No, changing one’s name is a pain in the ass.
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.
Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks.
Hell no, people can finally spell it.
No, I hope I’d have the self-confidence to own it.
- I went to school with a kid named “dick”. Not Richard or rich, but he insisted on “dick”. He was the first to joke about his name and he laughed about it. I don’t know how he truly felt but everyone loves the comedian, and even bullies couldn’t make fun of him
- I just got a new coworker with the same name as a famous comedian, and same deal. His intro speech started with “not that one”, and he can quote movie lines with the best of us. Actually I haven’t worked with him so know nothing else about him. I remember his name and that he has a good sense of humor
- my name Isn’t at all common but there’s a professor in Chicago with the same name, who has authored a bunch of text books. Does it count that I sometimes joke about my “alternate life”?
my name Isn’t at all common but there’s a professor in Chicago with the same name, who has authored a bunch of text books. Does it count that I sometimes joke about my “alternate life”?
I googled my name and found some old dude with a PhD lmao.
An ex of mine had the same name as the wife of a killer. I find it hilarious that when you Google her name, that person comes up. I hope it forever is an impediment to her finding employment. What? No, I’m not bitter.
I guess it depends how common your last name is where you live. If you’re a Smith/Johnson/Brown/Williams in the USA, those are pretty common. If you’ve got one of those names in China, maybe a name change is in order.
If your last name is Summerbell, that’s a bit rare, and maybe you need to distance yourself.
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
The were 4 other guys in my high school with my name. So no, can’t see bothering to change it.
I guess I’d just get married
My last name is lame anyways
You are Khaby Lame?
/j
Changing your name is an insane amount of work and it is not worth it
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.
Sure. I have no attachment to my last name.
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.
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 bioweaponsYeah, millions of Johnsons survive sharing a name with a guy who must have been a real prick.
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.
