Maiden/Married Names

I must say I love your Amercia names...very unique. I have never heard the name Holiday...oh yes Billy Holiday the fmous singer...I still love it thou.

[quote="CharlotteModebe"]While I love all the different names and the different ways they ar pronounced...I am more intrigued by the strange surnames....Like Bailey and George - I think they are so cool. My maidan name is Knowles and marriage name is Thompson, had my father sign for me my maiden name would have been Ettienne...nothing cool about them thou. [/quote]

I CHANGD MY RESPONSE BECUASE I REALIZED THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS POSTED IN BABIES NAME.....

My maiden name is Wright. My married name will be Pope. I think I'll take his last name b/c I don't want to be Pope Wright or the Wright Pope! Ha!

Girl that name is something else - be careful how you name your children thou - you know school children can be very cruel....Wright Pope (haaaaaa)

I will be taking my husband's name but will hypenate it with my maiden name. My son (who has a different father - who's deceased) has my last name and I don't want him to feel left out.

I am also going to hyphenate my name. My maiden name is Ross and my married name will be Bostic (uugghhh...I hate it!). I think Nicole Ross-Bostic sounds better than just Nicole Bostic. And also for the same reason as askalot. My son's last name is Ross, and I don't want him to feel left out. If I had a daughter, it would be different because her last name would change one day eventually.

With all this consideration for the children - what happens when I tie the knott again...what should it be????? that one has me..bearing in mind my children are from first marriage...will I have 3 names including first name or what????

My maiden last name is Edwards and my married name will be Randolph. I will also be hyphenating my name because FH wants me to keep my name since his SIL kept her last name (he will be the second in his family to marry) and he hates his last name. We were already giving our two angels both names so I plan to keep it. Before FH was adopted his last name was Christian and we were thinking about using that name but decided against it so we wouldnd offend the family or being HUGE reminder of the past. And it will be easier to add a letter to my signiture than to create a whole new one. I have a capital L turning into a capital D which loops into an E and all I have to do it add R (you must see it to understand). So my new name will be LKiesha Edwards-Randolph (but I wish it was LKiesha Edwards-Christian)

I'll be changing my last name from Williams to Weston. I love the ring it has to it.

My Name is Rosetta Bartlett-George. People kept calling me MISS George or MRS Bartlett. It drove me banannas! The worst was when on my voters registration card they only put Bartlett because George didn't fit! Aint that a blip!

Rosetta, that's why I have to drop my name because my government name is long. With my new last name, eveything should fit.

The good thing about my new last name is it's short - Burns. But geesh I hate it. It sounds like I have a VD or something lol. When I do my legal matters, I will probably just sign Katrease Burns. But, when it's time for school matters (for my son & daughter), I will use Katrease Mallary-Burns. Yes, it's long but my poor daughter has it the worst - Kyasia Joslyn Mallary-Burns. lol My aunt said "Damn, I need to use a whole envelope just for her name". lmao.

One of the reason I use both is because there is another Charlotte Thompson here and the heffer will not stop writing rubber cheques so to avoid situations like that I use both...with my work ID the people could not get all that on I told them use only "C" but please put Knowles-Thompson...I tired having to say it's not my bounce cheque...it's not me!!!!!!!!! oh I did the same thing when I went to register to vote....I always explain my reason and they understand.

Verlincia Wallace to Verlincia Prince. We had a discussion about hyphenating, but FH ain't having it....

I will be taking my FH last name which is Culbreath. My maiden name is Jackson.

[quote="CharlotteModebe"]With all this consideration for the children - what happens when I tie the knott again...what should it be????? that one has me..bearing in mind my children are from first marriage...will I have 3 names including first name or what????
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Girl did you forget about the infamous Alexis Carrington Colby Dexter?
LOL!!! I hyphenated too, for business reasons.

[quote="Cinamin1"]Rosetta, that's why I have to drop my name because my government name is long. With my new last name, eveything should fit.
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Errrr government name? thought you could slip that by me?

Niquey girl.........I know!...I just ain't comfortable. We gat one News reporter over her that has 6 surnames...the heffer been married 5 times and she kept all of em....ha!

[quote="Rosetta"]Rosetta, that's why I have to drop my name because my government name is long. With my new last name, eveything should fit.

Errrr government name? thought you could slip that by me?
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Yes! :-)

My maiden name was Vaughn and my married is Campbell. Before I got married my nickname was DMV and now there DMC it seen funny when I

[quote="HapplyMarried505"]My maiden name was Vaughn and my married is Campbell. Before I got married my nickname was DMV and now there DMC it seems funny when I write my name down on paper for school and other things.[/quote]
What are you in school for?

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My maiden name is Jones and my married name would be Henderson, but i'm not sure if I should take the Hyphen. FH said it's up to me cause his cousin would have the same name as me, now she's married so her last name just changed.

Tonya are you one of my lost sisters I have a lot of them some where?

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DENNIA!

My Maiden name is Hall and my Married name will be Garcia

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I personal would not stay with a man that beat me, that is not something that I would be able to look past or move on from. But however if your Love is strong enough it can withstand any obstacle that the Devil throws at you and the marriage. As long as we keep Gob first all will be blesses

[quote="jonique"]never tuck your tail and run...don't get me wrong there are some things that are unacceptable but for the most part go into the marriage prepared to stick it out...after all you do vow "for better or for worse" not "as long as it is good"
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BIG UPS to Mrs. Watkins by way of Jonique for awesome marriage advice!

I agree that sometimes you have divorce.As Charley stated about the abusive relationship.I wouldnt stay.I dont care how much love you have for someone,if you constantly beating on me like its your job I cant stay with you. My mother went through that with my biological father and had she bot left she would be dead by now. She went throught it for 3 years because she was scared of him but her believing God would fix it got her out. (She left when I was 1 1/2 and my brother was 2). Stuff like that also gets passed down to your kids.Would you want your kids to see this type of stuff happening to you? Waht about when they grow up and become abusive or allow others to abuse them? What could you say to help them when you allowed it to happen to yourself, all out of love...think about it...............I wouldnt do that to myself or my kids. Growing up seeing that kind of stuff wasnt fun or cute and it just wont work for me.I refuse to let that happen to me and I pray that you wont let it happen to you either.

Jonique I understand what you are saying cause now a days marriages don't last. Sometimes I think about that and wonder, it's a little scary. Somebody once told me that maintaining their marriage was the hardest thing they had to do and I think nursing is hard, OH BOY!

[quote="DIAMONDS"]I personal would not stay with a man that beat me, that is not something that I would be able to look past or move on from. But however if your Love is strong enough it can withstand any obstacle that the Devil throws at you and the marriage. As long as we keep Gob first all will be blesses
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Because this topic is VERY emotional one for me---and in order not to run the risk of saying something that I will regret after hitting the "POST" button, I will not comment at this point!!!

I am months late but that is because I am a newbie.I haven' decideded which name I will take.I want to keep my name and take his.He says he doesn't mind either way but which man doesn't secretly want his wife to take his name.My eldest is from a previous relationship hence why I want to hyphenate,but how does Nicola Green-Murray songs.And I have been Nicola Green for 30+yrs.How can I give that up???

I felt the same way. If you read my earlier post, I said I was hyphenating. Today I have been married exactly 2 months (yaaahhh) and I use Nicole Bostic. Although my legal name is Nicole Ross-Bostic I have only used it once. I was worried about dropping my maiden name because of my son, but it's really no big deal. He'll alway be my son regardless of the name. Of course I'll still use my maiden name for his school purposes, but that's about it.

I am definitely taking his...My Maiden name is Montgomery, and I hardly have time to write Montgomery-Gaskin on everything:) I am already practicing my signature! It will be hard, because I am used to calling his mother Mrs. Gaskin, but now I'll be Mrs. Gaskin, so I have to get used to responding to that....anyways, I HAVE to drop mine!

My maiden name is Hampton, and my married name will be Oliver. I'm keeping both but not with a hyphen. I'm basically dropping my middle name. So I will be Stephanie Hampton Oliver. Men have it so easy...

FOR REAL HAMPTON, 1ST MARRIAGE I HYPHENATED ESPECIALLY SINCE BOTH LAST NAMES WERE COMMON. THIS TIME, I HATE THE LAST NAME BUT LOVE THE MAN SOOO. I AM GOING TO DROP BOTH. INITIALLY I KEPT MY MAIDEN NAME AND I WAS FELICIA SANDERS-SMITH. MY 3 OLDER CHILDREN FROM 14--19 ARE SMITH'S. I KEPT IT AFTER THE DIVORCE FOR THE CHILDREN. NOW THEY ARE OLDER AND I HAVE THE 2YEAR OLD. HE IS A, READY LADIES,,,,GUPTON!!!! SOOO I'M THINKING OF LETTING GO OF SANDERS AND SMITH AND JUST GOING GUPTON. FELICIA SANDERS-GUPTON DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME RING OR FLOW TO IT AS SANDERS-SMITH.

[quote="alvinslove"]My maiden last name is Edwards and my married name will be Randolph. LKiesha Edwards-Randolph
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you got a middle name? cuz this is the longest name in the world to me!

I think I will be hypenating. My last name is Sawyer and FH is Davis. Not sure yet. He doesn't want me to, but we'll see