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If a serial killer or suspected serial killer shares your exact name, do you think you’d get yours legally changed? If not, why not?

EDIT: I’m not referring to you being mistaken for the serial killer or people assuming that you’d be capable of being a serial killer, I’m referring to the stigma having a notorious name, such as Adolf Hitler.
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Posted - March 13, 2021
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  • 13395
    I would not because everyone who knows me would be quite assured that I do not have the personality to even harm anybody.
      March 13, 2021 10:57 PM MST
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  • 53394

    I’m not referring to you being mistaken for the serial killer or people assuming that you’d be capable of being a serial killer, in referring to the stigma having a name such as Adolf Hitler. 

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      March 13, 2021 11:17 PM MST
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  • 13395
    In such a case I think I would make some significant change like Adolf Hitler to Alfred Hitchcock maybe.
    Or Joseph Stalin to John Steele..
      March 13, 2021 11:28 PM MST
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  • 53394

    Thank you. 

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      March 13, 2021 11:28 PM MST
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  • 16630
    Hitler's nephews made a pact between themselves not to have children, to ensure the name died out.
    If my name was Jeffrey Dahmer I'd probably change it - I'd spell Geoffrey right and change the surname to what autocorrect already thought I meant, Daimler.
      March 14, 2021 1:50 AM MST
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  • 23418

    I don't think I would.
      June 11, 2024 12:45 PM MDT
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