Don’t do this yourself. Have a local friend help you out. Otherwise you’ll probably end up with the equivalent of Taiwanese English names like Nimrod or Bagel.
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As teacherfei mentioned above, please get a native speaker to help you with that. Depending on a website can lead to ludicrous and insulting results.
Edit: Yeah, what Dr. Milker said 
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Nimrod would be cool - two of my sons have middle names including Merlin and Oberon
OK, man…you’re on your own.
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There’s a thread on crazy English names that Chinese speakers have chosen for themselves. The strangest in my experience was a student I had named Messiah 
Depends if you like stuff such as the Hobbit or King Arthur, haha. But I get the point about unintended meanings if it’s not your native tongue, it’s wise to check.
I knew a biology professor named Amoeba…
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Oh my god. This all day. My signature looks different every time, life was hell until I got a chop.
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There is a process to replace/change it. Happens to Taiwanese people all the time.
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Would naming yourself Confucious offend anyone?
Oh, and when you do get the chop carved, make sure to have it done in 篆書 (zhuànshū) script. They sometimes assume a foreigner will want one in a more standard script that’s easier to read, but 篆書 is much more stylish.
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You need someone qualified to do that, needs right amount of strokes, good sound, right characters to bring you luck and be wow’d by locals, Oh, good name!
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孔 is a valid but not super common Chinese family name today. In fact, I chose it as my Chinese surname because it sounds like part of my English family name, but more importantly it only has four strokes! And by the way, I get a lot of compliments on my Chinese name (which locals helped me choose)
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And here I assumed seal script would look pretentious so I went with a boring plain style 
Rookie mistake… 
Yikes!
Maybe there is an exception for Confucious? Normal superstitions are void.
On the other hand, I would love a foreigner to call themselves 444. That would be totally sick.
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Yes but you can use a different chop for each thing. A separate chop for bank and different one for another purpose or general purpose.
尼姆羅德 has a nice ring to it
You’re on your own too. 