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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

I always wanted to change my name. As a little girl saddled with an unwieldy combination of hard-to-pronounce first and last names, I took it for granted that one day I’d fall in love with someone ...