I didn't want to let go of my last name because it was part of my heritage, so I hyphenated, which became a nightmare. Now, I'm dropping the hyphen.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. madisonwi/Getty Images At 19, I found out I had been adopted from Colombia, and my name had been changed. When I married, I chose ...

My maiden name is Khorey. Last year, I married a man whose last name is Khanna. A few weeks after the wedding, I was chatting about it with a couple of women from my team at work. "What about your ...

Q. All of my documents, except for my driver’s license, use both my maiden and married names with no hyphen. Last time I renewed my license, my last names were hyphenated. I was told their system ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to Rand-Hendriksen, who acknowledged his own hyphenated last name, computer engineers in the 1970s, who were responsible ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author (left) hyphenated her last name when she married her husband (right).Courtesy of Susan Teresa I felt pressure to give ...

At 19, I had the shocking discovery that not only did I have a different name when I was born, but that I was adopted from Colombia. When I was adopted, my birth name was immediately changed, and ...

I always wanted to hyphenate my name when I got married. It turns out that my initials make hyphenating impossible. I still have to be strategic about how I style my name in public. My maiden name is ...

As I stood in the clerk's office applying for a marriage license, I faced three options: no name change (keep mine), name change (assume his), or hyphenate (enjoy both). It seemed like a simple task; ...