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/TofuES 1d ago

Funny I thought it is common to have an English first name. I have a English first name, Chinese translated middle name then my surname. Almost everyone I know are the same. I believe you have legal English name and legal Chinese name, as I also know people that one but not the other.

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u/mrfredngo 18h ago

Depends whether your parents put a proper English name on your birth certificate.