Name Variations Quotes

Dia is the way my name was originally spelt. When I was applying for my passport for the Femina Miss India Contest, someone spelt my name as Diya. Since it was on my passport, I couldn't do much about it.

Are there many Tims in America? I don't know if I can think of many American Tims.

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost.

Mitch, Mitchell - I don't care, but my mom prefers Mitchell. I'll answer to either one.

I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy to say.

Reggie - that was on the court. Reginald is the executive.

I have six or seven 'what to name the baby' books, the Oxford dictionary of names, and a fabulous tome that's 26 languages in simultaneous translation - French, German, all the European majors, plus Esperanto, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.

I collect misspellings of my last name. Jame McRoy, McGros, Legras - it's become kind of a sport.

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

I met P. Diddy. Or Diddy. I like to call him Puffy because, let's be honest, that's who he is.

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 on the name. Some of them can get it, but many can't.

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 Varun, and my surname is often changed to Sobit.

Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, some people call me Mayer, some people call me Haircut.

Different people call me different things. 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 on the name.

What's there in a name! Some people call me Jai, while others call me Jaggu, Kishan, Jackie, or Bhidu.