I had a teacher who told me he thought Chlamydia would be a wonderful name for a baby girl.. if only it wasn't the name of an STD.

That's an old joke if I ever heard one.

That was an old fml...

your parents must have quite the story as to why they named you that

I will bet it makes you want to act like an asshole.

That was in Waiting. And my dad tried to tell me once that he wanted to name me Chlamydia. Oooooold joke.

A girl in my class name was "Lea-a" pronounced "La-dash-a" and people always got confused and called her "Leah". She would get pissed and say the dash isn't silent.

No she wouldn't. Seriously guys if you're gonna lie about knowing people with weird names, at least choose something original and not old jokes and urban legends we've all heard before. Y'all must have some sad lives to lie about stuff like this to a bunch of internet strangers, lol.

there was really a girl named la-a at my school. i swear; i honestly didnt know there was an urban legend around it, and it makes her fight with school administration that much funnier

I lived down the street from a family for a long time and I kid you not their last name was Hogg and they had a son and a daughter. The boys name was Ima and the girls name was Shea making them Ima Hogg and Shea Hogg. Those poor kids were so picked on.

haha ok guys no need to get butthurt. He said it because we were giving him name ideas since his wife was pregnant. I didn't know this was an old joke.

My brother had a teacher named Dr. Hooker. His wife's name? Ima. Her name is Ima Hooker.

My name is Michaela, pronounced mih-KAY-luh, but people ALWAYS pronounce it like they are saying Michael with an "a" tacked on the end or Mishella. I even corrected them before I graduated high school, but the guy on stage still pronounced it wrong when I walked up to get my diploma. It's just part if having a less-than-usual spelling of a name.

Don't worry OP, my friends name is Yaneth sounding like Janet. You just need to overcome these obstacles and have fun with it.

the way its pronounced sounds like "on your knees" lol

See, 1person has shown you the truth, it really doesn't matter what your name is, people will bastardize it to it's funniest version. Richard, becomes Dick, Max, becomes Maxi-pad, take it in humor, and don't hang out with dumb people who only repeat the dumb joke.

Welllll, if OP's hispanic, the Y is meant to be pronounced like a J.

I have a friend who name if pronounced like its spelt is satanic. She calls herself Sally. Try the same thing and call yourself Janet. It's close enough to your real name.

At first, I pronounced it as "Uranus".

Apt!

Doctor Yeraneediot Bastard.. jeez your parents clearly loved you.

My name is Mike Hunt. It ain't easy being Mike.

#55 It's better than Mike Easter (say it fast out loud)!

Uhm no that's not how it works. People would like to be called the way their name is pronounced. For example people who go by the name Richard would prefer not to be called Dick, solely for the purposes of humor.

Oh don't be such a Richard about it.

I'm not I'm just being a Jerry!

What a RichardCranium.

Actually I think you're missing the point.. This guy had the right idea..majority if people are not gonna pronounce this name right when they first see it..just like with my name Kyra. Most people pronounce it as Keerah but it's really K-eye-ra. And my friend Simone's name is pronounced Simon and he's a guy we both just laugh about it and make the best of it..its not like people are doing it on purpose!

No, it's because it looks like it should be pronounced that way. Not everyone makes fun of people's names.

So did I because it looks like it could be a name in Spanish. Well to me at least. It sounds pretty too x)

I thought it was pronounced like that too but then when I read the name again I saw that it looks to be pronounced your-anus too

I think the "ja" is as in "janitor", maybe slightly longer "a". I can't quite understand why the rest is supposed to be pronounced "ra-nees", though. I just don't know of a language where "re" is pronounced as "ra"... am sure that one such language exists, though. At this point, I'm just curious as to whether OP was born in an english speaking country or merely moved there with his family. Latter one would explain the difference between how one would read the name and how it's supposed to be pronounced, while the former one would work with examples of e.g. Naiphthan(Nathan) or Allyzzabeth(Elizabeth).

tl;dr

the end 'e' sound in German is often the equivalent to an English 'a' or like an 'uh' sound.

I could understand "ja" sounding like "jaw", but OP's name starts "Ya" which I would normally interpret to sound like "yahoo".