Name Change?

gizmo91909

Not sure if this has been talked about before in another post, but what is everyone changing their name to after the wedding? I am stuck on this one between: FIRST MAIDEN HISLASTNAME FIRST MIDDLE HISLASTNAME FIRST MIDDLE MAIDEN HISLASTNAME Just curious as to what everyone else is doing!

lacey0482

Mine is complicated...maybe someone else has this same issue and can help me out too. My current name is First Lacey Lastname....my name is Lacey even though it is my middle name. After marriage, I want it to be Lacey Maiden HisLastNamebut I've heard this is complicated since I'm changing my legal first name. But it's important to me to keep my maiden name so hopefully I can make it work.

alliegator8

My mom's maiden name is my middle name. So to honor both my parents I am doing First, middle, maiden, his last name. I know it will mean a lot to my dad

meredithl618

I'm doing First Maiden HisLastName ... and I'm passing my current middle name, which is my grandmother's middle name, on to my first daughter as her middle name.

arobertson62282

You can pretty much change it to whatever you want it to be. Mine will be Ashley Maiden Married.

wallyson

I'm doing First Middle HisLastName. I am dropping my maiden name.

laudanum1

I didn't change mine at all ;)Lacey, it shouldn't be an issue. Your proof of marriage allows you to change your name however you like, as long as it's not profanity or for the purposes of deceiving someone or evading the law. Technically, you can change it to Princess Consuela Bannana Hammock & that's perfectly legal. And for the record, my grandmother did what you want to do back in 1939; she went from Agnes Ruth Lastname to Ruth Lastname HisLastname.

snyoder

Lacey Im in the same situation & I've been wondering what to do!  I go by Natalie but my first name is after my grandma so I'd hate to get rid of it!  So I may be doing First Natalie Maiden HisLastName.. still unsure though

lacey0482

Well it must just depend on the person working the S.S. office that day. My friend was in the same exact position as me after her wedding last July and they said she had to go to court for a legal first name change so she just kept all 4 names. I hope I get a nice person at the S.S. office that day!

abozz

I have also heard you have to go to court to change your first name. Hopefully that isn't true! I am going change mine to Ashley Maiden Married, but I will still consider my middle name my middle name, I guess including it too. I am also going to pass it down to my daughter if I have one, as I am the 5th generation Lucille.

katherineUTC

I'm doing FIRST - MY MIDDLE - HISLASTNAME. I am soooo excited because I've lived with a last name that is hard to say, hard to spell, and hard to pronounce for all my life and FINALLY I get a last name that is so simple and easy to spell (it's a common word of the english language ). So my maiden name GOES AWAY FOREVER!!!

laudanum1

If you get a person telling you that you can't, go again later & try to talk to someone else. I've heard of ladies there telling people that they weren't allowed to keep their last name at all, that they had to drop one of their names because they could only have three, etc. - it's apalling.It's sad how many people that work for the SSA feed out misinformation. You'd think they'd be more educated on things like this.

LVCK

I'm leaning towards Lacey Middle Maiden Married... as the initials in my sn indicate... I think it's cool that it sorta looks like it spells LUCK! But I'm not sure I really want two middle names. I still have a while to decide.

dontworrylover

I'm doing Jessica Maiden HisLastName.I've never really liked my middle name, so I have no problems dropping it I will however be going from a nice & easy one-syllable last name to a crazy Belgian last name that no one can spell or pronounce correctly....

KimmiD55

I went with First Middle Hislastname! I couldn't drop my middle name because I am named after both my maternal grandparents and while I didn't really want to drop my maiden name, if I hadn't my full name would have been 30 letters...WAY too long!

Kellybeth124

I went with First Maiden HisLast. I might decide to give my daughter (if I ever have one) my old middle name.

keserzan

I guess it does depend on the day and the employee - because I too have a friend that was told she couldn't drop her legal first name without going to court. Oh well!Meredith - I'm doing exactly the same. I'm doing FIRST, MAIDEN, HISLASTNAME, and my middle name, which is also my mother's middle name, will become a middle name of a daughter.

gizmo91909

I am leaning toward first middle maiden hislastname. I'm just not sure if it would ever cause problems or be annoying having such a long name?

keserzan

When I had attachment issues with my old full name, but new I'd want to take DH's last name, I contemplated all this too. One thing that sold me was that I LOVE monogrammed things, and with 4 names, you can't do 3 letter script monograms.

Pinky09

First name middle name and his last name. I love my middle name more than my maiden name, so it wasn't a hard decision! But I am surprised by the number of ppl who do keep their maiden name.

nikayla45

I'm doing First Middle HisLastName. I'm in the same boat as Katherine, my Maiden name is ALWAYS mispronounced, misspelled, etc. When somebody asks me my maiden name I always just say it and automatically spell it.I love his last name, it's simple and  much less confusing. And dropping my current last name will help me move forward with some traumatic paternal issues I'm working past. And I feel like it will really make me more publicly his, since I'm already privately his.

tarheels1

Tiffany Maiden HisLastName -- I'm pretty traditional so, although sometimes I like to give FI a hard time about it, I hadn't really considered much else.  I'm unusually attached to my maiden name -- I'm the last of 3 sisters to get married and there are no males in my fam, so I at least wanted to keep it in some way.