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This is basically the reason my kids have the last name that they do. My last name starts with E and my wife's with Y. Bucking tradition, she didn't change he
by jedberg 3y ago
This is basically the reason my kids have the last name that they do.
My last name starts with E and my wife's with Y. Bucking tradition, she didn't change her name when we got married, so when we had kids we had to decide what name to give them. We opted to hyphenate.
Historically, hyphenated last names were [Woman's last name]-[Man's last name]. However, my wife hated that her last name was near the end of the alphabet growing up.
We bucked tradition once again and put my name first, so that when sorted alphabetically they would be at the front of the list. Incidentally their first names start with A and B so that they show up at the front when sorted by first name too.
- throw_pm23 3y agoWow, you really gave your children a headstart there :)
- alephknoll 3y ago[flagged]
- jedberg 3y agoYou seem to be irrationally upset about my light-hearted anecdote. I sincerely hope your weekend gets better.
- alephknoll 3y agoIt was just a simple observation. You are reading into things too much. There's no need to be so defensive. Your comment hasn't upset me in the slightest ( rationally or irrationally ) and I sincerely hope you weren't offended by mine.
- macintux 3y ago> It must be exhausting being married to a woman who wants to 'buck tradition'. Why didn't she buck tradition and just name your kids 'Aa, Aa', 'Aaa, Aaa', etc and be done with it? Heck why not go all the way and let them go nameless. You managed to combine snarky reductio ad absurdum and a gratuitous attack on his wife in three sentences. Why wouldn't someone be annoyed by that?
- zvolsky 3y agoHaha, I've always enjoyed being at the end getting less attention from teachers. If the data merely shows a correlation, it may as well be explained by us at the end being under less pressure.
- lelanthran 3y ago> Bucking tradition, she didn't change her name when we got married, Unless you were married earlier than the 90s, I wouldn't really call that "bucking tradition" any time from, say, the mid-90s onwards. If you really want to buck tradition, then don't get married - just live together, and have kids :-) (After all, there's nothing more traditional than marriage, is there?)
- jedberg 3y agoIn the US, 80% of women still take their husband’s last name. But you hit on an important point — a lot of couples are just skipping marriage now. We went halfway there — we bought the house together years before we got married.
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoOwning a house together is probably a more serious commitment anyway
- mjh2539 3y agoIn Latin American countries (and Spain) the paternal surname goes first, followed by the maternal surname.