Do you like your last name?
By katsmeow1213
@katsmeow1213 (28717)
United States
January 11, 2018 1:18pm CST
I see a lot of names everyday. Sometimes I'll see an odd or peculiar name, or a very long name that is probably hard to pronounce if you don't know it, or a name that could get picked on easily.. and I wonder to myself what this person feels like having such a name.
I also wonder about married women with long, funny, or peculiar last names and wonder what was their thought process when they got married. They had the choice to keep their maiden name.. was their maiden name worse? Or did they just not care?
I didn't like the name I was born with.. it was a common name, but I got picked on a lot so kids found ways to pick on my name. It was also towards the end of the alphabet so I always ended up being one of the last people in line for things.. which maybe doesn't seem like a big deal, but it was to me.
Like most women I changed my name when I got married, and I really like my last name now. It's not too common, it's short and simple, it's all around a decent name to have.
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@shaggin (71666)
• United States
11 Jan 18
I like my married last name. I loved the man I was marrying so no matter how awful the name might have been I still would have taken his last name. I know a girl who kept her last name when she got married or her name would have been Kelly Kelly lol
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@katsmeow1213 (28717)
• United States
14 Jan 18
I don't blame her for not changing her name. I once dated a guy that had a horrible last name, I told him I wouldn't marry him because I didn't want his name.
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@shaggin (71666)
• United States
14 Jan 18
@katsmeow1213 lol I assume you really didn’t love him enough to marry him because if you did you could have married him and kept your name if it was one you hated so much.
@katsmeow1213 (28717)
• United States
14 Jan 18
@shaggin nah, we weren't going to make it either way. He later had kids with another girl and she gave the kids his name, but she never married him. They lasted 10 years and she moved on to someone else and had more kids. IDK what is going on with him now, he found me on Facebook a few years back so I trolled his page and learned all this information.. he sent me a friend request right after he and the girl broke up, but I'm happily married so I ignored the request, but I did check out his page, and the girl's page. But that was awhile ago.
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@katsmeow1213 (28717)
• United States
14 Jan 18
I know a couple that took the wife's name instead of the husband's because she didn't like his name. That marriage didn't last long though, but I don't think that had anything to do with the name.
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@JudyEv (325854)
• Rockingham, Australia
15 Jan 18
@katsmeow1213 It might have had a bit to do with her character - or his! 
@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
6 Feb 18
Sorry to hear the kids used to pick on your last name. When I get married I'll drop my middle name & move my current last name to my middle name and use my soon to be husbands last name.
My dad was against changing last names but too bad, he only has girls as daughters & his last name won't be a legacy =)
@katsmeow1213 (28717)
• United States
7 Feb 18
Is that a typical custom? To change your middle name when you get married? I've not heard of that before.
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@katsmeow1213 (28717)
• United States
7 Feb 18
@infatuatedbby Well it could become a family tradition.
Some people give their children their maiden name as a middle name.. my brother's child is named that way. The boy's middle name is his mother's maiden name.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
7 Feb 18
@katsmeow1213 No, but that is what my sister did also. We want to keep our last name to make our dad happy :) And we don't mind dropping our middle name as it is hardly used.
@MikesAngel317 (355)
• United States
11 Jan 18
Currently my last name is my ex-husbands last name, just haven't changed it yet. So, no, I don't really care for it. 
Even my maiden name I don't like too much.
Even my maiden name I don't like too much.1 person likes this
@katsmeow1213 (28717)
• United States
14 Jan 18
I think if I ever divorce I'll keep my husband's name. It's been who I am for so long I couldn't imagine going back.. and I didn't like my maiden name either.
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