For what it's worth, I don't recommend name changes. Obviously live your own life, but changing your name is a lasting inconvenience (ask any married western woman who made the mistake of saying "Yeah I'll take his name") and the rewards seem very thin.
Author's reasoning:
> A few years ago a hate group started using the "ulfheim" name for their own purposes. It's useless trying to reclaim a word, so I'm moving to the domain "http://xargs.org".
https://twitter.com/xargsnotbombs/status/1538227164599812096...
It bothered me that anyone wondering about the domain would likely do a search on the word and end up at the list of SPLC hate groups. My choice was to add a disclaimer to everything I publish or just change domain names. I went with the latter.
I’m sorry to hear the original name was hijacked by a hate group and you had to go out of your way to avoid such things.
> Almost everything I've done professionally is behind the wall of private intellectual property. It's an odd thing to spend decades doing work that you're proud of, but having nothing to show for it.