Weird this was right below this in my timeline
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
No true Hossenfeffer would ever commit a crime!
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.
Came here for this, not disappointed. o7
Wow, you must really love his music!
I already share a name with a fairly famous (although now deceased) comedian so I doubt it.
Did that comedian commit a heinous crime?
Don’t they all
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.
One of my last names was severely misspelled a long time ago so I doubt anyone else not from my family has it, and I wouldn’t change it. As for the other last name, it’s kinda common so no I wouldn’t change it either.
There’s a documentary about this called, “Meet the Hitlers”. Worth a watch
I am from the Netherlands. The media etc. do not reveal surnames when court cases are being mentioned. I could be wrong but I believe that is set in law.
Greets from the south neighbors.
Here names are redacted as long as court cases run, as the presumption of innocence means they could sue the media if they get threats ztc.
Hell no, I’m waiting for the day one of these psychos makes us famous.
I would try like getting royalty checks just by name alone. Try to pretend I’m related to them, forge some documents and stuff. That is if the person is interviewed or having books or stuff made of them.
I guess I’d just get married
My last name is lame anyways
You are Khaby Lame?
/j
One of the worst US congress members shares a last name with me, but it’s also so common that it’s pretty diluted. It needs to be both infamous and uncommon, sharing a last name with millions of people ain’t that.
Then again, Epstein is kinda common and I can’t help giggle when I bring up a certain researcher with that last name and call her model the Epstein model.
Yeah, millions of Johnsons survive sharing a name with a guy who must have been a real prick.
Rewatching the Expanse is funny when they mention the Epstein Drive, and its even funnier when
spoiler
they literally have a plot point about them trafficking kids into a
islandmoon and do disgusting things… using them to create bioweapons
In ex Spanish or Portuguese colonies, where having 2-4 family names is common, that happening would mean someone in your (extended) family did it
