There is a lot included in your name. Your name is your identity that keeps you apart from others. After birth, your family members give you 2 or 4 names- your first name, middle name, a second middle name and a last name. If you are a woman, then your last name gets replaced with your husband's after you get married. There are some women, who modify and drop their middle name. Why this happens? What is the story behind it? Read further to know everything.

• Reasoning
  Some women want to keep their maiden name as a middle name. So after marriage, they drop their middle name. Some also add their maiden name as a second middle name. Some women drop their original middle name (given by parents) and put maiden name in its place.
  
• Alternatives
  After getting married, there are various options to modify or drop your middle name, if you are willing to hold your maiden name. Firstly, your husband's last name can be added on to the end of your maiden name with a hyphen. Another way is convincing your husband for changing his name to yours or he can also add yours with his, using a hyphen. One more option is to not change your name at all even if you are legally married.
  
• Drawbacks
  If you keep your maiden name when you get married, then there are some disadvantages of that, especially when you have children. You and your children may have different last names if your husband's last name is added to yours with hyphen or if you keep your last name. In this case, you and your husband should have a discussion when you have to fill the birth certificate of your children.
  
• Available Solutions
  The simplest alternative is to don't do anything at all. Women can keep their names, given to them at the time of birth, as it is even after their marriage. This will eliminate the time consumed during name-changing paperwork formalities, fees and visits to the social security offices. One more benefit of not changing the original name is applicable in your professional life. You have developed your brand name, which should be there in the industry for always. Another option is that both, you and your husband, can change your last name. Both the names can be combined with a hyphen. Your children will receive this hyphenated last name.
  

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