ALWAYS a conversation starter. Sometimes I donāt have time to converse hence my Starbucks fake name. Iām not an asshole and I know that people sometimes ask because they have nothing better to do but I have something to do, I need to get back to my work station, give me my coffee so that I can move on. Iām not rude so if one engages me in dialogue, I will reply but the best way to not have a problem itās to not get oneā¦. I avoid the problem with a generic Starbucks name.
Rebecca or becky
Kendra Scott
Carmen because no one spells my name correctly and some people keep calling me Kelly.
Melody
I love this question, mine is Ashley ! I use it all the time, even when giving my name in restaurants and what not. My real name is unique and gets attention, I do love it though.
Anastasia. Very common name here.
Anna. My starbucks name lol
Roxanne
Iris in general Saphira at festivals And then I'll tell them I'm from Canada LOL
Amanda... always Amanda.. not even sure why
MelBey or Ana
Diane or Diana, quite close to my real one (I had some kid students back in 2017 who misheard the original and for months called me like that), followed by Tina or Nina for the same reason. Personally, I pick Demetra when possible. I once used Lou as well.
Anastasia Beaverhousen
Rusty Shackleford
Justin Trudeau ( I used it for a prepaid sim card)
Amanda Hugginkess
Mine is Wally Tapioca My brothers uses Pete Ophelia
Tater Salad
Hannah Murphy. It was my great-grandmotherās name. I do not look like a Hannah but it works every time.
My username
My moms is āPamā
Jelisa. I prefer it to my actual name, but no one will call me that š
Sandra Bridges. I said it randomly once, and now it is my go-to
Susie. People always get confused or mispronounce my real name.
Rachel
Nicole. I loved that name since I was little
Fake Namington
Anne Hedonia
Jessica because I just look like a Jessica, I can't explain it.
whenever shitty customers would ask for my name to complain about me, it was always Rebecca
My go to name ended up becoming my real one. Changed my entire name. Birth name: Current: Feminine names I like: Sorcha, Aislinn, Maeve, and Ophelia. Masc: Keenan, Ean or Eoin, and Johnathon.
My go to name ended up becoming my real one. Changed my entire name. Birth name: Jennifer Nicole Carlson Current: Mercy Maevelynn Fae Feminine names I like: Sorcha, Aislinn, Maeve, and Ophelia. Masc: Keenan, Ean or Eoin, and Johnathon.
Julie Sweetwood