Long ago I knew a person named Gregg. He constantly had to correct peoples' spelling of his name.
Why would parents burden their kid like this?
More importantly, why don't adults give up names that clearly put them at an economic disadvantage? The same reason people don't sell houses when they are almost always a bad investment; pride, sunk-costs, sentimentalism or other reasons for their subjectivity.
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As an orphan that has wanted a last name change-- it's mostly because I am afraid of being locked out of my google account. Haven't I suffered enough?
Google has a surprising plethora of functioning, non-buggy tools for migrating an account's data to a different account. Do some research about what can't be migrated and make the change for everything else.
I'm a Collin with two l's. Not as uncommon as Gregg but it's never been a burden. I also don't bother correcting people unless it's happening a lot with the same person and someone I expect to interact with a lot.
When you order Starbucks and say your name is “Gregg with three gs”, does the barista write something wild like “grgeg”?
Why would any parent name their child water with an extra L?
Nobody has ever misspelled my first name. They never misspelled the last one before "lite" beer appeared.
It really shouldnt be a problem, and in the case of simple corrections, it isnt.
I think it does become a problem where formal systems are inflexible and unable to accommodate or be corrected.