Hey, just be glad you don't have a weird last name!
Also, at least you can actually tell how to pronounce that one...
I'd never change my name because I do value my family, and that's what it means for me, but it would be nice to have a name that 1) is easy to pronounce (or at least you can tell how to pronounce from the spelling), 2) is slightly more common (so that googling my first & last name didn't lead EXACTLY TO ME EVERY TIME).
I'm not planning to get married so I wouldn't change my name that way, either. (But if I ever hyphenated...damn, somebody would have to love me an awful lot to hyphenate their name with mine!).
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Also, at least you can actually tell how to pronounce that one...
I'd never change my name because I do value my family, and that's what it means for me, but it would be nice to have a name that 1) is easy to pronounce (or at least you can tell how to pronounce from the spelling), 2) is slightly more common (so that googling my first & last name didn't lead EXACTLY TO ME EVERY TIME).
I'm not planning to get married so I wouldn't change my name that way, either. (But if I ever hyphenated...damn, somebody would have to love me an awful lot to hyphenate their name with mine!).