The hilarious moment a 15-year-old realized her mom misspelled her name on her birth certificate
Her legal name is unique, to say the least.
Gabrielle Mayor, 24, has gone viral on TikTok after posting a video where she recounts the time when she realized that she was living a lie. In the video, Gabrielle shares that she didnβt know that her legal name was βBabrielleβ until she went to get her driver's permit at the age of 15.
The video of her giving a deadpan look at the story written in white text has received over 3.4 million views.
βThinking about how my parents made a typo on my birth certificate, and I didnβt find out until age 15 that my real name is actually Babrielle,β the video reads. Itβs incredible that the people at the hospital didnβt notice the mistake because Babrielle isnβt exactly a common name.
Nine years later, she told the whole story to Today.com. βMy mom and I were at the DMV picking up my learnerβs permit. I canβt even explain how excited I was to be able to drive.β
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But when Gabrielle gave her social security number to the DMV employee, there was a bit of a problem. βThe guy asks for my social security number and I give it to him. He puts it in the computer, and he's like, βIβm not seeing a Gabrielle Mayor,'β she recalled.
She shared her information again, and it still didnβt come up. βThen he goes, βI do have a Babrielle Mayor,ββ she said, to which her mother, Ellyn, exclaimed, βOh, no!"
βLong story short, I did not learn how to drive that day, rather, I learned that Iβve been living a lie for the past 15 years,β she told The New York Post. Gabrielleβs mother later explained that her daughterβs name was misspelled because she was on a lot of medication after giving birth and couldnβt write correctly.
βI was shaking so badly that my G must have looked like a B,β Ellyn told Today.com. βAfter I got the birth certificate in the mail, I immediately fixed it, but for some reason, I didnβt think about the social security card...until I took Gabby for her learner's permit."
Eventually, the mistake would become a term of endearment for Gabrielle.
βTo this day, all my friends call me βBabbyβ or βBabsββeven strangers who have heard this story will just immediately start referring to me as Babs,β she explained. βNeedless to say, I never struggle to come up with a fun fact!β
The video inspired countless others to come forward with the same problem.
"Happened to me, my name is Vanessa but BC said Banesa," Vanessa said.
"Try registering for COLLEGE and finding out that your LEGAL first name is Baby and your middle name is Girl, big whoops on my parents!" kovervold added.
"One girl I know is called Angel but it was misspelled Angle on her birth certificate!" Car123 commented.
"My name was aslhey instead of ashley for 20 years," Ashley admitted.
In September, another woman racked up nearly 900,000 views on TikTiok for admitting that her fatherβs screw-up left her with a legal name that sounded a bit dirty. A user name Chloe said that her dad accidentally spelled her name βCholeβ on her birth certificate.
βYes way my name is C-hole, coal, chole β however you want to pronounce it,β she admitted in the clip.
@cholebhole Replying to @Rory fun fact about me #truestory