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Changing your real name

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When I got married my wife and I combined our last names into a 'new' last name. As someone else pointed out, just changing your name is easy, fill out the paperwork, pay the fee, and swear in front of a judge you're not doing it because you're running from creditors or the law.

If, like me, you're a licensed professional, it can be a real pain the ass from that point on. I'm licensed in about twenty-five states and each of them has their own requirements and paperwork for a name change and many have fees. You also have to get your drivers license changed, your bank accounts, your mortgage, if you have one, or your lease if you don't, your SSN, and all kinds of other things changed as well.
 
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I've been thinking of changing my name for the better part of a year now. The fact that I share my last name, let alone 50% of my genetic makeup with my bio-father makes me want to pull a Keith Richards and have my blood changed.

This website Invalid Link Removed has a lot of useful information.
 
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i_got_a_mohawk said:
Max Powers?
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+1

You can also change your wife's name to Chesty La Rue, Busty St. Claire or Hootie McBoob.


LiquidMidnight said:
P.s. I was in a relationship a few years ago that had serious marriage potential. I told my GF that if we got married, if she was going to take my last name, I was going to change my name so I had her name as well
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My wife has a very traditional Danish name so we half-seriously talked about me changing my name to my mother's maiden name which is Van de Mark and would have fit both of our names very well. But while my folks were divorced when I was 2 I have a good relationship with my dad and that side of my family and it seemed disrespectful to do.

MJ5150 said:
I tried to change my name to Buck Futts in high school. It was going to be the name on my senior t-shirt. I got in trouble by the principal.
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During my freshman and sophomore years our high school had a VERY lax system for photos. As sophomores two friends and I took photos as the Eval brothers. Cino Eval, Hierno Eval and Spiekno Eval. Enough other people did the same sort of thing that they really clamped down the following year.
 
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LiquidMidnight said:
Well, it was given to him by a girl at a rave or something. The problem is trying to get people outside of the circle who know you by that nickname to use that nickname. LOL It just doesn't work. I had a nickname in my previous band and it would be totally strange for my current band to call me by that name.
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I hear ya! I have a nickname I picked up at a former job. About half the people who know me know me by this nickname. I like it, and use it when introducing myself to new people. But, you're right about getting long time friends and family to use it.

Even though its a given nickname, it was given to me by people outside that circle.
 
#32
K2000 said:
Anybody changed their name?

I'm wrestling with the idea of changing my last name. Partly because I want to make a symbolic break from my family... Also, my last name is a bit odd (the kind of name that requires slowly spelling it out, whenever I need to submit my name).

Sort of a leap for me, and I'm wondering what your experience might have been.
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I don't know how. But my friends did. They are brothers. Their step father adopted him and his brother so their last name changed. Years later, the mother and step-father got a divorce and the two brothers legally changed their name back to their original last name.
 
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jamminology101 said:
Hugh G Rection
Ben Dover & Phillip McCrevice
Michael Hunt(just call me "mike")

Sorry, the previous poster started it and I had to channel my inner third grade wit..lol
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I know an actual Michael Hunt - he refuses to go by Mike for that reason.

One of the members of my band changed his last name to his mother's maiden name, since it sounds like (from what I've heard) his dad was a pretty crappy father growing up and he wants as little to do with him now as possible. He seems happy with the decision.
 
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The way I see it, I have had to go through so much hassle and pain trying to get people to spell and pronounce my last name right, that my future children and wife should have to go through the same suffering:P

I'm kinda permanently called by my nickname. Mom started it when I was super young and if I didn't have to put my legal name on certain documents, I probably wouldn't even know it.

This girl I've known since kindergarten has started going by her legal name. I still call her by the nickname she went by when we were growing up. A few people have called it "cute" when they've witnessed me calling her that, I just think its normal:P
 
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EricF said:
Name changing happens all the time. Traditionally, women change their name after marriage. I've known a few people who changed their name just because it was something they felt strongly about (including separating themselves from their family). Later in life, if you decide it was a bad idea, change it back. All it takes is paperwork and paying the fees.

As for having to spell out your last name to people...My last name is only 5 letters, and people still have a hard time getting it right.
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My last name is 8 letters and is sounded out exactly the way it is spelled, yet for some reason 90% of the people who say it out loud mispronounce it.

LiquidMidnight said:
+1

I have a friend from high school who has a pretty normal Christian name. Over the past couple of years, he's adopted a somewhat pretentious nickname. He wants me to call him by this nickname now. I honestly can't do it with a straight face.
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Thats likely because nicknames arent chosen, theyre given.
When a person decides upon their own nickname its often quite ridiculous.

duff beer said:
If you choose you own nickname, it doesn't really count as it's not "official"... :D
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duff gets it.

Someone once gave me the nickanme Matticus. That person introduced me to someone else with that nickname, and so on. One day Im chilling at my house with this girl Ive known for a few months and she asks me "Is your name really Matticus?" :p

Now a lot of my friends know me by that name, despite the fact the person who gave it to me has not been around in over 6 years.
 
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EricF said:
Knowing your last name, and the way I pronounce it in my head, I now wonder if I'm on the 10% or 90% side. To me, it seems pretty simple.
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For those that don't know, its Peterkin. Hard e.

Read: Peter - kin

I could understand maybe making the first e soft, pet - er - kin, but some people emphasize the first syllable pet - urkin and some people leave the t out all together perkins... :confused:
 

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