Maiden or Married name?

I took my husband name when we got married. But I did actually ask him if he would take my name because my senior year in high school my parents and only sibling was killed so therefore I was the only one left. And I myself, couldnt carry on the name. So I asked him too because he had a brother to carry on his name. But the more I thought about it I didnt do it. Wanted to be old and traditional so I just took my husbands name after all. Its a good thing too because I found out not long after my parents accident that the grandfather that I knew growing up was actually not my grandfather. My dad had a totally different dad that we never knew about. So its a good thing I didnt want to keep that family name going since it wasnt our family name to start with.

When I got married, I took my husband's name because we were forming a family by being married and it seemed like the right thing to do, although I did consider keeping my name at first. When we got divorced I legally went back to using my maiden name.

when I got married I kept my maiden name..Why? well because my kids are from another man and I wasnt changing their names..Funny thing is all three of my kids have different last names...My oldest has his fathers last name, my daughter has my last name (same father but we werent together when she was born) and my youngest had my husbands last name LOL..I can honestly say that if I were to ever get remarried I would still keep my last name...its just way easier...

I decided to take my husband's name when we got married. I guess I'm kind of old fashioned and feel a woman should take the man's name. I don't really see the point in hyphenating my name. Plus it wouldn't look good together anyway! LOL

I have transferred to a different city away from my old hometown before i got married and that was almost six and a half years ago. I opted to hyphenate my name because for forty years i was known by my maiden name and if an old friend, former co-workers or distant relatives see my name in some papers with a different surname they may not recognize that it's me. Besides, with the few thousands of Postal IDs i have issued that bear my complete name i got to meet people who know somebody from my old school, church or workplace and i actually met a relative in my new place just because i still keep my father's name. Well, everyone with a surname like my father's have at least an ancestor that came from our province. Come to think of it, maybe i'll try putting in my mother's maiden name too and see what happens next. Lol Hi deejean06!

Dee- I went with my husband's last name because I wanted his last name. I was marry him and wanted to be one with him, and that was one way I did this. Perhaps I am a traditionalist, but I don't feel I'm loosing anything of my person by taking his last name. I also wanted our children to have his last name as they are his children too. Namaste-Anora

i still keep my maiden name until now even after i am already married for more than 3 years now... the reason is simple... i love my family name better than my hubby's surname and since he is not forcing me to change it as well, then i won't... i don't have any problem at the moment... so i will keep it as it is until there is a need to change... take care and have a nice day...

I have taken my husband’s name. I am brought up the traditional way and it was absolutely natural for me to take my husband’s family name after marriage. Also ours was a love marriage and it was both a pleasure and a privilege for me to identify myself with him and his family.

I changed my name, but I did it when I was still single. I didn't relish the idea of being handed from my father to my husband, didn't agree with the transfer of authority, and didn't think it fair to keep my father's name when I would not take my husband's because in the "transfer of authority" the husband was just an extension of the father....and that really creeped me out!!! No one has authority over me. I don't believe in it. I'm a peaceful anarchist. That is to say, I go by common sense, and don't bother the people who don't bother me. I took my mother's birth name, because I wanted to re-claim my Danish heritage. I kept Dad's name as a middle name, and go by my mother's maiden name. When I married my husband, I kept this name, and he agreed with the idea. At first he wanted to take my name, but I asked him to keep his own. I thanked him for the idea, but mentioned that if he were to take my name, as long as we had the same last name, people would still think that I took HIS name, and they'd still address us as Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, even if Smith was my name.

When I got married I took my husband's name, but when my son married his fiance, she hyphenated her name because that was the custom in her family and she was already a business woman at the time. It also made it easier I suppose so someone will not get her confused with another G - who married another man with the same last name as ours. And my single last name is not my real last name because my father changed ours before he and my mother got married. So now that is confusing.

I took my husband's name when we got married. We were young, right out of college, starting a new life and I wanted his name to be the name of the family we would be building. We have a very common last name so I briefly considered hyphenating my name just to set me apart from so many people out there with our name. I finally decided that having a hypenated name would be more annoying to deal with than running into others with my same name. I was wrong!! Should have hypenated. I can understand some women, who marry later in life and have an established professional career in their own name, wanting to keep their own name when they married. My best friend did that. She decided she would take his name if they ever had children. They finally did three years ago and she now goes by his name but keeps her professional stuff in her maiden name. It works for her.

I choose my husband's last name because I wanted to express to world that am happy to be married to my husband. However , when I did change my name everyone in my dad's family made a big fuse over it though, because they thought I was going to keep my fathers last name because he based away, and my father side of the family the my fathers last name is a big deal. But in my case I changed my last name because, I wanted to and not for tradition

I adopted my husband's name when I got married. Some people do not change their name probably because of the inconvenience of updating records of bank accounts, credit cards, Tax Identification, Social Security and even changing the signature. I went through all of that but it's okay. The inconvenience of the paper works is nothing compared to how I would make my husband feel. I know it means a lot to him that even though I cherish my dad, I opted to use my husband's name.

why don't man change their names?Sx discrimination appear in my mind

honestly i didnt yet get married..but the time i will i would continue using my maiden name...for me the reason that i will get married is that we love each other and not surrendering any right of using my fathers last name...it just giving respect to the family that created me as me...simple logic man now are not higher than women...we are equal..thus, if the law will dictates that we will used the husband last name then the law should tell the husband to use the wifes maiden name...God bless.

I'll be hyphenating. for a start, I have a more interesting surname. and my name is already qyute long, so one more syllable won't make a difference. in an ideal world, both would hyphenate, I think. to me, that way best shows the true nature of marriage. two joining together, rather than one becoming part of the other, unequally. also, in my family, this generation are all girls, so I am reluctant to make any move to eliminate my unusual surname which has strong links to the place of my ancestors.

I took my husband's name. Not only is tradition but I also feel that it shows him respect.

I got married last year and until now I still don't have the ID's I need as a proof of my new last name. As a tradition and as part of the law here in Philippines, I have my husband's last name after we got married. Problem is when I do transactions like en-cash a check I still use my maiden name because I still have the two ID's when I was maiden. The IDs I requested from two government agencies are were not yet given to me. I don't know when will I receive them but as long as I don't have them I will be using my maiden name even if I am married.

When I get married, I am taking his last name personally. I am getting ready to graduate in a few months, and am getting married next year, so professionally, I am going to hypanate my last name for a few months so people will know that it is still me. My reasoning on taking his last name is tradion. And he has a daughter who will be my step daughter, so it will be like I am joining their family

I got married last year and I choose to hyphenate my maiden name to my husband's last name. I did this because of the nature of my work. I usually interact with clients and work colleagues from overseas through email, having a new last name might lead to a bit of confusion. Also, I wanted to keep a part of my former identity but still manage to merge it with my new life as a wife. The only hassle is that my last name does not roll off the tongue quite easily and can be a mouthful. But otherwise, I'm happy with having a hyphenated last name.