I did years ago but it was forced due to the witness protection program.

Can't he just go buy a sports car or something?

Let's hope he's not thinking the Bruce Jenner route....

I have a family member that did it... but they went the "Bruce Jenner" route and I don't think that's what you are asking.

Like STR8CASH to dirkdiggler?

Is he open to suggestions?

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I have an aunt that did it at about age 50. Just because. She was the same person the day after as she had been the day before and it gave her some level of satisfaction that was her business. Whatever. Live and let live.

Seemed to work out ok for Mr. Ali and Mr. Abdul-Jabbar. Even people who don't go through legal name changes often are called different things in like... a Mikey might become a Mike or maybe even a Michael. Really not worth worrying about. If someone goes though the trouble of a legal name change, seems like insisting upon using the former name has no value other than the projection of pettiness.

He can always go with Mike Hunt

I took in a child years ago..he wanted our last name to feel kin to the family, his choice..probably the right one for him.

Richard Biggins

Dick Trickle..

Change it to TrashBoat

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=cg26OvRnE14

I've had 2 friends change their last name.

First, had a broken home, with a drunk asshole father. He wanted nothing to do with his father so changed his name from D Johnson to D Cody.

Second, came from a loving home, but he was a very short guy and was picked on all through school. Changed his name form M wigglesworth to M Williams.

My friend at social security recommended not doing so since it basically throws wrenches into everything you do that involves legal documents. Informally changing your name much better.

I guess I also know 2 people hat have done this also.

First, his parents unfortunately (They didn’t know) gave him the same name a serial killer, so he uses his middle name.

Second, he said on his first day of high school there were 4 people in his class with the same first name, so he started going by his middle name.

let me guess "Mike "
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I met a Vietnamese girl once named Mai Ho. I was tempted to ask her out. The introductions alone would've been worth it.

Fred on the Howard Stern show changed his name to eric but everyone still calls him Fred.

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I opened this thinking you had developed an issue with Mark Wahlberg and were changing your handle on here, lol!

I'd like to change mine to Tee Kay Fourtwone

It didn't work out very well for Yusuf Islam. Remember him? Of course not because everyone knew him as Cat Stevens so eventually he had to change it to Yusuf/Cat Stevens. Even that wasn't his given name. He was born Steven Demetre Georgiou on 21 July 1948.

Man that Cat was confused.

This alone seems like reason enough to not want to change his name, at least not legally, as it will just cause confusion. As others have stated, lots of legitimate/good reasons for wanting to change your name but if you'd really rather someone call you something different, rather than your given name, then just start telling people to please call me Tony (or whatever he wants to be called). It'll be easier with people he's just meeting for the first time and in his graphic art/design world he can be Dirk "Tony" Diggler and just tell people he'd prefer to be called Tony. That way nothing legal needs to be done but he can basically give himself a nickname and be called whatever he'd like.

An ex-BIL and his wife both changed their last name; his birth name was laugh-out-loud-in-your-face bad, and they changed before their first-born got old enough that they'd have to tell him what his name _really_ was.

My maternal grandmother changed the spelling of her middle name when she was 18.

One was mike the other was Paul

Paging CaptainNeo

The director of the trades school I went to was, and I shit you not, Harry Balls.

Not Harrison, it was Harry. I cannot believe, even way back in the 30’s, they did not think “Harry Balls” was a bad name.
When he gave a speech at a benefits dinner and it astounded me everyone in the room was able to keep it together for Director Harry Balls.

I actually have a just case for changing my name...not for vanity

Apparently someone with my same name is some type of terrorist or international cartel member

This has led to banking hardships in my life for almost 20 years

1st time was an escrow set to close and when the loan went in for underwriting it was rejected due to terrorist ties...took several days to clear it up and almost lost the house deal

2nd time was when someone wired me $$ for a car deal...again rejected, bank actually told my buyer that I was a bad guy...again took several days to clear up...almost lost the car deal

3rd time PayPal froze my account due to international terrorism...PayPal gal on the phone said she had never even seen such a thing...took me weeks of back and forth identity verification to clear that up

At this point I’m crippled and shell shocked from this pain and suffering and run everything financial through my wife

Talked to my FBI buddy and asked if there was anything he could do...he said “Nope, Change your name”

I had a friend change his name from "Joey" to "Justin"
we all called him -Justin Secure- from then on, don't think it played out the way he thought it would.

Would throwing in a middle initial (or name) help?

I had the hardest time getting one bank to recognize that two accounts were mine--one had my middle initial on it, and one didn't.

I honestly can’t remember the paperwork it’s been so long...I’m assuming my middle name was on at least one of those blocked transactions

Knowing me, I would probably change my name to Meno Terrorist and probably get myself into even more deep shit.

Credit agencies collect as much information as possible, they don’t care if it’s accurate.