I’d probably pick the unique name of someone very famous, in the hopes that I could still hide myself online by having references to me shoved 10 pages deep
I’ve already got a name that puts me quite comfortably in the 1% of names used in my country. It’s not as cool to have a uncommon name as you think. It’s easy to get picked on, you never can buy those souvenir mugs or keyrings with ‘your name’ and it gets misspelled.
I mean I’ve written a book where my name is on the cover and one review managed to misspell it…
Otoh. I once met someone on holiday in Ireland that said ‘i one met a kid with that name and it was in Croatia, about ten years ago’.
That kid was me. If I had a more common name we’d never have known.
I already did, but I won’t be sharing it in a public forum :P
Doesn’t apply for me, but nonbinary folk are great for this question because they all name themselves after random inanimate objects (which is 100% valid)
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