Last Name Question...

[crimewatcher]

For those that kept their name after marriage....

What is your plan for your Children's last name? I'm curious to learn how you decided (if you are comfortable with that).

ie. My Step Mom hyphenated after she got married and her 3 sons are hyphenated as well (first two with her 1st husbands last name and 3rd with my dad's last name). However, they all go by just the father's last name.. my half brother hates when you say both last names. Even in school they dropped the first last name.

Would you be bummed if your kids didn't like the hyphen if you decide to go that route?

[decemberrain]

My mom took my Dads name so we all have his name. One of my friends has her Moms last name and her brothers have their Dads last name. Her parents agreed when they got married that they would both keep their last names and if they had girls they would have Moms last name and all the boys would have Dads last name. I thought that was a pretty good compromise and it never seemed to bother any of their kids.
I think I would be okay with them not liking the hyphen.

[prettyinpink]

I changed my name and choose not to hyphenate it. If I had done that I would have been lastnameSON- lastnameSEN and it was just a mouth full since our last name is Norwegian and E's family says it funny so that people can understand it. Even though its not that hard. If I were to have kept my name our kids would have gone by E's last name.

[crimewatcher]

Sept 6, 2012 8:55:31 GMT -5 decemberrain said:

My mom took my Dads name so we all have his name. One of my friends has her Moms last name and her brothers have their Dads last name. Her parents agreed when they got married that they would both keep their last names and if they had girls they would have Moms last name and all the boys would have Dads last name. I thought that was a pretty good compromise and it never seemed to bother any of their kids.
I think I would be okay with them not liking the hyphen.

hmm that is really Cool. I like it.

My Mom fought really hard to keep my Dad's last name at the time of their divorce. She wanted to make sure she had the same name as her kids.. it was a big deal to her. Now.... I am married and new last name and my sister is planning to get married and take his last name, my mom is like well what the hell. lol

[crimewatcher]

Sept 6, 2012 10:51:28 GMT -5 Stan said:

The tradition in my family is that the children all have their mother's maiden name as a middle name. That's what I'll do as well, I just only have a maiden name.

H's 2nd middle name is his Mother's Maiden name. His name is a mouth full and varies on every single piece of identification he has. If we do my maiden as their middle it will become a cluster quickly. lol But I still want to incorporate my maiden name some how since it's dead in our family now.