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[Risil]

It just occurred to me that Toto Wolff's first name is actually, you know, a nickname, like Checo Perez or Keke Rosberg or Howdy Holmes.

 

Do you know what his real first name is? You know, the one he was born with and how his mother presumably addressed him when she was telling him off. I had to look it up.

 

(NB this isn't a trick, it's just a regular Germanic name, albeit a somewhat unusual one. I am somewhat interested in whether in German-speaking countries people ever call him by this name or if he's always called Toto there as well.)

[FLB]

Yes.

 

Spoiler

Torger

[Risil]

When I was writing this thread I did think "FLB will know".

[ezequiel]

Susie?

[red stick]

Dorothy?  

[dn12005]

Better yet...would it shock you even more to know his middle name?

Edited by dn12005, 06 January 2023 - 17:40.

[SophieB]

I just assumed Toto was his name-o.

[pacificquay]

On the basis we are not his friends and therefore not part of a matey nickname arrangement, we should call him by his real name…

[Beri]

Yes.
 

Spoiler

Torger

How surprising 😉

Yet, I didn't know. Thought I once read Torsten and that stuck with me. Wasn't too far off tho.

[WKAYE]

Hopefully Retired !

[404KF2]

Totoro

[markpenske]

Big Bad?

[ensign14]

Wolfgang

[Silberpfeil]

I did know, but only because I already looked it up some years ago, and it‘s a name that definitely sticks with you. IIRC it‘s derived from an old nordic name meaning "Thor‘s spear", which is genuinely very cool.

[pacificquay]

Wolfgang

Wolfgang Wolf is the former manager of Wolfsburg FC

[Widefoot2]

Totoro

Is he your neighbor?

[ensign14]

Aard

[Anderis]

I had thought I had known but just looked it up and it's his middle name that I had thought was his first name.

 

I remember him being referred to as Christian "Toto" Wolff back in 2009.

Edited by Anderis, 06 January 2023 - 18:53.

[ANF]

No. But since it got its own thread it's probably either Christian or Totomilian.

[ANF]

Almost...

[H0R]

Easy, he actually has two: Steve Lukather Wolf. 

[FLB]

When I was writing this thread I did think "FLB will know".

 

    

 

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[ensign14]

Elfz

[se7en_24]

It's quite common in Germany for people to used shortened names. I had a colleague called 'Addi', but considering he was probably born in the 1960s I did think his full name was a bit of a strange choice by his parents. You can probably work it out.

[AustinF1]

On the basis we are not his friends and therefore not part of a matey nickname arrangement, we should call him by his real name…

I'm in.

Spoiler

Torger

it is.

 

Just so I do this correctly, is that with a hard g or a softer j sound?

Edited by AustinF1, 06 January 2023 - 20:52.

[PlatenGlass]

On the basis we are not his friends and therefore not part of a matey nickname arrangement, we should call him by his real name…

It's the name he goes by in public. But when we're talking about him, we can use either as we please really.

[TheWilliamzer]

Toshiba

[krapmeister]

Arnold

[solochamp07]

Cosmo?

[AustinF1]

Arnold

It's Ahhhhnuld. And yeah, I've always told my boys that if I was blindfolded and listening to each of them talk, I wouldn't know which is which.

[jonpollak]

2 frickin posts in and FLB torgers us all.

Jp

[jonpollak]

Correction: 1 post
OP doesn’t count.
Jp

[IrvTheSwerve]

Torger - Africa

[ensign14]

Peterandthe

[azza200]

Harold 

[kumo7]

Toto is Antonio, I thought.

At least there was one gang Antonio whose nickname was Toto…

[kumo7]

Someone did this for us already. Thanx wiki:

https://en.m.wikiped...Toto_(nickname)

[kumo7]

So this!

https://en.m.wikiped...wiki/Toto_Wolff

[Risil]

Someone did this for us already. Thanx wiki:

https://en.m.wikiped...Toto_(nickname)

Professional poker player, 1990 Golden Boot winner, Haitian death squad founder. Totos are a varied bunch.

[BRG]

Wolfgang Wolf is the former manager of Wolfsburg FC

Isn't that called 'nominative determinism'?

 

It's quite common in Germany for people to used shortened names. I had a colleague called 'Addi', but considering he was probably born in the 1960s I did think his full name was a bit of a strange choice by his parents. You can probably work it out.

I had a Jewish friend in my motor club who was always called Fred.  But his first initial was 'A.'  Unsurprisingly, he never used that name but what his parents were thinking when they called him that,  I cannot imagine.

[TheWilliamzer]

Wolfgang Wolf is the former manager of Wolfsburg FC

 

So he's a gang of wolves?

[DinocoBlue]

Might be remembering wrong, but didn't Sir Patrick Head insist on calling Toto by his first name?

[FLB]

Might be remembering wrong, but didn't Sir Patrick Head insist on calling Toto by his first name?

Since yesterday, I've been wondering where I first heard it, so I think you may be correct. It rings a bell.

[pacificquay]

Presumably Patrick Head also referred to his business partner as Francis Williams

[IrvTheSwerve]

Professional poker player, 1990 Golden Boot winner, Haitian death squad founder. Totos are a varied bunch.

 

And the dog in The Wizard of Oz, obviously! 

[Ali_G]

I just assumed Toto was his name-o.

Here’s me thinking it was Big-Bad

[IrvTheSwerve]

Presumably Patrick Head also referred to his business partner as Francis Williams

 

I am reliably informed that Patrick referred to him as 'F-dawg'.

[PayasYouRace]

I am reliably informed that Patrick referred to him as 'F-dawg'.

That’s Sir F-Dawg.

[Calum]

Theodore Slotover called Toto 'Torger' on the Notebook years ago and got into trouble for it from the man himself.    

[MKSixer]

I thought it was the diminutive of Throckmorten.  Throckmorten Wolff just rolls off the tongue!