Women Using Their Maiden Names & Then Their Married Ones.

[kayakamina]

Probably this a fairly recent trend, but is there any reason (social
media) or otherwise for married ladies inserting their maiden names
between their first names & married ones?

I have a daughter who uses her first name, her maiden name (my name)
& then her married name.

A daughter-in- law meanwhile uses her first name,then her married
name (my surname) but no mention of her maiden name.

Obviously a personal choice but any explanation?

[pixie374]

Partly social media probably... able to be found. It seems daft to just change your name as an adult, to me.

[Mamyalynne]

I thin some women who have carved out a career before marriage using their maiden name don't want to seem to 'disappear' from view - if that makes sense.

[Cloverjo]

I can only think it's for professional reasons. Like Victoria Coren Mitchell. I can'tthink of any others.

[Mamyalynne]

^ I think - sticking key

[ubasses]

Not just women, there are quite a few men taking on their wife's maiden name. They both then have a double barrelled name. Goodness knows what will happen when the next generation get married.

[pixie374]

....if they get married.

[andy-hughes]

Personally, I have never understood Joe Public double-barrelling a surname - which implies it is imply too important to die out.

I am the last of my branch of the Hughes's - my step-daughters never took my name, and my youngest, who has it, will probably re-marry next year, so our branch dies right there.

Should I care?

Not at all!!

I can understand someone like Victoria Coren Mitchell - she has created a career under her maiden name, and may wish to keep it, but people like that are the exception.

[pixie374]

I don't think it's to do with the name dying out. People just prefer to keep their own identity that they've always been known as.

[kayakamina]

Thanks all for your thoughts.

I take the point made that women who had careers before
marriage would wish to retain that identity.

I can't agree with the indifference of andy-hughes to the family
name dying out.

I will be staying well clear of the subject at the Xmas family lunch!

[ummmm]

Like Pixie said I also think a lot is to do with social media. Loads of my friends have double barreled their names on FB but they don't it in real life.

[Maydup]

Its nearly all to do with Social media and being able to find female friends and relatives. I have a cousin Sally, but not the first idea of her married name.

[Peter Pedant]

I think it further identifies the lady

Dorothy Hodgkin ( nobel prize winner ) wasnt a Hodgkin ( a family stuffed with nobel prize winners - three or four ) but a Crowfoot

Normal practice in America ( Jackie Bouvier Kennedy etc )
and Holland apparently

[andy-hughes]

kay - //I can't agree with the indifference of andy-hughes to the family
name dying out. //

Can I ask why not?

[vulcan42]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned snobbery. My surname is quite short and when a cousin married his wife insisted her much longer surname be added because" it sounds so much better".

[Mosaic]

Some friends made up and registered a completely new surname for themselves when they married, so used neither patronymic. I thought that was a brilliant idea, but it will be murder for future genealogists.

[andy-hughes]

Indeed - a former contributor to this very site took the name 'Harper Lee' because of her appreciation of the author of that name, and her new husband has also taken the same name.

[ummmm]

My surname would sound stupid double barreled...

[RATTER15]

I have recently been thinking about changing my surname to my Mothers maiden name in her memory. I think it may just cause problems, and maybe I'm just a bit long in the tooth to be doing it.

[douglas9401]

My own double-barrelled surname was a drag growing up but I'm used to it now.
Yours

Douglas Twelve-Bore.


Merry Christmas. :-)

[Jackdaw33]

A patronymic and a maiden name are two clean different things.