[Dan from Michigan]

No way. I'm keeping my last name to my grave. Some great people of the past carried that name. If that name is good enough for dad, grandfather, great grandfather(who I was named after), and his dad in Ireland, it's good enough for my kids and I.

I also happen to be of the old school when it comes to that.

[Fido969]

zzzzzZZZZZZZzzzzzz......

[Lokibob]

I used to call my ex "Atilla, the Wife". (I'll never understand why that woman divorced me).

[BipolarBob]

They may have "other" reasons to take their brides name - such as a past that may not pass scrutiny with the policia.

[SouthernFreebird]

Ewwwwww I would have no respect for a man that takes a womans name. That is just wrong.

[Hodar]

I'm in the process of ditching mine. But not for any reasons listed. 3 Letters is much shorter, simpler and not as mis-spelled as often as a 9 letter name. No weird permutations, no more listening to someone with a microphone take 4 running attempts to pronounce it, no more 'typographical errors' in the mail.

And south of the Mason Dixon line, if someone can't spell this 3 letter name, I believe I'm legally entitled to slap them.

[Jaysun]

This is sick. As it should be, my wife isn't even known by her first name anymore. She's known as "the wife of Jaysun" and that's how her headstone will read.

[Eireann go Brach]

Nice profile page!

[VRWCmember]

"By doing this the men show their brides how much they love and admire them."

By doing this the men show their brides what easily dominated wussies they are.

[quantim]

I'm one of the lucky ones. Not only is my wife exponentially better looking than me, she happens to have the same name as a famous porn star half her age. The suggestion that she change her name to mine never came up.

[oyez]

Brazil seems to be getting a little too European anyway. Or is it Europe is geting a little too Brazilian?

[July 4th]

I had a friend from law school who hated his parents so much that when he got married, he took his wife's name to spite them.

[Racehorse]

He said: "When I got married, I wanted to start a new story with my wife and forget the sad things of the past."

Well, I've always found Icelandic names rather intriguing.  No wonder they write family sagas going back centuries.  How else could they keep their own genealogy from bleeding all over the landscape?

Many foreigners who visit Iceland become confused when they look through an Icelandic telephone directory, because persons are listed alphabetically by their first name. Icelanders regard the first name as the "real" name. The last name of a person is rarely used to identify a person.

Icelandic surnames are also quite special. Surnames, which exist from generation to generation in other European cultures, are rare in Iceland. In Iceland, the father's first name is used as the base to the child's last name. For example, Baldur Þórsson and Freyja Óðinsdóttir have two children, Kristín and Björn. The children's last names would be Kristín Baldursdóttir and Björn Baldursson. It is also possible to make a last name using the name of the mother, but it is uncommon.

The same naming tradition existed in Sweden and Norway until the second part of the 19th century. In certain areas of western Sweden, it continued even longer.

Iceland

[Noachian]

How do you say "Wussy" in Portuguese?

[Vision]

That's pathetic

[Clemenza]

This is f--kin' gay. Then again, most of the Brazillian men I've run into in Florida are queer as a three dollar bill. What do you expect from a country who's male head of state is referred to as "Lula."

[hispanarepublicana]

Well, in Mexico if I remember right, the child of Thomas Garcia Mendez and Linda Garcia de Vazquez would be Bubba Garcia Vazquez. Bubba's Paternal grandparents would be Francisco Garcia Herrerra and Maria Garcia de Mendez. Bubbas Maternal grand parents would be Pedro Vazquez Soto and Elena Vazquez de Lerma.
Confusing at first but much easier on genealogists 3 generations later.

[paulat]

No way. I'm keeping my last name to my grave. Some great people of the past carried that name.

...okay Mr. "from Michigan." Howcome you don't capitalize "from?" Howcome "from Michigan" isn't hyphenated, huh??

...and BTW..."from Michigan" doesn't sound all that Irish to me....

[Caipirabob]

Don't be fooled. This can also be a cover for some men. They can legally change their names and become more difficult to track fom ex wives and mistresses. A guy I knew, "Junior" in Rio was a prime example of this thinking. He had his wife, his girlfriend, his lover, the woman he loved and kept some school girls on the side for after work. I imagine he had many continuing reasons to want to change his name.

[conservlib]

The folklore of the Semitic culture, they tell you that we are identified by our mothers rather than fathers. A Jew is known to be a son of a Jewish mother rather than a son of a Jewish father.

[flying Elvis]

Mr. Asswipe (pronounced azzweepay) supports this practice.