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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I am NOT asking or wanting to know yours,,, but what does yours mean to you?
Is it pride that you belong to a family blood line.. is it security that youve made roots into another family? Does it mean nothing..
I just had a great indepth natter about mine and i feel a bit lost.. it means nothing to me, there is no bloodline or heritage.. just a series of letters that helps identify me.
Long for the day where i can meet someone, marry and feel a part of something great. |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
Mine is the last generation that will have this surname in my family, as all our kids have their fathers surnames. Not that bothered really, although its an unusual name and would be sad for it to go completely. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I couldn't wait to get rid of my maiden name.....all those years of the rhyming jokes, having to spell it after you've said it etc etc......it's great to have a normal surname at last  |
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By *gNeMan
over a year ago
Harrogate |
" just a series of letters that helps identify me.
Long for the day where i can meet someone, marry and feel a part of something great. "
All it ever is, is a series of letters which helps identify a person.
I'd also say don't look for marriage and a man to define who you are. Be proud of yourself, and attach that pride to your surname if you have to ha! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Great question. If i'm honest mine doesn't mean anything to me and I feel quite sad admitting that to myself. This is the first time i've ever thought about it!
I feel all emosh' now....    |
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I like my surname.. I don't really know my dad, and he didn't really know his, so nothing to do with family ties.. I just think it identifies me in the same way as my first name does. It's my name! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Great question. If i'm honest mine doesn't mean anything to me and I feel quite sad admitting that to myself. This is the first time i've ever thought about it!
I feel all emosh' now.... "
its odd ive my step dads surname and not seen him or 10yrs,, my mothers changed hers and my daughter has the same name as me and she has never even met that 'family'
so im feeling a bit lost  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Great question. If i'm honest mine doesn't mean anything to me and I feel quite sad admitting that to myself. This is the first time i've ever thought about it!
I feel all emosh' now....
its odd ive my step dads surname and not seen him or 10yrs,, my mothers changed hers and my daughter has the same name as me and she has never even met that 'family'
so im feeling a bit lost "
Group hug ? x
I feel like i've committed a sin! (different one to usual lol) |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I just didn't want my son having a different surname to me at school
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same thats why i gave my daughter mine.. easier for paperwork. Just shame mine has no meaning though
is C's surname that of his dad though?
naturally you dont have to answer that im just nosey |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mine was given to me by my adoptive parents, so it's a heavy link to that for me and what that means I guess, that plus the fact it's a cool name that doesn't sound like it belongs to this face make me quite like it, you don't see many red bearded christos's in the world
Beats what my name would have been if I wasn't conceived for adoption...it would have been 'naylor' |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Means I automatically spell it out over the phone without even being prompted...I wish I was a Smith!
Every f@cking time...
For the last 45 years...
Sigh! |
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"I just didn't want my son having a different surname to me at school
same thats why i gave my daughter mine.. easier for paperwork. Just shame mine has no meaning though
is C's surname that of his dad though?
naturally you dont have to answer that im just nosey "
yes it is, that's why I never changed it back and to be honest all my friends know me by my maiden name anyway
I've been informed the new arrival is taking his dads name even though their not married
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Means I automatically spell it out over the phone without even being prompted...I wish I was a Smith!
Every f@cking time...
For the last 45 years...
Sigh! "
i giggled at that,, i have the same thing with my relatively normal first name 'Kimberly'... people generally spell it with an additional E |
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"Means I automatically spell it out over the phone without even being prompted...I wish I was a Smith!
Every f@cking time...
For the last 45 years...
Sigh! "
I think pimplebutt is quite easy to spell
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I just didn't want my son having a different surname to me at school
same thats why i gave my daughter mine.. easier for paperwork. Just shame mine has no meaning though
is C's surname that of his dad though?
naturally you dont have to answer that im just nosey yes it is, that's why I never changed it back and to be honest all my friends know me by my maiden name anyway
I've been informed the new arrival is taking his dads name even though their not married
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awwwwww thats wonderful.. i wanted Amber to take on her 'dads' surname of 'EVANS' but he never showed at the registry office and in hindsight i'm glad she has my name. Varying reasons the link between us never worked out |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I changed mine to lose my parents name which I guess says how little I liked the original one.
My knew one I pondered for a longtime, it has a muical and political reference and suits me more |
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"I couldn't wait to get rid of my maiden name.....all those years of the rhyming jokes, having to spell it after you've said it etc etc......it's great to have a normal surname at last "
Same here and all the taunting. Having to watch my niece and nephews go through exactly the same as I did at school now. Thank goodness my kids have my married name and not my maiden name. Kids can be so crew |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My father's family are descended from a Lord. There is a large building in London with our family name on it followed by House. It's not a common name. I'm practically royalty  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Means I automatically spell it out over the phone without even being prompted...I wish I was a Smith!
Every f@cking time...
For the last 45 years...
Sigh!
I think pimplebutt is quite easy to spell
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...Well I used to be Everard-Dique |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Means I automatically spell it out over the phone without even being prompted...I wish I was a Smith!
Every f@cking time...
For the last 45 years...
Sigh! "
ditto, first name and surname every bloody time |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My sirname was changed to my grandparents name when I was a child as it was my grandparents who raised me, when I split from my ex I changed my name back to my grandparents name so in effect I have my birth mothers maiden name, it's not a wonderful name as names go but I like it because it reminds me of everything my gran did for me as a child, she was a wonderful women and I'm glad to have her name |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Means I automatically spell it out over the phone without even being prompted...I wish I was a Smith!
Every f@cking time...
For the last 45 years...
Sigh! ditto, first name and surname every bloody time"
I feel your pain madam... I feel your pain.. |
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By *ruitWoman
over a year ago
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Mine is a name I no longer want as divorced for many years. It is the name my children have though so I will keep it until they are older and then revert back to my maiden name and become a Miss again. Just done my passport so it will be a few years til I alter it. |
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My surname is my husbands. I have used it for nearly 43 years. Means nothing to me. THe line ends with our children as they dont intend to have kids. Thats it really.
My maiden name I used for about 11 years then I took on my stepfathers name till I was 18 then reverted to my real name till I married.
The Monypenny name is very old French I loved that name as a teenager. Was different and memorable. |
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"Means nothing, still got my ex husbands name
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I'm the same
Kept it for respectability purposes when the children were still at home
Now I'm going to change it fairly soon by deed poll
Thing is tho, I adore my in laws but they're very understanding about it and have said they've got no objections
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I took my husband's. It actually fits better with my first name in terms of number of syllables than my maiden name did, and I've had it so long now that it's mine. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"what if your man had a surname you detested would you marry them?"
lol id not refuse to marry the love of my life because of a name.. id probs just keep my current one.
in an ideal world mr right would have a nice normal surname .. but if he doesnt ah well |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"For me if I tell them my surname they straight away change there view if me.... On being not so British as they first thought Ahaha !!!"
Are you Polish?..
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"what if your man had a surname you detested would you marry them?"
Yes I did
I refused to marry a man whose surname was Smith
And eventually it proved to be the right decision
If he changed it however
Lord knows what things would have been like |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Means I automatically spell it out over the phone without even being prompted...I wish I was a Smith!
Every f@cking time...
For the last 45 years...
Sigh! "
Yep ....that was me until I married. ...It's Soooo nice having a name that anyone can spell |
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A Jewish man saw my mums maiden name on a gravestone after escaping Auschwitz and used that for himself.
My surname (my dads surname) is one I want to keep, but if I move up north I'll have to change it... I don't want the shit beaten out of me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My maidenname is my link to my family that I will always have. our son had his first name, my maidenname as a middle name and his dad's surname. That way he will always have that link Even if anything was to happen and he lost us Or ended up with one side of our family. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm pretty nonplussed about mine. Although it's my maiden name I don't feel closer to my family because of it and I don't feel it defines me in any way. I'm curious about the family history but not obsessively so. I think i may have felt differently had i married, taken someone else's name and had kids. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
It's relatively easy but people spell it wrong (sometimes for their own amusement) pronounce it in strange and complicated ways and I often have to say it again.
I'm fairly indifferent about my father and it's strange the pride he has in the name given that he was estranged from his father for so much of his life.
I own it as my name. I take pride in it for what I have achieved and that my life and achievements are recorded by that random grouping of letters that identify me. It's memorable.
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By *jandjbCouple
over a year ago
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"I am NOT asking or wanting to know yours,,, but what does yours mean to you?
Is it pride that you belong to a family blood line.. is it security that youve made roots into another family? Does it mean nothing..
I just had a great indepth natter about mine and i feel a bit lost.. it means nothing to me, there is no bloodline or heritage.. just a series of letters that helps identify me.
Long for the day where i can meet someone, marry and feel a part of something great. "
Did you know that you can call yourself whatever you like. If you marry and change your surname your true name remains the same as the one on your birth certificate. That's why you have to put your maiden name on legal documents.
Alternatively, change it by deed poll. Then it becomes official. |
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I have a polish last name and I quite enjoy it being very unique but I have no polish family that I care about and am estranged from my dad who gave the name. I like that it is still the same as my mum's name and that I have a link to her while she hasn't remarried. But I still wouldn't change it as it's my identity. Unlikely to ever change upon marriage either as I don't believe in it. E. |
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Mine is boring! But then I always have to spell my first name so having to do both would be too much!
Irritates me when people (bloody southerners usually in call centres ) say it differently as if I don't know how to pronounce my own surname. It's one of them bath or baaaath type of things! |
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