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Question:I was thinking of changing my surname (for personal reasons - not for fun). How do i go about it? Is it worth it?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I was thinking of changing my surname (for personal reasons - not for fun). How do i go about it? Is it worth it?

call the courthouse and (at least here) for a fee they will send you the forms, then all you do is fill in the information and send the fee and set up an appointment with them to come to the court. You will swear that you aren't changing your name to get out of paying bills or with regard to a crime, etc. and it will be approved just that quickly. Then you will get a form in the mail that you send off to the bureau of vital statistics to change the name on their records with regard to your birth.

Then you get to change you name on all your important paperwork like drivers license, postal address, social security, at work, on your degree, checking, credit cards, etc.

Is it worth it? you mean is it worth the money? well money is just money, but if you mean worth it changing for business purposes, well if you have a strange spelling of your surname or if it's difficult to remember and you feel you need a memorable name then sure, you can change it. You will confuse half the world and it will take them about ten years to catch up with your new name, and you will lose friends, and some old friends and family will refuse to call you by anything but your old name, and your former and future employers will be confused by your old letters of reference, and some old employers will even refuse to acknowledge it was you who worked for them...but hey, do what you want.

Most women change their names when they marry. And, when you marry the both of you could change both your surnames or even first names if you want to. So people do change surnames all the time. Just be sure it fits you.

Well, I know in some cases people usually change their surnames to the step-fathers last name, because they are close.
But personally, (and i don't know your situation), I wouldn't change my surname. Whether I had personal problems or not, my surname belongs to me, and is making me the person who I am today. And in the future, if your children want to do a family tree, it will get harder to trace. Just my thoughts though. But you usually you would go to court and talk to someone in charge of that. And depending if it's worth it or not. Nobody can answer that except you.. You need to make the decision. Hope this helps :)

You fill out paperwork then have to go to court to make it official

See the county clerk in the county where you live, complete and submit the forms. Probably anywhere from 100 - 300 dollars at the most.

If you have / expect to have willed to you a lot of money, then run your situation by a probate lawyer, just to be safe

I live in California and changed my name. It required the paperwork and fees to petition the court, along with running a public notice in the newspaper for 4 weeks. This step had to be completed, and proof had to be shown to the court that this public notice had been placed. All in all, it only took 4 or 5 weeks and approximately $300.00. That included the cost of running the public notice.

Just contact your county's courthouse to get the proper forms, steps to follow and current fees.

Is it worth it? Well, that's up for you to decide. For me, it has been.

You would need to go to births deaths and marrages

This touches on an esoteric side of life not commonly understood by many in the Western hemisphere. However, if you wish to do so, then do so. Do nothing with fear or with guilt. 'That' 'is' important. That's all. But! Bear in mind that names are no willy-nilly thing and are nothing to trifle: names carry definite energy frequencies and are like key signatures to chords of music.

As certain refrains and chords are pleasing or disturbing when listened to, so names can import the selfsame affects. For words like names are little if not packed with energies. Names can offend, names can charm. See what I am saying?

When you change this, you do change an integral thing that you may not quite at first be able to put your finger on at the outset, except only insofar as it does affect the physicality that you presently take for granted in day-to-day life, some of which one person above speaks to.

Marriage of course is a most simple demonstration.

A name is an assignment from birth that resonates with the person given the name and is not non-circumstantial to the experiences and events of that person, say, it is as a prescription of sorts, see?

Think about it... Why do you think that some children are accorded nicknames? What is there that prompts this but one 'feels' something about that person. More curiously, 'ever notice that the nickname given somehow 'fits' the person?

This is not coincidental.

There is somewhat both organic and otherwise to why a newborn is assigned a certain name, in particular the child's first and middle names, whereas the surname has more to do with physicality; however, the surname does carry strongly the karmic frequencies that that newborn has now to work with, which may or may not appear as something over which he or she has control.

There exists nothing innately dissonant in doing a name change, nothing negative or positive in itself but does accord definite and different energies thereafter. The least that you will become is a good administrator, amending all databases and archives on yourself. Curiously, 'that' is an energy in and of itself and gives some idea or presents an echo, say, of just what is being made and brought to bear by the transition or bridge from one frequency to the other.

For in life, any one thing has its call and response.

So -- do as you see fit. Be prepared for the subtle changes that ensue within you and then have fun. That's all.