Talk:Maiden name
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All the women I know who changed their surnames dropped their middle names. I don't know anyone who became, for instance, "Kate Jane Smith". The new "tacked on his name at the end" that I've been hearing so much of lately seems like a cop-out women use to make themselves feel better when they go down the path of least resistance and take their husband's name.
Also, isn't it kind of obvious that if Jane Smith-Luyten marries John Brown-Clarke, they'll become Smith-Clark, or Smith-Brown, or Luyten-Brown, or Luyten-Clarke? Clearly they'll just prune two surnames from the bunch. I'd hope they'd prune the surnames of the parent each of them feels closest too (which would probably be the mother at least half the time).
When a woman keeps her birth name after marriage, is she still a miss or is she now a mrs.? -- Anon, August 2003
Double surname
If "Kate Luyten" marries "John Smith", isn't it also common for her to be "Kate Luyten Smith"? (The article gives "Smith Luyten"). Does each have a significance (socially or otherwise)? --Menchi (Talk)â 08:53, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Men changing name after marriage?
Nowadays in Germany (civil law) it is still common that after marriage a woman takes the name of her husband, but it is also possible that both continue to use their former names or that the man takes the name of his wife. The article seems to suggest that a change of name in that direction is very unusal in the US/UK? -- till we ☼☽ | Talk 17:47, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)