When I was younger, I had a chinese name and a christian name (which was really more of a nickname). When my brother was born, he didn't have a christian name and I asked my mum why. She told me it was because my grandparents had died, and because of that, all the kids in the family who were born after the grands death couldn't have christian names too. I believed her until I was 20. can't believe I was that stupid.

pj

Growing up as a twin can do funny things to your identity. In fact, I used to think my name was Tommyjason because my mom would always call my brother and I (for dinner, etc.), "Tommy! Jason!"

Jason L.

I used to think that everybody had to change their name on their 21st birthday. I was going to change mine to Miss Violet

Erin

When I was like 3 or 4, I thought people were born with their name. For example, if you're name was Jenny, when you were born, you had a little sign around your neck with "Jenny" written on it! Don't ask me where I came up with this. I was a weird child.

Captain Weirdo

My mom made a song when I was little called Chrissy "Bear". I got very confused and used to think and tell people that my last name was Bear. I insisted that it was and my pre school teacher had to call my mom to ask if my last name was really different then hers.

Chrissy C

i was totally shocked when i heard some kids saying "nanny,nanny poo,poo you can not catch me". i was like "how do they know my name and why do they want me to catch them,i have never ever seen them before?"i then started yelling at them thinking that they were teasing me.now some people call me poopi instead of nainie.

nainie

I used to think that all people who were called "John" were actually named "Jonathan" and "John" was just the shortened form of the name. Same thing with "Chris" and "Christopher", as well as "Alex" and "Alexander".

Alex319

When I was little, I used to believe that my name was "Mico," even though I knew it was spelled Michael. I got this idea from the Nickoloden game show, GUTs that was hosted by "Mico Malley" (Mike O'Malley) After that I thought that "micowaves" (microwaves) and "mico machines" (Micro Machines) were named after me.

Mico

When I was little and my sister was just learning to write, I taught her that the proper spelling of her name was Katiewxyz. She spelt it like that for quite a while.

LoopyLooLoo

when I was around 6 years old, I thought that people got a new name when they became adults. my mother`s name is Anveig, and I couldn`t imagine a baby or a child with that name!

Ingrid from Norway

I used to believe that my middle name was Goofy, even though it's actually Margaret.

Lisa

When I was little I used to think that people named Candy would give you candy if you talked to them.

Felix

I used to think that people chose last names for their kids

Anon

my dad told me that when he was really young, he thought all women were called 'mommies' and all men were called 'daddies'

One day when my father was a very young child, back in the early sixties when the civil rights movement was in full force, he was riding the bus with his mother. It was already crowded when the driver stopped and picked up a black man who proceeded to take a seat right next to them. My dad then leaned over, looked the man straight in the eye, and said "Hi daddy!"

I can't even imagine what grandma's reaction was.

Anon

When my sister and I were little, we used to play "friend". One of us would walk up to the other and say something like "hi friend" and we would go back and forth talking completely normal, except we used the word friend instead of a name. We thought that's how you talked to your friends!

KT

I used to believe that everyone who had the same name, looked alike. E.g. my father's name is Harold, so everyone named Harold looked exactly like my father...

Anon

The name 'Emma' was spelt 'M'

Dee

As a child I wondered why my name was Dean, and how my parents (and I) knew it was Dean, and suspected that there might have been a great mixup and my real name was something else entirely.
This was long before I started getting teased for an uncommon name.

Dean S.

I used to believe that people with certain combinations of names, like "Carla" and "Melissa", for example, or like "Tammy" and "Lucy" were mutually invisible to each other, couldn't interact with each other in any way, and would be totally unaware of each other's existence. But then later I knew of a Carla and a Melissa who were each other's best friends. So they clearly knew about each other and interacted with each other. So after that I gradually got over that belief.

Julie

I have had many surgeries over the first ten years of my life. I am now eighteen. My neurologist's name was Dr. Grant. I never knew his first name but when I was younger I assumed his name was Ulysses because of the Ulysses S grant in history. I asked my mom when I was six if it was the same guy. I was shocked to find out that he wasn't.

Anon