Changing your name - classic or dud?

Is Jane Nerys somehow less euphonious than Nerys Jane? hmm, maybe. so perhaps even parents preferred Jane, but they had settled on Welsh "extra" names for us both, so that was tacked on where it seemed right.

I know tons of people who go by one of their middle names. Usually it's because the first name is a 'family' name shared with an older, still living relative who answers to it. My uncle and his son are also both Timothy, so my uncle gets to be Tim and my cousin is TR, or just T to his friends.

I considered taking my gran's incredibly posh French maiden name because it goes really well with Suzy and I don't much rate my dad. Anyway, having written down all the family aliases I've concluded we must look like a right bunch of preppies.

I will change my name when I get married if it sounds better than my current name.

*(secret at the moment...don't ask me about it...i'm shy and i don't like talking about things like that until they're DONE or at least well underway)

so that's how names go in my family. i'd rather have my mom's name, as it sounds MUCH more dignified, but i probably won't change it to that legally as my dad's whole side of the family would be horribly insulted.

the story of sebastian left-focus is a story of student union politics, greed, ambition etc... left focus was the dominant melbourne uni party but due to an infamous sting courtesy of the more right-leaning kids (involving a court case!), left focus was disaffiliated. i wish i knew more details but it was, like, totally unfair.

so sebastian changed his name and the rest is history. they wl probably be back in power next year. my friend got caught up with him in the whirlwind excitement and glamour of student elections a few weeks ago. unfortunately he turned out to be a wanker. so i change my stance on name changes cos in this case - name change = dud.

I know lots of people who've changed their names who are not wankers, so to develop Minna's theory further:

name change for political bullshit reason = dud
name change just because you feel like it = classic

So this is a long thread filled with long-gone posters. I just skimmed it.

Jump to 2009 - has anyone legally changed their name as an adult (not in a married situation)? Good things? Bad things?

I've nearly did this (last name) twice before in my life and think I'm finally ready to commit to it. I'm excited about finally taking the plunge but also nervous. I mean, it's a big thing, right? Kind of redefining yourself?

Not quite like Ilx usernames. . .

You changed your name from Susan to Leviticus 19:18?

Yes. I thought it was more original than John 3:16.

i knew a girl who changed last name because she thought it would help her professionally. her original last name was butt0n and she was kind of really cute/adorable/meek and felt like w/ those traits and her last name, no one would take her seriously, so she changed it to br1t0n. it was weird though, because she did this while we were still in college and it just resulted in a lot of people being like 'br1t0n??? i could have sworn her last name was butt0n!' but i have no idea how it's worked out long term.

because in america everyone takes brit0ns seriously

lol the funniest part was that it was pronounced 'breye-ton' so she not only caused confusion, she chose something with a pronunciation not clear by its spelling!

Jump to 2009 - has anyone legally changed their name as an adult (not in a married situation)? Good things? Bad things?

I changed my name when I was 18 -- my parents had divorced when I was 14, and my mother had gone back to her maiden name, leaving us with different last names. I changed my last name to my mom's maiden name, partly in a fit of pique after a serious falling-out with my dad. (lol teenagers)

Nothing bad accrued to me as a result, although it really hurt my father's feelings; which, admittedly, was partly my intent at the time. I considered changing it back several years later, but by that time I was married and wasn't about to put my wife through a second name-change.

The ironic part is that, first, there'd be no "carrying on the family name" or somesuch anyway, as we've never had children; and second, my father's name wasn't his birth name either. His father changed the family's last name when my dad was in grade school, from "Klonsky" to "Kaye," because the former was "too ethnic." (i.e., "Jewish")

well in that case "brighton" would have been preferable, surely? although maybe a bit grand, if you see what I mean xp

i have the option of requesting a name change on my citizenship app.

i love the name Adrien.

surm I think your first name should just be the letter Y, it'd be tres chic

she chose something with a pronunciation not clear by its spelling!

lol

Yeah I'm thinking of something completely unrelated to other family names. Just using the name of someone who did a lot for me when I was a teenager. She's passed away now and I don't know her family so it wouldn't be weird in that way.

I'm excited about it but besides the hassley-ness of changing accounts and legal stuff (I've been married before and know this is a pain in the ass) I worry about the awkwardness of people I know now being, "wtf?"

Office conversations:

Them - Wait, did you get married? Congrats!
Me - No, i just legally changed my name.
Them - Why?
Me - The Mexican Mafia is looking for me. If they ask for me at the front desk, you've never heard of me.

People are nosy asses and I want to discourage their prying with a smart-ass comment. Which considering I will be going from a Hispanic surname to a whitey one would actually give that explanation some sense. Maybe I'll become scary and mysterious to them.

xp

:)

your username just inspired me to put on some reba

lol, glad I have a use! :D

Or maybe two forenames, initials PR so you can keep your original name...Patrick R4mzi maybe?

i could go all Dallas with JR

What about "Goldie H."? Or "Garden L."?

i dunno... what about Dixie? i could be a Dixie

"Rosie Ffinn Gerd D."

you're nutso!

i just created a livejournal acct (whoa this is a big step) and my name is DixieSue.

I knew a girl named Dixie in college. She was adorable. I also really like Ruby.

I'm working to a plan, Mr. Awn.

hehe :D

oh i like the Ruby a lot!

Surname: On-Rails

http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/news/local/unorthodox-rome-legend-serpentfoot-unafraid-of-critics/article_b9b5a1f2-cdfc-11e4-86ad-7feb3ebb4c0b.html

Serpent­foot is applying to have her name legally changed yet again. This time, she wants to replace “Serpentfoot” with a collection of seemingly unrelated and disjointed items.

The notice reads “You are hereby notified that on February 23, 2015, Serpentfoot filed a petition in the Superior Court of Floyd County…..to change her name….if granted would be known as: Nofoot Allfoot-Mouth-Tail-69-Vacuum-Consumption-Gravity-Wheels-Circle-Our-Greater-Self-Habitat-Cosmos-Metamorphosing-Solids-Gas-Liquids-Molten-Metal-Molted-Frogs-Butterflys-Turtle-Isle-Light-Fire-Ice-Wind-Spider-8-Trigrams-Roots-Limbs-Wings-Cane…(infinity symbol) Serpentfoot.”

In early 1995 she was arrested after disrobing during a County Commission meeting. In 2013, she navigated a gauntlet of legal processes in a failed attempt to have a man buried according to what she said were the man’s wishes.

Serpentfoot tried to gain custody of the man’s body after his death, claiming he had been a member of her congregation and wished to be buried in a very unusual manner — a burial that included dismemberment, keeping his bones for study and art, and using other parts of his body to feed animals.

She was not awarded custody of the body, and the incident began a volley of legal activity that went to the Georgia Court of Appeals. The court ruled that Serpentfoot had not filed her appeal in time.

And in 2007, in another name-change incident, then Rome News-Tribune owner Burgett Mooney III took legal action against Serpentfoot after she tried to have her name legally changed to “Blowdjett Mooney IV.”

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