Are there people named john doe

They might also have been the actual names of real people that a particular landlord knew and decided to use. Whatever their ultimate origin, the names eventually became standard placeholders for unidentified, anonymous or hypothetical parties to a court case.

Most U. The Feds use these placeholders, too, perhaps most famously in Roe v. BY Matt Soniak. Subscribe to our Newsletter! He says he has no regrets about his own choice.

But he acknowledges he sometimes likes to break the mold by using his middle initial, H. Voter Registration Card. In a country of immigrants, it is shameful how we casually mock the names of others.

My last name is the same as an unusually named celebrity and the jokes I hear are insipid. A nice Vietnamese guy I went to school with was named, unfortunately, Dung pronounced Yome. Unless you have something very clever to say, just leave these people alone. Doe: Why not change the spelling to Doh? This reminds me of a conversation I had with a retired F. All my life people will get to know me before they ask what my real name is. I tell them that it is Thibodeau. They then insist that my nickname is Pearly because of my teeth.

How many times have people been told they were going to meet Perley Thibodeau and expected a girl to show up?

My first name in the Marine Corps which is used to southern red neck names like Bobby Joe and Billy Bob was apparently a problem too, so they simply renamed me Private. Jewish friends have always affectionately called me Perlstein and Perlberg.

I tell people that Perley is a variation on the English name Parley A reader of the Bangor Daily News recently asked me in print what kind of a name Perley Thibodeau is even though I was famous all over the state of Maine twenty five years ago.

That elicited a quick apology. My mother who named me Perley after her brother Perley C. Campbell always told me to use my middle initial J which stands for James. Being part Irish she thought that made it sound more dignified and and added class. When I was an actor and model in the early sixties I did use the name James Thibodeau but, I never knew when I was being called to the runway, stage or movie set and almost missed a lot of dramatic entrances.

All dressed up with nowhere to go. Happy with being Perley, I finally decided that, like plastic surgery, improvement can be worse than the original and decided that I would do what I could do to make the name Perley J. Thibodeau readily acceptable. I never understand why so many Asians feel the need to choose Western names when they come here. His birth name is much nicer. I doubt there are many Americans who drop their names when they move abroad. I do not understand why one has to change their name to integrate better to the American Society.

And to my pheasant surprise, more and more people, known and unknown, pronounce my name correctly, simply because they are more caring about pronouncing a non English name in this Global era. Maybe they understand that there is a world outside US also! If they can pronounce the last name of the governor of California, I am sure they can pronounce any non English name as well.

Keep your name intact. Do not change it, rather change the attitude of the people around you. At the end, they will resect you more which may help you to integrate better! Sad that they felt that they had to not only Anglicize their last name, but also take on new first names in order to be more American. I thought this need or urge ended a while ago. The US is no longer Anglo-centric.