So, when I got married I changed my last name mostly because Mr. Nay's surname is super simple and my maiden name is a pain in the ass I had to always spell and nobody could pronounce, etc. At first I moved my maiden name to be my middle name, mostly because I was graduating from grad school, working on getting licensed, etc. and was advised this would make things smoother. I eventually dropped my maiden name and went back to my original middle name. This is what's on my US Passport.

When I voted in the primaries earlier this month, I noticed my registered name was the First Maiden Married, which does not match my passport. You know, the ID I'll need to present if the SAVE act is passed. So I went online and requested a change to my name on the voter rolls. This is the subtle shit a lot of people may miss should that stupid legislation be passed. If I didn't catch it, I would have rolled up in November and been turned away.

#USPol

Fun side note: Some people still can't spell the easy married name. But at least it's way fewer letters.

@tayfonay College friend went from being Stuckenschneider to Wang.

I will forever use her maiden as a test case in programming/data modeling though because she commented that the 80/90s standardized testing cut her name off as the combined last first field on scantron docs was 20 characters.

@billinkc @tayfonay my test name is Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, a German politician.

@lizzard
My test name was Anna-maria van Janse van Rensburg. Most software fails with simple German and Dutch names like Maria van der Merwe or Wilhelm von Oppen, which should be handled as Maria vd Merwe, and Wilhelm von-Oppen. They almost always fail with my test name (which is a real person)

@billinkc @tayfonay

@screwturn @billinkc @tayfonay oh, those are great, too. Then we need some Spanish examples. Pablo Picasso's full name is

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano María Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso

;-)