people: names

I thought Dr. Stitch, our town’s doctor… was Stich from lilo and stitch

I thought Whoopi Goldberg was the inventor of the Whoopie Cushion

Tyler Perry and Katy Perry were both siblings

I used to believe that baby name
Sites were provided as part of a child's school record, so they would have to write an essay starting with something like 'my name is Catherine Leigh, my friends call me Katie as a nickname, my mum and dad call
Me Kate, and I am hoping to go to uni when I'm older. Hahaha 😆

When I was in middle school there was a kid in one of my classes named Christopher, but for some reason he pronounced it in a really weird way, i.e like "Chris-Toefer" (second part rhymes with "gopher"), almost like it was two words. As a result, I thought that his first name was "Chris" and his last name was "Toefer". I'm not sure when I finally realized the truth (I think I saw his name written down at one point). I'm still not sure why he pronounced it that way

I used to think that when parents were discussing what to name their child, they had to do over the table at mealtimes, so the first, middle and surnane would be like breakfast, lunch and dinner, or starter, main course and dessert, with the baby name book as an imaginary menu to choose from (you get the idea, when certain subjects make you hingry for no actual reason).

I used to think that names with a hyphen in between, names with
The first and middle name put together were meant to be 'special' in some way, so if you wre called Anne-Marie, Mary-Anne,
Michael-John etc , then it made you the teachers pet at school, or everyone's family favourite at home.

I used to believe that Demi Moore and Demi Lovato were the same person or related to each other because they both have the same first name

I heard of the movie The Godfather before knowing about what an actual godfather was, so when I heard a classmate in grade school talking about his godfather, I thought his family members were criminals.

I used to believe that if your name was Jazz, you'd automatically like jazz music

I used to think that Ethan Allen was Ethan Alien, and also had some connection to Tim Allen and Toy Story.

I used to think you could only ever change your name if you werefamoys, and had to be stuck with your given birth name the rest od the time.
lol

I once had a really funny incident on the phone when an old lady said her name was Aileen, and I thought she said alien.

I used to think that the parents of neglected children, actually chose names that they specifically hated, so if they hated the names George and Karen, for instance, then the pregnant mother would punch her stomach and say 'if you keep kicking my stomach, then I'm naming you George ________ or Karen ________ when you are born!

When I heard of the last name Armstrong, I thought it was the name given to people with strong arms and that last names involving body parts were common, for instance a woman with big eyes might be called "Molly Eyebig".

A worker at our school played "Simon Says", so I thought the worker's actual name was 'Simon', even though she was a woman!