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In reply to the discussion: Have You Ever Wanted to Change Your Name? [View all]Laffy Kat
(16,372 posts)14. I DID change my name!
I was about twenty-three, I think. I changed my last name. I kept my first name and took my paternal grandmother's maiden name as my middle name because I didn't have one. There were a couple of reasons, but mostly because I didn't feel close to my father and he was a union-busting executive V.P. of a southern trade organization and I didn't want the association. I had moved from Memphis to St. Louis to Denver and wanted to leave the family name behind. I never regretted it. It was also pretty easy to do and I did it myself w/o an attorney.
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Honestly, I don't see the point in women changing their name to their husband's
ProudLib72
May 2019
#70
First and Middle, no. But have wanted to take my mother's last name for a long time.
Lady Freedom Returns
May 2019
#6
Yes. I always hated my first name. Ugly sounding, unusual spelling, just awful. It didn't help that
lunamagica
May 2019
#39
Orphie? I can't even...I did change it No one who didn't know me as a child even knows that name
lunamagica
May 2019
#41