If I search for "Glenn Arthur", hits for an artist in California come up first. (Six or seven years ago it was more of a mix., IIRC.) Searching for the version I've been using in copyright notices, "D. Glenn Arthur Jr.", gets four pages that are all by me, quoting me, mentioning me, or linking to me (though for some reason www.ziggy.ai thinks that I am a five million dollar company with twelve employees ... WTF?!) followed by a short page that includes a couple of Dutch pages that don't even seem to have my name in them but matched according to Google anyhow for some reason. Searching for "dglenn" gets mostly people with a first or middle initial 'D' and the surname Glenn, but I do show up once in the first page of hits (plus image thumbnails).
My SCA name is Arthur d'Glenn -- I'm thinking of keeping the d'Glenn part of that (though maybe regularizing it to "de Glenn" or even translating it to "du Val", because d-apostrophe-consonant isn't a natural pattern in any languages I'm familiar with). That way folks at Pennsic who hail me as d'Glenn/de Glenn won't exactly be wrong (only a handful of folks there address me as Arthur currently). That runs back into the "make it easy to cover when people forget, or make a bigger difference to remind folks something has changed?" question ... but with kinda different stakes than my mundane name.
(It also did occur to me that if I'm changing the rest of my name, I could change my surname at the same time. I can see pros and cons to that, two of the cons being changing a tie to my siblings & paternal kin, and making it even harder for folks who've fallen long out to touch to find me again.)
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My SCA name is Arthur d'Glenn -- I'm thinking of keeping the d'Glenn part of that (though maybe regularizing it to "de Glenn" or even translating it to "du Val", because d-apostrophe-consonant isn't a natural pattern in any languages I'm familiar with). That way folks at Pennsic who hail me as d'Glenn/de Glenn won't exactly be wrong (only a handful of folks there address me as Arthur currently). That runs back into the "make it easy to cover when people forget, or make a bigger difference to remind folks something has changed?" question ... but with kinda different stakes than my mundane name.
(It also did occur to me that if I'm changing the rest of my name, I could change my surname at the same time. I can see pros and cons to that, two of the cons being changing a tie to my siblings & paternal kin, and making it even harder for folks who've fallen long out to touch to find me again.)