There there's Taliaferro.

Taliaferro

Now, wait a minute. I used to know someone with this name. It was pronounced Talley-u-farrow.

Is that not right?

In happy news, I've decided to treat myself to a deep tissue Thai massage today. I expect to be in happy pain shortly.

I can't imagine ever changing my name, it seems like a such a huge hassle for such an antiquated reason. But then I also don't imagine ever having children and thus having to think about the group/family unit all having the same last name.

I know my changing my name initially was because my Dad adopted my step-brother and step-sister (with the same first name as me) and so she and I shared the same name from junior high and I was just over it. Oddly, I am the only one who has a trace of maiden name left in my name. I liked that name. I just wanted some flexibility.

Tolliver.

And for additional WTF? Names fun: [link]

Don't know if I'd change my name, but I do tend to try it out in my head with the name of whoever I'm dating. I'd want to keep my middle name that I have, though.

Personally, I have really resented the patriarchal assumption that women should change their name when they marry. This is something that has bothered me nearly my whole life.

I remember an argument I got into in high school with a teacher and another girl after I said I'd never change my last name. I was told loftily I'd feel differently after I fell in love, I'd WANT to change my name to his! I said, so then, if he loves me, why doesn't he change his name to mine? Oh, hilarity.

When I see the long Indian names in the credits of movies, I wonder if they have to be truncated to fill out the various computerized forms people have to fill out or if the forms are scalable.

A bunch of "my" authors have long Indian names, and they truncate them or just use initials. It screws up our systems when they use initials for their LAST name though.

I have a regular author whose last name is O, which apparently blows the minds of our typesetters. I usually get it back as O. Firstname. Because a name cannot be one letter.

I had the discussion with Will, would he be willing to change his name to my last name. He said no. Mostly because of his line of work being in sales. I forgot to argue that if I were in sales no one would think it would be weird if I changed my mind.

He doesn't expect me to change my name and has no strong feelings either way.

So I threw out - what if we created a new last name. After much discussion he'd be willing if we went with Who.

I tried to counter with Pond but he said he'd only be willing if we went with Who.

I have never intended to change my name, even when I dated dudes. Just wasn't something I thought twice about. We were going to hyphenate our kids' last name but I thought it was just too cumbersome, so told DW I wanted them to have her last name and mine would be their middle name. Not sure I'd have felt the same if I were married to a dude (on baby last names, that is).