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Can You Change Your Legal Name to Just Have a First or Last Name if You Wanted To? (2017x2)
Air date: Jan 03, 2017
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Mononymous people, or people with a singular given name, were once the norm throughout much of the world, but are rare in modern times, particularly in the West. As such, most of our infrastructure is built to accommodate people with at least two names- invariably a first name and a surname with the occasional embarrassingly antiquated middle name in homage to some ancestor or other for good measure. Given this, what difficulties do people with only a singular given name face in a society so built to favour the duonymous and trinymous (which Google tells me aren’t actually words but I now officially declare such), and is there anything stopping polynymous people from having a name-change operation to become mononymous?
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Sources:
https://deedpolloffice.com/change-name/restrictions-on-names
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/home/2007-11-15-teller-at-home_N.htm
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31244/full-names-26-one-name-celebrities
http://www.nba.com/nuggets/news/nene_namechange_030806.html#
http://www.turning-japanese.info/2014/01/mononym.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Sukarno.aspx
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/student-record/name-change/
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-07-20/news/0207200422_1_cher-show-cherilyn-sarkisian-sonny-and-
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