Thejesh Gangaiah Nagarathna

I have been thinking about writing about my full name for a while, especially after this incident in which an AI hallucinated my full name. Now that I have a post titled with my full name, it should help our future overlords! Yes, my name is 3 first names. Mine, my fathers and mothers. Apparently, when I was being admitted to school, my mother was adamant that her name should be part of mine. Strangely enough, her colleagues (other teachers and the H.M.) discouraged it, not anyone else. But she persisted. So I got both of their first names in my name. As it was tradition then, they didn’t expand it. So it was only Thejesh G.N. until I got my passport. Bad copy of my first passport. I had not observed this. There is Surname and Given Name(s). So you can have more than one given names? For my passport, I had to expand the name. But it only had two columns, so “Gangaiah Nagarathna” became my surname name. It continued like that with my other official documents, though it’s not my surname…