Before I got married, I had the same first and last name as a celebrity. When I got married, instead of my wife taking my name or hyphenating, I changed my name. The change allowed me to carve out my ...

You may have noticed that I have a new last name. Or, more accurately, I once again have my old last name, the last name I had for the first 28 years of my life. I never really wanted to change my ...

Rebecca Douglass, a surgeon, chose to keep her maiden name when she married her husband. She maintained her name to preserve her legacy professionally and simplify administration. Her husband supports ...

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine texted me asking if I was planning to take my fiancé's last name. "Hell yes," I said without skipping a beat. She's in a serious relationship, and I turned the ...

I was born Sean Michael Mesidor. After I got married on September 1st, 2018 to the love of my life Simone, I became Sean Michael Wellington forever. Why did I do it? Well, if you had to pick between ...

A New Mexico mom has gone viral for revealing that her first name is also her last name. Bailey Grace Bailey took to TikTok in January to share how she became Bailey squared. “It’s spelled exactly the ...

For as long as I can remember, I dreamed of my wedding day. The obsession started back when I was about 4 years old and held monthly wedding ceremonies between two smitten Barbie dolls: Derek Jeter ...

One night this past December, I got a piece of mail I’ve thought about countless times. There, in the stack of flimsy junk mail and our monthly magazine subscriptions, was the familiar shape of a ...

“When are we going to do the coin flip?” Jenni asked. She was six months pregnant. We’d driven to a lakeside bed-and-breakfast in Northeast Michigan to enjoy a final prenatal getaway and escape the ...

I became a feminist for the same reasons most women do: televangelist Pat Robertson famously declared in 1992 that it would empower me to leave my husband, kill my children, practice witchcraft, ...

When my daughter was born in 2005, my husband and I decided to give her my last name. At the time the choice felt more personal and practical than political. My husband, whose last name is Ryan, ...

As a child in the 1980s, I remember staring at my mother’s listing in the white pages, which back then was an actual book issued by the phone company and printed on white paper. The entry revealed our ...