@niclake It’s a document with some specific wording that you sign to change your name.
It doesn’t need to be overseen by a lawyer or anything, you just print it, sign it, and can (in theory) use that to change your name at your bank and everywhere else that needs it.
@robb fun fact, it’s not that easy if you were born in Scotland. You have to get an amended birth certificate instead, which really screws with the companies who can barely cope with a deed poll
@robb From a fellow double-b, thanks for sharing. My second b origin story is less interesting - when I was younger I was called Robbie to differentiate me from another Rob of the same age. That stuck for years until I eventually dropped the 'ie'
@BenRiceM I guess it depends if you’ve met others with if spelt like that? It tends to be more common in the US from what I’ve seen but I don’t have a good sense of it tbh.
@robb Heh, smart! I always figured it was just personal preference 🤷
Also, it’s kind of amazing that Knockoffia still totally works (except sending actual texts I guess?). And remains the only reason I’ve ever needed to write a generator function
I wasn’t a fan of my old surname (Lewis) and didn’t have any ties to it because I don’t talk to my dad, my mum had reverted back to her maiden name. My wife also didn’t like it 😂 Then when we were planning our wedding we thought why not just pick our own surname so we looked through a huge amount of names until we found one we both liked.
@robb@maique I have a somewhat-similar situation with my school friends. Both my first and surnames are also first names, so teachers always called me “Dale”, which stuck to the point where I just went by Dale until I went to uni.
There are people I was friends with for years who had no idea my name was Lewis
@robb@lewis@maique I never changed my name legally, but after years of secondary bullies taking the mick out of “Juan” when I left school for college I decided to go by my middle name, Miguel, but translated to English - Michael.
When I finished college I went back to using Juan. Only confusing part was that I met my wife at college & she knew me as Michael. Work parties where my wife attended they’d look at her funny when she talked about her husband Michael
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