Do you like your surname?

[PunnyBeaker]

Sure do

Yes

I love it

I chose it when I turned 18. As I was born still just before my parents divorced I was registered under my dad’s surname. My wonderful mum kept her married until I was old enough to sign the deed poll myself and never spoke against him (even though she had every reason to)
I remember going to the solicitors office and changing it then celebrating with my gran and cousins that we all had the same surname (my mums siblings were all boys so we were the only two).

I will get married soon and I don’t want to change it. I know I don’t have to but not sure when it came to it how I would feel about kids having different surnames to me (right now I don’t care and I loathe double barreling so I may just suck that up hahaha)

Not enormously but it's better than my maiden name, which is why I took it.

No, it’s my maiden name and I hate it. I can’t wait to get married so I can change it, but I aren’t even engaged yet so it could be a longer wait 🤣

@Floppyearedlab Would your soon-to-be husband consider changing his name to yours?

I love it and didn't change it when I married (I wouldn't have in any case). I'm only sorry I didn't give it to my children - dh agrees. It's a name that could take any first name. When I gave birth the little bracelets in the hospital said "Baby Pallisers" which I loved.

I wouldn’t ask him to. It’s definitely a ‘me thing’ and I don’t want to be militant or make a big deal about it. If my story wasn’t particular I would think nothing of it. I just love my name. It’s tied with my wonderful grandparents who literally pulled us out of the trenches when I was born and helped bring me up.

I liked my maiden name and I like my married name.

I know! I did what 90% of Mumsnetters claim they don't do... (but in real life 90% of women DO do!) I TOOK MY HUSBAND'S SURNAME! 😱

No. It is difficult to spell and I wish I had kept my maiden name. But then, my father changed his surname before I was born and I would really like to revert to our original family name.

Mine's a woman's first name and I get called that as my first name all the time. But it's better than my maiden name which was always pronounced incorrectly.

Yeah, I love mine.

No, not really. I’m hanging on until my daughter is old enough to change hers without permission should she want to.

Hated my unmarried name and it was very uncommon. Eventually got round to changing to my dh's surname about 10 years after we married and like the ordinary anonymity of it. Don't think anyone would find me if they googled.

I liked my maiden name. It was ordinary but not very common, as in I don't think I have met anyone with the same name, although there are plenty out there.

I'm not so keen on my married name, but I don't hate it. It's just a bit blah. And (dare I say it), from a lower social strata than my maiden name. Just the name, that is.

Me too. My maiden name was frequently spelled or pronounced incorrectly, or used to make "jokes". I'm glad to be rid of it. My married name isn't particularly interesting, but I've never once had anyone laugh at it, so that's a win as far as I'm concerned.

No! Been married 14 years so not planning on changing it now and didnt even consider not being Mrs (husbands name).when we married but as times gone on I regret it!!
Our dd is vocal about not liking it. It is actually a silly word
If i was to give simmilar theme names "Trump" "Sidebottom"
Honestly didnt bother me one point in the throws of young love! But my unmarried name was very pretty and they dont really merge together as a double barralled name so It is what it is!

I hated my maiden name. I was bullied relentlessly for it at school, a teacher even made a joke of it once in front of the whole class. So I took my husbands name when we got married and I'm so much happier

My brother obviously still has the name and he is mocked for it now, even as an adult

Thats awful and i know my DD has had comments about her name but not to the point of bullying. The men in the family can carry it off well but I dont think it works too well for women personally (and i suppose i can say that as it is my name 😅) but i said to dd she can change it if she likes but shes still only young pre high school so- no pressure obv- but if she wants to change it for high school ill support her

Yes. It’s benign and not particularly interesting-sounding; but it’s unusual and is the name of the small village my family originated from many generations ago. The small handful of other people who have it across the world are very distant relations who emigrated.

Yes, except nobody can pronounce it 😂

Yes because only 3 people in the world have it. And I had a complicated relationship with my birth name. I loved it, but was always told it wasn't really mine as I'd get married one day and change it. So I kind of lost my connection to it if that makes sense.

I do now. I hated my maiden name, but would never tell my family that. Although it didn't appear to be an unusual name is was often mistaken for another name and i never met a non-relative with that name, incidentally there is shoe shop on York with my maiden name. I love my married name and there are loads of us.

Yes I do and I kept it when I got married. My children have my surname and DH's surname as an extra middle name (not double barrelled)

Yes - both husband and I db'd upon marriage. I'm Ms MyFamilyName - His FamilyName. I would never have got rid of my family name upon marriage, nor would I have db'd had he not as well. #sayingnotothepatriarchy

For those of you that genuinely hate/hated your family name, why not change it? You dont need to wait for marriage.