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Changing married name....

FunBride Posted:

Changing married name....

To all those that have or are thinking of changing your name - what are you changing it to?

I'm going to be [First Name] [Maiden Last Name Initial] [Married Name]


When I sign my new name it's wierd at first!

What about your social security? I'm thinking of using my maiden name as my middle name....
BlondeJD Posted:

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I'm using my maiden name as my middle name and it is a huge pain to do it! The town clerk in Nassau said the only options for name changing were:
1) Keep maiden name
2) Take FH's name
3) Hyphenate

So, I'm going to try to have my social security card changed to the way I want my new name. Otherwise, I have to go to court to legally change my middle name. It's so annoying but I didn't want to completely drop my last name!
SomethingBlu Posted:

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I changed legally, but hyphenated at work. It's 19 characters to hyphenate...had it been shorter I would have done it legally too!
jeanla4c Posted:

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I did something different.... I kept my middle name and my new last name is: Maiden last name Married last name (without a hyphen). Couldn't do this on the marriage certificate but I had NO problems anywhere else doing this.

lrs2005 Posted:

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We got our marriage license yesterday and I went with his last name. I want my maden name to be my middle name and I will drop my current middle name.

hmm8191 Posted:

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I kept my maiden name as my middle name on everything including SS card.

Pmpkn087 Posted:

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I can't keep my maiden name as my middle because it sounds totally horrible, since my last name is polish and FH is Spanish. And, I have a long first name. So, I am just going with changing my last name.

Spot12905 Posted:

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only his.

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