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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can tell you what not to do -- don't try to use 3 names, ala "Mary Tyler Moore."  I moved my maiden to the middle and wanted to use all 3.  No hyphens, no middle initial.  My god, you'd think in this day and age, people and computers could handle it, but they can't.  I get so many "Mary T. Moore" or "Mary Tyler-Moore".  Sometimes I get Mary-Tyler as my first name!  Arrgh.
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Does your surname (Tyler) sound like a first name?  Does it happen so often you wish you'd stayed Mary Tyler? Or is it just annoying? [/quote]

No, my maiden name doesn't sound like a first name at all.  And a messed up name must happen a lot, because it's been 20+ yrs and I'm still amazed when someone gets it right!  LOL.

I think it's a "pick your poison" type of thing.  You either keep the maiden name and have admin hassles because everyone's name doesn't match.  Or you try a combo approach like I did, and have trouble because it's unusual and/or the computer can't handle it.  Or you drop your maiden completely and get flak for being too traditional.

My personal preference was to have one family name (I like being "The Moores").  So I didn't want a hyphen.  Yet, I had some of the feminist thing and didn't want to totally drop my maiden.  Also, pure aesthetics -- I didn't really like how my first, middle, hisname would sound.  I did like my first, maiden, hisname, so I chose that version.  [/quote]

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