Taking Your Intended's Surname

[The Lawspeaker]

In my case, I am going to drop my father's last name because it can't be pronounced by my fiancee's relatives or my fiancee herself so I will adopt my mother's last name before we get married so she will still be able to adopt my last name.

[nittionia]

A lot of guys want my last name because it makes you sound like a superhero... I'll take my husband's name but probably combine them sometimes.

[Thorns]

I shall keep my surname - that of my father and his father before him, as such as it has been been for over a thousand years. Or as my good friend Hank said in Family Tradition, "I am very proud, of my daddy's name".

[Longbowman]

In my case, I am going to drop my father's last name because it can't be pronounced by my fiancee's relatives or my fiancee herself so I will adopt my mother's last name before we get married so she will still be able to adopt my last name.

'I'm going to take a woman's name so a woman can take my name, which will be a woman's name'

You completely lost me on this one

[Georgia]

Women in Greece have stopped taking their husbands’ surnames since the new Family Law was voted in 1982.

Interesting how forward thinking we are on this matter compared to other European countries

[The Lawspeaker]

'I'm going to take a woman's name so a woman can take my name, which will be a woman's name'

You completely lost me on this one

There is a logic behind it: the closest alternative to my father's name is my mother's name because under Dutch law I am not allowed to adopt a name which is not in my family line unless there is a real necessity for it (suppose.. if your last name was Himmler or the like). My father's name can't be pronounced in her country, and the closest pronunciation for them is actually the Tagalog word for the male sexual organ. So my natural last name goes out of the window. Still.. I want her to be able to adopt my name, so we will use my mother's name instead, which can be pronounced. That way, tradition is, in a way, secured and we can also be practical about the matter.

Now, I wouldn't want my children to suffer the indignity of having the Filipino version of colourful last names like "Naaktgeboren" (born naked), "Poepjes" ("Shit") etc. which Dutch took as a joke name when the French imposed last names on us (scrapping the patronymic system that had been in use before). So blame it on the frogs. Life would have been easier without them !

[dosas]

My wife didn't take my last name because she is English and we thought it would be weird. Our kids have both our last names for legislatory easiness when we move between our countries.

[StevenTylerAerosmith]

'Michael is a common name.' Not as common as smith, brown, Garcia, Lee, etc. And if you think Miguel and Michael are the same then herriero and smith are also the same, so the numbers are even greater. Most people in the world have very common surnames. 45% of Vietnamese are called Nguyen. At this point you're wrecking your own argument.

People change their surnames all the time. My greats grandfather had a different surname to his father. They're irrelevant except as bureaucratic tools.

most americans have relatively unique surnames. there are fewer tallaricos than there are men with fathers named michael

michael/miguel are direct cognates of each other, not just names that mean the same thing.

smith/schmidt/de set are all essetionally the same surname, just like trump/drumpf

[StevenTylerAerosmith]

A lot of guys want my last name because it makes you sound like a superhero... I'll take my husband's name but probably combine them sometimes.

is ur surname batman

[StevenTylerAerosmith]

There is a logic behind it: the closest alternative to my father's name is my mother's name because under Dutch law I am not allowed to adopt a name which is not in my family line unless there is a real necessity for it (suppose.. if your last name was Himmler or the like). My father's name can't be pronounced in her country, and the closest pronunciation for them is actually the Tagalog word for the male sexual organ. So my natural last name goes out of the window. Still.. I want her to be able to adopt my name, so we will use my mother's name instead, which can be pronounced. That way, tradition is, in a way, secured and we can also be practical about the matter.

Now, I wouldn't want my children to suffer the indignity of having the Filipino version of colourful last names like "Naaktgeboren" (born naked), "Poepjes" ("Shit") etc. which Dutch took as a joke name when the French imposed last names on us (scrapping the patronymic system that had been in use before). So blame it on the frogs. Life would have been easier without them !

how about u change ur surname to "steventyler"