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What's in a name?

Name changing has long been a familiar practice among immigrants. There are many stories of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in the United States and either declaring Englishsounding names or officials giving them ones, for example.lenized his name into Domsalos by adding a Greek masculine ending.

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