I'm named after my mom's favorite cocktail... but I've never drunk alcohol

Naming your kid aft thing you emotion is an adorable thought - but successful 1 woman's case.

When Tequilla Shian Jones was born, her ma couldn't determine betwixt the sanction of her favourite cocktail - a Tequila Sunrise - oregon Shaylee Shian.

Instead the present 23-year-old, who revealed she doesn't adjacent portion alcohol, was named a unsocial operation of some names: Tequilla Shian.

'Growing up, I would beryllium taunted for my name,' the cosmetologist, from Georgia, said, admitting she's 'heard the aforesaid jokes implicit and implicit again.'

'Kids would inquire if my parents were alcoholics oregon if they were drunk naming me,' she added. 

After Tequilla was calved she says her ma was feeling a small 'hazy' truthful her dada signed the commencement papers naming her Tequilla Shian.

Growing up, Tequilla said she would often get successful occupation with teachers who thought she was making her sanction up, which led to her alteration her to conscionable Shian erstwhile she was 11 to halt the bullying.

'I started telling radical I wanted to spell by Shian, I was precise insistent astir it,' she recalled.

'Everyone present calls maine Shian, I lone get called by my archetypal sanction if I americium successful trouble,' she reflected. 

However, arsenic an adult, Tequilla has decided to clasp her unsocial and liquor inspired moniker - contempt ne'er having a driblet of alcohol.

'I don't person that mediate schoolhouse taunting anymore,' she pointed out.

'I, myself, don't portion - radical find that precise funny, that the miss named Tequilla doesn't drink,' she quipped. 

Tequilla explained her parents ever liked the name, but had a lad archetypal and chose a antithetic name.

While she was increasing up, Tequilla didn't recognize that her sanction was unsocial until she was successful 5th grade, and she says radical started laughing astatine it.

'When radical started noticing my name, it was a small embarrassing,' she admitted.

'Once I had a teacher archer maine that my sanction was fake, and she had to look astatine the national attendance expanse to marque definite I wasn't making it up,' the booze-free cosmetologist said.

'When we would person a substitute teacher and they said my name, everyone would crook to look astatine me.'

Now Tequilla said she has started to emotion her sanction again and wants to clasp it, debating astir going by her archetypal sanction alternatively than her mediate name.

'Now I consciousness good with it, I person debated starting to spell by it again,' she shared. 'People archer maine that if you instrumentality distant the meaning it is simply a truly beauteous name.'

Despite the antithetic origins, Tequilla said she feels 'so much' amended astir her sanction arsenic she gets older.

'What tin beryllium a small embarrassing is if I americium retired and idiosyncratic mentions the connection tequila I volition crook my caput erstwhile I perceive it,' she joked.