For those who have been married, what did you do for your last name?

[Fizzzzle]

Did you hyphenate? Did your partner take your name?

 

Even if you aren't married, what do you think you would do?

 

My last name is the name of a guy who raped my dad and his sister. It wasn't his biological father. When I was with my ex and we talked about getting married, we decided we would pick a new name. It I do ever get married, I will absolutely abandon my name, whether that means making up a new one or adopting my partner's name.

 

@Commissar SFLUFANI mean you can't ditch the name "steel." Unless it's traumatic for you, in which case you do you.

[best3444]

I'm pretty much banking on never getting married but if I ever did, I'd keep my last name. 

[Chris-]

My wife took my name.

[Guest]

My wife hated being associated with her bio-dad, and loved my parents even before we started dating, so she was excited to take our family name. I think she likes it more than me, tbh

[SimpleG]

4 minutes ago, Chris- said:

My wife took my name.

Same

I left it up to her to make the choice though.

[Mr.Vic20]

I have converted half the east coast to my last name by marriage, and I’m done! 

[LazyPiranha]

Wife took my name by her choice.

[Chris-]

1 hour ago, SimpleG said:

Same

I left it up to her to make the choice though.

 

Yeah, I told her from the outset it was her decision and that I didn't care either way.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

In the event that I ever did get married, I would absolutely insist that my spouse retain her own name or I would take hers.

 

Oooohhh - I have an even better idea!

 

We'd combine the two names in some way, maybe even randomly scrambling the letters!

[Fizzzzle]

1 minute ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

In the event that I ever did get married, I would absolutely insist that my spouse retain her own name or I would take hers.

You'd give up the "steel" name?

 

I suppose I shouldn't say anything about it and I don't know your relationship with the name.

 

I actively hate my last name because of what it represents 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

1 minute ago, Fizzzzle said:

You'd give up the "steel" name?

 

I suppose I shouldn't say anything about it and I don't know your relationship with the name.

 

I actively hate my last name because of what it represents 

 

My relationship with the name is that it's a bunch of letters that form a word that's associated with me by random cosmic chance so I really have no strong feelings about it

[Slug]

The Woman took my last name by choice.

[Keyser_Soze]

The first two sentences

 

 

the 3rd paragraph

 

[Jason]

4 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

In the event that I ever did get married, I would absolutely insist that my spouse retain her own name or I would take hers.

 

Oooohhh - I have an even better idea!

 

We'd combine the two names in some way, maybe even randomly scrambling the letters!

 

Two word last name, no hyphen.

 

Steel Boehner

[Slug]

11 hours ago, Fizzzzle said:

It I do ever get married, I will absolutely abandon my name, whether that means making up a new one or adopting my partner's name.

 

You know you don't have to wait, right?  You can just like, go change your name. Here in NJ it's like $300.

[SuperSpreader]

10 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

In the event that I ever did get married, I would absolutely insist that my spouse retain her own name or I would take hers.

 

Oooohhh - I have an even better idea!

 

We'd combine the two names in some way, maybe even randomly scrambling the letters!

 

Paige FALNULFS

[Brian]

My wife took my name. She really didn’t have much of a choice due to her immigration status. 

[Biggie]

9 minutes ago, Brian said:

My wife took my name. She really didn’t have much of a choice due to her immigration status. 

Russian mail order?

[CastlevaniaNut18]

I took his last name. I honestly hated my last name growing up and his is a common and boring one, so I was all too happy to take it. 

[Bloodporne]

My ex-wife just hyphenated. Gladly our two last names actually sounded decent together. That being said, it was 100% up to her, I felt like that wasn't even for me to have an opinion on necessarily. 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

Wife did not take my name. 
 

some of her ex coworkers asked if it was so she could more easily divorce me 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

some of her ex coworkers asked if it was so she could more easily divorce me 

Well, what did she say????

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

29 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

Well, what did she say????

divorced me on the spot, her scheme was figured out. she would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling teachers.

 

i was making a solid mid-five-figure income so she was living the high life and wanted to cash out while the gettin' was good

[johnny]

If I got married I have no preference. It's up to her. I would keep mine the same though. 

 

I have a friend who is now married and kept her last name. She said she's proud of her name and has already accomplished a lot with it. 

[Nokra]

If I get married, I think I will also have no real preference. I'm the only male in even my extended family who would pass on the family name via the traditional route, so I guess if the woman I married didn't want to take my name, the name would be gone with me, in a sense. However, my last name is in the top 5 most-common names in the US so the name itself would definitely go on, even if they're not related to me.

 

 

[Remarkableriots]

35 minutes ago, Nokra said:

If I get married, I think I will also have no real preference. I'm the only male in even my extended family who would pass on the family name via the traditional route, so I guess if the woman I married didn't want to take my name, the name would be gone with me, in a sense. However, my last name is in the top 5 most-common names in the US so the name itself would definitely go on, even if they're not related to me.

 

 

My surname is the 5,213,395th most common surname in the world. So all you single ladies out there, act fast before the opportunity is gone! I wouldn't mind if she didn't take my name but i don't think i could change it because it's the last thing i have left from my dad.