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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/record-numbers-in-name-change-move.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="People have swapped their names to bizarre ones including Her Majesty The Queen" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-record-numbers-in-name-change-move.jpg" alt="People have swapped their names to bizarre ones including Her Majesty The Queen"/></a></p>
<p>A record number of people changed their name by deed poll this year &#8211; some to bizarre ones including Her Majesty The Queen, Willy Wonka and Miss Jelly St Tots.</p>
<p>More than 90,000 people swapped their name in 2010, an increase of 80%, figures from the Legal Deed Poll Service revealed.</p>
<p>Among them was David Lennox, 29, an NHS call operator from Aberdeen, who became Her Majesty The Queen after launching an online poll to find a new name to raise funds for the Association for International Cancer Research.</p>
<p>Jelly Tot fanatic Jane Nash from Manchester is now Miss Jelly St Tots after a friend bought her the new name for her 40th birthday.</p>
<p>John Denton, 33, from Lowestoft in Suffolk, has become Willy Wonka to collect £5,000 for Cancer Research, after his mother died from liver cancer in 2003.</p>
<p>Football mad Jack Crookes from Liverpool changed his name to Jack James Steven Gerrard Crookes as a 16th birthday present from his mother.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;I love it. It&#8217;s the best present I have ever had. He&#8217;s an inspiration to me, I love having my hero in my name.&#8221;</p>
<p>Papy Elungu, 33, from Chingford, north-east London, changed his name to Michael Jackson after people began saying he resembled the King of Pop.</p>
<p>A spokeswoman for the Legal Deed Poll Service said: &#8220;While many sought to make the alteration due to divorce, boredom or to bring a bit of cheer to their lives, others said that they just fancied a change.&#8221;</p>
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