did you change your surname christian name or both. was it simply that you always hated the name you were born with?
2006-09-04 22:19:39 · 16 answers · asked by catweazle 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I changed my last name when I was 16. I had always gone by the last name i changed my name to. I had never used my legal last name and I didn't know until I went to get my driver's liscence that my last name that I had been using all my life wasn't mine to use legally. My mom got married when i was 2 to my "DAD" - he's not my dad, but he's the man who raised me and i didn't know till i was 13 that he wasn't my dad. I didn't know until i was 16 that my last name wasn't his last name. He had wanted to adopt me, but he'd have had to contact my real father and get his permission and he didn't feel my real father would allow it so when I was 16- he hired an attorney and we legally changed my last name to his- my sister also went through a name change at the same time. her real father was dead so getting permission from him wasn't an issue but Dad felt if he adopted her and not me it wouldn't be fair. So we changed both of our last names to his, My sister went from being a Peiper to a Harding and I went from Randall to Harding. It was our choice to change our last names. Although they got changed when we got married, we had used Harding all our lives and felt we were Hardings even though we weren't legally Hardings at the time.
2006-09-04 22:30:09 · answer #1 · answered by tiggerkitty3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My father changed our last name when I was 6 years old. This was in 1959. We had a Jewish sounding last name. Yet no one in my family was Jewish. My father said that both sides were starting to react with prejudice. (There was a lot of prejudice against Jews in the 50's in certain areas of the US.) The people at the YMCA wanted to know why a "Jew" was playing handball at the "Christian" gym. Rabbi's were knocking at our door and asking why we did not attend synague or obey the laws of the sabbath. Dad decided that it was ridiculous to have a "Jewish" last name when we weren't Jewish. So he changed our last name.
2006-09-04 22:39:24 · answer #2 · answered by Spiritual but not religious 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends because people do not like their surname or chirstian name or both since times change
2006-09-04 22:27:23 · answer #3 · answered by pj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I changed my surname when I got married.
2006-09-05 01:06:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have kept my birth name, but when my mother baptised me in the Greek Orthodox church they would not accept my birth name as it was not a Greek Saint name, so my birth name and my baptism names are different, but I have kep my birth name. Only my surname upon marriage.
2006-09-04 22:22:41 · answer #5 · answered by London Girl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my real name is mark, but i thought Juan was a better name to go with my surname, so i changed it!
2006-09-04 22:30:38 · answer #6 · answered by Juan Kassoff 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I married, not for the name change, but for love. Though I do have to admit that going from Olsen to Lambert was very nice.
2006-09-04 22:22:01 · answer #7 · answered by kakiolsen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I changed my name from Chris to Bozo the Merciless.
2006-09-04 22:25:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i changed my surname when i was 16 to match that of my step father's, because he rules!!
2006-09-04 22:34:07 · answer #9 · answered by northukstudent 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was one of the astronomers who said pluto isn`t a planet and lots people from Disney have been calling me lately
2006-09-04 22:23:59 · answer #10 · answered by william v 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋