Basic Trope: Someone moves to another country and changes their name to one that's seen as normal in said country. The new name may or may not be related or similar to the old one.
- Straight:
- Alicia, born and raised in the Philippines, moves to the UK and changes her name to Alice.
- Hiroshi Wakamono moves from Japan to the USA and changes his name to Harry Young.
- Exaggerated:
- Carol moves to eight different countries throughout her life and changes her name every time.
- Hiroshi/Harry extends this trope to the rest of his family; His wife Ikue (neé Tamashiro) becomes Ivy (neé Thompson), his daughter Hikari becomes Hillary, his son Senko becomes Flash, etc.
- Downplayed: George keeps his name when moving to Italy, but allows people to nickname him Giorgio.
- Justified:
- They want to integrate into the culture of their new home country, and renaming felt like a good first step.
- The name is extremely difficult to pronounce in English, so it's changed to something easier for American tongues.
- Andrea changed his name to Andrew to avoid bullying because Andrea is a feminine name outside Italy.
- Hiroshi/Harry is trying to pass for American to avoid discrimination, and worries that his name could give him away.
- A trans person came out around the same time as they moved countries and decided to take the opportunity to change their name to reflect both their gender and their new home.
- Inverted: Alicia was born and raised in the UK, but renamed to Alice when moving to her parents' home country, the Philippines, thus having a foreign name at all times.
- Subverted: Alicia considered renaming, but chose not to.
- Double Subverted: Then she changed her name for real after living in the UK for two years, becoming Alice.
- Parodied:
- Bob moves to Mars, and changes his name to Both'khbrb'athkh, which he doesn't even know how to pronounce.
- Carol doesn't fully change her name but adds a new name every time she moves, and by the time she's lived in eight countries she has an Overly Long Name.
- Zig-Zagged: Dave moves to several countries throughout his life. Sometimes he renames, sometimes he doesn't.
- Averted:
- No one changes their name.
- No one moves countries.
- Enforced: It's a Dub Name Change caused by a Dub-Induced Plotline Change.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Andrés is questioning their gender, and uses the excuse of moving to Italy to rename to Andrea as a first step to explore themselves.
- Defied: A country forbids immigrants from changing their names because bureaucracy is already a mess as is, and they don't want to have even more work to do.
- Discussed: "Will you change your name when you leave the country?" "I'm not sure yet".
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Aaron sees a document from when Ashley was still living in France. While the full name on the document isn't shown, it can be seen that the given name's first letter is a C.
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: Günther calls his family back in France, who struggle to pronounce his new name every time.
- Played for Drama: Elizabeth Baker disowns her abusive family before moving to Mexico, and renames to Mariana Flores to symbolically sever ties with them and to make sure they won't be able to find her.
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