[Kerry]

Would you, if you hated your name, change it? Or respect the fact your parents named you that and it's upto them?

Also, your surname. Do you believe it's your family name and should always remain that way? I have quite a few mates who refuse to take their husbands name once married. I'm not married yet HAVE taken my partners family name by deed poll.

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[lostalex]

I want to change my name, well not my first name, but my last name. My last name is Fieldman..
and it's history is that when my family came generations ago, from eruope escaping nazi's, half of my family changed their name to fieldman to sound less jewish, because Feldman is a very jewish sounding name, so they changed it to fieldman, but i hate fieldman, because to me it makes me sound like someone who works in the field...

i 'd change my name to just Field i think would sound better..

Don't you think Alex Field sounds better than Alex Fieldman?

maybe i should create a poll. u dunno.

(Just so you know.. I AM NOT JEWISH!!!)

[joeysteele]

If someone hates their christian name or surname badly then they have the right to legally change it, or, just be generally known by another first name.

I personally wouldn't want to change my name and I also think if someone gets married,if the Lady does not want to change her name to her Husband's then she should't have to.

[lostalex]

how come british epople say surname?
it's so weird
civilized people say last name, not surname
no one even knows what surname means.

I think "surname" is spanish. why do english people speak spanish?

[michael21]

Originally Posted by ~Kerry~

Would you, if you hated your name, change it? Or respect the fact your parents named you that and it's upto them?

Also, your surname. Do you believe it's your family name and should always remain that way? I have quite a few mates who refuse to take their husbands name once married. I'm not married yet HAVE taken my partners family name by deed poll.

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[Lee.]

Morning Alex!

A bit grumpy and trolly today are we?

[Omah]

Originally Posted by lostalex

how come british epople say surname?
it's so weird
civilized people say last name, not surname
no one even knows what surname means.

I think "surname" is spanish. why do english people speak spanish?

It's French and came over to England in 1066 :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyh...names_01.shtml

Before the Norman Conquest of Britain, people did not have hereditary surnames: they were known just by a personal name or nickname.

When communities were small each person was identifiable by a single name, but as the population increased, it gradually became necessary to identify people further - leading to names such as John the butcher, William the short, Henry from Sutton, Mary of the wood, Roger son of Richard. Over time many names became corrupted and their original meaning is now not easily seen.

After 1066, the Norman barons introduced surnames into England, and the practice gradually spread. Initially, the identifying names were changed or dropped at will, but eventually they began to stick and to get passed on. So trades, nicknames, places of origin, and fathers' names became fixed surnames - names such as Fletcher and Smith, Redhead and Swift, Green and Pickering, Wilkins and Johnson. By 1400 most English families, and those from Lowland Scotland, had adopted the use of hereditary surnames.

Surname \Sur"name`\, n. [Pref. sur + name; really a substitution for OE. sournoun, from F. surnom. See Sur-, and Noun, Name.]

SUR. A French word which signifies upon, on. It is very frequently used in connexion with other words as, sur rule to take deposition, sur trover and conversion, and the like.

Source: Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

SURNAME. A name which is added to the christian name, and which, in modern times, have become family names. 2. They are called surnames, because originally they were written over the name in judicial writings and contracts. They were and are still used for the purpose of distinguishing persons of the same name. They were taken from something attached to the persons assuming them, as John Carpenter, Joseph Black, Samuel Little, &c. See Name.

Source: Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

My own surname is Norman in origin ..... and I like it

[CharlieO]

i hate my name for personal reasons but i dont think id ever be bothered to change it.

[Patrick]

The Ting Tings

[Stu]

I'm going to change mine. It's always something I wanted to do but never seem to get around to. Stu I don't mind ... I managed to salvage that from the awful 'Stuart' ... but the Kent has got to go.

[LemonJam]

I don't like my first name because it's more common than a dirty fat ***** in Essex, but I can't be bothered to change it.

[CharlieO]

Originally Posted by LemonJam

I don't like my first name because it's more common than a dirty fat ***** in Essex, but I can't be bothered to change it.

well ive only ever met one other lemon and that was keith?

[Omah]

Originally Posted by LemonJam

I don't like my first name because it's more common than a dirty fat ***** in Essex, but I can't be bothered to change it.

Is that you, Tracy ?

[Mac Hiavellian]

I don't mind people knowing my first name is Ben but too many people assume it's short for Benjamin or, at one point, Bennedict. Whenever anyone calls me it I just say "That's not my name" and then ever since that Ting Tings song came out people mock me by singing that to me. Little sh!ts.

And just because I'm usually grumpy around Xmas I'll change it to Ebenezer for a few days

[Marsh.]

Not really but there's a woman at work called Caroleea (or something like that) who likes to be called Nikki.

[Mac Hiavellian]

Oh and one of my best friends prefers to be referred to by her middle name rather than her first name. She dislikes her first name so much I didn't even know it was her real name until I saw one of her bank cards. I told her I thought she was a fraudster and she said "No, it's actually my card" lol

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Mac Hiavellian

Oh and one of my best friends prefers to be referred to by her middle name rather than her first name. She dislikes her first name so much I didn't even know it was her real name until I saw one of her bank cards. I told her I thought she was a fraudster and she said "No, it's actually my card" lol

My Mum's called by her middle name as well, which I dont really understand seeing as her middle name is Alwyn which is usually a mans name

[Mac Hiavellian]

Originally Posted by MTVN

My Mum's called by her middle name as well, which I dont really understand seeing as her middle name is Alwyn which is usually a mans name

Ha, maybe she likes being different. I don't know what your mum's first name is but maybe Alwyn sticks in peoples' heads more.

I've realised there's 1 worse than me not knowing my friend's name for a year! I didn't even know my own Grandad's name until I was 7 or 8 because everyone just calls him a nickname of his middle name.

And I know someone who's obsessed with Japan so she always presents herself with the same alias first name and a Japanese surname even though she isn't Japanese. I still don't even know what her birth names are

[Benjamin]

I like my full name in it's whole including my midle name. I do have a few stage names/alter ego's but I still love my real name.

[Niall]

I like my name but its just a bit too irish. My first, middle and last names are all irish. My name is unique (in England) though so I like that.

The only annoying thing about my name is that people get it wrong all the time when its pretty much phonetically spelt. Its annoying. -.-

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Niall

I like my name but its just a bit too irish. My first, middle and last names are all irish. My name is unique (in England) though so I like that.

The only annoying thing about my name is that people get it wrong all the time when its pretty much phonetically spelt. Its annoying. -.-

How do you say your name? Neil or Niall? I call you the latter, am I wrong?


(remembers when he called Iceman Ion, lol)

[Niall]

Originally Posted by ukturtle

How do you say your name? Neil or Niall? I call you the latter, am I wrong?


(remembers when he called Iceman Ion, lol)

No you've got it right. Its just nearly every time I have like a substitute teacher of something at school I have to correct them cause they call me Neil. -.- My biology teacher has actually called me Neil loads of times when I've been in her class the whole year.

And lmfao

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by happyland

Morning Alex!

A bit grumpy and trolly today are we?

and you love it :P

[Stacey.]

I'd never change my name cus my parents chose it. I don't have a problem with taking the guys surname either, if you're getting married it seems right that you should.

[Stu]

Shut up Neil.