London woman named L.A. claims people think its a fake name and shes struggling to get a copy of her birth certificate

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, 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 mom, 57, who wanted to combine the initials of two surnames on different sides of her family.Her name was made even more unique by the added full stops — which can be seen on her official birth certificate.However, shortly after she was born, the law changed to forbid numbers or full stops from being used in names.She is convinced that she is the only L.A.around and often has to show her driver’s license to people to prove she’s using her real name.

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Never miss a story.L.A., a social media creator and singer-songwriter from north London, said: “People think I don’t want to give them my real name.“Or that it’s a fake name or that I’m trying to withhold my real name — so sometimes I have to show my driver’s license to prove it.“People ask how I spell it and think it’s Ellay I say ‘no, it’s just L dot A dot’.“It’s just having to explain every time, and the conversation that has to happen before they understand.“Whenever I write my name online I have to type it as an L and a small a as it wont go into the system. “Anything I sign up for online, I don’t put the dots in as none of the systems will accept it.“People call me and say is this ‘La’ and I correct them and they still don’t know what it is. “Some call me Cartier and think L.A.

is a mistake.”L.A.has recently run into more problems with her name when she tried to order a copy of her birth certificate — with the General Register Office ...