Last Names

Sorry if this is a repeat.

If you married someone of the same gender, how would you want to handle the last name situation? Like would you take his/her last? Would he/she take yours? Would you hyphenate?

Personally, if the names didn't sound dumb together, I think I would want to hyphenate.

 

It obviously depends on the name of my husband/wife...
If I am to marry at all. I'm not too fond of the concept.

 

Well if I do get married then I will probably take my guys last name because I don't really like mine

 

I'd want to keep my last name.

 

Depends on what their name was. I'm not fond of my last name, so I wouldn't mind changing it.

 

Seeing as how we both have kids with our own last names--both of which are short--we'll almost certainly hyphenate them.

 

It would entirely depend on whom I'd be marrying. My surname is rather unique and doesn't go very well with most names. Not to mention that double-barrelled names often sound rather snobbish.

I doubt I'd take a future partner's name, but any children would probably have to have a double-barrelled name.

I don't really know if marriage would appeal to me once I hit that age, anyway.

 

Depends if I like the sound of it haha. There are very few surnames I would like next to my first name so I would probably keep mine as it is. Among-st the gay people I know it varies and they have each done something different.

 

It depends on their name and if my name goes good with it or vice versa

 

I would one of us to take the other's. Probably her take my last name, unless I really liked her last name or she wanted to keep hers.

 

My last name is long and goofy-sounding, but I love it and I wouldn't give it up, since it's unique.

When it comes to kids however, that I'd just have to negotiate. Provided my boyfriend's name wasn't too long as well, a hyphenated name might be the answer.

 

I don't care who I marry I'm keeping my last name
So we would both keep our individual last names, unless my partner wants mine

 

We intend to keep our surnames as they are. If we double - barrelled our surnames it would sound ridiculous.

 

I don't really know but I really want to get married someday though. Combination of our surnames is the last thing I'd do. I think if we were to get a child, I'd change my surname, but if we didn't get a child we'd keep our own surnames. I'm not even that close to my family and my surname isn't that special, so I'd be happy to take my husband's surname, if he doesn't have anything against it or want to take my surname instead.

 

Hyphenate. I happen to have a last name that will work well.

 

I haven't given this much thought, but I'd probably prefer to just keep our last names. Maybe replace our middle names (or add an additional one) with each other's last names.

With kids I think I'd be fairly passive about it and probably would be okay with them having my partner's last name if it were important to him and mine was made the middle name. My middle name is actually my grandmother's maiden name so I think it's kind of cool to pass a family name down that way. All something to be discussed though.

 

I'd like to give them mine. I'm the only child in my family (not including relatives) that can pass on our last name.

 

I'm not at all keen on the idea of marriage anyway. Not unless there's some specific reason for it rather than just living together.

But if I did, I'd keep my own name and I'm not going to ask my partner to take mine either. I like my name and aside from anything else, I don't fancy the hassle of officially changing it anyway.

The exception would be if my partner has some super-cool last name, in which case I might be tempted to add it to my own.

 

My husband and I both kept our last names, when we got married 3 years ago.