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 ...

When I got divorced, I didn't change my last name to my maiden name. I felt like our common last name connected me to our children. Some of my children decided to change their names to my maiden name.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the digital-first age, it is important to protect your privacy, especially when it comes to social media. With numerous people and companies tracking our online activities, it is understandable why ...

So I not-infrequently google both my real name and my user name to make sure things show up as expected. Generally, this keeps me on top of places where I want to reserve my user name and make sure ...

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, ...

My husband and I gave her names that honor our heritage, but now we wonder if it’s enough. By Jami Nakamura Lin For the longest time, when we said her name, our daughter wouldn’t turn her head. Though ...