Alternatively, you can make the choice to have matrilineal, patrilineal or both lines. My first wife and I hyphenated our names after we committed to naming an

Alternatively, you can make the choice to have matrilineal, patrilineal or both lines. My first wife and I hyphenated our names after we committed to naming any son we had with my last name and any daughter with hers. We only had 1 child (a daughter) before we divorced, but that daughter carries her mother's family name only, not mine.