Some of the factors that might arise when a person wants to change their name into a Muslim name after converting to Islam

When someone converts or is converting to Islam, there might be some difficulties in choosing a different name from their own, to a "Muslim name". This might not apply for all and might be already obvious that these 'problems' can maybe occur when wanting to change a name but anyway I will still list them of what I think can be a challenge for some, etc.

1) Generation - If someone was named, lets say after their grandfather, then that could make the parents not be pleased for their child to change their name, since it may hold some importance to it and to them (the parents), and also since it was passed down from a generation or maybe it could be more than a one generation which could make it seem more important and perhaps definitely not a good idea to change it, since it was passed down from a 'huge' line of granddads and/or grandmamas. So if it is a tradition even to be named after one's generation, then that might make the parent be even less happier to see their own baby change their name to a Muslim name after they have converted to Islam. And finally it could be a culture reason to not wanting one's baby to change their name.

2) When a person has converted to Islam or is converting they might want to keep their original birth name, since they were called by that very name for their whole life. They might want to keep it because not only it created an 'image' for them, from their family, relatives, friends, etc but it is also obviously got programmed in their head to react and respond quickly after being called by their own name. This might take some time for one to get used to it and for the others to remember to call that person with their new name and not their old one. Also if they have it written down like virtually or written down on a certificate or something like maybe from school or something or whatever else, then that might take some time to change the name on those documents, etc. So this might kind of feel like moving or something; it just going to take 'some' time to settle down or to get to used to it.

Allright so there you go and hopefully the things that I mentioned weren't too obvious but it probably was, so in that case forget what I just said :). Now before I end this I just want to say that it's not mandatory for one to change their name when converting to Islam. They may keep it if the name has a meaning and if it's a good proper one. Also if that was the reason why one received that name then it may be kept. But if it contains a bad/improper meaning then it be must changed. If you want to know more about if you should change your name or not when converting to Islam, then please check out this topic on my site if you would like. It's, 'Do converts to Islam have to change their name?'.This post kind of states a little info from this topic, except with some more different info about it and there's also quotations from the hadith regarding about names.