Last name after marriage POLL
The study surveyed 2,437 U.S. adults in opposite-sex marriages and 955 who had never been married to ask what their choice was or would be.
Of women in opposite-sex marriages, 79% said they took their husband’s last name after they tied the knot, while 14% kept their own and 5% decided to hyphenate both names, according to the Pew Research study.
Most married men – 92% – kept their own last names, while 5% changed their last names to their wife’s and less than 1% hyphenated the two, the survey showed.
Black women are more likely to hyphenate their name with their spouses’ than white women. The survey said it could not gather enough data from Asian women in the sample to analyze separately.
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