POLL: Did you make your maiden name your middle name?

nov04LIbride Posted: Oct 20, 2005 04:47 PM

POLL: Did you make your maiden name your middle name?

Did you make your maiden name your legal middle?

May2004 Posted: Oct 20, 2005 04:48 PM

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Posted by nov04LIbride

Did you make your maiden name your legal middle?

Well I choose 'No, took DH's last name but kept old middle' but actually I don't have a middle name.

PrincessRose Posted: Oct 20, 2005 05:07 PM

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I chose yes, but I think I've mentioned before that I kept my old middle name, and just made my maiden name a second legal middle name, so I'm Rachel C.C. Greenspan

AtticaQT Posted: Oct 20, 2005 05:10 PM

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I plan on doing this - havent done it yet though

palebride Posted: Oct 20, 2005 05:50 PM

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no - i got rid of the old last name......both started with P so I didn't want to be PP

kms71705 Posted: Oct 20, 2005 06:25 PM

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No, but I should have.

Kelly

Mrs. Powell Posted: Oct 20, 2005 06:47 PM

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I definitely take my husband's last name.

MrsA814 Posted: Oct 20, 2005 08:04 PM

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i deftly took my dh last name i think it is an honor

wc0143 Posted: Oct 20, 2005 08:41 PM

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None of the above ... took DH's last name, completely dropped maiden name, do not have a middle name

Sweetd Posted: Oct 21, 2005 08:01 AM

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No, I took dh's name.

VickiC Posted: Oct 21, 2005 08:08 AM

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I didn't go to court to have it legally done, but according to SS and everything else I have now I am Vicki Maiden NewLastName.

Since I didn't have a middle name this was a good compromise for me.

Anniegrl Posted: Oct 21, 2005 09:06 AM

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I was thinking about it because I don't have a middle name, but my maiden name would sound funny as a middle name. So I took DH's last name, but I have a couple of things monogrammed and I used AMC as my initials

tayme Posted: Oct 21, 2005 09:20 AM

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I was going to...but then I found out how difficult it is to legally change your middle name. It's pretty much the same process as changing your first name, many many weeks of paperwork, over $200 in fees, as well as having to put ads in the newspaper (?). Me being the lazy butt that I am decided maybe it wasn't THAT important to change my middle name. So, I've officially kept my old middle name, and taken my husband's last name.

jeanla4c Posted: Oct 21, 2005 09:40 AM

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Posted by May2004

Posted by nov04LIbride

Did you make your maiden name your legal middle?

Well I choose 'No, took DH's last name but kept old middle' but actually I don't have a middle name.

I chose that too but I did something different, I kept middle name and my new last name is Maiden Name Married Name w/o a hyphen!

tourist Posted: Oct 21, 2005 09:43 AM

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Posted by wc0143

None of the above ... took DH's last name, completely dropped maiden name, do not have a middle name

Can we give you one? Wendy Cakes, perhaps?

I didn't keep my maiden name at all-- I was going
to hyphenate, but then it sounds like a verb, so I dropped it. I like my middle name. I used to use first-middle as my first name, when I was being difficult.

oneday Posted: Oct 21, 2005 10:16 AM

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DH and I both hyphenated our last name and kept our middle names. It's annoying at times (our last name now is 16 letters with a hyphen) but, it's fun sometimes, like when we bought our bed and they needed my last name. I always got 'Can you spell that?' before (maiden name is Italian) but now the looks on people's faces is even better.
My middle name is short - Ann - but DH's middle name is his grandmothers maiden name, so it makes it even better!

AtticaQT Posted: Oct 21, 2005 10:53 AM

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Posted by tayme

I was going to...but then I found out how difficult it is to legally change your middle name. It's pretty much the same process as changing your first name, many many weeks of paperwork, over $200 in fees, as well as having to put ads in the newspaper (?). Me being the lazy butt that I am decided maybe it wasn't THAT important to change my middle name. So, I've officially kept my old middle name, and taken my husband's last name.

Do you mind explaining the process to me. I want to do this - but i want to do it legally as you say rather than just getting it done at SS office and DMV.

Mickey3722 Posted: Oct 21, 2005 12:17 PM

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This might be a stupid question but, how do you make it legal? So far I have changed it on my SS card, some credit cards, bank. Did anyone have a problem changing it at DMV? They wont let me change my licence until I have 6 points of doucuments. Did anyone have this problem?

wc0143 Posted: Oct 21, 2005 12:35 PM

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Posted by tourist

Posted by wc0143

None of the above ... took DH's last name, completely dropped maiden name, do not have a middle name

Can we give you one? Wendy Cakes, perhaps?

My maiden name initial was 'C' ...

AtticaQT Posted: Oct 21, 2005 02:05 PM

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Posted by Mickey3722

This might be a stupid question but, how do you make it legal? So far I have changed it on my SS card, some credit cards, bank. Did anyone have a problem changing it at DMV? They wont let me change my licence until I have 6 points of doucuments. Did anyone have this problem?

Just to address you first question -If you make your maiden name your middle name i think you make it legal by oficially filing a name change with the Court. It is a whole process that i was just wondering what the details were.