Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author married a man named Khanna in 2024Courtesy of the author I always wanted to hyphenate my name when I got married. It ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to Rand-Hendriksen, who acknowledged his own hyphenated last name, computer engineers in the 1970s, who were responsible ...

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 ...

A mum has kickstarted a parenting debate online about whether hyphenated baby names are ‘common.’ Giving your newborn a moniker is a tricky business. Choose something popular and you risk your child ...

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 ...

The practice of hyphenating last names upon marriage was particularly popular in the 1980s and '90s. Now that the "hyphen generation" is marrying... When Hyphen Boy Meets Hyphen Girl, Names Pile Up ...

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 ...

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; ...

Those born at the height of the name-hyphenating craze will be the first to tell you — having two last names can be more trouble than it's worth. There's the perennial confusion at school and at the ...