Re: What's in a Name?

Answering some questions made by Alexandra Wolfe about names. Yes, it's basically another questions challenge, but quite interesting too.

One of the blogs I often read but haven’t mentioned much is Alexandra Wolfe’s, she recently had some thoughts regarding names and left some questions to answer ourselves! Therefore, this blog post.

It’s almost like I keep finding question challenges to answer day after day!

Do you like your name?

I do actually! I think Joel is a pretty cool name, it is kind of popular but not super popular, somewhere in the top 150 in Mexico, from what I found online. It means “Yahweh is God”, which makes sense to me :P

Do people regularly misspell/mispronounce your name?

It was fairly common to be called “Jose” from time to time, by people glancing at my name in a list or something. Whenever I introduced myself, they would sometimes hear names like “Noe”—Noah in Spanish—or even just the last syllable “El”—“He” in Spanish.

I’ve even gotten mail directed to “Jose” at least once, nothing too bad though.

If you were going change your name to anything else, what would you choose?

No idea, I’d like to keep the letter J to be honest, maybe James or Jack but like, I’m fine as is.

Do you go by your first name?

Yep, Joel is my first name.

Do you have a middle name?

Yes I do, won’t tell~

Do you have a nickname?

It depends, at work… nah, sometimes I’m called Junior for reasons you can assume. Sometimes I’ve been called Jo, which is not great in Spanish but makes sense in English I think. I’m also called Jojoy by family, in Spanish, don’t ever call me that in English.

Michael also added a couple of extra sections to this challenge, which are the following!

Random Opinion

I wish my name pronounced in English was the same as in Spanish (kinda like “Ho-ell”) instead of “Joule/Yoel” or whatever.

Bonus Fact

I said I won’t tell my middle name, but if you are curious, it ends with “el” too.

This is day 50 of #100DaysToOffload

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