Hardly. Changing your name after marriage is very much alive and the vast majority of women think wives should take their husband’s name after marriage according to a recent article from ABC News. Check it out (some of the survey results that they report might surprise you): http://abcnews.go.com/Business/brides-husbands-names-marriage/Story?id=8410832&page=1
According to two recent surveys, the majority of American women believe that newly married brides should take their groom’s name. Researchers from Indiana University and the University of Utah found that 71% of the 850 people they surveyed nationally believed it is better for women to change their name upon marriage. Also, about 50% of the respondents who were men and women between the ages of 18 to 90 thought it should be a legal requirement for a woman to change her name upon marriage.
The Knot Wedding Network conducted a significantly larger survey of 18,000 couples nationwide and found that 88% said they were planning to take their husband’s name. Rebecca Dolgin, the executive editor of TheKnot.com, said that while she was surprised that the percentage of women who take their husband’s name was so high, that “…today there has been a little bit of a turn and women are saying that by taking my husband’s name I’m not giving in to anything and I’m still just as much a feminist as I ever was,” said Dolgin. The survey respondents provided several reasons in support of changing their name to their husband’s, including the convenience of everyone in the family sharing the same name.
Chime in and let us know what you think. Keep the maiden name or change it? And should it be a legal requirement for a woman to change her name upon marriage?
