New name?! Not a Q!

K_tales · May 2010

I have been making fun of my FH name since i met him there are just so many ways to make fun of him his name is MORIN so I call him Moron or as my little brother does More In ?? i would hyphenate our names but mine is Tales. put your tail more in.... i have tried my hardest to get him to take mine but he wont even discuss it. and it is important that we have the same name because our kids are obviously going to have his name and i don't wanna be the only one. I even talked to him about finding a last name we both love and we would both change our names but we haven't been able to find anything that works. oh well i guess im bound to be a Moron lol

2010now · May 2010

I love my FI last name. Its different and when I first met him and he told me his last name I thought he was joking lol I'm not sure if I'll change it right away but I'm really excited about having babies because it'll be a fun last name to have. (we're not having kids right away though) His last name is STUDLEY

pennypretty · May 2010

Just thought I'd chime in as a child whose mother didn't change her name. My mother is still Ellen R. She never became Ms. Ellen S. nor did my father mind.

When my brother was born they decided to give all of us my mother's name as our middle name and my father's name as our last name so we're all Firstname R. S. because they thought hyphenating a name was a little too much for a child to learn.

I love my name and personally always assumed I'd just keep it. I loved the fact that my mom was different and I only ever had one issue with a signed paper at school when I was growing up. (Granted I lived in a small town and my mother was involved with the community so everyone knew who she was and who she was married to without having to know her last name.)

FI's last name is kind of quirky and I'm considering taking it. I might do something like hyphenate my middle name to accommodate my maiden name. I thought about dropping my last name all together, but I am a designer so I use my name professionally and that might get tricky.

But for those of you fine ladies who are worried about your children having issues, I seriously only ever had one person ever say anything about it to me about how my mom was a "modern woman" whatever that means. And she struck me as a moron so I didn't think twice about it. My mom was herself and did what she wanted and my father supported her and us kids never suffered nor were mocked.

banditangel · May 2010

I had always planned on taking the name of whoever I married until my son was born, his father and I both wanted his last name to be our last name so we hyphenated it with my last name first and then his. Now we're getting married and he's still really attached to his last name but I prefer our son's last name. We haven't come to an agreement but I'm either changing mine to match our son's and he's leaving his as is or he will also be changing his to the hyphenated version. It's a longer name but that way we both get to keep our names but take each others at the same time. It's a good idea to think about.

I-am-me · May 2010

Fi and I are both going to hyphenate. He doesn't like his last name and I think it's too boring and common. He was going to just take my name altogether, but for other reasons we decided that was a bad idea. The only 'dilemma' we face now is what name to give our future children. It'll probably be just my name. I feel like giving them the hyphenated name would be a burden - after all, what happens when they grow up and get married and then they have THREE lastnames to pick from? My only concern with just giving them mine, if fi and I both hyphenate, is that then the kids don't have quite the same last name as us.

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