Last Name

[jellybeanmichelle]

So, what do you think?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16599140/?GT1=8921

[colleen&Kail]

i think it should be just as easy for a man to change his name as it is for a woman to change hers.i have a family friend who when they got married went with her last name because his was WINKLEMEN! he hated it growing up and he didint want his kids to have to feel the same way.

[LMS]

that's so strange that CA has such stringent laws.
I have a friend who changed his name in high school (b/c he as going through an "artistic phase" and his parents signed all the paper work and it cost him $18 to do it. LOL

[meeg124]

Both times that I have been married, I've kept my last name. When Scott and I got married, I tried to talk him taking my last name. He wouldn't go for it. Then I had him talked into hyphenating our names.. until one of his pig friends heard about it and harrassed him about it. Then he went on this big thing about how I had to take his name, blah, blah, blah. We almost didn't get married because of it. Anyway, I still use my maiden name, Scott uses his last name and Caden has both of our last names. Most of the time, I just use Scott's last name for Caden but I figure when Caden is old enough he can decide what name he wants to use.

[daisydoc]

I wanted to take James' last name... but there was some discussion as to which last name we/I would take. His last name (Dufloth) is his biological fathers name and he has been estranged from him for 15 yrs. So he was thinking that when we got married he/we would take his mother's maiden name BUT when we looked into it the process was HORRIFIC!!! So he just left it alone and I took Dufloth.

But I think it should be just as easy for a man to change his name as a woman.

[becky]

I'm actually working on my last name number three LOL.

I was born a Pina but my dad had the whole family change our names to LaFayette before i started school. Becuase of the famiy history and the meaning of our last name i knew i would never get rid of it and would have a hyphinated name.

When Kayla was born Victor and I were not married so she has both last names and learned them very easily. WHen Myah was born there was no doubt that she too would have a double last name.

When we married i added my husbands name and sign everything with just his just because it is easier. But i love having a double last name though Victor was upset about it at first.

[jellybeanmichelle]

I took on my husband's last name "Hickman"
But, my records say "Silvester Hickman"
My Mom did the same thing when she married.
I look at it as, I'm closer on the alphabet totum pole. :tongue
I hated telling people how to spell my last name - it's like Sylvester the cat, only the "y" is an "i".

But if he wanted my last name, I would be totally fine with that.

[Lynette]

I think that if that is what a guy wants to do there should be no reason it is more difficult for him than it is a woman.

That idea about merging the two last names is cute actually, I like the symbolism of it. I knew taking Brian's name was important to him so I took it.

[Kellie_MO5]

ya, I think that if you are getting married and begining a new life together, then you should give your family a new last name to begin everything with... If you divorce you both go back to maiden/bachelor names.. i think it would be fun...lol

[KaisaG]

I also think it should be just as easy for the guy to take the woman's name- if he so desires.

My maiden name was Nuttall- which I never cared for. My parents didn't give my sister or I middle names because they figured our maiden names would become our middle name. Both my sister and I dropped our last name. Sorry Mom & Dad :)

[LMS]

my maiden name was Jacqueline Smith :lol
I joked that Jr should take my last name but he refused... said he didn't want to be "the most common man alive"... Michael Joseph Smith. LOL

[Sara]

I went from very common Thomas to very different Ysunza (e-soon-za). It was a hard transition, but I liked taking a new name to begin our lives together. If he wanted to change to Thomas, that would have been fine with me. :)