The same rules apply for an adult changing their name: https://www.skra.is/english/people/names/name-changes/
As someone who spent half my life with a name I hated, to me this is more "human rights violation" than "fine".
As someone who spent half my life with a name I hated, to me this is more "human rights violation" than "fine".
It sounds like you can change your name, though? Your new name just has to be in the list. Are you saying you hate every name in the list?
You haven't made such a case here at all. Hence my question: do you actually hate every name on the list?
I know people with terrible, even abusive names. They do the same thing: find a cool nickname.
Is this something you can do?
I think the assumption here is that kids named “Aquamann” or “Adolf Hitler Campbell” are likely to hate their name, but people named “Guðmundur” (in Iceland) much less so. I’m curious what you think about that assumption.