Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author (left) hyphenated her last name when she married her husband (right).Courtesy of Susan Teresa I felt pressure to give ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. madisonwi/Getty Images At 19, I found out I had been adopted from Colombia, and my name had been changed. When I married, I chose ...

My maiden name is Khorey. Last year, I married a man whose last name is Khanna. A few weeks after the wedding, I was chatting about it with a couple of women from my team at work. "What about your ...

Dear Eric: I got married about six years ago, at the age of 30. At that point in my life, I was pretty emotionally connected to my name and I wanted to stay attached to it. So, I added my husband’s ...

A frustrated man checks his cell phone while a happy couple stands at the alter. Sometimes the universe has a truly demented sense of humor. Here’s where it gets weird. The new husband’s last name is ...

As I stood in the clerk's office applying for a marriage license, I faced three options: no name change (keep mine), name change (assume his), or hyphenate (enjoy both). It seemed like a simple task; ...

At 19, I had the shocking discovery that not only did I have a different name when I was born, but that I was adopted from Colombia. When I was adopted, my birth name was immediately changed, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A frustrated man checks his cell phone while a happy couple stands at the alter. Sometimes the universe has a truly demented sense ...

As I stood in the clerk's office applying for a marriage license, I faced three options: no name change (keep mine), name change (assume his), or hyphenate (enjoy both). It seemed like a simple task; ...