Anyone changed thier real name or thought about it?

J.T said:
I was thinking about changing my real name to "Crap Bag"...my better half is called "princess consuela banana hammock".
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Hehehe :) Friends :)

"This is my fiance..."

"Well tell her my name..."

"This is my fiance Crap Bag"

"If you find it hard to remember - just think of a bag of crap" :D
 
I have thought about changing my name to "i am a ******", thus in public when someone i know sees me, they will shout that out, everyone will look at them and i will fall down laughing in tears.
 
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My sister changed her name from Helen to Ellen. Our aunt Nel died, and apparently she always liked the name, so she changed it by deed poll to Ellen and had everyone call her Nell. Took a while to get used to after 20+ years of calling her Helen, but it's ground in now. The change itself was pretty cheap and easy, the hassle came with amending all her other details - passport, driving license, bank details, car reg, phone contract etc. etc., so be prepared for that.

I don't think I know the story behind BENJAMIN HERBLE - what's up with that?

Also, my great granddad's name was Hercules. From birth. Just a thought.
 
Surely your name is alright it can be scaled from boring / manly to fun and fruity: Robert > Bob > Bobby > Bobbi (in the last one the I has a little heart instead of a dot)
 
I have. Did it when I turned 18. I was born Matthew Alister Russell Caldwell. When I was about 7 my little brother started calling me "Matthey". :mad: Plus in my class at school there were three Matthews, which got pretty annoying. :p

So I informally became Marc Caldwell from about 7 until I turned 18. My parents divorced weeks before I became 18 and it was a bitter divorce. I knew for years I didn't want my father's surname anymore so I decided that as soon as I was 18 I would change my name. I had to wait until 18 to stop my father from blocking my name change.

I went to a solicitor's office in town and had a statutory declaration drawn up where I renounced my previous name and announced my intention to be known henceforth as 'Marc Russell Lister'. I didn't have my own passport before this and had yet to pass my driving test so it was quite easy to get those two documents done in my new name. I had several copies of the document made so I could send them off to the passport and driving licence people as evidence of my new name. :)
 
My cousin changed her name, twice in fact.
In the family (to her parents / grandparents / aunties / uncles / cousins etc etc) she is still known by her birth name.
Even cards / letters are written in her old name (even in reply to letters sent with name no.3)

I think it depends on what you change it to any why as to how seriously it is taken!
 
lowrider007 said:
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Been thinking about changing my name for a while now, was just wondering how simple the process is and also,

Has anyone on here done it?
Why did you do it?
Anyone think it's silly to change the name you was given?


I'm not really thinking of anything silly, it's a typical English name that I'd like but not one that I won't to disclose atm.

Personally I've never really been a fan of my real name, 'Robert', I not going to change it atm, I am only considering doing this if I move away (which I'm considering atm) as I think changing my name in my current surroundings could be problematic as people have obviously known me as 'Robert' for years and I think it would feel strange to them to call me by another name.
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You can get a statutory declaration that you are who you are with a solicitor which is what I did.

I had to add Linda as my 'other name'. My birth name is say Mai Ling (Not my real name) but parents decided to give me an English name too for school so was given Linda, so when I was old enough to get my own passport we had to go to a solicitor to ask them to write a statutory declaration for me to say that Mai Ling or Mai Linda Ling or Linda ling is the same person. I was unable to change my Birth certificate.

I even asked a few years ago when we found a spelling mistake after 25years of life, with my mum's name on my birth certificate. We could get that rectified but I asked if I could add Linda on there they said 'NO'.

Technically it looked wrong, it was hand written and the i was dotted in the wrong place ui instead of iu easy mistake with curly handwriting.
 
I can't even be bothered to change Internet name which I strongly dislike. Far to many accounts, it's what you are knowen as and such like. Real name those problems are multiplied and why on earth would you want to change it in the first place.
 
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