Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I got married in 2004 when I was 22 and changed my last name to match my husband's. I was raised very conservatively and was told ...

My last name is Davis and my husband's is Smith, so I figured I'd go by both. Without a hyphen, I never knew if I was going to show up as just Davis or Smith for reservations. Looking back, I'd ...

I gave my daughter her dad's last name, and I assumed we'd get married and live happily ever after. He left me six months after she was born, and she didn't have my last name. I felt like all the ...

Thirty years ago, my maman gave a speech about why she was choosing to keep her last name—at her own wedding. Standing in front of 150 of my father’s family and friends, she squared her shoulders, ...

You may have noticed that I have a new last name. Or, more accurately, I once again have my old last name, the last name I had for the first 28 years of my life. I never really wanted to change my ...