Changing Your Name - Do or Ditch?

This was a very difficult decision for as I take a lot of pride in my name. I never believed that I would change my name because it's my name and who I am. But when I got to this point in my life, I want our future family to be a unit. I want to share a name with my future children. So I decided that I'd get my name hyphenated. My fiance was ok with that at first as I explained that I want to extend my name as he is an extension of me. And vice versa. But he later explained how not fully sharing a name with me is not what he ever imagined. So I thought about it some more. I decided that I will take one last name, his. Remove my middle name and replace it with my maiden name. That was an easy decision because I have never used my middle name. I was never called by it by anyone and I don't even use it for any type of paperwork. It's only used in my most official papers (birth certificate, license, SSN.) We also decided that if/when we have a daughter, that we will use my soon to be former middle name as hers. The decision behind that is because I have a beautiful story on how I got my middle name. That way, all of these names get to be used and the story of my middle name will be passed down to our child.

Yes I’m changing my last name! 🙂

Yes I'm changing my name

Yes! I am planning to swap out my middle name for my soon to be maiden name. Can't part with it and am not attached to my middle

I will be changing! It's very important to him and I also agree that it's a great symbol of unity to start out with!

I am changing my last name to his and I'm really excited about it! I'm a little sad for the loss of my maiden name and all that it means to me, especially now that my dad is no longer with us, but I am lucky enough that my middle name is his first name (Kim)! The thing I'm most excited about changing my name is feeling like more like a team. Team Kraus!

Yes! Changing my super hard to pronounce if you’ve never heard it last name (McCuaig) to an easy one (Richardson)

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Yes. My two daughters have my current surname, so I want to keep that connection. I'm not that fussed about my surname generally. If I had no children, I'd drop mine outright.

Anyone on here their FH has a hyphenated last name? I like the idea of us being one family unit with one last name. How do we decide which one to drop without offending anyone? The only solution I came up with is we pick a new one.

Anyone take the letters from their old names and make a new one? How did you pick a new one if you're going down that route?

I'm totally changing my name! I got married on Feb 1st and I'm going the Social Security and the DMV next week!

I am changing my Last Name! Mrs. Lynnea Worley!!!

I am keeping it traditional. I will take my significant other's last name. Plus he is old fashion so he would not understand if I didn't take his last name☺

My fiancee is actually changing HIS last name to mine. there is a whole story that kind of goes with this though lol

I’m not changing. My name is my name and I would just feel weird having a different one! Among my friend group, it seems to be half/half people who change vs keep name.

I’ve been wanting to ditch my last name for as long as I can remember😭 I was always teased about it and I can’t wait to get rid of it and be Mrs. Quintanar ❤️

I'm keeping my last name! It was important to me and he didn't have an opinion on it...

I'm changing my name and I can't wait!

Do!!! I cant wait to change my last name to Johnson

It's my second wedding so in my case I will be running to the SS as soon I get back from my destination wedding to change it. I do not want to have anymore my ex-husband last name.