Yes
Iāll send Becky round to duff you up
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what?! doesnāt even sound the same. I guess my name is Chris now too
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I should probably have either taken my wifeās surname or we both picked a new one as I donāt particularly like mine and it often gets misspelt. instead my wife took mine and complains that she now has a rubbish and often misspelt surname. at least weāre in the same boat I guess.
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Dunno. Americans innit.
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I sometimes consider making the āLamontā which is the clan name the āTurnerā part of my name the official name, but for now I just use it on facebook like a cool edgelord 
No thatās true, Iām actually a Richard. Sorry everyone.
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fun fact, if my partner and I were to marry and she took on my surname as well as keep hers sheād have five names!
Harry is Henry too.
That is an awesome name, unusual -ina names are lovely and Iām not biased saying that at all my middle name is Laurina which I have never heard outside it being my great grandmotherās middle name also.
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Told this one before, but this fella at Uni answered to the names Stewart and David. Had no idea what his actual name was, as the lecturers/everyone used to use both. We knew him as āDavid Stewart Stewart Davidā whenever we spoke about him.
He was probably called Barry or something. I remember he passed out by a radiator when he was pissed and burnt most of his arm. Grim.
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David Attenborough, David Jason
Oneās dead and the otherās a racist.
fair point on the racist but being dead doesnāt make you weird, also is he dead?
Iām sure thereās a weird thing in names where people who use certain diminutives can get a knighthood, where as others donāt.
Like thereās Sir Steve Redgrave (not Steven), Sir Tim Berners-Lee (not Timothy), couple of Sir Mikes, but you hardly see a Sir Dave or a Sir Phil. Sir Dave Frost/Attenborough/Jason?
Itās discrimination is what Iām saying (nah knighthoods are all cobblers)
One of my friends changed her surname a few years ago. Her parents got divorced and she fell out with her father, so she changed her surname to her maternal grandmotherās maiden name.
Something I found out working in a county council archive a few years ago is that records of name changes are really poor. It doesnāt matter so much right at this moment, but if someone changes their name and/or gender, thereās no record thatās made to match that new identity to their birth record. Thereās a mild concern among family historians that itāll knacker family tree research in decades to come.
My tv knew a drama girl at unit who changed her name to Cookie, fuck knows why.
Went to see a play with her in it where she was topless for a bit and during the interval I was stood outside having a cig with a group of people talking about the play and I was like ādidnāt realise she was gonna have her jebs out!ā My tv glared at me and then when we took our seats again told me that one of the people in the group was Cookieās bf 
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You need to go full William.
I changed my surname to double-barrelled when I got married, but as Iām the man it was more complicated than it would be for my wife, had to use the wedding certificate to change my passport, then use my passport to change anything else, whereas my wife can just use the wedding certificate for anything, doesnāt need to sort the passport first.
I have only ever liked it in the context of
Otherwise I was never a fan of it other than for the initial.