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

[Pin Wizard]

Nope! Dropped it like a hot potato!! After years of everyone mispronouncing and misspelling it, I was glad to get an easy name.

 

[mom2grace]

I lucked out. The first letter of my middle name and maiden name is C, so it can stand for which ever I want.

I'm not sure what my married SS card says, but everything else is first name C married name. It stands for middle or maiden, depending on how I feel.

I also have only a sister and 1 female cousin, so we named DS my maiden name. It happens to be Conner, which is really annoying since it has become so "trendy" now as a first name.

 

[Nutsy]

The only thing different about my name know to what it was before I married is my surname.

My Christian & Middle names are as they as have always been & I took my husbands surname after we married.

I've never heard of using your maiden name as your middle name, but I do know some ladies who like to keep it, so they hyphenate their surname eg...... Sally Thomas-Williams.

 

[dizneegirl]

Didn't much care for my maiden name - gladly changed it to my married, and kept my middle name (which I love!).

 

[Alice28]

Nope, I did not kept my maiden name in any way. None of my married friends did that either. West coast gal here through and through.

 

[Lisa F]

I kept my maiden name as my middle name. I never cared for my middle name (named after an aunt that I am not particularly close to who subsequently changed HER name) but I was pretty attached to my last name. I wasn't aware that it's a regional thing, I'm from Brooklyn and I came up with the idea by accident... my undergraduate degree has my maiden name and my graduate will have my married name and I wanted there to be a common link between the two (my maiden name showing up in both places).

 

[disykat]

I would have except that I go by my middle name. I tend to think of myself by all four names - although legally it is first,middle, married. I've never considered using your maiden initial in your signature to be "changing" your middle name - just a way of keeping legal stuff straight.

I'm also a West Coast gal and know tons of people who use their maiden initial in their signature.

 

[ToriLammy]

My legal name is first maiden married. The Air Force took care of all the legal paperwork which is only fair because when I joined my recruiter didn't want to type my middlename (Georgeanna) so he dropped it. I was Victoria (NMI - No middle Initial) Lastname until I took my DH's name. Then it was Victoria Maidenname Newlastname (and in reality my name is almost that long). And by the way I was born and raised in Philly so you can tell them at least one Philly girl has done it

 

[tandrjohn]

My wife uses her maiden name as her middle name. I think it's cool, her family likes it, but my family thinks it's wierd. We live in Michigan. DF's family lives in Michigan. My family lives in South Dakota.

 

[flaps]

I dropped my maiden name.

 

[CEDmom]

I didn't change my name at all when I got married. However, my mom has her maiden name as her middle name as do most women that I know of her generation. If you look in most etiquette books (ie Emily Post) this is what they say to do. If I had changed my name I would have done this.

 

[snoopy]

I kept my maiden name for professional reasons, personally I use DH's name with my maiden name as my middle name.

 

[Kristi1357]

My SIL recently married and she went about changing her maiden name to her middle name. At either DMV or SS, they wouldn't do it without a court order. I forget which one though. So, she has one card changed and another the old way, with her given middle name.

I have DH's surname. It never occured to me to take my maiden name as my middle name.

 

[Pooh67_68]

I kept my middle and droped my madien, otherwise it would have been horrid sounding.

 

[CamColt]

Im from New England, Ive heard of it, but I didnt do it. Anne is a much easier middle name than my maiden name would have been, LOL! I did take my DH's last name though.

 

[barbeml]

I did not change my name at all. Lots of my friends did not take their DH's name (including my SIL). We married in our 30s and most of us already had homes in our own names. Easier not to change anything.

 

[beattyfamily]

I got rid of my middle name (Ann) and kept my maiden name as my middle name and took my DH last name...no hyphen. I do NOT like hyphen names.

Also, I don't put my middle name on everything. It's only on some official things.

 

[ninahbear]

I kept added my maiden as a second middle name. I don't write the whole thing out though - I have 4 initials ALKA.

 

[MelCald]

I changed my maiden name to my middle name..and I am from New England, so I guess I am not much help!!!

Melissa

 

[torismom]

I dropped my maiden name and kept my middle name.