Changing my name by UK deed poll

Jamez · Sat 09 Jul, 2005 02.09

gdfgd

johnnyboy · Sat 09 Jul, 2005 02.17

It's got to be James Mercury.

I feel about the old Fredster the way you do. And somehow it suits you (in a non-gay way).

Pete · Sat 09 Jul, 2005 09.37

James Martin

alowerevil · Sat 09 Jul, 2005 11.49

James Lowe (J.Lowe - 'J-Lo')

Hohoho.

DJGM · Sat 09 Jul, 2005 12.19

How about "James Wilberforce" . . . ?

Nick Harvey · Sat 09 Jul, 2005 12.46

Use a name that people will get correctly the first time you say it. I get called Mick, Dick or even Rick if I say mine too quickly.

Try a name over a bad phone line to people and make sure they don't come back with "pardon", or "how do you spell that". If you're going to use it on radio, that's even more important as your listeners won't have the opportunity to say "pardon".

Don't use anything with multiple spellings, like Davies, or you'll spend the rest of your life correcting correspondence.

And, as you've found with "sprout", nothing people can extract the urine out of. Can't think of any problems with Mercury, except I always shorten it to "hg".

Jamez · Sat 09 Jul, 2005 12.56

I remember there was a news story a few years ago about a man who changed his name to 'Legoland Windsor'. He then registered a domain with his name, and was promptly sued by the theme park!

Bail · Sat 09 Jul, 2005 13.01

Nick Harvey wrote:Use a name that people will get correctly the first time you say it..

How many ways are there of spelling or saying God?

As for names, I'd love to change my first name. James's really are everywhere theres about 6/7 on here and TVF alone, and everyone I know always oversays the S at the end. Jamesssss. Most annoying. That why I always use my second name, on here and in life.

Mercury is a very good name but I'm not sure how well it goes with James.. Why not change both? Obviously not to Freddy but something that goes well with it?

Brad · Sat 09 Jul, 2005 13.07

Theplanet Mercury?

Or how about... Dave Gorman?

Jamez · Sat 09 Jul, 2005 13.12

I like being called James.

At least it's not a common chav name like Lee, Dave, Tony etc., also I don't think I would get used to being called something else.

Nick Harvey · Sat 09 Jul, 2005 13.26

It's interesting that about twenty years ago, everyone who's birth certificate said James was insisting on being called Jim.

Now most of the Jims have gone back to using the full version.