Via The Daily Beast, a Facebook survey concluded that a vast majority of women getting married are taking their husband’s last name, confirming a trend that’s been documented elsewhere. According to Facebook, 65 percent of its women members in their 20s and 30s changed their names upon marriage. The conclusion, the Beast reported, "reflects that for the married female population, keeping your maiden name is so last decade."
Then there’s Neil Popovic, né Neil Friedman. Not only did he not expect his wife to take his name, he volunteered to take hers. The litigation partner at Sheppard , Mullin , Richter & Hampton’s San Francisco office sent me a copy of an article he wrote for Ms. magazine in 1994 in which he recounts his name change. Here’s how he explained his decision in Ms.
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