Changing your name

I like mine. Im named after an ancestor who lived in the late eighteenth century...unofficially my name is followed by a "II" since I'm named after him. I'm keepin' it.

I love my name, too. My first name is Dee. It's a nickname, but I've used it so much over the past few years that it just made sense to change it. I don't have a middle name, and I have two surnames -- my dad's (American) and my great-grandmother's (Greek).

i didn't like my first name at, ugh, first, coz i believed it was too formal (which is why i always go by my nickname, which is just my initials) and my surname too, coz it sounds too ethnic.. but when people whose mother tongue is the english language say it (they pronounce it 2 different ways, depending on which syllable is stressed), it doesn't sound so ethnic anymore, it's quite different.. so i kinda like it now..

the only thing i don't like right now is that my mother's maiden name is always a part of my (and my siblings too) name... it's a cultural thing.. and my mom would probably kill me if i drop it legally..

I have a very long, hard to spell last name. My business life primarily uses my name for its identity, and I have put serious thought into changing my last name to something more easily spoken, read, and spelled. I really haven't been able to bring myself to do it though because everything else I come up with seems kinda childish or affected, and I also like sharing my name with my husband and son. The other problem is that I'm pretty entrenched in my current web address and I wouldn't want to change that, so I'd have to work within the confines of it.