Did you take your husband's name?

Yes i did take my husbands name, because its traditional i suppose, it is the same name as a girls first name, so i often get called my last name instead of my first, which kinda annoys me,but that is how it is lol. :)

Kept the name I was given at birth. Didn't see any reason the person I had been for over 40 years should stop existing....

It can be a hassle but it was important to me....(always fun when my husband is called Mr. Sara!)

I always figured i'd keep mine. No man is worth changing your idientity for. (I could only ever understand hyphinating last names, but not one person entirely throwing theirs away. I see it as coming from a time when women were nothing more than property.)

As much as my last name can be a drag sometimes, it has its benefits.

Both of our last names aren't our real last names. Our heritages had their difficut times and the names were forced upon our ancestors. I told him that if he ever chose to take his real grandfather's last name i'd chage to it too. It's a proud and noble name that I'd be proud to carry. It would be nice to have a "Real" last name for once.

Thanks for explaining that. I always asked the kids at my school about that, but they had no idea. They just went with it.

Now i know!

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Originally Posted by Husky_mom

I could be placed as other also cause we have a different system here....

for example my last name is Garcia, but i also have my mothers last name so im Isabel Garcia Valdes............but i refer to myself as only Isabel Garcia for shortness.......when you get married all your documents still have your name as its YOUR name, but you can add a like "de" which is like "of" (in english).........for example my mom is Isabel Valdes but she married to a Garcia and she changed it to Isabel Valdes DE Garcia, but still her things are in her own both maiden last names............so she can only call herself Garcia but still not be..........:P

so even if I could refer my self with a DE and then my husbands last name.......I just though it would not be me........i mean I am me and a last name won´t change me, but i´d feel awkward...........not that i don´t like his last name but still I want to still be me............LOL

Just another thing in the example of a person, let´s say kid, that takes his mother last name then it´s like if he has no father or is his mother brother........a bit different than most would think

hope i made sense

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I took my husbands name and was so keen to do so when I signed the register I signed it as Josephine S instead of Josephine L as was required that really sent the registrar into a tissy altogether.... lol... what a joke that has become in my year and half marriage but his sister-in-law who got married this year did the same thing its kind of funny.


We are both kind of traditional in that way. I am proud to be married and even in taking his name I have still retained my independence and personality that does not change just because you get married and change your name

I took my husband's name. Went from Smith to Miller. I think if I had a more unique maiden name, I'd of kept it or hyphanated. :)