• 👍Maximum Derek👍
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      1211 months ago

      Don’t do it! Novelty license plates for that name are always sold out. I’ve been trying to find one for 30 years.

      • anon6789
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        711 months ago

        I was visiting someone at Yale, and as we were walking through town I saw a car with an actual BORT license plate.

        I was the only one who got a kick out of it though.

        It was 2 phones ago, so not sure where the picture lives these days, but I have proof somewhere!

    • @Mango
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      311 months ago

      Now why is that the first thing that came to my mind too??

  • Sage the Lawyer
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    2411 months ago

    Not sure how uncommon you’re looking for, but I think I already did this.

    I chose Sage.

    According to some quick googling (read: not sure how accurate this is), Sage wasn’t in the top 500 names for my birth year, but my given name was top 100.

    Though both names I’ve used have been trending towards more common for most of my life. Looks like my original name is now a top 35 most common, but Sage is still outside the top 100 for females and outside top 300 for males.(Really wish there was more data for the popularity of nonbinary names. I think Sage is probably one of the more popular enby names, so maybe it’s not all that uncommon, depending on how you define it.)

  • Hegar
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    1311 months ago

    Something old, like a name from Sumer, Akkad, Elam, maybe something Hittite.

    Epirmupi, Shamsaki, Puzur-Inshushinak, Ninurta, Lugalzagasi, Tiglath-Pileser, Hattusili, Suppiluliuma.

  • Dekkia
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    1211 months ago

    Dekkia.

    I already use that name everywhere online, might as well put it on my passport.

  • @spittingimage
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    1111 months ago

    Nebuchadnezzar. It has an air of nobility about it and no-one would be able to spell it, ever.

    • @Tangent5280
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      211 months ago

      Peasants shouldn’t be able to spell the names of nobility

  • Remy Rose
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    1111 months ago

    I’m loving the creativity here! To me though, “uncommon” implies that it’s not like completely unheard of either. so, my choice would be “Midge”

  • @[email protected]
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    911 months ago

    I’ve already got a name that puts me quite comfortably in the 1% of names used in my country. It’s not as cool to have a uncommon name as you think. It’s easy to get picked on, you never can buy those souvenir mugs or keyrings with ‘your name’ and it gets misspelled.

    I mean I’ve written a book where my name is on the cover and one review managed to misspell it…

    Otoh. I once met someone on holiday in Ireland that said ‘i one met a kid with that name and it was in Croatia, about ten years ago’.

    That kid was me. If I had a more common name we’d never have known.

    • @bfg9k
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      11 months ago

      Yes hi there my name is \n

    • @Tangent5280
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      211 months ago

      Until you get 4 billion dollars worth of fines and speeding tickets

    • @[email protected]
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      411 months ago

      Don’t change your name to that unless you play guitar. As a non-musical man who gets compared to John Lennon a lot, I’m doing you a favor.