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I was just talking with a co-worker who had her maiden name changed to her middle name. My co-workers then went on to tell me that most people do that but I've never heard of that. What will you bees be doing?
I am just replacing my maiden with my FI's last name. Starts with the same letter, so my initials won't change :)
I am just changing my last name. I never considered changing my middle name...that would sound really odd to me because my last name is, well, a little odd.
I don't have a middle name now and when I get married I am just going to drop my last name and pick up his. I always said that I would break my first name in two (I have a long first name) and then I would have a middle name and my husband's last but his last name sounds awful with the first part of my first name.
I'm just changing my last name! I like my middle name :)
I have no idea! I can not decide! I don't wanna give up my last name because i LOVE it and its ME. If i add his i will have the LONGEST name. I like his n all but if i change mine my brother will be the only 1 with our last name left and if he doesnt have kids it will be gone in our family!
When my Grandfather came over on the boat the officer spelled his last name different then all his brothers and sisters!
My mom uses the first letter of her maiden name as her middle name. I don't know what I want to do yet. I'll probably just drop my last name and keep my middle name, but I'm still debating.
i just changed my last name. as much as i dislike my middle name, it's what my parents gave me and it's mine.
Do people add their maiden to their middle name? Is that possible? I like my last name :( and my fiance's is really hard to pronounce! My poor kids are going to be the ones that have to spell out their last name every first day of school :( haha
I voted for the second option....but I don't have a middle name to replace. It will be more like sliding my last name over to the left one place.
@Min, I'd never heard of anyone dropping her middle name and using her maiden name as her middle name until I started posting on Weddingbee. The idea does make sense.
However, I am rather attached to my middle name, even more so than I am to my maiden name, so I plan to just keep my first and middle names as is and adopt my husband's last name.
I'll be [First][Middle][Married], althought I'll probably use [Maiden][Married] for a while socially.
My maiden name will become my middle name. My middle name didn't hold any special meaning or anything and I think of myself as (for example) Jane Smith, not Jane Marie. I like that my family name will live on in my name.
I'm undecided about what to do about my middle name. I have decided to change my last name to his which I have no problem about. It just makes sense to me to have that connection. When I see a couple that have two different last names I assume that they are not married. Also when we have kids I want to have the same name as theirs. We are going to be a family unit 
I don't have a middle name so I'm just taking FH's surname and dropping my maiden name.
i want my family to have the same last name... so i will be taking my FIs last name. I'm not a fan of hyphenating our names because honestly it looks and sounds ridiculous.
I am probably just tacking his name onto the end of my name and keeping my last name as a second middle. although i *might* drop my current middle bc my name will be kind of ridiculously long if i dont (10 syllables total haha).
In Quebec Canada, there is a law that we cannot change our last name. So unfortunately I will have to keep my last name...
My coworker had her husband take her maiden added as his middle. It works for them because his name is short- but I don't like my last name and it's really long as is so I can't wait to switch!
I definitely want to dump my last name (which people always misspell) and take my FI's last name (which is much easier).
I'm just changing my last name. I don't feel too attached to my last name (yeah, I like it, but it's not a "part of who I am" or anything, it's just a name!), so I feel no need to keep it on, as a last or middle name. Besides, when I change my name my initials will be "JEN", and my first name is "Jennifer", so it's just too cool. : D
I am going to have I am just going to and my bf's name to the end of mine. So I will have 2 last names with no hyphen.
First Name || Maiden Name || His Name
Doing the maiden-as-middle thing. I wish I could just keep my middle, but it's important to my parents. *le sigh*
I'm tacking my fiance's last name onto mine - hyphenating and keepin' everything :) otherwise if I just took FI's last name, my name would be a little obnoxiously sing-song-y.
I could never imagine changing my middle name, I was named after my dad, so I am just keeping my first, middle, and changing my last name to my Fiance's last name.
I love, love, love my full name and I don't want to get rid of any of my names. So I'll just have two middle names (middle and maiden).
I kept my middle name and added my maiden name as a second middle name. I only use all four on bank documents and my driver's license, because lots of databases can't accomadate two middle names. I wanted to keep my last name for my family history and I needed to keep my middle name because I go by first name, portion of middle name. Think name of famous cosmetics company.
I can't wait to change my last name to my FI's name as my new intials will be TKO! Ha!
The only people who know my middle name are my family and my FI and they're not going to forget it or stop using it just because I replace it with my maiden name. And I just don't want tons of names and I'm much more attached to my maiden name than my middle. My parents call me by my firstmiddle all the time, and will likely continue to do so. The only change will be how I appear on legal documents and that's not really a big deal to me. So First Maiden HisLast for me....it's what EVERYONE I know did.
I'm adding his last name with a hyphen to my last name, and keeping my middle name. In German, my first name + his last name is kind of an inappropriate term, so I need to keep my last name in there as a buffer, regardless of the hassles of a hyphenated name.
I can't vote b/c there's no option on there for me :-( I don't currently have a middle name, and I have a hyphenated last name that combines both of my parents' last names.
When I get married I'm going to take FI's last name, and I *think* I'm going to move my hyphenated last name to be my middle name -- maybe dropping the hyphen so that I end up w/ 2 middle names. I'm also contemplating just dropping my last name though, since it is so complicated. So then I would be "current first name" "fiance's last name" with no middle name.
I just didn't know that it was so normal or what most people did. I thought women just mostly took their hubbys last name and that was that. I've seen a few people hyphenate the names but I had no idea the maiden as a middle name was the norm and what most people did or that it even existed. Well maybe not on this pole but I don't see how I've missed knowing that. its like an American tradition that I had no clue about.
I just found this topic. My initals have always been ABB. Ari Beth Bowlin, but I just thought I'd become Ari Bowlin Statzer. NOW that I see this topic it makes me rethink my choice! I think it would sound better if I kept Beth and just added Statzer. My first 2 initals won't change so when I sign my checks or something, it'll almost be interchangable! lol...no kidding!
What do you all think? Should I just take Bowlin and use it for my middle name or should I just delete Bowlin and use Beth as what it is--my middle name?
HELP!!!??!?!?!
Actually, adding FI's last name at the end of my last name (no hyphen) just so it's there but I won't really use it.
I just got married and I'm in the process of changing my name. I'm taking my husband's last name and my maiden name will be my middle name. That's how it goes in my culture. My middle name (before getting married) is actually my mother's maiden name. So my mother's maiden name will be dropped in this process.
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