wife taking husband's family name

[Baron Von PWN]

In quebec women keep their maiden names

[Haggis_McMutton]

In quebec women keep their maiden names

barbarians.

[Lootifer]

I think hyphenating is retarded; just makes me think that youre really anal about something mundane.

I happily would have changed my name to my wifes, but shes more traditional than me and went for mine instead. In NZ; any set of records that matters at all (see census, tax, employment, etc etc) will record your maiden name anyways, so not line your lineage is going to be lost...

I immediately judge hyphenated people as anally retentive; im such a god damn bigot.

[saxitoxin]

In quebec women keep their maiden names

In Mittelsachsen, where I am from originally, there is a local custom where the wife takes the husband's first name.

It's terribly adorable, though can be confusing at dinner parties.

[jonesthecurl]

Mrs the curl took my name on marriage - but that was only to wipe out the mistake she'd made before. We couldn't have her with some other guy's family name while married to me. Had she still had her maiden name when we married, I think she'd have kept it.

[Army of GOD]

when I marry I'm going to forcibly change both of our last names to "Dover" and then have a kid named Ben

[jonesthecurl]

My friend Sharon married a guy with the last name "Seal".
She wanted to name their child "Imba".
My friend whose last name was "Egg" threatened to name his son "Hammond".

































































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[yang guize]

my friend whose family name is 'Fei' wanted to name his son 'Hai'

i explain. 'Fei Hai' pronounced one way is a normal boy's name but pronounce another way it means 'fat cunt'

[MeDeFe]

There's rumoured to be a German woman with the misfortune of being named "Rosa", last name "Schlüpfer". In english it means "pink panties".

[Lootifer]

Pfft, theres a few kids in NZ who have been named after the bus stops they were conceived in.

[Army of GOD]

former football player Dick Butkus (pronounced "Butt-kiss")

[MeDeFe]

former football player Dick Butkus (pronounced "Butt-kiss")

He chose the wrong profession.

[rdsrds2120]

Anyone met my good friend, Sharon? Now, Mrs. Peters is a wonderful woman. Giver her a ring.

-rd

[crispybits]

It should be put into law that the couple must take whichever surname is less common (as established in the most recent census) - bring some of the rarer ones back into more usage

[nietzsche]

submission of the wife to the man.

honestly when I marry I wouldn't mind taking my wife's last name, assuming it's not generic like "Jones" or some stupid shit.

You should do this, your last name really sucks.

Mine is Hernandez, Garcia or Gonzalez so you have no comeback

[rdsrds2120]

submission of the wife to the man.

honestly when I marry I wouldn't mind taking my wife's last name, assuming it's not generic like "Jones" or some stupid shit.

You should do this, your last name really sucks.

Mine is Hernandez, Garcia or Gonzalez so you have no comeback

You had me guess it one day, and I know which one it is. I can find you now. Scary scary woooOOooOo.

-rd

[2dimes]

submission of the wife to the man.

honestly when I marry I wouldn't mind taking my wife's last name, assuming it's not generic like "Jones" or some stupid shit.

You should do this, your last name really sucks.

Mine is Hernandez, Garcia or Gonzalez so you have no comeback

You had me guess it one day, and I know which one it is. I can find you now. Scary scary woooOOooOo.

-rd

Is Patrick your dad?

[zimmah]

in the netherlands there's someone called peter selie, which is the dutch word for parsley.

also, both dick and cock (or kok) are usual names in holland, kok/cock being last names and dick being first names. however dick is more common with people of the age 45 and over.

[daddy1gringo]

This is true, I had a student once with the last name "Case". His parents named him "Justin".

[nietzsche]

The Mexican national anthem has a part that goes "Mas si osare un extraño enemigo.." which means something like "If a stranger enemy dared to" but the part "Mas si osare" it's not what you would call every day Spanish, specially the verb and it's particular conjugation in that phrase. Neither is very common to use "Mas si" as in English you would use "Moreover".

So anyway, a lot of people thinks it says "Masiosare, a stranger enemy", and there are more than a few parents that gave their sons that first name, Masiosare.

[daddy1gringo]

Sort of back on subject, we've been talking as if all of "Western Christendom" shares the custom of the wife taking the husband's name. Not so with Spain and places that share its culture. One of the adjustments we had when we moved from the U.S. to Puerto Rico is that here the wife does not take the husband's name.

There she was Mrs. {my last name}, but when we came here she was just {her first name} {her father's last name}, and for the "full name", you don't add a middle name in the middle, but instead at the end you add the mother's last name. Likewise, here my official full name is not {first name}{middle name}{last name}, but {first name(nombre)}{my father's last name(apellido paternal)}{my mother's last name(apellido madernal)}. My mother was delighted to know that I was now an O'Brien. Irish pride, you know.

[nietzsche]

In Mexico we have both last names as well
name - optional middle name - father's last name - mother's last name
Ana Maria Ramos Garcia

And the wife normally takes the husband first last name after her first one, and the word "De" (of) to end like this:
name - optional middle name - father's last name - "de" - husband's last name
Ana Maria Ramos de Rosas


But, in contrast with what daddygringo says, in Mexico you can have only one last name, for cases with only one parent.

So, I have my name, my middle name (or second name as we call it here) then I got TWO last names from my father for some reason and then my mother's last name. My name is made of 5 words. 4 of them aren't common in Spanish. It's been a nightmare all my life.

[MegaProphet]

Maybe instead of the woman taking her husband’s name when they get married or doing the hyphenated thing couples should just smash their last names together so like if a Smith married a Grabowski you could be Smabowski or Grabith or Grasmithski