I hear you on this. I don't answer to Julie or Julia or Jude. The name on my birth certificate says Judith but only my Mama was allowed to call me that and then only when she was mad or I was late. And she always included my middle name with that as if it was all one name JUDITHANN.

When I repeat my name over and over it starts sounding really stupid.

I gave my daughter a unique name and now its a popular, overused name.

Nobody spells my last name correctly. They stick an extra C in there. It's my late husband's last name --which I took because the first half of my previous last name was HICK, and well, that just doesn't feel right.

Plus, Martin Handshy in seventh grade called me "hickey" and I've never gotten over it.

If I were you, when introducing myself in person I'd just sing the refrain of that Neil Diamond song, Sweet Caroline. Talk about a successful ear worm.