<Li> to receive an inheritance conditional on adopting the name of the deceased (this reason was once quite common in landowning families in the UK) </Li> <Li> to replace a frivolous name given by their parents (e.g., old name Mikey Maus, new name Marcus Maus) </Li> <Li> to replace a name which might be considered undesirable with a more desirable one (e.g. old last name Lipschitz, new last name London) </Li> <Li> to dissociate oneself from a former religion (e.g., Ahmed Abdullah to Adel Karim) </Li>

When are you legally allowed to change your name