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Why the Sudden Interest?!?
dtb, I think the guys on your desk must be awfully sheltered. Either that, or they're just really young. I think (I may have read this somewhere, but I can't remember for sure and might just be talking out of my ass) that the trend of keeping one's name upon marriage has waxed and waned over the last 30 years or so. When we got married (mid-90s, right?), the trend was waxing, and for the last several years it has been waning.
You know, we've had this discussion before, but it's been since the Yahoo days, I think.
So yeah, I kept my name. There just wasn't any good enough reason why I shouldn't, good enough to outweigh the hassle. And aesthetics were definitely part of the consideration, but the SFC's and my last names are both Scandinavian patronymics, so that factor was a wash. I do know a woman whose last name was Dick, and she could hardly wait to change it (Phillip K. Dick notwithstanding).
Among my closest girlfriends (who all grew up Mormon), about half kept and half changed. Among my law school roommates, 2 kept, 2 changed, and 1 and her husband changed to another name altogether. Among the parents of Magnus's kindergarten classmates (roughly of our same generation), 9 couples have the same last name (one of these is hyphenated) and 7 have different last names (the remaining 7 are single parents). 4 of the kids have hyphenated last names.
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