My divorce was officially finalized in January, but haven’t been able to decide what I will change my last name to. I haven’t seen my biological father since I was 11, so I want to stay away from the maiden name. Don’t have much contact with any family at all anymore. So the options are wide open. I want something unique, maybe even unusual. My first name is Nicole, for reference sake.
So what do you say, fellow Dopers? What should I change my name to?
Tupointoh
or
Ravenscroft (I always wished I had something like that)
I was thinking maybe something from Firefly… Reynolds…Frye…or gasp Book. How cool would that be?
I had a cousin in a similar situation. She chose “Starwalker.”
Schmicole
My sister changed hers, and I still don’t actually understand why. She wasn’t married and doesn’t hate us. She chose to adopt the last name of an author she’s fond of.
Awesome. Nicole Awesome.
Puddin’.
Jingleheimerschmidt. It’s my name, too.
Why make up your mind? Go with Nescio. 
Nicole Nicole (so good they named it twice 
)
Nicole Kidman (seize the website name!)
Nicole Scherzinger (get Lewis Hamilton as a boyfriend 
)
Nicole Elocin (easy to spell)
I don’t have a specific suggestion, but I think a two-syllable name with the accent on the second syllable would sound good. Like “Bourdain”, but not that, of course.
Miner. Wear a hard hat too.
I was going to make that joke!
Nicole N. Dimed ?
Nichols
Qwertyuiop
Ummm…what do you do for a job? Then we could put you in one of those threads about people who have the perfect last names for their occupations.
Nicole Bolas?
Oh, dammit, you took mine. >_>
I agree with LilyoftheValley - using your occupation is a good one, too.
Queen (for those times when you’re addressed by last name first, then first name - ‘Queen, Nicole!’).
Given how this is coming up, the word for ‘free’ or ‘freedom’ in some language. (I like the German Frei. You can change this to ‘Fry’ to avoid misspelling/pronunciation, and make the derivation less obvious, if you wish.)
Power. Gotta be Nicole Power.
[Fish Called Wanda]
Otto: Look, you obviously don’t know anything about intelligence work, lady. It’s an X-K-Red-27 technique.
Wendy: My father was in the Secret Service, Mr. Manfredjinsinjin, and I know perfectly well that you don’t keep the general public informed when you are “debriefing KGB defectors in a safe house.”
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