well, what i want to see is coloned and semicoloned names. then some parenthesiesed names, and why not some $$$$$$ and &&&&&&&(like johmson&johnson), and heck, lets really get up to date, with multiple partners we are currently living with, when it is not necesarily "my babies daddy", like SkankywenchNeeds-Roof@tomshouse.com?

For real, then, what if you married someone whose family did the same thing? So now you have 2 people getting married with the "heritage" of a combined four last names.

Would you use all four names? If not, how would you decide which one(s) get their heritage "lost" and get tossed?

I find woman who are in business tend to do it so as not to lose the equity that they have built into their name/reputation.

I see nothing wrong with that.

so how does this work if 2 hyphenated kids meat up and get hitched?
John Simpson-McCauly meets Suzan Corleone-Brown

"but they want to retain the names for heritage and whatnot"

John Simpson-McCauly-Corleone-Brown
Suzan Simpson-McCauly-Corleone-Brown
??

in my case, IF i get married, and IF i get kids

i say everybody keeps his own name... i keep mine, she keeps hers, kids get dad's name or mums name , couldn't care less anyway,
and all the kids need to know is that daddy will blow all the money before he dies anyway, and that's all there is to it

Yep, and the same holds true even if they're not in business.

It's one thing to change your name when you're in your late teens or early twenties, but most people I know are getting married in their 30's.

Who wants to spend years correcting people when they call you by your old name? I'd veto that based on lazyness alone.

Do they typically burden their children with that unwieldy hypenated name?

What's the burden? Do you think they really care?

I really want to understand this. My kids (should I be so blessed) will have hyphenated names, and I can't imagine what harm could come from it. Well, other than them being "******s";) :D

I think its odd but then again people may think that of me??

it's one way to get beat up in school?

pfft. Kids get beat up for anything...such is life.

If my (hypothetical) kid's biggest flaw is a hyphenated name, then I will cound myself as lucky.

I guess I'm lucky. My fiance's surname is Li.

That's going to sound funny when it's hyphenated:D

:eek: :eek: WTF are you trying to say here?:D

With the first name of Juan I am kinda of assuming you know that using the mother's maiden name as a middle name used to be a hispanic tradition?

My father and my grandfather both had their mother's maiden names as middle names. For some unknown reason they didn't extend that to me although I am named after my grandfather.

I guess I don't get why all the 'tude from everyone, especially Joe but then...I could have probably expected that from him...either that or a suggestion they all be shot;)

I've got a bigger problem with just making up names that don't come from anywhere. For example: "Plaxico" and "Anfernee." And before anyone says I'm a biggot for not "understanding" the cultural reference behind those names I will submit another one from my own hispanic culture:

L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's name is actually his name and his wife's last name combined into one! I might have to get on Joe's side over that one. I work with a guy that went to school with him and he was Tony Villa all his life growing up in East L.A. A normal, common name in SoCal; not nearly as patrician sounding (if you're hispanic) as "Antonio Villaraigosa". What a tool.

good thing your name isn't "Luckle"

When your daughter with a hypenated name gets married, would you want her to drop mommy's name or daddy's name? Or is she going to have a triple hypenated name?

Well, I guess one benefit would be that a hyphenated surname on an email address might make it hard to get on a spam list. These names are very common in Germany. I think they sound pretentious. Why add more syllables to a surname? Isn't one name enough?

Oh, and I tend to agree with Joe. Not because such names make someone gay. I just like offending overly sensitive people.

This is just not an issue I expect to lose sleep over... furthermore, what will it matter what I "want"?

It's her name, she can do whatever she likes. Same goes for my (hypothetical) son. They can change their name to their husband/wife's name, to their favorite fruit, or to a symbol with no English pronounciation. It won't bother me one bit.

What would you do if you were your daughter in that situation?

Bollocks is it!

We laugh at it just jike you're doing.

Find the richest man I can, pretend to be a pushover so he doesn't get suspicious and make me sign a pre-nup, take his name and then divorce him and take him for what he's worth.

Then give 25% to daddy.
Yeehaw!