Name Change Thoughts

[krysemlyn]

In light of recent events in both my life and my friends’ lives, I’m thinking of changing my name. I’ve gotten attached to the name of Krys Emlyn. This is not something I’m thinking of doing on a whim. I’ve spent the last few months thinking about it, and seeing a friend’s child getting their name legally changed has rekindled the thoughts about doing so for myself.

The name of Krys Emlyn was once simply just a character name for a role-playing game years ago, but I really like the sound of it when I’ve had people speak it. One part of the name changing process that I have been getting hung up on is which of the 3 parts of my name would get replaced. Originally, I was thinking of replacing my actual first and last names with Krys Emlyn and then replacing my middle name with my birth first name. After all, some people go by their middle name as their first name.

Then, I realized that would cause some issues in regards to legally showing I’m still part of my parents’ family for things such as insurance policies. So, I’m now considering just replacing my first and middle names with Krys Emlyn. I also considered hyphenating my last name to be Emlyn-(current last name), but that just looked odd to me.

The final hang up with changing my name is I’m afraid of upsetting my dad with the change. The naming conventions from my dad’s side of the family has been that the middle name of the boys is the first name of their father. I would effectively be breaking this tradition, if I change my name. (I’m also not planning to have kids with my own DNA being involved for various medical reasons, namely damaged genes). I may wait until I move out first before going through with this so I can’t be disowned and thrown out of the house that I currently live in with my parents.

The only legal hurdles I’m aware of is finding a judge that will allow me to actually change my name and coming up with the roughly $300 in filing fees to actually do it. The state of Michigan is not as welcoming as Washington State when it comes to certain things.

(For those wondering how to pronounce the first name I want to go by, it sounds the same as saying Chris. I’m just abusing English spelling/pronunciation rules. K = Ch and Y is occasionally used in place of an I per English spelling/pronunciation rules. The other name sounds exactly as it looks.)