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I have considered it, but no longer plan to.
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P'Gell
I changed my last name when I got married, but still use a double last name for some things like my library card (really) my FaceBook account (so old friends will know who I am) and a few other things.
Both My Man and I have have long, bitch ... more
Both My Man and I have have long, bitch ... more
I changed my last name when I got married, but still use a double last name for some things like my library card (really) my FaceBook account (so old friends will know who I am) and a few other things.
Both My Man and I have have long, bitch to pronounce ethnic last names, so using a hyphen and giving that long name to children would have been mean! I didn't have any problem changing my name, but didn't realize until a few years ago that I had never contacted Social Security and let them know I changed my name. Dealing with that, years after getting married was a bitch.
As for my first name, it's really plain and reminds me of being a child. I prefer my given-in-adolescence name P'Gell, and it seems to suit me better. My father seemed to think the femme fatale from a 1940s graphic novel series suited me, due to my.....wit, as he calls it. I was only about 11 or 12 when he started calling me this, and funny that I kind of ended up looking like her (although my waist is not nearly as tiny as a comic book character) There's a picture of the original P'Gell I use for my avatar.
My parents were Catholic, so you have to name your kids after a saint or they won't baptize the kid, so most Catholic kids have fairly boring names. I grew up in an Italian, Polish, Bohemian, Irish neighborhood, and most of the kids were Catholic, so I grew up with a lot of kids with "plain" names. No "Tristans" or "Crystals" or "Morgans" or "Dakotas" from my childhood. And unlike kids born recently, everybody had their name shorted into a nick name. A Robert was "Bobby" a Christine was "Tina" etc. People today seem very weird about not allowing their kids to have nicknames, which I find weird. "No, don't call him Billy, it's William. "He isn't "Chris" he's Christoper." Although IMO, "Topher" for Chirstopher is the worst nickname ever given to a kid. *sigh* less
Both My Man and I have have long, bitch to pronounce ethnic last names, so using a hyphen and giving that long name to children would have been mean! I didn't have any problem changing my name, but didn't realize until a few years ago that I had never contacted Social Security and let them know I changed my name. Dealing with that, years after getting married was a bitch.
As for my first name, it's really plain and reminds me of being a child. I prefer my given-in-adolescence name P'Gell, and it seems to suit me better. My father seemed to think the femme fatale from a 1940s graphic novel series suited me, due to my.....wit, as he calls it. I was only about 11 or 12 when he started calling me this, and funny that I kind of ended up looking like her (although my waist is not nearly as tiny as a comic book character) There's a picture of the original P'Gell I use for my avatar.
My parents were Catholic, so you have to name your kids after a saint or they won't baptize the kid, so most Catholic kids have fairly boring names. I grew up in an Italian, Polish, Bohemian, Irish neighborhood, and most of the kids were Catholic, so I grew up with a lot of kids with "plain" names. No "Tristans" or "Crystals" or "Morgans" or "Dakotas" from my childhood. And unlike kids born recently, everybody had their name shorted into a nick name. A Robert was "Bobby" a Christine was "Tina" etc. People today seem very weird about not allowing their kids to have nicknames, which I find weird. "No, don't call him Billy, it's William. "He isn't "Chris" he's Christoper." Although IMO, "Topher" for Chirstopher is the worst nickname ever given to a kid. *sigh* less
...I do plan on naming my son 'Topher'. Not a nickname, that will be his actual first name. My husband's name is Kristopher.
