AITA for changing my name? my parents named me Qur'stylle (Chrystal)?

A friend got siblings in a foster placement and adopted them a few years later. Both of them had names with a lot of extra letters. Take the name "Briana" and add as many letters as you can to it. Hint: you're going to need a g and two hs along with the obvious extra n. When the adoption went through, my friend scrubbed the g and both hs, and eventually, her daughter asked to go by her more traditional middle name. She has since legally dropped her first name. I would never admit this to my friend, but my partner and I still refer to her daughter as "Brig Hannah" (in private) because that is what the original name looked like.

All this to say the birth mom was born in the late 80s or early 1990s, and I don't think genexers deserve the credit or blame for horrible names. They're everywhere.

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