Rare opportunity

[Signe]

I think I still have a file with Schild saying my name properly.  It's Sig-nee, like Mr. SmartyPants up there said but my mother didn't like that so she called me Seen-ya, like Mr. WiseArse up there said.

So far I like Megatron and Boxcar. 

[Merusk]

Were I ta teacher, I'd have read it too fast and called you "Singe."  Think of all the smoke-related nicknames you could have had in school!

[Strazos]

I've seen some weird names working at my bank. Recently came across some sort of checking account in the name of, I SHIT YOU NOT...


Alexander the Great.

lols were had by the nerds I work with.

[stray]

By the way, has anyone here changed a surname (outside of marriage, I mean..)?

[Lantyssa]

My friend did because he and his wife wanted to take a new last name, and the marriage certificate only lets one partner do so.  I helped him with it, along with a bunch of others doing first names, as the process is the same.  Did you have a question about it?

[stray]

Just wondering how much of a hassle it is.

[Krakrok]

Blackbeard.

[apocrypha]

Dodecahedron Windy Miller Thompson.

[NowhereMan]

Per Paelos' list, I think Randall is an awesome and underused name. I've got a boring name because my dad felt being called Alphonsus in Northern Ireland in the 50's was more than a little awkward so thinks weird names are cruel.

Consider that though, your could shorten you kid's name to Fonzie Also Godfrey, maybe your kid's nickname could be God!

[Bunk]

The moment my group of friends started having kids, we began campaigning that someone name a boy Conan. One of the guys managed to get permission to give thier son that as his middle name. It will be sad when people think it was after a late night talk show host.

[DraconianOne]

Shouldn't at least Pearl Harbour got prohibited in some sense by a judge? I'm pretty sure that in most European Countries the state will prohibit you from naming your children in a ridiculous/historcal important way to safe the child unnecessary abuse later on.

I don't know about most. Sweden has rules about it. Britain most definitely does not.

[K9]

New Zealand has systems to block unusual names, but they aren't wholly effective it seems;

LINK and LINK

Parents must rename girl called Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii

Names blocked:
Fish and Chips (twins)
Yeah Detroit
Keenan Got Lucy
Sex Fruit
Stallion
Twisty Poi
Fat Boy
Cinderella Beauty Blossom
Masport and Mower (twins)
Spiral Cicada
Kaos
Nero
Hitler
Names permitted:
Number 16 Bus Shelter
Violence
Midnight Chardonnay
Benson and Hedges (twins)

Miley Cyrus
The American teen sensation, star of Hannah Montana and daughter of "Achy Breaky Heart" country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, was originally christened Destiny Hope. Nothing much wrong with that, you may think, but her childhood nickname of "Smiley Miley" (because of her sunny demeanour) eventually stuck for good. She has now formally adopted it, albeit in a slightly shorter version. She has an eight-year-old sister called Noah Lindsey, who is also in Hannah Montana, and a brother called Braison Chance.
Dweezil Zappa
Dweezil actually started off life as the relatively mundane Ian – but only because the hospital refused to register his father's original choice.
Dandelion Richards
The daughter of Rolling Stone Keith Richards and model Anita Pallenberg was clearly not happy about her hippie name and is now known as Angela.
Zowie Bowie
David Bowie's son, the inspiration for the song "Kooks" now uses the rather less exotic Duncan Jones, using his father's original surname.

[Lantyssa]

Just wondering how much of a hassle it is.

Fill out a one page document (You can pretty much use the same format for all counties in Texas as long as it has the relavent stuff.), pay about $130 in court costs, and take it down to your local courthouse.  The clerk may be able to have the judge sign it without you even being seen.

The main thing is to state you are not changing your name to run away from debt or other legal obligations.  It's a pretty simple procedure.

[Yegolev]

You must be having the last laugh now, eh?

Yes.  She could "pshaw" on Millard, Rutherford, Lyndon and even Ronald, but "Barack Hussein Obama" is so far over the line it just breaks any opposition.  By comparison, "Megatron Bowie Armstrong" is incredibly tame.

[Samwise]

Names blocked:
...
Nero
...

Pfui.

[IainC]

I think I still have a file with Schild saying my name properly.  It's Sig-nee, like Mr. SmartyPants up there said but my mother didn't like that so she called me Seen-ya, like Mr. WiseArse up there said.

So far I like Megatron and Boxcar. 

I have always assumed your name was pronounced SINN-yee.

[chargerrich]

Wanted to name my boys Ares and Orion but wife shot that down pretty fast...ended up with Taylor and Tyler. All of these would make great Thompsons in my opinion.

Oh and Tommy Thompson is awesome, former Wisconsin govenor. I like his politics.

[Polysorbate80]

.45 Caliber

Call him "Cal" for short

[voodoolily]

Wanted to name my boys Ares and Orion but wife shot that down pretty fast...ended up with Taylor and Tyler.

Why not just go for Robby and Bobby?

[Oban]

Boxxy

[Righ]

Mozy.

[ShenMolo]

Roman Thompson

[gryeyes]

Flavius

[Tale]

Yeah, too bad about Jack. Cool name. Bad combo.

Jack Thompson is the fine name of a legendary actor, nothing to do with videogames or lawyers really.

[rattran]

When my boss and his wife were arguing over what to name their second son, they competed with more and more outrageous names. At one point the sprogs potential name was Panzer Kampfgruppen Moore.

They ended up settling for Griffin Bexley Moore. After Jim Bexley Speed, a Red Dwarf joke.

[TheWalrus]

I find it odd that you felt you had to explain a Red Dwarf reference to this crowd. That said, I'm going to push to have Smeg be his middle name.

[Strazos]

I had to wiki it, actually.