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He hates his last name. Absolutely hates it. Not in the sense that he thinks it's a bad name, more that he doesn't want any association with it. He knows that, for Jedi, his situation was strange, and hints at a not-great home life. He’s not interested in knowing any more than that. As far as he’s concerned, the Jedi are the only family he’s ever had or needed - the Order took him in, took care of him, taught him everything he knows. He loves them.
He stops using his surname pretty young - I’d say not too long before the Clone Wars kick off. He’s more ambivalent to his middle name, but ditches it, too, since he felt it’d be odd to keep just that. He files datawork to get his name legally changed when he’s sixteen years old, but virtually nobody would know his last name by that point anyway. Just a handful of masters and temple staff that would’ve known him when he was very young. He tends to introduce himself as simply ‘Braig’ (‘just Braig’, if you ask), or Padawan Braig if you want more. He’ll respond to his first name, Padawan, Commander, Sir, Jedi, et cetera, just fine, but it can take him a moment to respond if you call him by his last name. It’s not him being rude - he just doesn’t see it as ‘him’ anymore. Of course, he still knows that’s his name, which made it very awkward when he did finally meet his biological father, who’s an Admiral in the Republic (and later the Imperial) navy. Braig would’ve had a solid hunch that was his father, though he wouldn’t confirm it. Obi-Wan could probably come to the same conclusion. Eadric (Braig’s father) knew even without hearing the last name, because the first name and approximate age matched, and Braig is the spitting image of his mother. The men - who have only the barest concept of ‘parenthood’ to begin with - had no idea why their usually bright, outgoing Commander got so quiet and stuck so close to the General that mission. It’s generally agreed he must’ve been sick or something.