At least a first name if family name is too much administrative hassle.

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    3 months ago

    Fun fact, you can use whatever names you want. All names are made up. Your “legal name” is just what the government calls you, but you can ask other people to call you something else entirely. The same goes with pronouns.

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      3 months ago

      A guy I used to work with went by the nickname of “Womble”, his name was actually Raymond.

      One day I was poking through work orders in our system and discovered that it also officially knew him as “Womble <last name>” and there was no sign of Raymond in there.

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        That’s the thing: if he went by Womble at work then that was his name. The fact that the government called him Raymond doesn’t make that his only name, they are both valid.