Jokes on me there are close to a hundred million people with the same last name as me, I’m not changing
My whole name - first, middle, and last - is one of those that’s so generic I’m damn near impossible to Google without already knowing other key identifying details. Details that, if you already knew, you probably wouldn’t need to Google me anyway.
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.
Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks.
Hell, there’s a famous singer with my whole name, and I won’t even give up music. Why the hell would I change my name over something someone else did?
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.
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 :)
Harvey Epstein is crazy bad luck for a name.
For me, it depends on the crime and how common or uncommon the name is but still probably not.
Except for the exact spelling I already share a last name with a war criminal president. But since I’m in a different country and the name has a positive association with an author here, it hasn’t really seemed like an issue.
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
No, this has happened and I did not feel the need to change my name. Nobody even associates my name with his because his heinous crime happens so often in my country.
Guess it would depend, but I’m leaning toward no, because it’s one thing my father gave me that I will always have, and he passed away over 20 years ago. I’m a Stephen King Constant Reader like my father before me, and Sai King says “do not forget the face of your father.”
I live in an area where I’m the only one related to me for hundreds of miles, with the exception of my wife, who took my name when I married her. But there are other people using my last name. No relation. Way I see it, if the wrong people come looking for me, they’ll find them first, and they don’t know me. Maybe one of them has my first name as well. Maybe that person will be my designated decoy. I’m not on social media, so my face isn’t widely known. Some bad dudes come looking for me, these other people will probably catch their attention before I will. I say let 'em have it.
No, because my name is already very common and there are several prominent murderers, war criminals and even traitors who share my name, and I barely rate among them.
Nah, too common.
Same. I’m not a John Smith* but my name is generic enough that it, or something sufficiently like it, has turned up in a number of places, sometimes to my detriment.
Back when I had Facebook (and more people had accounts that would turn up on search), I’d occasionally search my name and find quite a few people with the same across the world… and then freak out a bit because my name’s mine, what are all these people doing with my name?
Regular web searches have similar results.
On the bright side(?), if someone comes looking for me, they’re way more likely to find the others first, so it might well be in my interests to never change my name, even if I got the urge to do it.
* or am I?
Honestly, pretty good litmus test for filtering out people obsessed with true crime. I’d keep it
