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We have friends who just finalized their adoption about a month ago. They had all 3 boys for almost 2 years (maybe the 2 older boys longer than that even). They changed all of their names completely. They are 2, 3 (almost 4), & 5. The older boys wanted their names changed & even the 2 year old began responding to his new name in just a couple of days. I think everyone has been very positive about it so far. It is difficult to remember to call them by the new names sometimes just because I'm used to calling them the old name, but it doesn't take too long to change over in your mind.
We were going to change our daughter's name had we finalized the adoption....mainly because her name is so odd that I am always getting weird looks like "how could you name her that?" (I think esp. because I am Caucasian & she is AA & they think I did it to be really different or something, esp. when they hear all 4 of her names).
Hope that helps :-)
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