>Hi,
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>Just curious, when a family immigrates in the US or Canada or Argentina or whatever country, do they eventually alter the first name and surname. If so, why and how?
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>I'm asking this, because here in the Netherlands this is currently not the practice. The result is that a lot of immigrants have names that 'we' can hardly or not at all pronounce. A solution I see is that people alter their original name when they immigrate.

I find that kids change their names more often than adults. When I came to the USA, I decide to change my first name to David, I did it in a library first. I asked them to change it back to my original first name only one week later (I felt very uncomfortable being called a different name). And I never looked back at changing my name. When my brother and his family came to the USA, they immediately changed their kids first names, even though there weren't too difficult to pronounce. But I believe that some people should be required to change their names <g>, I have met many that even after they write it and spell it for me 5 times, I still can't pronounce it.