Your baby's last name.... - Page 2

[Norasmomma]

My last name was really long, hard to pronounce, and hard for people to spell....Plus when DH and I got married I was pretty annoyed with my dad and didn't even want to deal with him. Dh's name was shorter, easier to say, and easy to spell...plus I just loved him and his family so much I no problems with taking it. We were married for 10 years when DD was born, so we all have the same last name.

I'm pretty traditional in a family sense, but everyone has their own way.

[LinzMommy2Be]

DS has his dad's last name but his middle name is my last name.

[AKA_PI]

My son's father and I aren't married but I really wanted him to have both our last name's (my mother really pushed for this) but in the end, I let him have his father's name. I just dread the day, if we aren't married, that I have to explain why his last name is different.

[philomom]

Our kids are hyphens. Dh and I both kept our names.

[mylegs]

We all have DH's last name, but DS has my maiden name as his middle name. (My middle name is my mother's maiden name too.)

[Teenytoona]

I wanted to take part of DP's and part of mine to make DD's last name. He vetoed it on account that it would be too confusing for schools and whatnot. So she's MyLastName-HisLastName.

We both kept our given names.

Stepkids have his last name, but that wasn't my say.

[La Rune]

We all have 4 names. First Middle MyLast HisLast. Yes, even DH changed his name and added my maiden name as a second middle name, after we got married. I just added his last name onto the end.

We did it that way because his last name was easier to say and spell. I've had problems with mine my whole life. If mine had been the easier name though, we'd have done it the other way around.

[myrmom]

dh and I each kept our last names and our sons all have both our last names hyphenated. Mylastname-hislastname...sounded better that way.

[KD's Momma]

All my children do and will (as do I) carry my husbands last name. They all have 2 middle names with the 2nd one being my middle name.

[Chloe'sMama]

I didn't change my last name until after my daughter was born. I got lots of funny looks when people asked how long I have been married and I said 6 years. I just wanted everyone to have the same name.

[OkiMom]

DD and I have DH's last name. Its important to me for us all to share the same last name.

[FreeRangeMama]

Dh and I BOTH hyphenated when we got married. When kids came along they took our hyphenated name. I love the idea of the girls getting my name and boys getting his. If we hadn't hyphenated that is what I would have wanted to do.

[Masel]

When DD was born her birth mother offered to put mine and DH's last name on the birth certificate but we said no, put yours. We then changed her name at the adoption. I wanted that paper trail. I can't articulate why exactly since enough people know the story that it's not like she needed some obscure paper trail to find out where she came from.

My father's family hated my mom, sisters, and me. The name meant nothing since it was so common (not quite smith but close). Still I thought long and hard about changing my name and I'm very glad I did.

[lilempressmommy]

I took DH's last name so we all have the same. I'd waffled on whether or not I wanted to keep/hyphenate my maiden but ended up not doing it. DD would have always had her Daddy's name.

[Arwyn]

We melded/blended our last names (I had a hyphen growing up, and although I would have liked to continue having a hyphen, I didn't like that I would have had to drop half of my last name, but he would only add to his), and that's what Naked Baby has. I like the whole family having one name -- my dad didn't hyphenate his name, but the rest of us (my mom and us kids) had the hyphen, and I don't think I'll ever really forgive him for not being man enough to hyphenate, and for making us not have the same last name.

[Hokulele]

Your approach is an interesting one. DH and I both kept our last names when we married. Both our daughters have four names: a first name and a regular middle name. Then they both have the same second middle name which is my last name. Their last name is DH's last name.

I wouldn't normally have given my children four names, but I really felt it was important for both of them to have both my last name and DH's in there. Since in this country it is most traditional for a child to take the father's last name we went with that - mostly to avoid confusion in school, etc. Most of all, I want them to decide what name(s) they want to use when they get older. So if they chose to take my last name as their last name, or drop my last name entirely, I'd be fine with that. I just wanted them to start out with it all!

We didn't hyphenate because 1. my last name is too much of mouthful by itself as it is and, more importantly, 2. what would they do when they marry/have kids? It just gets more complicated then!

[Girlprof]

We also blended. We really wanted all of us to have the same last name. My DH insisted that it not be his, as he saw that as unfair. So, we are the only four of us in the world, which I have to say, is pretty cool.

[AmandaTN]

I wasn't attached to my surname when I got married, so I took my husband's. Even if I were attached to my previous name, I still would have changed it. It's just one of those areas I prefer to be traditional in.

Our kids will have my husband's name.

[To-Fu]

Neither of us changed our last names; we gave our son a hyphenated combo (Mylastname-hislastname). I love it--it seems right that he should have a piece of us both in equal measure.

[mama_ani]

Dh and I each have our own last name.
DD#1,DD#2 and DD#3 legally have xdh's last name but everyone knows them by my last name.
DS and DD#4 have dh's last name.
As a family we're ususally referred to as Dh'sLastName Family or MyLastName-Dh'sLastName Family.
We had debated DD#4 having my last name so I could have at least one child with my last name but in the end figured it would be simpler if she had dh's name.