Zunardo
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Anyone here go thru a name change as an older child, especially from parents being divorced/widowed and remarried? Or has anyone changed their name as an adult for reasons other than marriage?
Going thru some old school photos, and I ran across some classmates I remember having their last names changed - I'm assuming due their parents being divorced or widowed, remarriage, etc. One girl used three different last names thru middle school before finally settling on her birth name.
I knew a Polish guy at work, last name had 6 consonants in a row, had his changed to a more Murican one. Another co-worker did the non-traditional thing and changed his last name to his wife's last name when they got married. Another guy with the first name Lynn had it changed to Len (still pronounced Lynn) in his late 30's. I think he felt that other folks assumed the spelling was for a girl's name, and he never cared for that. I'd known him since grade school, and I never though that, although I knew it was a name that could belong to either a boy or girl.
Going thru some old school photos, and I ran across some classmates I remember having their last names changed - I'm assuming due their parents being divorced or widowed, remarriage, etc. One girl used three different last names thru middle school before finally settling on her birth name.
I knew a Polish guy at work, last name had 6 consonants in a row, had his changed to a more Murican one. Another co-worker did the non-traditional thing and changed his last name to his wife's last name when they got married. Another guy with the first name Lynn had it changed to Len (still pronounced Lynn) in his late 30's. I think he felt that other folks assumed the spelling was for a girl's name, and he never cared for that. I'd known him since grade school, and I never though that, although I knew it was a name that could belong to either a boy or girl.