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ow11 (m)
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A woman is free to combine if the hubby no pay the slave bride price complete else she must change it. Afterall, during slave trade when your bought, u change your name to your owner's.
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Siena (m)
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I don't see anything wrong with a lady wanting to retain her maiden name when she gets married, or even combine it with her husbands - hyphenated.
My fiancee has a choice when we get married - take my name, retain her maiden name, or hyphenate it with mine, I've no issues whatsoever. I'm secure enough in myself not to lose sleep over it.
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mellow (m)
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Who really gives a hood what a lady answers when she get married? If she like
she can answer Okokobioko for all the girls in the world.
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almondjoy (f)
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Much do about nothing!  |
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iice (f)
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hypenate is the best i can do unless his surname is sexy  
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RichyBlacK (m)
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I think it all depends on the couple. I know a female professor married to another professor (male) and she kept her maiden name. They have a son together and their son's last name is her husband's (of course). The other day she was told me that they sometimes are not treated as couple, especially with airline reservations (seating next to each other), hotel room assignments (conferences, seminars, etc.). And she sometimes has to explain herself in awkward situations. She kept her maiden name because her body of work (academic publications, books, etc.) has been in her maiden name, however, she now intends to change her last name to her husband's.
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Seun (m)
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There should be nothing awkward about combining her maiden name with her name. It's very very common.
Your friend is making a big mistake if she thinks after many decades she can just go back on her decision.
Changing her name after achieving so much will be more awkward now than it would have been earlier.
Why can't people just stick with their decisions. Today you go left, tomorrow you go right.
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jiddah
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well its much ado about this name thing,the name thing does not tickle me,i'll probably only bear it in the hospital,cept the name is a very cool one.  |
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Lady-Ti (f)
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It's all well and good to say it's ok for a woman to retain her maiden name after marriage but if you are a Christian then you need to go and do some studies before jumping on the "bandwagon" of modernism. I used to think it was "cool" to retain or hyphenate until I got the revelation from a teaching. I don’t have the exact scriptural references to hand now but consider these:
the man being the woman’s head and covering. (2 Corinthians)
the man leaves his mother and father to cleave… (Genesis)
the woman came from the man (Genesis)
All these scriptures have a SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE.
When a woman marries a man, whether she likes it or not she takes on the man's “destiny” and “identity” - This is a spiritual law of marriage and it applies to all human beings regardless of faith or culture!!! That’s why you have to make sure he’s going somewhere and/or where you yourself are headed.
Back to the Bible – the woman was created from the man, which suggests that the man is always supposed to be her “source” that is, be responsible for her. Notice that it is the MAN who leaves father and mother to cleave and NOT the woman, suggesting that the woman is always supposed to be under a father’s covering, spiritually, figuratively…etc
So in essence when a woman marries, she “switches” FATHERS. Her husband becomes her “new father” because she is meant to always have a “a father”, that is, “covering”. Hence the need to drop her maiden name and take on her husband’s name to seal the marriage covenant. YES! Famous surname or not!!
You may think it's just a name but keeping the name of a father who is no longer your covering or hyphenating the names of "two fathers" DISTORTS God's order. So be careful!!
I suppose not everyone will agree with this theory, but if you are a Christian, you need to give this some thought.
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omoovie (f)
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It's all well and good to say it's ok for a woman to retain her maiden name after marriage but if you are a Christian then you need to go and do some studies before jumping on the "bandwagon" of modernism. I used to think it was "cool" to retain or hyphenate until I got the revelation from a teaching. I don’t have the exact scriptural references to hand now but consider these:
the man being the woman’s head and covering. (2 Corinthians)
the man leaves his mother and father to cleave… (Genesis)
the woman came from the man (Genesis)
All these scriptures have a SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE.
When a woman marries a man, whether she likes it or not she takes on the man's “destiny” and “identity” - This is a spiritual law of marriage and it applies to all human beings regardless of faith or culture!!! That’s why you have to make sure he’s going somewhere and/or where you yourself are headed.
Back to the Bible – the woman was created from the man, which suggests that the man is always supposed to be her “source” that is, be responsible for her. Notice that it is the MAN who leaves father and mother to cleave and NOT the woman, suggesting that the woman is always supposed to be under a father’s covering, spiritually, figuratively…etc
So in essence when a woman marries, she “switches” FATHERS. Her husband becomes her “new father” because she is meant to always have a “a father”, that is, “covering”. Hence the need to drop her maiden name and take on her husband’s name to seal the marriage covenant. YES! Famous surname or not!!
You may think it's just a name but keeping the name of a father who is no longer your covering or hyphenating the names of "two fathers" DISTORTS God's order. So be careful!!
I suppose not everyone will agree with this theory, but if you are a Christian, you need to give this some thought.
O ya oh! The same Bibeli professes that every human should be treated equal. Just as man is the covering for a woman, the woman is the vessel he finds shelter in. I am a firm believer that the work God started in man he perfected and completed in woman. Na people raise me. I feel just dropping my name and assuming another man's name is not equitable. I feel if we are truly joined together as the Bible clearly states then he should be Ok combining "us" Man wants the woman to adopt his name that's fine but I'm yet to meet or hear of a man who will willingly adopt a woman's name or hyphenate his with hers (except that Nigerian boxer/TV personality in Japan that adopted his Japanese wife's last name. The audience is still out on whether he did that for love or so he can disassociate himself from Nigerians). If a husband and wife are truly the joining of two lives, two souls and two bodies into one then two of us should have hyphenated names after we marry. Oya! |
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lucabrasi (m)
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some of these names sound realli sexy while some r just wrong
love the woman abiola docemo fernandez sounds cool
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allonym
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My wife can keep hers or combine it. I can understand a need to retain ones name. By the time I'm married, there would be too many achievements and publications tied to my name. To lose that train, when someone does a literature search on your name because they want to find more of your publications and the trail ends at some point because you got married and it changed, that can be damaging to one's career.
Our children though will definitely either have mine or our combination though.
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nana (f)
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I am keeping my maiden name. . .
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bluehorizo (m)
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My wife can keep hers or combine it. I can understand a need to retain ones name. By the time I'm married, there would be too many achievements and publications tied to my name. To lose that train, when someone does a literature search on your name because they want to find more of your publications and the trail ends at some point because you got married and it changed, that can be damaging to one's career.
Our children though will definitely either have mine or our combination though.
Your post is confusing. Are you the man or the woman? Why do you have to change a name when you get married? Is she not the one who is suppose to bear your name? Do you know what you are talking about? By the way you wrote,it is very clear that you are the "wife".LOL |
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allonym
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Your post is confusing. Are you the man or the woman? Why do you have to change a name when you get married? Is she not the one who is suppose to bear your name? Do you know what you are talking about? By the way you wrote,it is very clear that you are the "wife".LOL
I'm not sure what is confusing about my post. 1) I can understand why changing one's name is not desireable. 2) I illustrate reasons why this would be a problem for me. These reasons are gender neutral as far as I can tell. This means it applies just as easily to a man as they do to a woman. |
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~Lady~ (f)
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If I were to combine my name to my possible future husband's, the documents won't even allow it. It will be running over. Too long.
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echelon (m)
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My wife has to answer my name. NON-NEGOTIABLE.
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almondjoy (f)
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VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
Marry first, then we can discuss the rest.
Hmm!
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echelon (m)
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You sort some things out first before marrying  |
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BTT (m)
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What for. She takes my name. should there be any debate about that? Even if she be Bush Daughter. What has that got to do wit my OWN home, or adulterating my surname? Nairaland sef.
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allonym
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What for. She takes my name. should there be any debate about that? Even if she be Bush Daughter. What has that got to do wit my OWN home, or adulterating my surname? Nairaland sef.
Given that it will no longer be just YOUR home or surname, I think there could be some debate. |
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londoner
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In todays day and age, any adult can change their name by deed poll, from what I understand. Its better to agree before getting married, but she doesn't actually need permission. She can change her name to minnie mouse if she really wants to.
I see that even in 2008, many Nigerian men see their wives as property.
I will discuss with my fiancee that I would like to have a hyphenated name or failing that our children, especially male can have hyphernated names, sometimes people have reasons for it. Everything is not just simply about the husband in the relationship, sometimes both parties will have to compromise.
I think people who are planning to marry should consider that the marriage consists of the wishes of two people , not just one.
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jennykadry (f)
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im not condeming dose that use both together,but for christ sake you're no longer under your parents,u now live under a man and there is a change in your status,so y not bear your husband's name alone,atleast u have been bearing your fathers name right from when u were brought to this world,so there got to be a change u know
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HR.hotness (f)
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i have a hyphenated name, mum's and my dad's and its hell,
i always have to spell it for people, especially when in a multinational environment, it doesn't fit in standard forms and name tags, everyone calls u by your first name because they can't attempt miss --------------------------------
can't wait to get married so i can dump both names plus who ever i marry has to have a simple name like smith
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wendymanda
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What if I propose and want him to take my name?
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londoner
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im not condeming dose that use both together,but for christ sake you're no longer under your parents,u now live under a man and there is a change in your status,so y not bear your husband's name alone,atleast u have been bearing your fathers name right from when u were brought to this world,so there got to be a change u know
Wow, I find this perspective so frightening, live under a man? Speak for yourself. You don't live under your parents either. Its like women are cattle going from one stable to another. When you are a child you may live under your parents care, but I would hope most people mature into an adult before marriage, you are forming a partnership, not a parent child relationship all over again. I don't live under anyone thankyou, I might live with them, never under. |
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bawomolo (m)
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What if I propose and want him to take my name?
are u on drugs. |
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Cadet (f)
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are u on drugs.
Same drug you're on  @post Nothing wrong with it. |
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bawomolo (m)
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Same drug you're on come on morenike, would u ask your husband to take your name  |
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