Hyphenated surnames

My wife and I have different last names (she kept her maiden name). We just have our own names, no hyphenation. So instead of hyphenating Micro Jr.'s last name, her last name is his middle name.

 

When I was growing up, a (biracial) couple down the hall was hyphenated.

He added her name and she added his. So they each had a different last name.

Mr. Hisname-Hername
Mrs. Hername-Hisname

I'm trying to remember which version their baby daughter got.

Also @Spartan Squad:
Latin American naming traditions confound the computer system at a nonprofit where I volunteer. There aren't enough boxes for all the family names, and the search function is a disaster. Also, home country and state IDs don't always match each other -- or the names they use.

 

My wife kept her regal last name. One day someone may pronounce it correctly.

 

We had a basketball coach several years ago who couldn't seem to settle on a name.
When she was hired, she used her married name. Then she used a hyphenated name. Then she had a son in high school who had her ex-husband's last name, so she went back to that so people would know it was her son. When the son graduated she used her maiden name, even though people around the school still called her "Coach Marriedname."
She left our local high school to coach at a junior college for a couple of years and I lost track of her. But when she left the juco to go back to a high school job in another part of the state, the school district that hired her had a completely different last name in the press release. So I guess she got remarried at some point.

Before every basketball season I made a point to ask her what name she was using this year. I'm sure I still messed it up a few times.

 

My wife uses maiden and married names sans hyphenation, but doesn’t care at all if people only use married last name in common usage. It’s mostly for her law practice that she’s kept maiden name.

 

It's common practice in these parts for women to drop their birth middle name and adopt their maiden last name as their middle name.

 

Curiosities: Why are so many Hispanic names hyphenated?

 

That's what I did, mostly because I wanted to have the same name as my future child. If I had to do it all over again though, I'd never change my name.