Would you take your partner's surname or keep your own name?

Keep my own. In my country (the Netherlands) your legal name doesn't change when you get married anyway. You can get it hyphenated in your passport, but if you want to change your legal surname you have to go through an application process just like changing your given name. Most women use their own surname in a professional capacity and switch to the husband's surname when introducing themselves to people in a personal context.

I'm just keeping my own name. It's mine, I'm attached to it, it's what I've been called my entire life and I'm not switching over just because I signed a wedding contract. And no way am I using a hyphenated name. I have a nice short surname that native speakers of pretty much any language can't screw up too badly, and that's easy to spell. I like it, I'm sticking with it.

Should I ever end up with children I'll leave it up to my wife. If she's attached to her name they can have that. I'm personally attached to mine, but I have zero interest in passing it down to future generations.

I would keep my own name. I am very much my own person and so is my boyfriend. We love each other dearly and compliment each other's personality, even though we have different interests and back ground. Having said that, the joy of seeing people's faces when we are introduced and Mr and Mr xxxxx just might make me reconsider. Anything to kick the narrow minded into the 21st century!

I would personally take their surname. I believe that there is nothing more romantic than taking the name of someone you love. That being said it's up to the individual, i know plenty of people who have kept their own surname.

My family does not have the best history to their name, so I would probably take my partner's surname even though it would sound kinda funny and not right at the same time (It would be Kayla Winstead...). :)

I comprehend completly the type you sense approximately letting your final call die with you. My mothers and fathers are the two deceased and that i'm the final xxxxx in my family contributors so i'm torn too. i grow to be going to alter it to my center call instead yet i admire my center call and that i don't choose 4 names. in case you're taking his call, that is different from you under no circumstances existed and your surname is dying. all of us will keep in mind you as omit xxxx yet now you're Mrs. yyyy and that's exciting. i think of my mothers and fathers could comprehend and be satisfied i'm taking my destiny husband's call. i'm preserving my maiden call for artwork, i'm in regulation enforcement and don't choose human beings to discover my family contributors any further handy than they already can. sturdy success. i could say start up your married existence with a clean married call, there's no disrespect on your loved ones in doing that.

you can use what ever name you want so long as you don't use it for fraud you can call your self 123456789 if you want as a surname but your Christian name has to be done by deed poll to make it legal

Don't know why you found it necessary to use Christ's name in vain. To answer your question, I kept my own.