my name.

My name, even through it’s the fourth most popular English name, nobody seems to get it. The story of how I got my name didn’t happen over one day, one week, a fortnight or a month. It was a long time before mum and dad decided on the name Lachlan.
The problem is the name Lachlan is difficult to spell because it has an “A” instead of an “O” and a “CH” instead of a “CK.” Now that we’ve covered that back to the story.
When mum was pregnant, she didn’t know if I was a boy or girl, so they didn’t know what to call me. When I came out as a boy mum wasn’t surprised (probably because she already had four.) anyway. She had always liked the name Oscar (I don’t know why. I think it’s a boring name) but dad couldn’t imagine saying, “OSCAR, DO YOUR HOMEWORK NOW!” so the name Oscar was off the list. They then went with William but somehow that got off the list to. It became my middle name. So for the first three days I was now as “our son” but dad woke up one day and said, “What about Lachlan?” At first, mum wasn’t sure but later that day there was an incident where somehow I had fallen off the table. Luckily I wasn’t hurt. Mum and dad said together, “that was lucky” and that’s how I ended up with Lachlan because my nickname is Lachie which sounds like LUCKY!
When I learned to talk, read and write, I decided that I didn’t like the name Lachlan cause as I said it’s the fourth most popular English name. I like to be unique, I like to be different I like to be… not like anyone else (anyone who knows me will agree.) so I decided to change my name to Declan. I thought it was cool. But no one would call me it and mum told me I was not ever again to change my name to Declan. So I changed it to Jake. Once again, I had to change it back.
I had a lot of nicknames like lock-a-lo and lock-sta and for some reason Peabody (from my dad) I don’t know why. But all of them changed over time.
I really didn’t like my name when we moved to Dubai because nobody could say it. They all said it how it’s spelt La-ch-y. It sounded like scratchy. The whole year I spent in the U.A.E, nobody ever called me Lachie. It was always La-ch-y.
When we moved to Malaysia it started to get better. More and more people called me Lachie. That’s when I decided I like the name because no one else here has it for a name. so I am prod my name is Lachie because it is uniqe.