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A New Mexico mom has gone viral for revealing that her first name is also her last name. The woman took to TikTok in January to share how the name change unfolded. 
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I’m going to repeat that last part: Half of Americans think women should be required by law to take their husband’s name. What? Like… what?
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2 Woman keeps her name, man keeps his name, any kids take their dad’s last name. You would not prefer this. You suspect that this is what your partner and his family would accept.
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Found via Swistle.
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Caress & Clytoris Here’s an interesting name-evolution story. Mary “Polly” Phelps Jacob was born in 1891 in New York to a blue-blooded family that could be traced back, on bot…
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Hang on, she named her dog what?
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No one forced me to change my name, but I was conditioned to believe it’s something a wife just does — so her husband doesn’t feel slighted, and her kids don’t get confused — based on traditions that go against everything I believe in.
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I have to acknowledge that preserving the Brodeur name wasn’t the only reason behind it. Now I can admit to something I wasn’t even aware of back then: I wanted my children to have my last name simply because I wanted it.
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We got married! The Nordic Names team (Judith and Malte) got married today :)
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Big congratulations to the Nordic Names superstars!!
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I had so much fun with last week's question and follow-up! It was so fun to read about your "almost names"! Here's another question for you: How different are your parents' taste in names? If you were able to ask them right now what names they would have on their list if they didn't have…
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A woman is devastated after uncovering that her lying husband's ex was actually the one who first suggested their future baby's name.
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"I have suggested that she could have my name, we could choose a new name, we could all have a new name ... but he is adamant." How would you get around this one?
Clare's insight:
Imagine what Swistle would say to this! I'm in the camp of: why should one parent assume the child would get their name and not be willing to consider any of the compromises the other parent suggests?
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I don’t think I can get past that, knowing that everyone has already passed judgment and sh*t on the name. But now it’s the only name my husband will consider.
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We asked readers how they decided on their child's surname. The volume of responses was enormous, very varied, and sometimes surprising.
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Defying longstanding tradition of only listing the fathers’ details, marriage records in both England and Wales will now include the names of the mothers. According to an article in The New York Times, mothers’ names will be added to all marriage records.
Clare's insight:
Good! This bothered me when I got married. We had our mothers as witnesses so that they could be included on the certificate.
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This started as a conversation on the long car ride home from the big-city hospital where my son Edward gets monthly Remicade infusions for his Crohn’s disease. We were talking about surnames…
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I want to talk today about name regret, but not quite in the way we usually would on a baby-naming blog. Today I would like the subject to be about regrets we still have many years later: not fresh…
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I've just spent ages absorbed in these comments. One theme that keeps coming up is women who regret changing their surname and/or not including it in their children's names.
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Dear Swistle, I am a long time reader and fan of your blog(s), and am now calling for you for advice with naming our fourth and final child, a girl, due in three weeks (because what better time tha…
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Giving babies surnames that don't belong to either parent is growinbg trend, with mashup surnames and invented names on the increase.
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"I was okay with them having his last name, because that gave me more control of the first!" - amen to that!
Very interesting comments too.
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An estimated 3% of men choose to turn gender stereotyping on its head when they get married. Why – and do any of them regret it?
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Hedda Hopper was a gossip columnist who came to fame in the early 1940s (when she was in her 50s). But “Hedda Hopper” wasn’t her original name. It was Elda Furry. She’d been…
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This is interesting because Hedda doesn't sound so different from the set either. It's not as if she changed her name to Dorothy or Rosanne.
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Because it triggers so much anxiety, she needs to think hard about her relationship.
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OPINION: Everyone knows double-barrels are infuriated by every form they ever fill out.
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A new mom is furious after finding out her MIL 'guilt-tripped' her husband into changing their son's middle name while she was recovering from a C-section.
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Oof...
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