Ever since I was five , I ’ve been pretty lukewarm on my middle name , Todd . It ’s not that I dislike the name , but it just never excited me ( my apology to all Todds out there ) . When I was still in unproblematic school , I even asked my mom to start paperwork to change the name to something more thrilling . I ’m over that now , but I ’ll include that I still occasionally think about changing my name , but it ’s really just because I ’m world-weary . To temper my enthusiasm , I found seven people who had honorable reasons to modify their names .
Millions of football game fans be intimate the nameJoe Theisman(pronounced like THIGHS - man ) , whether its because of his win in Super Bowl XVII for the Washington Redskins , the gruesome harm that ended his football vocation or his contract Erolia minutilla in the booth for ESPN ’s Monday Night Football . But fans may not recognize the name Joe Theisman ( pronounced THEES - man ) , the signal caller who play at South River High School and Notre Dame . The two are , in fact , the same . So why the name change ? Students and stave at Notre Damechanged the pronunciationas a political campaign tactic to get Theisman the coveted Heisman prize . After all , it ’s much easier for people to cantillate " Theisman for Heisman" if the two Word of God rime . For all that creative campaigning , though , he end up coming in second to Stanford ’s Jim Plunkett .
Friday , 1069 and Mr. Microsoft Zune after the breakage
For a doorknocker , the name Dan Miller does n’t do a whole lot . So a 28 - year - quondam entertainer alter his name to"The" Dan Miller Experience . accord to Experience , he chose the first name " The" Dan ( quotation marks are essential ) for no grounds , but the whole name change was to make an identity for himself in the entertainment humankind . His was called the most unusual name change presented to the court in Akron , Ohio , but he said the transition has been politic so far . Plus he notes the tot fringe benefit of the power to name a son " The" Jimi Hendrix Experience .
A Minnesota man found his quest for a name variety thwarted in the commonwealth ’s Supreme Court . Michael Herbert Dengler was assay to change his name to1069 . Each digit had special implication . For example , the one imply he is part of the whole of life , while nine represent " relationship to essence in the difference of opinion in the meaning when actualize the spatially everpresent nature of life . “ The court of law rejected his attempted , but suggest that " Ten Sixty - Nine" would be acceptable . Never mind he had necessitate friend to call him " One Zero Six Nine . “
Aurianna Dague was pretty indisputable that was her sound name , until , at age 11 , her mother went to supercede her lost birth certification . That ’s when they found out that the state division of lively statistic only had her registered with herfather ’s last name , Michael . Dague / Michael and her female parent are now embroiled in a long bureaucratic battle that touches on issues of minor league ' right , divorcement hold and the difficulties of cherry-red tapeline .
Finally , vegetarian Karin Robertson was n’t just think of impressing her employer when she convert her name toGoVeg.com . She want to start discussions every meter she suppose her name , since it would stir up debate about vegetarianism . She insist that she ’s not just a walking billboard for the PETA - streak website and that her gaffer were even surprised when she came up with the idea . She says her personal quest to startle discussions has been successful , since any time she confront her drivers licence , she unavoidably starts verbalize about vegetarianism .
So readers , what ’s the best reason you ’ve discover for a name change ? Have any of you considered convert your names ? And would you name yourself after a website ?
