yep, another name-change poll

yep, another name-change poll

Do you know 100% sure what you are doing w/ respect to the name-change issue?

I do not. I know I'm taking FH's name (well, 99.9% sure), but not sure if I'm going to do:

1) first name, middle name, FH's name

or

2) first name, maiden name, FH's name



Both names sound foreign to me so hopefully I'll make up my mind soon so i can start getting used to it mentally!

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i am taking FHs last name. It really means a lot to him and although I am a little sad to get rid of my last name... i can't wait to take his.

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def changing! First Name, Middle Name, FH's name

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I'm definitely taking FH's name and keeping my middle name. So...First name, middle name, FH's last name.

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I'm doing first name, middle name, FH's last name.

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def fh's last name, never even thought otherwise

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first name, middle name, FH last name.

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I am getting married in less than 6 weeks, and I still have no clue what I'm doing. I am not going to make any decisions until after the wedding, but not sure how much of a grace period I will have after...FH really wants me to take his name. I just can't get my head around the idea of changing my name.

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i changed it so it's First Name, Middle Name, Maiden Name, Married Name. When I changed it at social security I asked if I could have two middle names and they said no problem,

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I'm still wavering. I love his last name and would love to take it, but- my last name ends with me. My dad had no brothers, and no sons!

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I am def taking FH's last name. It does help that I love his last name! I also love my last name but I just feel like this is part of the tradition of getting married, you take the guy's last name. You start a new family with him. I'm not a fan of the hypenated names, but that is just me! I am keeping my middle name because I just think it would be weird to make my last name my middle name when I have a middle name already.

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I have never thought about first name maiden name and last name...never heard of it being done that way, but I guess it could work. My question though is what is the point? If you like how your maiden name sounds as a middle why not a middle name of a child, then it gets passed on? Cause when do we really use our middle names when we are older? I know a woman (much older) and her family name is Kinsey...she's married and such...but her neice named her daughter kinsey..i think it's so cute! i wish i had a last name like that!

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I am taking his name only, no hyphen or use of maiden name.....FH is trying to give me everything I want for the wedding and He asked me if I would take his name, so that is that, plus I have a bro and sister so one of them can carry on the name

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Posted by zoe282

I have never thought about first name maiden name and last name...never heard of it being done that way, but I guess it could work. My question though is what is the point? If you like how your maiden name sounds as a middle why not a middle name of a child, then it gets passed on? Cause when do we really use our middle names when we are older? I know a woman (much older) and her family name is Kinsey...she's married and such...but her neice named her daughter kinsey..i think it's so cute! i wish i had a last name like that!

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The first name, maiden name, FH's name combo is very common in the legal profession. It's probably because people are established in their careers before getting married. A lot of attorneys (both at the law firm I worked at, and at my law school) use all 3 names.

Ex: one prof goes by 'First Maiden Last' and signs her emails FML but goes by 'Professor Last' -- my mentor at the law firm had 'First Maiden Last' on her firm profile on the firm website, and signs legal docs with all 3 names, but socially goes by First Last.

I know I want to take FH's name because I want us all to have the same name, want to have the same name as my kids, etc, but the middle name thing is something I never really thought of that I now am.

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I'm taking FH's name and I'm kinda excited about it. I feel like we're really married if we have the same last name!