At 19, I found out I had been adopted from Colombia, and my name had been changed. When I married, I chose to hyphenate my last name so as not to lose my identity again. Not all forms allow you to add ...

Some choices feel deeply personal, until the people around you take them as a rejection. So, what would you do if your name never felt like your own? Would you let it go to keep the peace? Or would ...

It turns out that my initials make hyphenating impossible. I still have to be strategic about how I style my name in public. My maiden name is Khorey. Last year, I married a man whose last name is ...

Dear Eric: I got married about six years ago, at the age of 30. At that point in my life, I was pretty emotionally connected to my name and I wanted to stay attached to it. So, I added my husband’s ...

“Curious if he would change his mind when realizing what people will actually be thinking behind his back,” she pondered Brian Anthony Hernandez, who has nearly 20 years of journalism experience, ...

I hyphenated my last name when I got married, decades ago. Under the proposed SAVE bill, that hyphen would make me ineligible to vote. The bill says Ohio must constantly check voter records against ...