Meet the woman called L.A. who has spent her life trying to convince people that it's her real name.
L.A. Cartier, 36, from north London, UK has spent most of her life correcting people on how to say her name - with many thinking it's a set of initials or spelt 'Ellay'.
The name was given to her by her mum, 57, who wanted to combine the initials of two surnames on different sides of her family.
L.A. Cartier, 36, from north London, UK has spent most of her life correcting people on how to say her name - with many thinking it's a set of initials or spelt 'Ellay'.
The name was given to her by her mum, 57, who wanted to combine the initials of two surnames on different sides of her family.
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00:00My name is L A capital L dot capital A dot that is in the first name section of my birth
00:05certificate my passport everything LA yeah cool. Now some of the systems don't accept it so they
00:10have to just put LA or some of them accept one dot but not two some of them don't accept two
00:14letters they have to add an extra letter all kinds of madness madness. My name is the most
00:19problematic name I think in this world and it's the most simplest like to the point where my
00:26driving license came back with a picture of a Chinese man on it yeah with my name his signature
00:34and my address that type of problem because the systems just can't understand yeah and it gets on
00:43my last nerve when I went for my passport yeah to renew a passport they're asking me for birth
00:49certificates because they're saying this can't be my name you've had me on the system and had
00:54a passport in that name since the day three months or so after I was born and you're gonna
00:59now tell me when I'm renewing as an adult that this is not my name so what problem what mistake
01:03have you made then please government because let me explain something guys like my whole entire
01:09life I have had problems every single time I meet somebody there has to be a discussion about my
01:14name first of all they think I'm giving them some type of fake name then they think this is some
01:19initials then they don't believe it's actually on my birth certificate then they believe it's my
01:23name but they don't believe it's spelt like that like it's just crazy guys my name is LA capital L
01:30dot capital A dot now I don't understand why this is such a problem if I call somebody the
01:36conversation goes like this what is your name LA how do I spell that LA okay ELL no hello LA
01:44capital L dot capital A dot that's how you spell my name so it's LA no it's not LA it's LA so what
01:53does that stand for hello I've just told you a million times what my name is like we're not about
01:57to do this I've done this a million times and you know what people say oh do you ask your mum why I
02:02know exactly why she took two family names that she did not like she wanted my name to stem from
02:07somewhere and she said my child is going to be called LA and there's going to be no other that's
02:12what she said and to be fair it's a flex like I said in my last video it's a flex I love it yes
02:19this caused me problems but I do love it because I feel like I'm literally one in a gazillion do you
02:24get what I'm saying it's very unique I'm loving it but it does cause me problems and yeah it's like
02:31I always get people say oh I tried to name my child LA but I couldn't so I called her ELLAE
02:36ELLAI or ELAY I've heard somebody called their son like find me another LA guys find me another LA
02:46I will literally go and meet the person and I will pay them a hundred pounds find me another LA
02:52let's do this send this around I need to get it going someone needs to come and tell me
02:56that their name is LA because I cannot find one I can't find one