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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 ...
Colloquially, Koreans consider the name of an individual as a singular entity, and changing the family name syllable would make the name sound strange with the other syllables of the given name. Nowadays, women still keep their names after marriage. Children can have either parent's surname, but it is customary to use the father's surname.
The Lucy Stone League is a women's rights organization founded in 1921. [1] Its motto is "A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost." [2] It was the first group to fight for women to be allowed to keep their maiden name after marriage—and to use it legally. [3]
Minang people do not have a family name or surname; neither is one's important clan name included in one's name; instead one's given name is the only name one has. [ 68 ] The Minangs are one of the world's largest matrilineal societies/cultures/ethnic groups, with a population of 4 million in their home province West Sumatra in Indonesia and ...
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 ...
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 ...
A 2023 Pew Research study revealed around 80 percent of women opted to take their husband's last name, while only 14 percent decided to keep their own, proving that even in 2024, we’re still ...
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 ...