Kind of an awkward situation.

ChameleonRave

ChameleonRave

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Well, today I was checking my grades on campus portal etc. Well I noticed that my middle name was spelled wrong... Or at least that is what I thought... I have been always told that my middle name is "Kieran" meaning little dark one in Gaelic.. Well on my campus portal name it has "Zachery Kiernan Bublitz" and "Kiernan" meaning black.. Well, I went in to the office to get it corrected and they couldn't do it.. The name on my birth certificate was spelled wrong from what my mother told them when I was born.. 17 years ago. So I texted my mom to dig it out and they do have it wrong my original birth records.. So I have to save up who knows how much just to get my name corrected.. Cool.
 
ChameleonRave said:
Well, today I was checking my grades on campus portal etc. Well I noticed that my middle name was spelled wrong... Or at least that is what I thought... I have been always told that my middle name is "Kieran" meaning little dark one in Gaelic.. Well on my campus portal name it has "Zachery Kiernan Bublitz" and "Kiernan" meaning black.. Well, I went in to the office to get it corrected and they couldn't do it.. The name on my birth certificate was spelled wrong from what my mother told them when I was born.. 17 years ago. So I texted my mom to dig it out and they do have it wrong my original birth records.. So I have to save up who knows how much just to get my name corrected.. Cool.
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Both spellings have the same meaning regardless just different variations of the name.
 
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JackP308 said:
Both spellings have the same meaning regardless just different variations of the name.
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So. They spelled the name wrong and it should be changed. They did that same thing over in Wisconsin with my cousins name. Misspelled her name by one letter. If you where spelled wrong on your birth certificate, I'm sure you would want it changed.
 
ChameleonRave said:
So. They spelled the name wrong and it should be changed. They did that same thing over in Wisconsin with my cousins name. Misspelled her name by one letter. If you where spelled wrong on your birth certificate, I'm sure you would want it changed.
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Guess Im just confused on who made the spelling errors the school, your parents, you , the people that filled in your legal documents?
 
Wow, must be so strange to think that your name has been wrong all this time. That's nuts. I can't get my school to change my name regardless of what I tell them lol I don't have a spelling problem, but a cultural problem. I was born in Spain, and we get both of our parents' last names (not hyphenated), first your father's and then your mother's, but when it comes right down to it, you only use your father's.

Well, on my driver's and birth certificate I have both, obviously. But I only use my father's for simplicity's sake. So my university had me down on the registry as my first name and my mother's last name, and that bugged me a lot, but they would not change it. I didn't care if they had me down on file as my full name, but that's not the name I was going to go with in my classes so they were better off changing it. In they end they refused to, they just didn't get it.

Good luck getting it corrected!
 
Olimpia said:
Wow, must be so strange to think that your name has been wrong all this time. That's nuts. I can't get my school to change my name regardless of what I tell them lol I don't have a spelling problem, but a cultural problem. I was born in Spain, and we get both of our parents' last names (not hyphenated), first your father's and then your mother's, but when it comes right down to it, you only use your father's.

Well, on my driver's and birth certificate I have both, obviously. But I only use my father's for simplicity's sake. So my university had me down on the registry as my first name and my mother's last name, and that bugged me a lot, but they would not change it. I didn't care if they had me down on file as my full name, but that's not the name I was going to go with in my classes so they were better off changing it. In they end they refused to, they just didn't get it.

Good luck getting it corrected!
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Oh wow. I just walked into the office and asked to change it and they where going to then they couldn't. It's crazy. I wonder if this is how adopted children feel like? I might just correct it in September when I change my last name to McDonald after my mother's last name. Just so I don't have to go through the process twice. I'm going to do a bit of research but from what I've heard, it costs a lot of money. I just wasn't the right person I guess! I know of people that are Mexican heritage and they have a hyphenated last name of their father and mother.
 
If you look at my birth certificate and my driver's license or passport there is nothing _ and I mean nothing that matches. I just decided I didn't like my name so I decided to go be what you know me as laurie. I have never legally done anything to change it, but every document related to me reads laurie. Only my family would remember what I was called until I was 17.
 
laurie said:
If you look at my birth certificate and my driver's license or passport there is nothing _ and I mean nothing that matches. I just decided I didn't like my name so I decided to go be what you know me as laurie. I have never legally done anything to change it, but every document related to me reads laurie. Only my family would remember what I was called until I was 17.
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now im supperrrrr curious....whats your other name :p
 
laurie said:
If you look at my birth certificate and my driver's license or passport there is nothing _ and I mean nothing that matches. I just decided I didn't like my name so I decided to go be what you know me as laurie. I have never legally done anything to change it, but every document related to me reads laurie. Only my family would remember what I was called until I was 17.
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You now know who I am. Who are you? :p
 
I sure feel for you. I know a couple people this has happened with and they were never able to get it changed. I mean sometimes the people right it down wrong and then have the mother check to see if it is correct and they are on medications and busy with the baby and don't notice such small things.
I was adopted so I have different birthparent names... but I know who I am and I know who my parents are... they are the people the raised me. Your name might be different on paper but you know who you really are. Its a shock.. but you know who you are.
 
When I was born, I was named after my father..........so on my birth certificate I have a "Jr" after my name. NONE of my legal documents (drivers license, voters registration, social security number) have the Jr on them. It wasn't until my oldest daughter was born that on her birth certificate it had the Jr on the end of my name that I found this out. I was actually born in the same hospital and delivered by the same obgyn as my daughter was.

No mistake on any spelling.............but none-the-less.......none of my legal documents "match" my birth certificate. Go figure.........:confused:
 
The hospital not only spelled my sons first name wrong, they also put the wrong sex!
It was a simple matter of requesting a new birth certificate from the state with the correct info. The 2nd set still listed him as female :) so now I guess he is either metro or transgender, I gave up for now
 
I was supposed to be JohnPaul Wilkens, with no middle name, but in the drugged stupor following my c-section my mom didn't notice that they wrote it with Paul as my middle name. So now I've been fighting for years to get everyone to at least use my real name! The worst is with banks and university or ID's, I can never get them to put my full name, and they always asks me for a middle initial, and I'm like... I DON'T HAVE ONE! They say, well you said your name was John Paul, so P is your middle initial, and I'm like... Yes my name IS John Paul, so no, I don't have a middle initial!

So I feel your pain.
 
I'm not the only one! :D

My brother has two first names.. Jon Cody Patrick.. They made it seem as if he had two middle names..
 
I sort of understand. I was a love-child so my mother gave me her last name. They ended up getting married when I was about two so they started using his last name but legally it was still my mother's last name. Eventually when I started high-school I found out my last name was legally the same as my mothers when they refused to use my father's last name. They had been divorced for a while, but it was a shock. It was strange having to write a different name.

My cousin's ex-girlfriend had a similar but worse problem. Her mother named her Allison Elizabeth but they really screwed up her birth certificate. They spelled it Alison-Elizbeth. Crazy stuff.
 
When I got married, my last name changed....

Was that somehow a huge deal? Nope.

It's letters on a document, it's not who you are.
 
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