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The same survey found that just 5 percent of men take their wife’s last name and 1 percent hyphenate. A 2022 survey from Zola, the online wedding registry, planner and retailer, had similar results.
Meanwhile, 14% said they kept their own last name, and 5% hyphenated with their husband’s last name, the data showed. But the numbers indicate age and education played a role in the decision-making.
In an Oct. 10 TikTok, Bonadona, an art teacher, said it all began when Bartlebaugh expressed a desire to hyphenate their last names, but the resulting surname is a bit of a mouthful — and one ...
Name blending confers the same surname upon both spouses. This allows the family to conform to the expectation that the family (and any children) will all share the same name, and avoid confusion that can arise when spouses retain differing surnames. [4] [1] Name blending avoids the patriarchal practice of having the wife take the husband's name.
Many double-barrelled names are written without a hyphen, causing confusion as to whether the surname is double-barrelled or not. Notable persons with unhyphenated double-barrelled names include politicians David Lloyd George (who used the hyphen when appointed to the peerage) and Iain Duncan Smith, composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Andrew Lloyd Webber, military historian B. H. Liddell Hart ...
When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of their spouse, in some countries that name replaces the person's previous surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name ("birth name" is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted upon marriage.
Both of our maiden last names were German (Eiserman and Schwarz), and together, they sounded clunky, so we knew we didn't want to combine or hyphenate. We wanted something symbolic and meaningful.
Growing up, I didn't think I'd change my last name when I got married. But when I came out as a lesbian and met my now-wife, I changed my mind. Rather than choosing one of our existing last names ...