The dumbarses who thought your name was funny wouldn't have been able to cope at my school XD I remember walking around uni one time with my leavers' shirt from the high school back home (not the high school here which I really didn't like) and one of the other freshly out of high school kids that was in one of my classes noticed it was a leavers shirt and immediately had to read the names on the back like they would know anyone and after failing at pronouncing several of the names, said that they were "weird" names. I turned around with dead eyes and said they were perfectly normal Chinese and Malay names.
I guess I'm glad it was character building for you, or that you were at least able to benefit from it (because while I don't like that it happened at all it is was it was). I have friends who were also bullied (some really freaking terribly I can't even) at school and it took them literal decades to start recovering.
Look at the manes around Australia now, in mainstream population...Back in my day in primary school (1970's) it would have been unheard of.
Yeah, I made it work to my advantage, but I understand that many do not, and did not, and so suffer lasting damage. I'm not one of those. Confident, happy with myself, fun, humorous, respectful etc. Yeah, I think I came out ok.