Name Help

Ok, if you want to do this properly, heres what you should do:

1. Setup website dedicated to project Name Change.
2. Choose charity of your choice to receive donations.
3. Allow nominations of names on website.
4. Whittle down list of nominations to top 10/20 based on votes.
5. Allow people to vote for your new name from the top 10/10 chosen….
in exchange for them making a tax deductible ($2 or more) donation to chosen charity.
6. Go on Radio, Net TV shows etc… milking your 15 minutes of fame.
7. Secretly change name again 5 years down the track after everyone has forgotten about all this to something you actually like, giving you plenty of time to figure that out.

You can mail me my 25% agents fee of any endorsements or payments you get from media etc… when they start coming in. 😛

You could use Maxine Power…

Peter File

+1 for McLovin

I-filed said :

Does anyone remember Sub Paragraph Three – the malcontent and litigious – but amusing – Treasury public servant in the 1970s? He had had a formal name change …

There was someone in an agency where I used to work whose last name (according to the internal phone book) was Abolishfamilycourtandchildsupport. Possibly experienced an unhappy divorce…

Clotworthy Skeffington

ok..so female names huh ?? Here is a selection I found 🙂

Amanda Lay
Norma Stitts
Barb Dwyer
Eileen Dover
Brandy D. Cantor
Carrie Oakey
Norma Leigh Lucid
Tanya Hyde

Yes pretty much. Have you considered Justene Credible?

Does anyone remember Sub Paragraph Three – the malcontent and litigious – but amusing – Treasury public servant in the 1970s? He had had a formal name change …

Well, you can’t change it to anything you want CharlieMaii. I thought my first post showed that.

A name being “Offensive”, or “bad” is one category that is not accepted.

However, could your chosen name really, really long or does it have symbols without phonetic significance in the English Language?

Does your chosen name include or resemble an official title or rank?

Could your chosen name be misleading because of similarity with the name of a body or organisation?

You also never know, your chosen name MAY be considered undesirable in the opinion of the Registrar-General. There isn’t much you can do about that. Is your chosen name Ms Fig Jam?

Has your chosen name been prohibited by regulations. I didn’t check to see any names that may have been prohibited. Did you?

Once you are happy that none of the above apply to your new name, THEN you can change it to that which you have chosen.

🙂

…the best name anyone can have is their so-called porn-star name…you can call me Snowball Meteor…the name os my first pet and the name of the street I grew up in…hehehe…

Well as Max Power didn’t suit, how about Hooty McBoob, Chesty LeRou or Busty St Clair

Poppy Isabelle Staker, then.

Mordd said :

Go for Max Power!

Hee hee – beat me to it.

Go out to the ACT govt building in Fyshwick, you can do it there. I understand you can change it to whatever you want as olong as it’s not profane or fraudulent.

Haha, thanks guys, all the suggestions for new name would be great, if in fact I was male… I’m a girl haha 🙂

I am simply changing my name because I don’t like what it is now. No other reason than that.

So I can change it to anything I want? Mind you, the name I have chosen isn’t bad, or offensive or anything like that.

whiskas? not entirely novel, but you could go for the record – more than a week…

McLovin

I’m pretty sure you can’t legally change your name to Ned Kelly or Jesus Christ.

one word… McLovin

Go for Max Power!

How about Peter Ian Staker?

hmmmm I wonder if ‘Hugh G. Rexshun’ has been taken yet.

They once let some shonk change his name to ‘licensed Westinghouse agent’ or some such, so the rules must be fairly relaxed. I don’t think you can have swear words.

Imagine changing your name to Bill Posters.

You’d walk around town and feel persecuted all day, with all the signs saying Bill Posters will be prosecuted.

Mr I. Am’Awesome

Interesting that they also provide a service for the illiterate if they spell their child’s name incorrectly when registering the birth lol

http://www.ors.act.gov.au/bdm/WebPages/bdm2.html

I think the best thing for you would be to change it to Handsome B. Wonderful.

You make me wonder what you are considering changing your name to when you ask such questions.

However, the Births Deaths and marriages Website gives links to the relevant legislation.

The Births Death and Marriages Act states at section 20:

20 Registration of change of name
(1) The registrar-general must register a change of name.
(2) However, the registrar-general must not register a change of name unless satisfied—
(a) of the identity and age of the person whose name is to be changed; and
(b) that the change is not sought for a fraudulent or other improper purpose; and
(c) if the application is under section 19 and relates to a child who is at least 14 years old—that the child consents to the change of name or cannot understand the meaning or implications of the change of name.
(3) Also, the registrar-general may require the applicant to provide any evidence that is necessary to satisfy the registrar-general—
(a) that any particular or information set out in the application is correct; or
(b) of any matter mentioned in subsection (2).
(4) The registrar-general must register a change of name if satisfied that the name of a person whose birth is registered in the ACT has been changed under a law of the Commonwealth or a corresponding law or by order of any court in Australia.
(5) Subject to subsection (4) and section 19 (3), the registrar-general must not register a change of name if, as a result of the change, the name would become a prohibited name.

Now a Prohibited name is defined as follows:

prohibited name means a name that—
(a) is obscene or offensive; or
(b) could not practically be established by repute or usage—
(i) because it is too long; or
(ii) because it consists of or includes symbols without phonetic significance in the English language; or
(iii) for any other reason; or
(c) includes or resembles an official title or rank; or
(d) is misleading because of similarity with the name of a body or organisation; or
(e) is, in the registrar-general’s opinion, undesirable; or
(f) is prohibited by regulation.

Meet that criteria and you should be allowed to go as your new identity.