Keeping your maiden name (wife, married, female, love)

[Sommie789]

Why do people still make such big deal of it?

[ChessieMom]

We don't.

Already a thread going on this. No need for a new one.

[vigueur2014]

I wish my ex wife would use her maiden name and would drop my last name, but 7 years later, and she still uses it.....

[TabulaRasa]

How many threads are needed on this same exact topic?

[randomparent]

There are several threads on this issue, but since I haven't participated in any of them, I'll throw in my two cents here. I have a very unusual maiden name, which I love, so I kept it as my middle name. My husband and I also gave our youngest child the same middle name. It's not uncommon in our family to do so. Both my husband and I have many female ancestors who did the same.

[TabulaRasa]

I'm the opposite. The only way my maiden name could have been more generic would have been if it were "Smith."

[Ashleyga]

My maiden name is very ethnically telling (I don't know how else to put it lol), and it's not Rodrigues or Suarez. It's unique and it goes well with my other names. My first name is very plainly generic, so I enjoy the distinction. However, when I get married, I want to hyphenate my name. Tack his on at the end, just because I want to have the same name as everyone else in my household.

I don't want to have children with different surnames as me. But I want to be able to use my maiden name, too So, best of both worlds.

[TabulaRasa]

Were my maiden and husband's names put together into a hyphenate, it would be needlessly long and unweildy, esp with my first and middle. I don't need a name with eleven syllables.

[ellie]

I kept mine. Seems normal enough.

[Idon'tdateyou]

Keeping mine.