I have a VERY unusual difficult to pronounce first name and i would have changed it when i got married except N loves it and begged me to keep it
But i would go with something easier to pronounce
I have a VERY unusual difficult to pronounce first name and i would have changed it when i got married except N loves it and begged me to keep it
But i would go with something easier to pronounce
I would take my stage name as my first name, Move my real first name to my middle name and then fix my last name. When my ancestors first came thru Ellis island the spelling got fucked up and the correct spelling is SO much better!!!










Hehehe. I love the Simpsons.
I already changed my name, from a religious and very lame name (that my mom spelled wrong as well) to my current one. I kept my last name because it's sort of bad ass, though I've been rethiking that. I wouldn't mind eventually being 'Dr. Jones'.![]()
I would use both my maiden and married last names but in the reverse order than is the common way to do it here in the U.S. I think it sounds very royal, lol!
I was going to do it when I did the name change after the wedding but it's too long and there weren't quite enough letter boxes when I included both my first and middle names. I figured I'd have the same issue with other government forms in the future so I just dropped my maiden name.



someone already said max power =(
why are you changing your name?





HHHmmmmm... tough question. I actually like my legal name and my stage name equally. I would probably just add my stage name somewhere in the mix.![]()




Meg or Lois Griffin.![]()
I'm not sure, but it would have an extremely nerdy reference.




I would LOVE to change my legal first name, but whenever I mention it, my family protests. And they wouldn't remember what to call me. Old people have a hard enough time.....not like I'm not called the right name half the time anyway....
I was thinking maybe I'll change mine to She-Ra...



Oh I totally forgot....sometimes when I'm drunk I tell guys I'm "Anastacia Beaverhausen" (karen's fake name in "Will and Grace"). I would totally make that my legal name![]()
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I've always wanted my last name to be Sparkles. Terra Sparkles. *sigh* one day.
Just in seriousness because I'm worried about Keira...
There's an excellent novel called The Contortionist's Handbook, about a man who switches identities on a regular basis. Over the course of the novel he falls in love, and instructs his girlfriend on how it's possible to change one's identity and blend in. You don't want to pick anything memorable. Nothing fancy or exotic, but you also don't want to pick Jane Jones or anything so plain that it calls attention to itself. Basically you don't want anyone to notice your name, at all. Example from the book, Molly Wheeler.
In your case, where it's very likely that someone will be hunting you at some point fairly soon, you want to pick something very nondescript. It might sound fun to change your name to Gaia Earthmother, but it will not hide you. Take a boring regular name that's common but not TOO common, and go blend in somewhere.
And dude. I just realized that the woman in the novel was named Keara before changing her name to avoid an abusive ex. Life imitates art again!




I already changed my legal name a few years ago, for myself. The one I was born with just *wasn't* working.
Finding yours will be different than finding anyone else's. It's a very personal experience. I recommend going through baby name books and thinking of your favorite characters and personalities. My first name is after a literary character, and my middle name was chosen both because it's a name that various people in my family have and to honor a favorite author of mine. Think of books you know he hasn't read.
Like Yekhefah said, whatever you pick, keep it the hell off the internet! Your stage name is too associated with you. If this were a vanity name change, it would be different, but you need to keep it quiet and undetectable. It doesn't need to be terribly nondescript, IMO, just nothing that someone who used to know you would be able to guess out. Unrecognizable.
i'm not seriously going to use my stage name as my real name..... i don't want to be associated with my stripping persona IRL.
it's partially vanity, mostly safety.i hate my real name with a passion, always have. It's super common and doesn't fit me at all, my middle name is ugly, and my last name got changed when my ancestors came through the island so it sucks too and gets people making nicknames and variations on it all the time and ugh... over it.
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Good. But "something totally out there and hippie" wouldn't be a good idea either. You're going to have to be really subtle and nondescript if you want to blend in and start over.
And for the love of G-d, please don't give us any clues or hints, or say anything to anyone you know. You're just going to have to disappear. Leave little clues like you have here, and you might as well just keep your own name and stay in Boulder.


no one said McLovin yet?
i would just be Blade. no last or middle names, either that or assclown since those are the 2 names people seem to call me most
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