A legal stoush has erupted between a mother and a father over whether their baby daughter should have a double-barrelled surname on her birth certificate.
Emily Wykes (University of Nottingham) “With a name like Patel, and her ethnic background, she won’t be working anywhere important where she can’t get the time off” (The Guardian). This recent comm…
When women get married, the majority adopt their partner's last name. But for many feminists (such as Mayim Bialik), this is not appealing. But that creates an issue when they start to have kids. Here's how Mayim and her ex-husband solved that problem.
Here’s your chance to contribute to onomastic research! If you have a moment, please participate in this short survey for Dr. Donna Lillian, past president of the American Name Society.
My hope is that if we as a society can’t come up with a fair solution that makes sense for every family, then we as a society are going to make room for a lot of different ways to do surnames, and that most of those ways will equally represent both parents (and/or average out to equal representation), and that we as a society will stop acting as if that’s weird.
"Let’s discuss fairness. I’ve mentioned this belief to people and have been met with, “Choosing kid names needs to be a compromise!” But the kids getting his last name was the compromise!"
Hi , So I hate my last name. My last name is Landon with an extra letter. Lately I’ve been debating on whether I should change it when I turn 18 next year. Reasons why I don’t like it &…
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All these Royal Weddings have got me thinking about the adorable bridesmaids and pageboys that briefly steal the limelight at these prestigious events. Starting from the most recent, here are the three Royal Weddings that have taken place this decade, and the names of the bridesmaids and page boys
two assistants were giggling and looking at a prescription form. She said, "I instantly thought, “It must be mine, and they’re thinking, ‘How do we pronounce this? You do it, I’ll, no you do it, you do it’
Vashti said there are six options when it comes to naming your child:
Father’s surname Mother’s surname Hyphenation, or a double-barrelled surname (without a hyphen) Alternating the two parents’ surnames between siblings Combining the two surnames into a portmanteau or blended surname Making up a completely new surname
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