There’s a documentary about this called, “Meet the Hitlers”. Worth a watch
The were 4 other guys in my high school with my name. So no, can’t see bothering to change it.
Don’t take this out of context but… I see nothing wrong with Dahmer.
Or Dohmer, with an O
I would try like getting royalty checks just by name alone. Try to pretend I’m related to them, forge some documents and stuff. That is if the person is interviewed or having books or stuff made of them.
Hell no, people can finally spell it.
Sure. I have no attachment to my last name.
An ex of mine had the same name as the wife of a killer. I find it hilarious that when you Google her name, that person comes up. I hope it forever is an impediment to her finding employment. What? No, I’m not bitter.
No true Hossenfeffer would ever commit a crime!
Honestly, pretty good litmus test for filtering out people obsessed with true crime. I’d keep it
Nah, too common.
Same. I’m not a John Smith* but my name is generic enough that it, or something sufficiently like it, has turned up in a number of places, sometimes to my detriment.
Back when I had Facebook (and more people had accounts that would turn up on search), I’d occasionally search my name and find quite a few people with the same across the world… and then freak out a bit because my name’s mine, what are all these people doing with my name?
Regular web searches have similar results.
On the bright side(?), if someone comes looking for me, they’re way more likely to find the others first, so it might well be in my interests to never change my name, even if I got the urge to do it.
* or am I?
I already share a name with a fairly famous (although now deceased) comedian so I doubt it.
Did that comedian commit a heinous crime?
Don’t they all
I share an almost identical name with some right winged POS. But I think the people I run into aren’t going to confuse us.
Is your name Karlie Chirk?
Much less known thankfully.
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Hell, there’s a famous singer with my whole name, and I won’t even give up music. Why the hell would I change my name over something someone else did?
I guess it depends how common your last name is where you live. If you’re a Smith/Johnson/Brown/Williams in the USA, those are pretty common. If you’ve got one of those names in China, maybe a name change is in order.
If your last name is Summerbell, that’s a bit rare, and maybe you need to distance yourself.
It depends on one’s name, because said name happened to make people infer one’s ethnicity. It’s more of an ethnicity thing if you think about it. For Khazars (I’m a crypto Khazar, so I’m convinced), we change our name to hide the fact we’re Khazars, because we’re wannabe Caucus Eurpoeans, but we come from Turkey originally (and eastern Europe as the Khazars).
Nah, Ford is straight up overly common.
It’s nicely inconspicuous.
