A TikTok user asked a simple question that got thousands of women talking. The user @lumomoneyyy wanted to know why some women keep their own last names after getting married instead of taking their husband’s name. Her post got so many responses that it started a big conversation online about this old wedding tradition.
Most American women still change their last name when they get married. A survey from 2023 found that about 79% of married women took their husband’s last name. Only about 20% to 30% of women keep their birth name. The practice of women changing their names comes from an old law in England that said women belonged to men. First they belonged to their fathers, then to their husbands after marriage.
