Or look around and name yourself after the very first thing you see. With any luck, your new name will be Two Dogs Fucking.
Here’s an anecdote I read somewhere (probably in Readers Digest): There was this [del]Oriental[/del] East Asian guy who came to America and became Sven Bjornssen.
It seems his native name (or combined native/English name) was Sam Ting.
So, at the port of entry when the immigration officer asked him his name, he said Sam Ting. So the officer just wrote down the same name as the man just ahead of him, and that was Sven Bjornssen.
Hmmm. Alexander Shepard. I’ve always liked Alexander/Alexandra, enough that I tend to name a lot of my nameable video game characters that. And Shepard is fairly close to the meaning of my real name. Also, “Alexander Shepard” doesn’t stand out too much. The fact that I really liked the original Mass Effect probably has something to do with it, too…
I always wanted to change my name to Hugh Bastard (pronounced Buh-STAHRD) so I could get all kinds of free stuff when I acted insulted and outraged at someone’s mispronunciation.
I think it would depend on how old I was and what I might want to do. For example, if I had dreams of being an ESPN anchor, it would probably help if my name was David Silvergoldbergstein.
