If you had to change your name what would you choose?

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Image you have to go into witness protection scheme or you are on the run from the police or you want to write a book about a walk but you have lots of debts.

You need a new full name for yourself and your family. What would you choose? Would you go with your middle name, a family name or completely made up?

I would go with Elinor Gray (totally made up) DH Stewart (family name and I’m not giving him a choice in this game).

I know an Emma Knight - she’s absolutely lovely.

Tallulah Sainsbury. Not too sure why, but that's what I'd pick.

Elizabeth Brigg
Elizabeth is the most used female name in my family tree and Brigg was a family name c1600.

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Clodagh Rubbish, Tess Tickles or Rudolf Hucker.

I’d be practical and go for a unisex name for an easier life.

Alex Du Bois

I’m female but I’d choose Noah
maybe Noah Mason .. I have no idea where the surname came from 😂

As an underage teenage pub drinker, I used to tell people my name was Shaznay McNallie 😂

Julia Fenella Darling

I’d go Estelle Farrington-De’Vere.

As I child my alter ego was Hayley Silver. If I ever run away from my life that is who I will become.

Did a name generator and got Shylah Washington.

I’d choose Eliza Donovan.

Alexandra Rose

Ophelia. Love the name so not practical. Or maybe Leah.

Not only a cool name, but a cool person. I just had to look her up. I may now promote the name, Clementina on the Baby name thread in her honour.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementina_Black

Sybil Smith

Anna Wolf. First name kind of similar to mine and surname common enough but cool. And I like wolves.

My name would Rowena or Cassandra, although these are quite distinctive so I go for something more mundane for witness protection - Patricia Turner ?

Some great names on this thread.

Dorcas Foster
Nosmo King

Emma Peel like in The Avengers

Isolde Merrin,
Kat Landers
Ellsbeth Nyborg

I would want to call myself Princess Consuela Bananahammock, but in a witness protection programme I’d call myself Paul Smith or Brian Cox or Taylor Swift - something commonish but a google search would throw up so many websites it would be impossible to find. I once knew a man called Thomas Jones. Impossible to find if you didn’t have an invitation!

Or you could go by a mononym, (word I only found out today)

Like:

Cher
Madonna
Prince

Or to be more literary:

Morrissey.

Kinsey Millhone.

Violet Bramble, Alice Drinkwater or Amber Darke.