So, your name is a brand of which your parents thought of you before you were born. If they do not live up to shaping you into that brand value/promise that you ought to be, that's when it becomes meaningless.
As for your surname, wow! I do have my own story that somehow relates with yours so for this reason, I truly can resonate with your intentions to change it.
The idea of taking your husband's surname indicates your commitment to starting a new life with a new man that isn't your father, but the idea of changing your own surname indicates your discomfort with your present upbringing. But this brings the question....if you intend to one day get married, how many times do you want to change your name? 🤔
It's my Igbo name 'Uchechukwu' that is that brand they taught of me, I think for my mum who named me Eunice, it's just the sound of it or something not deep.
My Daddy named me "Uchechukwu". As a way of expressing his disappointed, yet faith & dependency on God. They thought I was gonna be a boy, but then....
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I will like to hear your story sometime.
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Then, I'm done with changing my name. I've always expressed how I wouldn't change or alter my name especially on the basis of marriage.
I genuinely don't find it meaningful or even sensible. I don't think it strengthens relationship (or does not). And commitment is of the heart (also actions? and reveals with time, and not changing of names — I think.
Besides, I don't answer "Okoye" because it's my father's name. As a fact, it's my grandfather's.
In my house of six siblings including me, we're only two children bearing "Okoye". My two brothers bear different surnames. (My elder brother bears all of his own names only and my younger brother bears my Dad's actual name as a surname). I answer Okoye as my name now — as a name that shows off my roots which I feel connected to, and I'm also very proud of.
So altering or merging names, I don't like.
And I don't find it as a thing of pride as some people do.
Nicholas, from the greek words Nika (Victory) and Laos, meaning "Victory of the People", or even "People of victory". Kircher is an old German name, comes from the Middle High German word Kirchner meaning something like "Minister". Kirche is the modern German word for Church, so it is something kind of like "Church attendant".
So, all of this is to mean that my name is: VICTORY OF THE PEOPLE'S CHURCH ATTENDANT!
So, your name is a brand of which your parents thought of you before you were born. If they do not live up to shaping you into that brand value/promise that you ought to be, that's when it becomes meaningless.
As for your surname, wow! I do have my own story that somehow relates with yours so for this reason, I truly can resonate with your intentions to change it.
The idea of taking your husband's surname indicates your commitment to starting a new life with a new man that isn't your father, but the idea of changing your own surname indicates your discomfort with your present upbringing. But this brings the question....if you intend to one day get married, how many times do you want to change your name? 🤔
It's my Igbo name 'Uchechukwu' that is that brand they taught of me, I think for my mum who named me Eunice, it's just the sound of it or something not deep.
My Daddy named me "Uchechukwu". As a way of expressing his disappointed, yet faith & dependency on God. They thought I was gonna be a boy, but then....
**
I will like to hear your story sometime.
***
Then, I'm done with changing my name. I've always expressed how I wouldn't change or alter my name especially on the basis of marriage.
I genuinely don't find it meaningful or even sensible. I don't think it strengthens relationship (or does not). And commitment is of the heart (also actions? and reveals with time, and not changing of names — I think.
Besides, I don't answer "Okoye" because it's my father's name. As a fact, it's my grandfather's.
In my house of six siblings including me, we're only two children bearing "Okoye". My two brothers bear different surnames. (My elder brother bears all of his own names only and my younger brother bears my Dad's actual name as a surname). I answer Okoye as my name now — as a name that shows off my roots which I feel connected to, and I'm also very proud of.
So altering or merging names, I don't like.
And I don't find it as a thing of pride as some people do.
Nicholas, from the greek words Nika (Victory) and Laos, meaning "Victory of the People", or even "People of victory". Kircher is an old German name, comes from the Middle High German word Kirchner meaning something like "Minister". Kirche is the modern German word for Church, so it is something kind of like "Church attendant".
So, all of this is to mean that my name is: VICTORY OF THE PEOPLE'S CHURCH ATTENDANT!
Or something :)
Wow, so your name makes a sentence? I like how you put it like that. That's interesting 😃