Maiden Name...

shadypines

When you got married did you keep your maiden name with hyphen or did you change to just your husbands last name only?

tarebear9891

Husbands last name.

MrsGoodkat

Took DH's last name

Wine O Mite

I haven't changed a thing.

I do plan on changing my maiden to my middle and taking his last name. 

HenHen25

I changed, it would have been way too long to hyphenate 

quidditchcapn1120

Changed it to my DH's name. If I had gotten married at this point in my life, I would have kept my maiden name though.

BoatsNHoes

Dropped maiden Nd took Hs name.

madamsmurfette

I moved my maiden name to my middle and took his last name.

CGKyle

took DH's last name.

missymo

I ditched my original middle name and changed it to my maiden name, and then took my husband's last name.  I am really attached to my maiden name...it's a lovely name, and I am really proud of my family, so I just could not bear to get rid of it altogether. 

CoffeeBeen

Neither.  I didn't change anything. 

Libby1978

Moved my maiden name to the middle and use husband's last name.

blush64

I kept my name only. He kept his too.

EDIT When I got married the first time I was young but I kept my name then too. My kids have hyphenated last names and my next one will too.

Fourx

not changing your name means u dont love ur husband

Fianschneid

I changed it to DH's name the minute we got home from the honeymoon.

My dad is married to a woman with the same first name as me. We do not get along. I was more than happy not to share a full name with her anymore.

pepomntpat

I took DH's last name.

MissNikki007

I took his last name.

Those of you who didn't change your last name...what last name do your kids have? I've always wondered about that.

aglenn

gwinnygirl:

Took H's last name.

Confession, this is going to sound petty - my maiden name was hard to pronounce & spell, my married name is not. I like that.

See, I have the opposite problem.  I took DH's last name and use my maiden name as a middle name, but my maiden name was SOOOO much easier to spell and pronounce and I am annoyed all.the.time that I am now saddled with DH's name.  Especially since my first name is not easy, either.  Oh, well.

adoubleu12

Took his name.  It is shorter, easier to write, and it is one syllable so it makes me sound like a rock star.

CoffeeBeen

Fourx:

not changing your name means u dont love ur husband

Well, duh, I only married him for his money.

BlueRidge8

Kept it - now rocking 4 names.

blush64

MissNikki007:

I took his last name.

Those of you who didn't change your last name...what last name do your kids have? I've always wondered about that.

A lot of people hyphenate them. I did and one of my sisters did as well. My kids are 16 and 14 now, there's never been an issue with the hyphenated names.

shadypines

Drop mine & took DH name..

chardonnay24

I didn't change it at all.

Fourx

its just selfish not to change ur name. its tradition

shannond354

I didn't change anything.

Helenahhandbasket

I took my hubby's last name but dropped my middle name so that I can use my maiden name in it's place.  All of my legal documents read Firstname MaidenName Lastname.

CoffeeBeen

Fourx:

its just selfish not to change ur name. its tradition

Again, duh; I only do things for me, myself, and I.

scoutkate

madamsmurfette:

I moved my maiden name to my middle and took his last name.

This.

MissNikki007

Fourx:

its just selfish not to change ur name. its tradition

Yawn.

CoffeeBeen

MissNikki007:

I took his last name.

Those of you who didn't change your last name...what last name do your kids have? I've always wondered about that.

I hyphenated DS' last name.  I'm not thrilled with that solution, but I wanted us both represented. 

When we were trying to decide what to do with his last name I found some research article about the perceptions of people with hyphenated last names.  I think boys with hyphenated last names had higher ratings of things like intelligence and sensitivity, whereas girls with hyphenated last names had higher ratings of narcissism or something. 

So, moral of the story: if I ever have a DD she'll be be narcissistic or something.

seahorse102410

Dropped my middle name and now maiden is middle and DH's last name is my last name.

JPinkman

My maiden name is now my middle name.

klondikebar

I took his last name.

wychets

I dropped my middle name so my maiden name is now my middle name and DH's last name is now my last name

suziqnc

HE took MY last name!

 

 

 

 

j/k

MommaG123

Took MH's last name.

FrickandFrack

I took DH's last name.

giraffepatch

I took DH's last name.

I am suprised at how many people say they switched their maiden name to their middle name. I have never really heard of that. I kind of wish I did it but I have a long weird maiden name. I suppose you never really use it, hmm.

michaelaskedlauren

Took DH's last name and made my maiden name my second middle name. Looking back I wish I was just hyphenated since both names are short.

I kept my maiden name at work and whenever I refer to myself/sign up for things I do it as if my name is hyphenated.

chardonnay24

MissNikki007:

Those of you who didn't change your last name...what last name do your kids have? I've always wondered about that.

A is First Middle MyLast HisLast. I think I'll hyphenate it one day because it's super confusing for people, especially since both of our last names could also be first names.

HilarityEnsued:

To anyone that didn't change their name... did you have a specific reasoning behind keeping your maiden name?

50% laziness and 50% that I hate the tradition. I like my name and we don't care if we all have the same last name. We call ourselves the "MyLast HisLast" family.