Anyone else really looking forward to changing their surname?

I can't wait, but I am slightly upset that my initials will then be JLS!! ?

I can't wait either! I'm sick of being the First in everything, I have a long 'A' surname and people constantly spell it wrong or assume because of the Yorkshire accent that I'm actually dropping a 'H' off of it.

Also our daughter has His surname too so will be ice for us all to match!

I'm having a little dilemma over this as I have a daughter from a previous relationship that obviously shares my maiden name, I wouldn't ask her to change her surname as it's not fair to do so as she's 14 now. I was thinking maybe of double barrelling purely for this reason as I'd not want her feeling the odd one out. Hard to decide though as I know my partner probably wouldn't do the same as me. x

I can't wait too. I have to spell my surname to people on a daily basis. I can't wait to have a simple surname. ?

I can't wait to change my name,I'd easily do it tomorrow!! I don't like my name as it's the same as my dad and we don't get on, so i cant wait to change it! I think it'll feel really grown up to! My brother said to me a few weeks ago. "Just think you'll be Mrs Sarah M... in a couple of years" I hadn't actually heard someone outside of us say it. Got all excited!!

S x

I can't wait to change mine either! I hate my surname at the moment and always have to spell it to people so can't wait to have a normal surname

I'm looking forward to it more and more. To begin with i didn't want to change my name, because my qualifications are all in my name and i sort of didn't want to be Mrs S the third after his Grandma and my MiL. However, i sort of want to change my name now, i see more and more young married couples with the same name and it has sort of swayed me.

Plus I am fed up having to spell my surname for EVERYONE! especially since I don't know the phonetic alphabet very well ha ha.

I can't wait! My OH and our 3 little ones all have the same surname so I'm the odd one out - for now!

I can't wait either, although my initials will be BS! I'm just hoping we can change my sons name, his is double barrelled with my maiden name and his real dads. His real dad is an a**ehole who doesn't see him anymore and I don't know if he'll agree to changing my sons name so it's double barrelled with his and my new married name :-/

I can't wait to be mr and mrs same name. Although we will be Dr and Mrs for a year the Dr & Dr ;-)

There is only one of me in the whole of the UK at the moment!! When I change my name there will be 448 :-(

I really cant wait to change my surname! My passport doesn’t run out until 2015 and im getting married next year, I might see if I can use my old name just when I use my passport, until I need to renew it. Does anyone know if you can do this?!

Well you had a good run, with my current name there ate thousands of us in the UK!

I'm looking foward to it too. All 4 of us will be the same ? OH's name is much less common than mine round these parts (very common up north apparnetly) the only ones I've ever met are oh, his brother and ffil. Our boys and I have doubled their numbers lol

I was wondering about this too, mine is valid for another year or more and my son's until 2015. I wasn't sure if I could just tell everyone I'm to be known as mrs new name and keep old name officially but not sure because of documents for living abroad too hmm...I think we will just have to go to the expense and hassles of changing passports twice :-(

How do you even find this sort of information out? I'm curious now ?

Bee26 i found this:

http://www.ukdp.co.uk/child-name-change-court-order/

We also want to look intAthlon to go about my oh adopting my son at some stage - more faff as I don't know I'd we'd need to be resident in England to do it!

I'm the opposite - i'm going to have to spend the rest of my life spelling out my married surname to EVERYONE, lol. But I am excited.

Passport expired last year so had to renew - getting married in June. I wonder how long I can get away with not renewing it again (Bloody post office fees)! :p

Were you married to your son's father ? If not then you don't actually need his dad's permission to change your his surname.

I can't wait! my name is hard enough to say and pronouce but I love it anyway, but my new name is greek, has about 6 i's in it and I'm still trying to get the pronounciation right ?

(and sometimes I still put the i's in the wrong places) shhhh!

but I don't care I can't wait to have his name and be his wife and put mr and mrs on everything! wooo!

sorry...got a bit carried away there.....

Oh thanks for this!! Really put my mind at rest, we shouldn't have any trouble Then as I don't want to remove his name completely (only cos my son likes it) just change my bit to my new name.

No but He's on the birth certificate which means he has parental responsibility even though he doesn't know the meaning of the word!

Would mail you but don't know how ! lol

You should get some advice as I am in the same position and my daughter's name can be change without her fathers permission (she has had no contact with him for a number of years)

It was a website called howmanyofme.com but I can't find the UK version now!! Sorry!

Kookik - ditto, although my greek surname doesn't consist of about 11 letters

Just tried to mail u but nt sure if it's gone through! Have a look at the link Nical posted above, it says if there hasn't been any contact its pretty easy to get a court order to change the name without their permission. Did u not need a court order then? Is your daughters dad on the birth certificate?

Hi Haylee81 - have you asked yur daughter how she feels? My mum remarried when I was 15 but she had already changed her name by Deed Poll to match my step-father's when I was about 13 as she was pregnant with my little brother and she wanted to have the same name as him and my step-father. I was quite put out and can remember crying about it all the time because I felt like the odd one out in the family and like every time she saw my name she was reminded of my dad (who she hates!) I also found it embarrassing at parents' evening when people couldn't work out whose mum she was because she had a different name. I know it's much more common nowadays but it did really upset me (probably the teenage hormonoes) so I would discuss it with her to see what she would be happiest with. Sorry you just butt in like that, just seeing your post took me straight back to how I used to feel so thought you might like to hear from someone who had been where your daughter is.

Hi Bee,

I did look at Nical post and it clarified what my solicitor had told us, Both my daughters wish to change their surname, but eldest was born out of wedlock, youngest was born in it and my daughters are 13 and and 7 respectively, so one was born before 2003, the other after it (there was a change in the law then), both have their fathers name on their birth certificate. My eldest daughter's name change can happen without her fathers consent or knowledge, but for my youngest daughter's name change we will need to apply to do through the court, My ex will be served papers from the court ( this step only happens if your ex is unwilling to co-operate)and it is his responsibility to inform the court of his objections (if he has any), it is then up to the judge to decide if the name change will be in my daughter's best interest. My solicitor has told us that it will most likely be granted as ...1) my daughter wants it ....2) she would be the only child in our family with a different name if it was not granted, ....3) My ex has taken no interest in her upbringing ( neither access rights or financially). In short it would be in my daughter's best interest.

Hope this is helpful to you.

Regards

L x

I'm looking forward to changing my name. No one can pronounce my current surname and my new one is easy! My son is also looking forward to changing his name as he see's it as gaining a whole new family!

Looking forward to it! My current surname is my old married name - this is my second marriage. My son and I have had the same name - and I only kept my married name for him. However, my son is nearly 18, and about to go to university. I did ask him how he felt about now being the only one in our family with his surname and he's ok!

I practised my new surname/signature and I'm going to have to give it some thought - but its a great Greek/Cypriot name and makes me sound very distinguished! It's quite unusual!

LOL! this made me laugh as im soo looking forward to changing my surname as its really rare and everyone comments on it and h2b's surname is dead common AND he always get asked if its with or without an E haha! (its without btw

I changed my surname when I got married, but then changed it back to my maiden name.

Our son, and my son from a previous relationship both have my maiden name, it's nice being the same as them. It's also nice not having loads of Harry Potter jokes about my married name.