Guessing Your Middle Name

[Atomic Playboy]

I'm pretty sure that the only ten questions that would reliably lead to figuring out a name would be "What is the first letter of your name," "What is the second letter of your name," etc. I mean, what the fuck does "Do you feel older, younger or the same" even mean? "Oh, you feel older, your middle name must be Aeschylus!" Fucking nonsense.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Guessed mine is Joseph. Not even close. As a matter of fact none of those letters are in my middle name.

 

[BlitzPuppet]

Every time this comes up it boggles my mind. It wouldn't even occur to me to name my kid after a person or character in any kind of media. I might end up coming up with a name that happens to be some character or other, but it wouldn't be intentional. Kinda hard to avoid it given the amount of stuff out there really.

I know two girls that named their kids after characters in video games .

Very silly...

 

[Homerboy]

 

[KeithTalent]

I know two girls that named their kids after characters in video games .

Very silly...

Robin Williams called his kid Zelda. I like that name.

KT

 

[pontifex]

I'm pretty sure that the only ten questions that would reliably lead to figuring out a name would be "What is the first letter of your name," "What is the second letter of your name," etc. I mean, what the fuck does "Do you feel older, younger or the same" even mean? "Oh, you feel older, your middle name must be Aeschylus!" Fucking nonsense.

yep

 

[Captante]

Got mine wrong too ... but came pretty close.

 

[cubby1223]

Just repeated the "test" with the exact same question answers...

Different middle name guessed this time, not even closely related to the first guess.

I am dumber now for having knowledge of that website.

 

[BoberFett]

Every time this comes up it boggles my mind. It wouldn't even occur to me to name my kid after a person or character in any kind of media. I might end up coming up with a name that happens to be some character or other, but it wouldn't be intentional. Kinda hard to avoid it given the amount of stuff out there really.

You've got to pick a name somehow, might as well be one you saw in some form of entertainment. My daughter is named after a character from a movie, but a movie that was 40 years old at the time she was born. I wouldn't name my kid after a pop star so they end up with the same name as every other kid their age.

Of course, it seems to have peaked in popularity at the time the movie was released, LOL.

http://www.behindthename.com/top/name/regina/us?viewing=graph



As for the site in the OP, this sounds like they're getting users to profile themselves for free. Data mining on the cheap.

 

[SKORPI0]

Did the "test". Result is THOMAS. Not even close.

 

[GrumpyMan]

It failed. Being the Son of Satan, it should of guessed it. Can you?

 

[Perknose]

It failed. Being the Son of Satan, it should of guessed it. Can you?

BlBub Jr?

 

[lxskllr]

WTF?! I don't have facebook, and I keep a low profile everywhere, but it guessed my not terribly common nickname. I wonder where they get their data from?

Edit:
Maybe it's just a coincidence. My nickname isn't weird, I just seldom hear it around :^/

 

[Meghan54]

Yeah, it missed me by a mile, too. Daniel. LOL! No one on either side of my family has anyone named Daniel.

 

[irishScott]

"Robert"

Well, it got one letter right.

 

[Perknose]

WTF?! I don't have facebook, and I keep a low profile everywhere, but it guessed my not terribly common nickname. I wonder where they get their data from?

Edit:
Maybe it's just a coincidence. My nickname isn't weird, I just seldom hear it around :^/

You don't hear people calling you "Doofus" that often simply because they're being polite.

 

[lxskllr]

You don't hear people calling you "Doofus" that often simply because they're being polite.

That /would/ be polite. I usually get called "Asshole" :^D

 

[Crono]

A lot of the quizzes and third-party games posted on Facebook are market research or data harvesting companies. That entire site is just one big psychological experiment, too, from what Facebook collects on top of that.

 

[Perknose]

That /would/ be polite. I usually get called "Asshole" :^D

People call me that when they're being as polite as they possibly can.

 

[Bartman39]

Was not even close...? Damn Perk where did you find that...?

 

[Ken g6]

It got the first letter right. But it wouldn't have if my parents had given me the middle name they originally planned. They changed it because my initials would have been those of the Soviet secret police!

 

[Perknose]

Was not even close...? Damn Perk where did you find that...?

Facebook. :\

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Not even close.

 

[Iron Woode]

I hate my middle name; I've always wanted to change it. I've actually always wanted to change all of my names because they all suck.

KT

change your name to: Max Power

 

[Iron Woode]

It failed. Being the Son of Satan, it should of guessed it. Can you?

Ray J. Johnson Jr.?