What's the first name you always think of when asked to come up with a random name?

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Dirk@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Steve

mifan@feddit.dk · 4 pts · 2y

ALAN!!!

NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

Me too

Daeraxa@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Bob. Always Bob.

fat_stig@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Bob is my Starbucks name, they always get my real name wrong.

superfly_samurai@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Because Bob usually knows, and/or did it.

(I use Bob too)

Helix@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y

He's also your uncle

Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Bob

NightAuthor@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

The only right answer

Saigonauticon@voltage.vn · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Slartibartfast

kent_eh@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I told you it wasn't important.

Saigonauticon@voltage.vn · 1 pts · 2y

Yeah, that's what makes it optimal for testing code where the username isn't important.

Good old Slartibartfast has caught many a bug.

xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y

Tits Mcgee.

Philote@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Turd Ferguson is forever etched in my brain.

Melkath@kbin.social · 0 pts · 2y

Ya. That's right. Turd Ferguson. It's a funny name.

mangaskahn@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Doug

Albbi@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

"I’m not going to ask you to remember them all. Mostly because I don’t remember them all. Therefore, for ease of both narrative and our collective sanity, I’m going to name only the more important members of the Crow’s Song. The rest, regardless of gender, I’ll call 'Doug.' You’d be surprised how common the name is across worlds. Oh, some spell it 'Dug' or 'Duhg,' but it’s always around. Regardless of local linguistics, parents eventually start naming their kids Doug. I once spent ten years on a planet where the only sapient life was a group of pancakelike beings that expressed themselves through flatulence. And I kid you not—one was named Doug. Though admittedly it had a very distinctive smell attached when the word was 'spoken.''Doug'is the naming equivalent to convergent evolution. And once it arrives, it stays. A linguistic Great Filter; a wakeup call. Once a society reaches peak Doug, it’s time for it to go sit in the corner and think about what it has done."

  • Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea
finestnothing@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
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Conyak@lemmy.tf · 7 pts · 2y

Art Vandelay

physcx@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Bort

Bananigans@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y

I remember they used to sell Bort name tags at the Universal Studios Kwik e Mart. I regret not buying one.

son_named_bort@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Are you taking to me?

Pulptastic@midwest.social · 1 pts · 2y

We are all out of Bort license plates

benvars@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y

Bob

ErKaf@feddit.de · 5 pts · 2y

Jeff

HubertManne@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y

Bigus Dickus. (boy im making a lot of penis jokes today)

mrbubblesort@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

nomecks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Bob. Bob Loblaw, from Bob Loblaw's Law Blog

hperrin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Steve

Nemo@midwest.social · 3 pts · 2y

Steeeve

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Nice try, this is how you're going to get us all to confess our most commonly-used passwords.

Because my random word that first came to my mind was exactly that. And I'm not telling you what it is.

HubertManne@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y

yeah there is no way im telling this clown that I always use bobsmypassword as a password. What does he think we are. Morons.

shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

Tina

tjhart85@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y

Frank. No clue why, but at least 60% of the time, it's Frank.

konalt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Joe

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Cinderella

shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Carl

Pulptastic@midwest.social · 3 pts · 2y

YoSoyConfundo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Illegible Jones

n00b001@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Greg

backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y

Just came up with a random name and it was Thomas.

In German, it's commonly an old people sounding name (Frederike, Ulrich, Brigitte, Gerhard, etc)

sour@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y

word + word + number

mannycalavera@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 2y

Dave

timeisart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Rusty Shackleford

Susaga@ttrpg.network · 2 pts · 2y

Terry

Bebo@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I have a terrible imagination. If asked to come up with a name, I'll simply flounder and say, "Eh?"

Case in point: my user name which I have used on multiple instances. (I've no idea how I came up with it).

jjagaimo@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y (3 replies)

NAME A WOMAN

Bebo@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I was actually thinking about clever sounding "non human" names. Human names are easy. Names of women: Lily Lilith Rose Penny etc etc

jjagaimo@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)
PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks · 1 pts · 2y

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ksharp@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

X-wing @ Aliciousness

Masamune@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Fudge

davel@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
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livus@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

George.

Relevant username?

auf@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
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SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Malmsy.

TubeTalkerX@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

Bruce, otherwise it could get confusing

variants_of_concern@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 2y

Pustulio

Mrderisant@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

Owen Lincoln Potter. An alias I used in college when I was fucking around like an idiot

HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone · 1 pts · 2y

Schmitt.

Carlo@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
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Donnagen@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2y

Xanthor the Destroyer of Worlds

Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 2y

Male: tim Female: kim

JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee · -2 pts · 2y

Just now? Romney. But I can't say I'd always pick that name, as first of all I haven't been asked that before, so I wouldn't know, and second of all, if I did, it would be predictable and therefore not random.