Do you like your DP/last DP's name? Do you like yours?

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Just that really. I'm bored in a meeting.

Like my ex's name. Like mine.

I have had 3 surnames:
My birth surname which I didn't mind.
My first marriage surname, which I absolutely loved and kept until I remarried.
My current surname which I absolutely hate.
But my first husband was rubbish so it didn't compensate for the great surname.
My second husband was a really nice person so it was worth putting up with his horrible surname because of that.

I didn't dislike my maiden name, but it was a bit of a mouthful, was often misspelled and mispronounced, and gave rise to various nicknames when I was a child.

For husband's surname is shorter, less easily misspelled and never mispronounced. It also starts with a letter closer to the start of the alphabet.

For those reasons I changed mine to his when we married.

I like my DH's surname, but kept my own surname because it works well with my first name and people can spell it, which they can't with DH's surname for some reason, though it seems perfectly obvious how to spell it to me. I think just because it's central-European sounding and thus unfamiliar, people don't know what to do with it. The kids have his surname because it's much more interesting than mine and I was happy for them to have it. DH decided he wanted to add my surname as a middle name by deed poll 6 or 7 years ago and then both the kids wanted it, so I have done the same for them.

A cousin married a woman with the surname 'Smelling' and I'm not surprised she took his name!

I don't dislike my husbands surname but it's quite common, I kept my own when we got married and I like it (and was known professionally so didnt want hassle there or with changing all the documents) Kids had his surname.

My birth surname is one of the top 10 UK ones. Nice enough, just boring.

DHs was cool, rare and interesting. However unforgettable surnames can have disadvantages.

Love my name. Can't stand my ex's. Luckily, he's lost PR and I have changed the kids' surname to mine, which is, without, actually writing it, the name of a pack dog that usually lives in mountainous regions and howls at the moon. 😁 Think Virginia, the author.

I was always a bit cringe about my surname as a teenager. Took DHs name on marriage and I like it. It's so common that it is totally non-offensive, easy to spell, easily pronounced, and same number of letters as my first name 😄

I love my last name. Its unusual and Scottish. There are only about 300 people with my surname in the world.

DP has a boring surname - top ten UK surname.

I'd never change my name in a million years - politically but also because DP's surname is fucking shit. DP's folks were very unhappy about that when we got married 😂

I like DH's name, its not English though so people struggle to spell it and we have had some interesting "suggestions" of how it should be pronounced/spelt.
Te DC like it because they are proud of their heritage, although they have had some bullying at school which apparently can't be addressed because they are white.
I was never keen on my last name, didn't hate it but was happy to change it when we got married

When I was a kid this is always the last name I wanted!!!
I think its awesome, along with another similar animal thats smaller and red/orange 😁

DH name is an incredibly ancient Anglo Saxon one that is dying out and we have never met anyone in passing with his family name. My name is a very regular name in the country my Father is from though people here struggle with the pronunciation. When I went on honey moon I returned to the name plate changed on my office as they had assumed I would be changing my name. I wasn’t so they had to change it back.

😂 love how everyone's gone down the surname route, I was thinking of first names! Thinking probably being the keyword there :D

I'm not keen on my husbands name so I kept mine 🙂

When I was a kid this is always the last name I wanted!!!
I think its awesome, along with another similar animal thats smaller and red/orange

My son's best friend's surname (in primary school) was Fox! And even though their surnames started with different letters, the teachers always put them together on the class list (back in the day when parents were given a typed class list! Never done now!). There were twins whose surname was Hunter.
So it was Hunter, Wolf, and Fox clumped together on the class list (nice little teacher's joke!) and then all the names went right back into alphabetical order. 😁

I love my surname. It's unusual in the UK but there are quite a few in France and Canada. There is a small town and river with the same name in France. I am married but kept it. I am estranged from my dad but it links me to my sister and so I don't even think of it as "his" name but our name.
My husband's name is very rare as it's a misspelled version of a fairly common Eastern European Jewish last name. There's only about 10 of them in the world with that spelling. Our kids have both our surnames so they can make their own choice when they get older if they wish

OP, Mn has a weird condition whereby a disproportionate number of posters had a dreadful birth surname, which was difficult to spell, ugly, was misheard all the time etc etc. And they all married men with wonderful, mellifluous, easily spelled, utterly likeable surnames, and of course changed their names on marriage, because why wouldn't you change your name from Ouusczuchst'i-ShiteSandwich to 'Green'?

DH has a very ordinary surname, as have I. Think Smith vs Jones. I honestly can't muster any particular emotion about either.

I'm sick of the implication that posters are lying. It happens every time this subject comes up.

I changed mine from a comedy combination to a far better one. According to lots of people on MN I'm lying though

Yes, I'm wondering why everyone has presumed you meant surname.
I love my partners name, quite unusual, I like my name too. Both are not often used but still traditional. Iyswim.

My surname is my dh's first name.. When I was married previously I didn't want to keep that . Or have dh's. It's awful. When we got engaged I took his first name as my surname and kept it when we got married.
Ds has my surname as his surname.. So dh's first name!!

Oh, I realised I misread the title -- it was 'did you like your last DP's name?' rather than 'DP's last name'! Probably others did similar.

Yes, the only thing is it is often thought of as a posh boy name for our age -early 40s, Alan Partridge made a joke about three names that are posh boy names and I laughed as DH has one of them and his friends have the others!

I like my name but it has been shortened to one syllable and up until about mid 20s I was always known a the abbreviation with two syllables. If I use my married surname it has great alliteration but it is Irish and I have Scandinavian heritage and DH thinks I don’t look very Irish so for professional reasons as well I don’t tend to use it!

I hate my married name and I can't wait to be rid of it tbh

I like my surname. My family tree goes back as far as the Domesday Book.

My husband's name is an adjective. I don't hate it, but I couldn't stand the puns.

Plus it gets misspelled. The worst thing is receiving post addressed to a misspelled name that isn't even mine.

Son has both our names.

My partner's name is boring (both first and last) but I never call him by his actual name anyway.
I love my name, though my first name sometimes gets me mistaken for a Russian which isn't so great right now, but my last name hopefully clears that up. Everyone I introduce myself to also loves my last name, almost every single time I get a comment on it. Never going to change it even though it can make it harder for me to find work (due to discrimination against foreign names in the country I live in now)

Objectively yes i like my last DPs name. But it reminds me of him which hurts.