Did you change your last name to your husbands/partners name?

Nope. His last name didn’t earn a law degree. 🙌

I like my name. He likes his name. Names are too long to hyphenate. I added his last name as a middle name. He did the same with my last name. Problem solved

No (emphatically). And with all the crap this administration is trying with voting rights, I would encourage all individuals to keep their birth names. If you don't want to, then get ahead of it and get your passport.

Nope. I like my name.

No

Nope. I am me. My name fits me.

No, I love my name and have worked hard to build a professional brand with it! But I love his name too and don’t care or get offended when people call me that socially, like on a wedding invite.

I did. I wanted a family name for when we had kids (especially bc we are an interracial couple), and his last name was important to him and his family (first generation immigrants) and my last name was not.
My sister took her husband’s last name and uses her maiden name as a middle name for professional continuity and I sometimes wish I did that, but my middle name was more significant to me (named after the woman who raised my dad)

We both hyphenated, which has worked well. I really wanted to keep my name for both personal identity and professional reasons but also wanted to feel like we were creating one family unit. Us both hyphenating accomplished all of that.

I did but kept my maiden name as my middle name. I was still fairly early in my career and like the idea of having a family name.

Surprised at all the other “nos” here! I kept my last name 1. Because I like it better, 2. I have a well established professional identity, 3. My husband’s last name was very common and I never would’ve come up cleanly in a Google search as my first name is as well, and 4. Changing your name is a huge admin PIA. I probably would’ve suggested the family hyphenated name because that sounds really cool, but see item #4.

There’s really no wrong answer though and it’s cool to see people taking diff approaches.

Yes, but I wish I hadn’t! Got married young-ish, before I went back to law school, so I didn’t think much about it. 13 years in, I’m used to it, but it still doesn’t feel like *my* name. I’d change it back except that it’d hurt my husband’s feelings. Also, as others have said, it was a massive pain in the ass, so not inclined to go through it all again.

No. I didn’t even think of doing it. We did have a conversation about what our children’s name would be, but I did not assume it would be his. It’s 2026. Women are not subsumed into their husbands’ identities anymore, and it’s so common to keep your own name that all of the issues that arose from having different names in the last century no longer exist. The only person who seems to have trouble adjusting to my keeping my name is my mother-in-law, but that’s a whole other conversation.

Kept my last name and just added his. I am too attached to my last name, but at the same time I don’t mind his last name and he is an attorney too (so we both earned that law degree). Have I gone through the process of changing it aside from on the marriage certificate? Nope.

No. I don’t care if people call me by his last name socially, but I wanted my professional life separate because his last name is very unique and therefore findable.

Absolutely no. Never, but it’s a nonstarter in this political climate.

Use whatever name you want socially/on Facebook etc.

Yes. I wanted to

Yes, but we got married relatively young while I was still in law school. It was an easy transition.

Nope, not only did I do all of my schooling and licensing under my name, but his last name is much harder to spell and I didn’t want to deal with that in court everyday 😂

No