changing your name.....

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.....If you were to change your Christian name, to what would you change it?
 

I wouldn't change my name ,I'm used to it after 71 years ....I thought I'd just comment on your question ,I was recently in a specialists (Doctor's) office and asked for my to quote them "My Given Name" I said oh you mean my last name ? She said NO ..your first name ......we can't say Christian name now it has to be " given name" for my first , and "Family name" for my last ..The forms required to be filled out at the doctors ....state the same thing ..
Now I've always called it my Christian name and surname ...so it appears that rule has changed in Australia
We have other Aussies here I wonder if they have had the same thing happened to them :shrug:
 
I would change mine to Persia, I grew up reading beautifully illustrated fairy tales, among them stories of brave Persian women. They had long flowing hair, floaty robes, strong, intelligent features. I never forgot those stories.
 

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I heard once that the most asked question at "Citizens advice" bureaux was "how do I change my name?"
I don't particularly like my christian name, but it has become a bit more fashionable recently. I often thought that I should have changed it when I first moved away from home, but I didn't. If I had, I would have chosen something starting with the same initial letter. It would have made signing things easier to remember.
 
I wouldn't. "Dylon" suits me just fine.

The meaning in Welsh is 'child of the sea' and if by accident or intent I know not but I do know that I could never live far from the sea.
 
IKE said:
I seem to respond to it well so I'd probably change my name to......Hey !
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Shalimar said:
I would change mine to Persia, I grew up reading beautifully illustrated fairy tails, among them stories of brave Persian women. They had long flowing hair, floaty robes, strong, intelligent features. I never forgot those stories.
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Down the road from the RV park where we've spent the last two summers is an old cemetery. I like to take my morning walk down the road and rest a while at the cemetery, which has a spectacular view of the mountains. One of the gravestones I love has the name of "Fair Persia ________" on it. It really caught my fancy....."Fair Persia"....and I always have to pay my respects to her when I'm there.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be "Esmeralda". Yep.
 
jujube said:
Down the road from the RV park where we've spent the last two summers is an old cemetery. I like to take my morning walk down the road and rest a while at the cemetery, which has a spectacular view of the mountains. One of the gravestones I love has the name of "Fair Persia ________" on it. It really caught my fancy....."Fair Persia"....and I always have to pay my respects to her when I'm there.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be "Esmeralda". Yep.
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So cool!
 
I wouldn't. My name suits me just fine even when others can't be bothered to take the trouble to pronounce or spell it correctly. Andrée. No. Andrée isn't a man's name. ANDRÉ is a man's name. I do get weary of being called Ann-dree, Audrey, Andrea, but I wouldn't change it.
 
I've always wanted to change my name, but others talked me out of it, and now I've grown use to it. My father named me after his first wife. You can imagine how happy that made my mother. She had such an ugly and harsh was of saying my name. I was an adult before I heard my name pronounced without the slap that my mother put to it.

Another reason I wanted to change it is that most people get it wrong. I generally hear Ana, or Ena, instead of Ina. It is pronounced with a long I. What really gets me is when someone asks me to spell it. :dunno:

I wanted a name like Amber Rain, or anything on that line, instead of Ina Irene.
 
Arachne, I do like that name. Where did you come across it, or did you make it up yourself. My father's name was Lawrence, my brother's is David. One of my sons put those names with mine and came up with Davina Laurene for his first daughter's name. :grin:
 
I HATE my middle name. If I knew that was going to be my middle name, I wouldn't have come out until they changed it. But I just about erased it. Wherever it said middle name, I just put my initial. The only document that has my middle name is my birth certificate.
 
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