Changing your (real) name?
 

Has anyone ever had their real name, either first and/or last, legally changed? I had mine changed by UK deed pole and it was finalized today. The main reason I did it was because my non-existent father chose my Christian name and I've always resented that (never liked the name much either), and because my last name was reall unusual and I just got sick of the looks, the comments, and "how do you spell that again?".

I'm so happy with my new name, I feel it fits me better and I like that I got to choose.

Has anyone else eer done this or if you were to change your first name what would you change it to?

I want to drop my first and middle name and just have my last name.

I dropped my middle name. I just didn't want one and I just hated the name (it was Katherine...snore). My first name was Tania, I'm now Charlie, which I love and suits me much better. :) I like my new last name too...so simple, so common, so easy to spell. Yay! :lol:

By the way, Ai, is that you in your avatar? If so you're a total knockout. Wow.

...My middle name is Katherine....

No offense taken I hope? It's not a bad name at all I just didn't like it for me.

Nah... I don't like it... XD

I'm going to ask krang to change my real name.

:lol:

I'm most fortunate to have fallen madly and deeply in love with a guy who has a kick ass last name. I thank him often.

I've always loved Charlie for a girl's first name. It's a relatively common name in the UK, but hardly ever heard of anywhere else. Good choice.

Thanks. :) It's not short for anything either, it's just Charlie on it's own. I didn't like Charlotte or Charlene enough to have either of those names and just have Charlie as a nick, so I went for just Charlie.

LOL! To what? :P

My last name was legally chaged. My dad and mom did it because my uncle spelt my dad's last name wrong when he came to America.

PS. I was born in Michigan

This explains EVERYTHING!

What does it, explain?

Nothing. Nothing at all.

I want to change my name. My last name definately needs to be changed. It's not very common, but I don't like it. So I will probably change that someday. I just don't want to have to go through all the crap I may have to go through to change it and exist afterwards.

My name gets all of the fat, hairy Irish chicks all sweaty.

Sounds like a hoot!

hehehehehehehehehe.

If I'm going to change my name, it'll be for something cool... like Batman.

Nah. That'd be kind of odd.

:lol: You need to put "I'M A BOY" in your signature.