What is your RL name and is there a reason why you're named that?

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Christopher Martin Clark Cunningham - I usually go by Chris and oft condense the full name down to C. M. C. Cunningham when ending a memo, email, letter, or the like. On forms I sometimes have to drop the second initial or use a shortened first name, or letters in my surname are liable to get clipped off and cause me all sorts of grief.
 
The first name was changed from Lance after I was adopted at a couple weeks old, and the fact that my birthday is December 25th probably had a big role to play in the selection, ironic as it is considering how irreligious my dad is and I eventually became years later. Martin and Clark were the names of my grandfathers on the maternal and paternal sides, respectively. The surname Cunningham presumably traces back to Scotland but so far as I can tell his side of the family is of predominantly Irish and English heritage.

I don't really love my first name but on the other hand have yet to think of anything else that rolls well off the tongue, and it seems much easier to take on a lot of varied pseudonyms and nicknames depending the kind of setting I am in than to go through the awkward process of getting anything changed... which would be needlessly disrespectful of my folks, anyway, and in all seriousness would probably leave me having second thoughts after-the-fact. So it does not really matter. Things are fine the way they are.