Maiden/Married name

[Fire14]

I dropped my Madian name took Dh last name . I couldn't wait to have my name changed so I could actually fit it in Nurse notes signature space.

 

[DD2Disney]

I too dropped my maiden name, kept my middle name and took DH name. I wish I would have known that I could have dropped my middle name (I have always disliked it). Oh well I very rarely use it.

 

[honeywolf7]

When I got married, I dropped my maiden name and took my (now ex) husband's last name and kept my middle name. I did that because my middle name was my mom's maiden name and her brother didn't have any sons to pass the name on while my last name was actually my father's stepfather's (who adopted him) last name so I didn't feel as many ties to it. Now, at school I still use my ex's last name but my bank account is in my maiden name as is my credit card. When/if I get married again, I'll totally drop my ex's last name and take my new husband's last name.

 

[eeyore74]

I have First Middle Maiden HisLastName. Technically, it's two middle names now. It works very well for me since the maiden is there when I want it. lol

 

[faithinkarma]

I am from Quebec where the government decreed that women be known by their maiden name only for any official purpose. They even made this law retroactive. My mother who had been using my father's last name for almost 50 years, was forced to revert to her maiden name.

When I moved down here to marry, I took my husband's name. I thought it would simplify things. WHAT THE H WAS I THINKING ????????

My Canadian passport is in my maiden name, my pension checks arrive made out to my maiden name ( and must not have any other signature on them, and I have to deposit them in an account in my married name.)

 

[shortbun]

My name will always be what it was the day I was born.
No changing, no record fixing, no explaining, no ID changes.
Very simple. DH didn't want to change his name either.
Few of our female friends changed their names.

 

[Kermit]

I dropped my maiden name and kept my middle name. I like the way my first and middle name sound together, so I wanted to keep it that way. Besides, I married young, so I didn't really have a "history" with my maiden name, except for my college years.

 

[robinb]

I kept my name and did not take my husbands in any way. My husband kept his name and did not take mine in any way.

My daugher has my last name as her middle name and my husband's last name. I didn't want to give her two middle names because then my last name would be lost most of the time. We also were not interested in hyphenating our names for her.

We have had very few problems with different last names. Even when my DD's name does not match mine.

 

[CamColt]

I kept my middle name, dropped my maiden name, and took my married name. For me that was just the thing to do. Plus we knew we wanted kids and I wanted to have 1 family name. I guess In some ways Im a traditionalist like that.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Kept my middle, droped my maiden, and took my DH's last. Besides if I would have droped my middle and took my maiden as my middle than it would have been an extremely weird name.

My name at birth- Heidi Sue Vosper

My name now- Heidi Sue Miller

Could not imagine my maiden as my middle-
Heidi Vosper Miller

 

[swea_pea1]

I also made my maiden name my middle and dropped the one my parents had picked. I originally didn't want to take DH's name at all and we debated about it for a while. Finally he said "you don't have to take my name, but you have the be the one to explain it to my father". Well, I was just too chicken to do THAT, so I am now Heidi (maiden)(DH's last name).

 

[Laura]

Originally posted by MICKEY88
question...I know some women that hyphenated their maiden name with their married name...as a way to pass the name on and not break the family line.....


wouldn't their daughters then have to hyphenate this hyphenated name with their married name to keep the line alive....then their daughters would have to do the same...wouldn't this make for some very long names...???

Many times women who have hyphenated the names just use one of the names for the children. My children will not have my hyphenated last name, but my husband's last name (he didn't change anything). If I have a daughter and do happen to give her my hyphenated name, it would be fine with me if she dropped it altogether and took her husband's name or if she hyphenated part of hers to his or kept hers. It's all about personal preference, really. Nobody's obligated to keep a hyphenated name going, in my opinion. But boy, do I like having the best of both worlds!

In my BIL's culture the tradition is to hyphenate names. How does that work when they get married? I'll tell ya.

Mr. Joe A-B marries Miss Jane C-D. He's still Joe A-B, but she becomes Jane A-C. Kids are Sally A-C and Scott A-C.

Scott gets married to Linda E-F. His name's still Scott A-C but she's now Linda A-E. Confused yet? Well, Sally A-C marries Larry G-H. She becomes Sally G-A.

Basically, the husband's first half of the hyphenate combines with the wife's first half of the hyphenate when they marry so she doesn't become Mrs. A-B-C-D-E-F-G...etc.

 

[Boo'sMom]

I bet I beat all of you...my maiden name is the same as my married name....because I married someone with the same last name.....NO, we weren't related!!!!

so I didn't change anything.

 

[Laura]

Originally posted by Boo'sMom
I bet I beat all of you...my maiden name is the same as my married name....because I married someone with the same last name.....NO, we weren't related!!!!

so I didn't change anything.

Yup, you win!

 

[diznee25]

I recently got married and have dropped my maiden name and taken on my husbands last name instead.

Many reasons why I chose to do this.

1. Maiden last name was LONG and no one could pronounce it. My new last name has 7 letters!! (Old name, 12 letters.)

2. When my husband and I have children, we'll all have the same last name.

3. I'm kinda old fashioned, and always knew that when I married I'd take on my husbands last name. (Luckly for me, my husband has an easy to pronounce short last name!)

Diznee25

 

[cuterlt]

I did something I don't think anyone has mentioned.
I was very well known by my last name, established my career, had all my licenses, etc. in that name. Plus there are only like 20 people in the US with my last name - so I wanted to keep that legacy. What I did was take my DH's name as my middle name. I didn't have a middle name, so nothing to give up there. No hyphen or anything.
The only problem is my DH's last name is Murray, my first name is Lisa, and people often say Lisa Marie T___________ instead of Lisa Murray T___________..... Just like Lisa Marie Presley!!!

 

[skuttle]

I dropped my middle name, made my maiden name my middle name and took DH's last name. If I would have started my career before I got married, professionally I would have still went by my maiden name.

 

[Pin Wizard]

I never had a middle name, and I never made my maiden name my middle. I'm pretty much known by first/last names. However, at the college when filling out my paperwork, they had a place to include maiden name. I knew they would need it for obtaining high school records. Whoever entered me in their computer system put me in with my maiden name as my middle. Kind of nice actually, I like it. So I'm known with Fist/maiden/last at college.

 

[snoopy]

I still use my maiden name professionally. I'd still use it personally too, if MIL hadn't had a big hissy fit 18 years ago when we got married. I was young and stupid, so I gave in to her and just used my maiden name as my middle name. And now that we have kids, its convenient to all have the same last name. But if I had to do it over again, I'd never change my last name. I think its a dumb tradition, why should I have to give up my name?

 

[WDWLVR]

Dropped my maiden name, kept my middle name, took DH's last night. Guess I'm just old fashioned. Didn't change who I was just what people called me.