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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hyphenation is more common than making up a new last name...and is less bizarre--especially when neither parent is willing to take the new last name.

Hyphenating isn't a nuisance. My name is hyphenated, and so are my kids. The only (rare) issue is when someone alphabetizes the last name under Jones instead of Smith (Smith-Jones). [/quote]

What do people with hyphenated names do when they get married and have kids?[/quote]

You can just pick one of your two hyphenated last names to keep/pass down-- one way to do it is for a male born with a hyphenated last name to keep/pass down the name that came from his father (so one name runs down the paternal line, same way it would have with "traditional" last naming) and a female born with a hyphenated last name to keep/pass down the name that came from her mother (so one name runs down the maternal line.) Baby Mother'sMom'sName-Father'sDad'sName. Not that complicated, that's what we're doing. [/quote]

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