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Sharing a name with a celebrity
My friend is ftm and wants to use a celebrities name as their new name with a unisex spelling. They don't like any other names what should they do
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They just want a celebrity name? No matter who it is as long as it’s unisex?Unless you mean a specific celebrity. I think it’s fine as long as it’s common not to be associated exclusively with the celebrity.
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Its common name ranked 904 on nameberry
and the spelling my friend is using is the diminutive which is also commonly used 
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I don’t see the problem then. A lot of people have thr same given name as celebrities.
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I mean it really depends. If it's, like, Taylor Swift, there's a lot of Taylors out there. If it's Beyonce, there's only one Beyonce, and I wouldn't recommend it. But there's a lot of celebrities out there, and most of them have normal names. Nothing wrong with using them as inspiration.
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The first name is very common like Charlie,Taylor ashley and they'll have a different surname to the celebrity
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then what could possibly be the problem?
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Hard to say without a clue as to what name it is, and whether your friend is using both first and last name.
NEVER intentionally use the same first and last name of a celebrity; you'll either look woefully ignorant or really pathetically imitating. Bad enough for people who were named their names before a celebrity with that name came to be well-known.
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Only first name will be used
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What celebrity?
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Any advise for them and has anyone else named themself after a singer/actor/video game character etc
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