I rolled my eyes when I watched it – not because I care specifically about the Royals, former or current – but because it was just another reminder of my generation’s willingness to ditch their surnames when they get married, something the majority of us still very much do.
When I got married last September, it never occurred to me that I would change my surname. My name, while hardly memorable or popstar worthy (it’s no Dua Lipa), is something I’ve grown very protective of.
My name is part of me, and there was no way I was suddenly going to abandon it just because I had a ring on my finger.
I’ve seen it happen multiple times: WhatsApp contacts and social media handles updating before my hangover from their wedding has even subsided.
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Many women I have spoken to about this say that the desire to change their name was purely so they can have the same name as their children. It is indeed the reasoning that the Duchess of Sussex gave, too, and I truly understand that desire to feel like a family unit all under one name, not least because travelling with a different name to the kids can cause all sorts of headaches for families.
The tradition of women changing their name began hundreds of years ago, introduced in tandem with a law that dictated that a woman’s assets became her husband’s when they wed. It has been historically deemed as a way of showing that the woman “belongs” to her husband. It originates in a different era.
But things are slowly changing, as the new stats from YouGov show. Plus double-barrelling and combining names to create a new one are all increasingly popular.
My husband and I plan to take each other’s surnames as additional middle names. It’s our way of belonging to one another without either of us losing the name we have made our own. If we can ever face the admin, that is. Perhaps in time for our first anniversary. I guess paper is the traditional present, after all.
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