Different Chinese and English last name

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Recommend you check out this guide I made a few years ago:

Guide: How to register a 'real' English name for your Taiwanese child

Today I registered my Taiwanese daughters English name, not using a transliteration of her Chinese name, but using a ‘real’ English name. The English surname I registered is also different to the Chinese surname. The Chinese surname matches my wife’s surname, and the English surname matches mine. I hope that in this post I can explain how I did it, as many parents have posted that they were not allowed to do it or met resistance. As far as I know, there are two ways to register an official Engl…