Women: When you married, did you change your maiden name to your middle name?

[JKMastalski]

My husband's family has never heard of this! They swear it must be a New England thing (they are from South Philly). They think I am crazy, so I am trying to find out what everyone else has done.

 

[jennyanydots]

That's what I did -- kept my maiden name as a middle name and used is name as my surname.

 

[Blueeyes101817]

not married yet, but thats what my mother did (jersey here!)

 

[helenabear]

I know some who have done it that way. I kept my middle name and dropped my maiden name all together.

 

[Boston Tea Party]

I live in Texas and my SIL made her maiden name her middle name.

Me? I dropped my maiden and kept my middle.

It would have sounded REAL stupid the other way.

 

[kayeandjim00]

Born and raised in the south and I did the same when I got married. Now here in Wisconsin none of my friends had ever heard of it. My mom did it as well as did most of my relatives growing up.

 

[Rutt and Tuke]

I dropped my maiden name. I don't think it is a particular areas practice. In my area, there was a newscaster who took her maiden name as her first name when she got married.

 

[bananiem]

I tried to because that's what my mom had done. Anyway the lady at the marriage license place told me I couldn't without a court order!! Grr! Oh, but I could hyphenate it. I didn't want to do that.

 

[sk!mom]

Kept my middle name- dropped my maiden name.

 

[aesalsa]

I kept my whole name and added DH's last name to the end of mine--it's not hyphenated, just added on !

 

[helenk]

I use my maiden name as my middle name. I do not see it done that often, but I thought it was a neat thing to do.

 

[GEM]

It's an old custom in the south. Lots of the really old women here in town did it. They all like to be called by "First Name, First Letter of Maiden Name, Last Name", like "Betty R. Smith". It's become really popular again in the last few years and lots of my friends have done it. That's what I did as well, just dropped my middle name totally and made my maiden name my middle name. Nobody around here thought it was unusual at all.

 

[mtemm]

nope, but I think my older sister did. we are not from New England, although we all lived there for a period and my parents still do. Older sister was there for maybe 2 years. Don't know if that had any influence...she's spent most of her time in VA and MD

 

[tiggersmom2]

I took my maiden name as my middle name - I'm from the south.

 

[Rutt and Tuke]

I have a friend from India who married a man with the same last name as her (Patel... very common). She swears she kept her maiden name. LOL

 

[aesalsa]

If I dropped my middle name, people wouldn't know what to call me since I've alway gone by my middle name, Erika (I didn't know that was my middle name until I was about 9). I sign everything with my first 3 initials and my DH's last name.

 

[shortbun]

married and still have the name I was born with.
Folks that ask why are told that I always want my old
boyfriends to be able to find me in the phone book!

 

[BrerMom]

First Name, Maiden Name, Last Name

My sister did the same thing, as did my SIL.

 

[Figment2]

May I give some advice here? If you do this, be consistent and be sure all your accounts use the same middle initial.

I'm a trust officer and had a dickens of a time with a new estate. On some accounts she used her real middle initial and on some she used her maiden name as her middle initial.

Her death certificate picked up her maiden name initial. I had to "prove" both names were one and the same person. It didn't help that her will had her maiden name initial. We finally got all the accounts transferred but it took a lot longer than usual.

So be consistent!

Cyn

 

[goin2disneyagain]

I am not married yet but I intend to keep my middle name and drop my maiden name just because I really like my middle name. My mother however kept her maiden name as her middle name and we are from Atlanta.