On your unusual first name:

Jimmy Carr:

"I got talking to a girl in the front row; I asked her her name. She said, 'It's Pataka.' I said, 'That's an unusual name. You don't hear that every day.' To which she replied, 'Actually, I do.' "

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/0miodh/comedy-central-presents...

Joke starts around 1:50.