that dude is going to see a huge increase of traffic and have absolutely no idea why 🤣
Jokes on me there are close to a hundred million people with the same last name as me, I’m not changing
I will rejoice in being a famous Floopenhoffer!
My surname in my area is already associated with really bad things. So yes i am thinking on changing it. It is just hard in my country
The were 4 other guys in my high school with my name. So no, can’t see bothering to change it.
Weird this was right below this in my timeline
Nah, Ford is straight up overly common.
It’s nicely inconspicuous.
I have an extraordinarily rare last name combined with an extraordinarily rare first name, I’m literally the only person who has ever had my full name in the entire history of humanity, I’m keeping it.
Until you meet someone with that exact name
Unless someone in my family with my last name named their kid after me, that’s not going to happen.
My last name is limited to my 5 closest relatives. This is due to a bizarre misspelling 3 generations back followed by mostly female descendants.
Whoa super cool! I would ask you to say what it is but do not expect you to answer :)
Yeah. I’d like to be able to, but this isn’t the kind of society where my opinions should be matched to my body.
I can tell you that the original was Sicilian.
Have you searched for the name outside your family line? I know you said misspelling but my last name is rare because it was made up by immigration on Ellis Island: they couldn’t understand my ancestor so decided “close enough”. Same thing as a rare misspelling.
Before the internet, we knew of one unrelated person with the same last name but only because he was he was geographically close enough to be in a neighboring phone book. When someone took my Gmail (identical first initial, last name) it was a relative. Now with the internet and person search we’ve found a handful, but only a handful
Yes.
It was changed when my 7-year-old great grandfather was sent to school with the dozens of other immigrants from the tenement building. He spoke his name, the German school administrator wrote what he heard, and that was it.
There are 2 other super-similar names that I assume are related, but without DNA, I can’t prove it. I am the family genealogist, so I’m never done researching.
Changing your name is an insane amount of work and it is not worth it
I would argue about insane amount, but would agree that it is not worth it.
If you’re just changing your name without getting married there’s a lot of paperwork, you have to stand in front of a judge, then you have to change all your banking information and everything else that had your previous name on it. And so help you god if you lose that paperwork that says you changed your name if you happen to need it years later it’s a huge issue. It’s a lot of work to change your name.
So, just change it if and when I get married?
Apparently when getting married it isn’t quite as easy as I was thinking. But depending on your country it might be slightly easier
I did change my surname late in high school. Maybe it is cause of my country, bur yhat was not so easy. I just wrote a letter to the birth certificate register with a good reason to do so. Once they replied with “you’re good to go” I just wen to the passport issuer with that mail and changed my name. What happens next is the problem - change name in all instances - school, work, license, bank and so on.
When I was younger and less involved in this world, it was quick. Today, with all the subscriptions, payments and registrations - screw that. Too much effort.
It’s a lot of work even if you’re changing it due to marriage.
In this age? Change your name anyways. Humans are stupid. Just having a name that is novel is exceptionally valuable, like William Beaver, Maximus Watts, or Richard Rockefeller.
Or Sandeep Dikshit
I guess I’d just get married
My last name is lame anyways
You are Khaby Lame?
/j
There’s a documentary about this called, “Meet the Hitlers”. Worth a watch
Hell no, I’m waiting for the day one of these psychos makes us famous.
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