Last name

i think you should stand by how you feel for sure....i am changing mine....for a partly selfish reason....with DH's last neame i get to shed 5 letters!!!! i had a crazy italian long last name and now its 5 letters and there is no need to spell it anymore for anyone

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Posted by bluekat16

First your not a bad person for wanting to keep your last name. It's hard to give up one's last name. I'm in my 30's and I know that it's going to be an adjustment. It's such a part of who I am at this point.

I decided to take FH's last name....it was very important to him and I have an older brother that has carried on my father's name. I do plan on keeping my last name (maiden name) on all my degrees. I will hyphenate at work and on my resume. I'm professionally already known with my last name...so hyphenating will be OK for me. for the most part I'll be known as Mrs. Km

Either way I will have to continue spelling out my names.....my last name I always have to spell though it's a common spanish last name because I don't use an 's' but rather a 'z' in the middle. I always have to spell out my first name becuase it's Kathryn...not Katherine. FH last name is a polish last name sooo I'll def. be speilling it out.....I just won't get away from spelling out my names...ever...

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a common last name that people spell with s rather than z...i can relate..florez not flores!

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Posted by FutureMrsCarrieri

I just thought of something

there's was a boy in my class with two middle names -- that seems to be popular nowadays

I wonder if you can change your name where you can make your maiden name one of your middle names?

I would totally do this

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My middle name is my mom's maiden name.

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Posted by florezpeeps

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Posted by bluekat16

First your not a bad person for wanting to keep your last name. It's hard to give up one's last name. I'm in my 30's and I know that it's going to be an adjustment. It's such a part of who I am at this point.

I decided to take FH's last name....it was very important to him and I have an older brother that has carried on my father's name. I do plan on keeping my last name (maiden name) on all my degrees. I will hyphenate at work and on my resume. I'm professionally already known with my last name...so hyphenating will be OK for me. for the most part I'll be known as Mrs. Km

Either way I will have to continue spelling out my names.....my last name I always have to spell though it's a common spanish last name because I don't use an 's' but rather a 'z' in the middle. I always have to spell out my first name becuase it's Kathryn...not Katherine. FH last name is a polish last name sooo I'll def. be speilling it out.....I just won't get away from spelling out my names...ever...

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a common last name that people spell with s rather than z...i can relate..florez not flores!

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mine is Vazquez..not Vasquez...and I always have to rush to spell it out because they normally don't ask...but I want them to spell it right...so i start V as in victor, A as in apple, Z as in ZEBRA! One time I spelled it out but didn't use the illustrations and they spelled my name Vavquev

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Posted by FutureMrs.T

I am keeping mine for work related purposes. My email at work will still reflect my maiden name, but for all other purposes, banking, mortgage, bills, etc. it will all be transferred to my new last name.

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Yes me too. FH's last name is very hard to pronouce so my email and business cards will read my maiden name. So much easier!

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Posted by FutureMrsCarrieri

I just thought of something

there's was a boy in my class with two middle names -- that seems to be popular nowadays

I wonder if you can change your name where you can make your maiden name one of your middle names?

I would totally do this

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You can totally do this. One of my friends did it.

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Posted by ChristineAaron08

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Posted by florezpeeps

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Posted by ChristineAaron08

I havent changed mine yet (yeah 4 months later). I am not crazy about his last name b/c it rhymes w/ my first name and sounds silly.

I will hyphenate legally, but will still use my last name for all except bank and mortgage, etc. He isnt happy about it, but settled on the partial change.

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Oo thank goodness you responded, I was sitting here thinking I am a bad woman

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I think its a guy thing w/ the last name. I can sorta see their point, but I dont think my DH would want to walk around with a name like Aaron Barron or something weirder lol

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aww.. you are like Julia Gulia!!