At 19, I found out I had been adopted from Colombia, and my name had been changed. When I married, I chose to hyphenate my last name so as not to lose my identity again. Not all forms allow you to add ...

Some choices feel deeply personal, until the people around you take them as a rejection. So, what would you do if your name never felt like your own? Would you let it go to keep the peace? Or would ...

I've always loved my last name, but decided to take my husband's when we got married. A decade into my marriage, I still missed my maiden name and decided to hyphenate. My husband supported my ...

A teenager turns to the Reddit community for advice following ongoing tension in his blended family over his last name. The 16-year-old, who shares his story on the popular platform, reveals that he's ...

When Janet Clark married Pat Frye in 1974, keeping her name was a bold gesture of independence. Today, countless women have followed in her footsteps. But her daughter, 19-year-old Elizabeth Clark ...

"My husband is fully on board — his family isn’t," she writes on Reddit A woman says she and her in-laws are split on a baby name — because she wants the baby's last name to be hyphenated and include ...

After being forced to take a hyphenated last name as a child, one teen sparked conflict by legally returning to his original name at 18 Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

After writing a lot about politics the last few weeks, I’m going off the beaten path and telling you how I got a hyphenated last name. A lot of you have asked me to write about that. All my life, I’ve ...

What’s in a name? Quite a lot, it seems, especially if you’re a banished royal. After Prince Andrew was stripped of his title following growing controversy over his links to paedophile financier ...

A teen wants to keep his late father’s name, but his mom and stepdad say his refusal to adopt their hyphenated last name is hurtful Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...