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 ...

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 ...

After getting engaged, I joked to my husband that we should both change our last names together. He didn't find it funny and really wanted me to take his last name. A few years ago, he apologized for ...

I was raised very conservatively and was told that was what I needed to do. Now I want to change my last name, but it's expensive and time-consuming. When I was younger, I did a bunch of things that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Saying goodbye to your maiden name and taking on your his last name comes with a sacrifice. When a woman is set to get married, society assumes she’ll ditch her maiden name for her partner’s last name ...

I married my partner in a quiet online ceremony due to COVID. I’m a man, she’s a woman, and we had decided beforehand that I would take her last name. We had a few reasons for this decision, one of ...

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 ...

A Kansas City family reunites to do something that countless African Americans before them could not do—choose their own last name. where you've been, where you going, legacy. My name is Adolphus ...