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The share of women opting to change their name has declined in recent decades, but only gradually: A 2015 Google Consumer Survey conducted by The New York Times found that just 22 percent of women ...
The practice remains popular in the 21st century. According to a Pew Research Center survey published in September 2023, nearly 4 out of every 5 women in heterosexual marriages in the United States changed their last names to those of their husbands. On the other hand, 92% of all men in these marriages kept their last names. [41]
And an even larger majority of men don’t change their names… The vast majority of women continue to take their husband’s surname when they get married: 79 percent, according to a recent Pew ...
Rephrasing to, "Traditionally in the Anglophone West, only women do so, but occasionally men change their last name after marriage as well." 199.184.238.194 23:42, 29 August 2008 (UTC) The external source (More men taking wives' last names) says "more", of which "growing" is a synonym. We don't need the external source to state numbers with ...
In case of adoption, the adopting family cannot change the child's name unless the court ruled otherwise. In case of marriage, a person can change their last name, change back to the maiden name or add their spouse's last name to theirs at any time. A minor whom parents changed their last name gets the new last name of their parents, and a ...
A 2015 The New York Times study found that about 30 percent of married women keep their maiden names or add their husband’s name to their own—a big uptick since the 1980s and the 1970s when ...
In 1982 the right to use patronyms (and matronyms) was partially restored; a person (or the parents of a child) had to apply and pay a fee. From 1 July 2017 parents in Sweden are free to give their children patronyms/matronyms at birth instead of inherited family names, and any person can change their last name to a matronymic or patronymic. [26]
The share of women opting to change their name has… Almost 80 percent of women married to men have followed this tradition, according to a recently released Pew Research Center survey. Why most ...