What do you think about girls taking husband's name as last name after marriage?

It is a well followed custom in India to add the husband's name after marriage and leaving the father's name.Even then,working staffs,have their father's name as they have to register with their birth certificates.So,it is followed whenever possible and otherwise not. And this custom is in practice as girls are known to belong to the family where they get married to.Cheers!

Yes i changed my name to my husbands name. But i think that it is up to each individual as to how they want to do it. I have a friend that uses both, she just put a her new husbands on to her family name. I also know a man that changed his name to his new wife's because he liked it better than his own

I would be forever proud of the man I married and have taken his name with pride. I am a bit conservative in such matters and I believe in the hindu rituals of marriage…so changing my surname was not a problem at all. And then we are our own identity…our name, our face, our voice, our work….these are our identities more than our names. You may forget a person’s name but never her face…so it does not matter what my surname is. It might create some problems for self-employed ladies like doctors, entrepreneurs, lawyers etc where they have already made a name for themselves before marriage

Our country now allows the women to use their maiden name after marriage. Some who want to use their maiden name and their husbands' can just use a hyphen between the two surnames. The women have to be consistent though on what they are using so as to avoid problems with papers and legalities.I think that this is a very good law albeit one sided because the husband can only stick with his surname.

I don't know because in our country (Philippines) it is no big deal after all, once a woman is married, we automatically inherit the surname of our husband and replaced our surname to the list. So if we got married and we are working, we should register our new surname and declared married so that we can get benefit from our Social Security System and aside from that, banks are also aware of it when you have your account's name be changed. Some couples apply for joint account and that means i should be cleared of this too. Our father's surname is still there as a middle name, what isn't going to be used is our mother's surname. When were single, we use our mother's surname as our maiden name. And when we get married, we cannot use that anymore but instead uses our Father's surname as our new middle name and carry our husbands' family name as our own Last name.

i am not yet amrried but i would love to take my husband's surname. it is a sign of love. besides, as the bible said, women are made for men.

I think it depends on the culture. Here we don't change our surnames after marriage. Actually our names remain the same as well as we were single. I am fine with it. As it seems it's so troublesome since I have a new surname. Because my bank accounts, certificates etc. will have an effect. I love China

I think its up to the individual if she wants to take her husband's name or not, she doesn't have to if she doesn't want to, but people tend to think its strange if she doesn't. I know when my sister got married she didn't take her husband's last name, she still uses her maiden name, she says its too much trouble changing all her important stuff like her soc.sec card, and drivers license, and her medical charts and stuff. I would of liked to keep my maiden name as well because I think its a cooler name than my husband's but I don't think he would of liked that too well..lol.

In my opinion it is the way of giving respect to there husband. I like this I prefer this habit as well. Overall it increase love between two people.

I always used my surname along with my first name before marriage and it represents me as a person and it is my identity.After marriage my husband when opened joint account in the bank , dropped my surname but i did not like it.I felt as if i was incomplete without my surname and after making a healthy discussion about this with my husband ,i again started using my surname.

There's no this custom in China,but someone may call a married lady Mrs "--",and "--"is the hubby's family ,but there's few called in this way .for me ,I even a little proud when someone call me Mrs Wang ,As Wang is my hubby's family name ,I love him and I like to be a part of him ,and also my name .

Hey...I never took out my father's name after my marriage. Even in my mail ids...\ Because, you have a ring to represent or glorify your hubby. Like wise... why don't you have something still left(i.e your father's name) to honour your dad?? It was they(parents) who had given this much of life for you.... It was they who built up the base for you... So try to have it... (This is what I feel...) Think and decide.

It's a good custom on our society. I think that's the only way for other people to identifying her husband. It also shows that the wife honouring her husband on the society. If a marriage woman didn't put her husband name as her last name, it's afraid other people don't know if she has marriage a man. Have a nice day and happy mylotting.