A lot of immigrants changed their names when they got here in order to get work easier. My best friends father changed his name Guglielmo to Williams.
My father’s father a non Italian changed his name from a German name to an Americanized name.
The worst was when my soccer club changed their name from the Brooklyn Italians to the Brooklyn dodgers. Then we won another open cup and people still don’t know we won it under a different name.
