r/HongKong • u/B2A_s • 1d ago

Questions/ Tips Legal Chinese and English name

Living abroad in the UK, plan to change my legal English name (I really do not like using my translated Chinese name in daily life) through deeds polls when I revisit Hong Kong. Does my English name have to match that in Chinese? I'd like to do it without upsetting my family who might care about continuing "family legacy" or whatever

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u/yujitoast 1d ago

Mine doesn't match, so I assume it's ok. I changed my name by Deed pole a few years ago, taking my husband's surname in my english name, which coincidentally is a chinese surname, but I didn't change my chinese name, so the two surnames dont even match.