If YOU could CHANGE your NAME in real life, what would it be?

[simplykit]

How you doin brilliant people of the TAPASVERSE! I was wondering, If you were given the chance to change how people call you, what would it be? Filling out bank loans, on your test paper, being interviewed on live TV? how would you like to be addressed? Please enlighten me with your glorious minds.

[Oriflamme]

I mean I already changed my name. It’s not a wild concept, trans people do it all the time.

[LunarScyphozoa]

Already done? It’s a pretty feasible thing to do in real life.

[Lane_Kalchik]

When I transitioned, I really thought about it but, 'Lane' was just too perfect to change, so I stuck with it since it works both ways

[moontokkym]

Like others have said, it's kind of the first part of transitionning often. I also come from a family where it's commonplace to change the name people call you by in adulthood, even without being trans. It's a pretty mundane thing. You don't even have to legally change it, ever had a friend that you only called by a somewhat different name and then find out years later that it was just a nickname that stuck really well? I have a friend that everyone calls "Nonk". It's a nickname that I gave them by accident 5 years ago. Now even people who don't know me call them that.

Also: gotta love that barely anyone's saying the names because it's often their actual name now.

[kyupol]

Honestly have no clue.

Maybe something hyper masculine sounding like "BRANDO"

[Leyelle]

for a while I wanted to be named Iris

[simplykit]

@Oriflamme cool. may I know your first name please? If that's Okay with you?

@LunarScyphozoa interesting, In my country you're basically stuck with your given name.

@Lane_Kalchik Lane is a good name. Nice to meet you Lane!

@moontokkym Oh yes! Nicknames are common thing here in my hometown, no one call you by your names, instead they shorten it or add something to it, like this friend of mine was named John, then my friends called him "jhoneee, Jhons, Big jhon"

@kyupol Yeah brother! Brando is real manly hehe

@Leyelle aww Irisw is a beautiful name. Also I love he Band Iris!

[jwabeasley]

My parents weren't very creative with my name. I toyed with changing it but realized that changing it would offend them significantly. These days, I'm not very attached to my name, but it's what everyone calls me at work so it's fine. I've been much more creative with my own kids' names.

[justincarbunkle]

I like my name. I don't wanna change it.

[remiquise]

I'd probably change it to my middle name, because I'm in the awkward "Most people call me by my first name so it's awkward to introduce myself by my middle name, but I still do go by it when I can" stage and just ridding myself of my first name entirely might make that easier.
Middle name being Angel, by the by. Though if that doesn't count since it is my name technically, I'd change my name to Lavinia.

[KevinReijnders]

I wouldn't so much be changing my name, as I would make my preffered name (roepnaam) into my 1st legal name.

For some stupid traditional reason, the name everyone calls me sine I was born, isn't on my passport. I've 4 names + my family name, but none of them are the actual name people call me by 🤣

It's some weird quirk of the Dutch Catholic south and incredibly annoying when having to deal with official documents and government institutions.

[Lensing]

You can change your gender (m/f/d or no entry) entry in Germany since a while and
when you do that you can also change your name.

You can also change your first name without changing the gender entry but that´s
way more complicated and can be declinded.

I like my first and last name, most people call me by nickname and I always thought
it would be cool if it was in my passport

[ThunderChicken]

Anything other than Carmen. When I was a kid I hated my name. It didn’t help that the only Carmens in the media were female (Carmen San Diego, Carmen Miranda, etc). You can well imagine how other kids ran with that.

And when you’re a teenager in the 1980’s named Carmen you develop a deep hatred for Culture Club’s Karma Chameleon.

Of course it all worked out, and my name proved to be prophetic: I grew up to be a gay auto mechanic.

Car. Men. It’s right there in my name.

[Louvremusee]

I'd change my English name. I go by two since I'm part Asian but also have an English name. I'd change it to Alaska in reference to one of my fave gut wrenching Lou Reed songs

[Azifri]

Nice to see you back, senpai!

Now to answer the question, I like my name so I wouldn't change it ^^ Same for my last name(s) (I have more than one nationality and depending on the passport, I have one or two last names), I think they sound pretty cool

[ShidoDraws]

Ten years ago I would totally change my legal name to Keys, but right now I don't think I'd want to change my legal name. It's not that I would regret it if I did change it, it's just more that I'm used to my name now. Plus, if I did decide to change it, regardless if it would be ten years ago or now, I'd probably only add it as a middle name anyways.

Thinking about it now, I think I was just more obsessed with having a middle name rather than wanting to be called something. My family, we were immigrants, but we weren't the first of our people to come live in the US. Although I grew up around a lot of kids my ethnicity, some of them have English first/middle names. In my culture that was an indication that you were born with US citizenship and to some extent it was like a status symbol of sort. Nobody ever talks about it but you can just tell if you look at everyone and when English first/middle names were adapted in families. Of course, statistics shows that having an English name helps you a lot in getting a job and getting promoted.

The funny thing about my first name is that it looks like an English name already, hence most people calling it by how it's written. Even though how it's written isn't even how it's supposed to be pronounced, instead of explaining the pronunciation to everyone, I just go by whatever people calls me. I've gotten so used to it that I prefer the English version of my name. It's just easier universally.

In short, I like my name as it is. I have thought about adapting an English name, but decided not to if it was only for social gain. Financially, I am doing fine with the name I was given.

[ALI]

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[NOOR_ASAKZ05]

It may seem strange, but I'm thinking of changing my name to "29365108"....Why? Simply so that no one can call me that or give me nicknames​

[wolflu66]

In my country, everyone can legally change their name three times in their lifetime.
But I personally don't plan to use it. It's not that I think my name is great, I just don't have any desire to change it.

A few years ago, something like this happened: A sushi chain restaurant launched a promotion where anyone with "salmon" in their name could eat for free during the promotion period. As a result, hundreds of people actually changed their names to include salmon.That's really crazy

Some people even found that their parents had already used up their name change allowances during their childhood, so they couldn't change their names back after the promotion ended.