So What the Heck is My Name?
After several years of making people confused about my names, I thought of creating this page to let people know about my naming story. It all started on December 7th, 1979 where my parents named me "Seyed Jaffar" after my late grand father. If you think this is a long first name, wait a few more seconds to know that my last name is "Khoshgozaran Haghighi"! So you can see that my name is so far "Seyed Jaffar Khoshgozaran Haghighi". If this is not yet interesting/strange, let me add that "Khoshgozaran" in English means party animal and "Haghighi" means truly! You need more explanations yet? "Seyed" in middle-eastern languages is merely a title like "Jr." and basically means sir. imagine many people calling me "Seyed"!
However, since then and for the past twenty seven years people have called me "Ali", which is my nickname. The problems started where I had to use my names in formal situations. People were used to calling me "Ali" and this name was no where found on any of my legal documents. This caused me rejection from schools, missing flights, flight delays, credit card issues and countless other problems!
So I thought of finding a nickname which relates more easily to my long first name and thus I named myself "Jeff". Everything was going on smoothly until USC didn't accept this nickname and only allowed me to shorten my "Seyed Jaffar Khoshgozaran Haghighi" name a bit! So I had no choice but to prune it a bit to have "Jaffar Khoshgozaran"! By now you should really be sympathizing with me. If not, I just list the following combinations of my name, "all of which" have been used by people, asked from background check companies for job verifications, seen in forms, and being called.
