'My mum got my name from an 80s song – it always leaves me embarrassed'

While we don't have the power to choose our names at birth, we always have the option to change them later in life.

This is precisely what one woman decided to do when she unofficially changed her name to avoid awkward glances from colleagues.

She shared how her mum named her Kyrie-E-Leison after the 80s song by Mister Mister while she was under medication during a C-section. Taking to Reddit, she revealed: "My name is Kyrie-E-Leison. That's my whole first name. Hyphenated and all.

"It has made it a pain in the a*** to do normal things like get my driver's license, apply for jobs, etc."

To dodge the "embarrassment", the woman has been using the name Kyrie - but says people often mispronounce this too.

"I've spent 99 per cent of my life explaining my name. It's not pronounced Kai-Ree btw, it's pronounced Key-Ree," she said. "I didn't know how to spell my full name until 3rd grade. My middle name is Dusk. My sister's middle name is Day, and my mother's middle name is Dawn."

Commenting on her name, one user said: "I know someone else named Kyrie (kee-ree-ay, like the prayer/Mr Mister song), I think it's actually nice-sounding as name, but the hyphens seem like they'd be cumbersome! Have you ever considered just changing it to Kyrie Eleison?"

Another person added: "My name is Valkyrie and I go by Kyrie, pronounced like yours."

Meanwhile, a further commenter chimed in: "One of my old bosses had a daughter named Kyrie, pronounced kee-ree-ay. She told me it was 'like the song.' I have never heard this song and I am older than her daughter.

I have no idea what y'all are referencing, but somehow, pronouncing Kyrie as kee-ree-ay seems like way less of a burden than whatever the heck your full name is!"