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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I use my maiden name and my married name. The only time it has been an “issue” is at our school where they list me differently under the alphabetical listings because they go by maiden name because it’s first, so I’m not actually listed with the rest of my family. For the most part I use my married name for things like making reservations, on my credit card (because my maiden name is pretty long there isn’t always room for both) etc just for simplicity. But for work I use both and people know me by both. [/quote]

Oh - and I grew up with my mom’s last name (she didn’t change which was still somewhat “radical” in the 70s) as my last name. My dad had been married before and had multiple children who had his last name, which is a very complicated ethnic name with a difficult spelling. My mom had a much simpler “Anglo” sounding name and was from a relatively well-known family so they decided to give her name.

I spent my childhood having people call my dad my stepdad which always bothered me (he was also 20 years older than my mom and older than everyone else’s parents so a lot of people also thought he was my grandfather.) I hated it and I decided at a young age that I wanted all of my family when I had kids to use the same last name. So we basically do now except in the case mentioned above. Our kids don’t have my maiden name in their names but they do have family given names. My son has the shortened form of my maiden name (think Anderson —> Anders) as his middle name. 
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