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A woman gets married, but she has already built a career and made her full name recognizable for it. Therefore, she keeps her maiden name to avoid confusion in her professional life. Keeping the maiden name is extremely common among female scientists and other academics, as their professional reputation is built upon their peers being able to track their body of work through published studies, most of which only show the last name and first initial of the contributor. Female authors, likewise, and especially their publishers, tend to prefer it if their readers aren't confused by their books appearing with two different names on the covers. Women who do change their legal names when they marry may also continue to use their maiden names socially or professionally, especially in fields like acting where Stage Names are common. This can also apply to divorced or widowed women who remarry but keep their first married name if they find it socially or professionally advantageous. Related to Took the Wife's Name, in which case the husband takes the wife's surname if she chooses to keep it for her career or higher social status. Also compare The Maiden Name Debate for when a woman is unsure whether to keep her maiden name. |
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Annie Mae "Tina" Turner kept her married name after divorcing Ike, enduring the bad memories attached to it, for business purposes. It worked, however, as she brought far better to that name than Ike ever did. | |
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Amy Chilton from Scary Go Round is Amy Beckwith-Chilton in the Spin-Off webcomic Bad Machinery, due to her marriage to Ryan Beckwith. She is quite successful with the antiques shop she has set up back in SGR, so this may probably be for the bussiness-strategical reason of name recognition. | |
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Mischief In Musutafu and Other Such Tales: Inko's surname is "Midoriya" as a result if her marriage, but she goes under her maiden "Sasaki Inko" for her job as a therapist. | |
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Bones: Angela and Brennan, both who work at the Jeffersonian Institute, continue using their maiden names (or maiden alias if you want to be technical in Brennan's case, only her father Max uses the real family name), after getting married. It's especially understandable on Brennan's case because she's a forensic anthropologist and novelist who is primarily known by her surname. | |
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CSI: NY: While Lindsay does change her name to Messer, she is sometimes still referred to as "Officer Lindsay Monroe Messer," such as when being presented with her medal in 'The 34th Floor.' Former FBI agent-turned-CSI Jo Danville says with an eyeroll that she had refused to take the name of her now ex-husband, fellow agent Russ Josephson, "because then my name would've been Jo Josephson. Please." |
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In The Future Briefing Island, it's revealed that Midnight, who is Momo Yaoyorozu's mother here, uses her maiden name in her official biography as it does not list her marital status. It grants her family some anonymity as well as to her daughter to avoid claims of nepotism. | |
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Pre-Crisis, the Earth-Two Lois Lane changed her married name to "Lois Kent", but kept her maiden name for professional purposes like her post-Crisis counterpart. As a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, her name is a huge draw for readers of the Daily Planet, after all. | |
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Kevin & Kell: Lindesfarne keeps the name Dewclaw after she marries Fenton, likely because she's already a published scientist. | |
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Pretty much all of the married women on Grey's Anatomy keep their maiden names, for obvious professional reasons. At one point April addresses Meredith as "Mrs. Shepherd" and Meredith quickly corrects her that she's Dr. Grey. The one exception is Dr. Addison Montgomery-Shepherd, although she reverts to Dr. Montgomery after she and Derek get divorced. | |
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Harry Potter: According to Pottermore, Professor McGonagall was actually married for a short period in the 1980s, but kept her last name as "she had always been a bit of a feminist." | |
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Persona 4: It's implied early on that Misuzu Hiiragi, wife of Taro Namatame, kept her maiden name after being married, possibly because of her career as an enka singer. | |
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Sana from Kodocha kept her last name upon marrying Akito (as revealed in Deep Clear) due to being a famous actress, though their daughter has his last name. | |
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Family Skeleton Mysteries: Dana Fenton kept her surname when she married her husband because her family's name is on "Fenton's Family Festival", the carnival they run. | |
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I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying: Tanaka kept her maiden name (which Hajime notes as being confusing). In her case, it's probably because she's a doctor. | |
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Die Hard: At the beginning of the movie, John McClane and his wife Holly are separated; she is living and working in Los Angeles under her maiden name Gennaro. At the movie's end they reconcile, she reverts to using his surname, and he moves to L.A. to be with her. | |
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Lord Peter Wimsey series: In Busman's Honeymoon, Lord Peter marries best-selling author Harriet Vane. She is happy to become Harriet Wimsey (and "Lady Peter" on formal occasions), but states that naturally she will continue to be "Harriet Vane" for professional purposes. | |
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For All Mankind: In season two, Tracy Stevens (one of the first female American astronauts) has divorced her husband and re-married, but she keeps the Stevens surname because that's the name the public recognizes. | |
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In Superman comics, Lois Lane is usually portrayed as having changed her name to Lois Lane-Kent legally while still writing under her maiden name. Pre-Crisis, the Earth-Two Lois Lane changed her married name to "Lois Kent", but kept her maiden name for professional purposes like her post-Crisis counterpart. As a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, her name is a huge draw for readers of the Daily Planet, after all. |
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In Case Closed, Ran's mother Eri uses her maiden name Kisaki professionally as a lawyer. However, since Eri and Kogoro never divorced, she is still legally known as Eri Mouri—but nobody calls her that way. | |
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Another male example: when Yale Law School classmates James "J.D." Hamel and Usha Chilukuri married in 2014, both took the surname of J.D.'s maternal grandmother, who had played a major part in raising him. As J.D. Vance, he first entered culture as the author of Hillbilly Elegy and later became a U.S. Senator from his home state of Ohio. | |
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In NUMB3RS fanfic series Bodies in Orbit, Robin Brooks, Don's wife, and a lawyer, kept her maiden name after marrying Don, and when their daughter is born, they have a combination of their last names, Leah Margaret Brooks-Eppes. | |
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The star of Dr. Pimple Popper, dermatologist Sandra Lee, uses her maiden name for professional purposes. Her Southern California practice, Skin Physicians & Surgeons, is owned and operated by Lee and her dermatologist husband Jeffrey Rebish. | |
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In Saki, Masae Atago, a professional mahjong player and coach for Senriyama All-Girls, is said to have kept her maiden name and passed it down to her daughters, as her character profile shows. | |
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In Spider-Man, Mary Jane changes to "Watson-Parker", but continues to use "Watson" for her job since fashion models are another job where name recognition is essential. | |
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In Safe Havens, Samantha keeps her maiden name because her career was established as Samantha Argus. | |
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How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom: Two of Souma Kazuya's initial five wives keep their maiden names for political reasons following their group coronation/wedding ceremony in volume 10. He instead takes their surnames to make his regnal name Souma Amidonia Elfrieden. Liscia Elfrieden, his first primary queen, was crown princess of Elfrieden and betrothed to him in order to make him her parents' Heir-In-Law, and therefore his legitimacy as King of Elfrieden comes through her. His second primary queen, Roroa Amidonia, is Sovereign Princess of Amidonia in her own right, and keeps her surname in order to maintain the political fiction of the Principality of Amidonia being a semi-autonomous state in real union with Elfrieden, after the two countries had been enemies for two generations. She also gives her son Leon the Amidonia family name, in part to make it clear he isn't to be considered in the direct line of succession (she wishes to raise him to inherit her trading company instead. |
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Growing Pains: While having legally taken her husband's name, Maggie Seaver uses her maiden name of Malone in her professional life. It was even lampshaded in the first reunion movie. | |
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Similarly, Pat Benatar (born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski) married one Dennis Benatar in the early '70s and kept her married name after their 1979 divorce. In 1982, by which time she had become a major star, she married her guitarist and manager Neil Giraldo, taking his name for legal purposes but keeping Benater as her stage name. | |
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JAG: Following her marriage with Bud Roberts, Harriet continues to be referred to by her maiden name, Sims. It's likely done for convenience because there would otherwise be two lieutenants Roberts in the same workplace. It's unknown if she changed her legal name. | |
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The main couple in Phantasmagoria are Donald Gordon and Adrienne Delaney. Why is never addressed, but since Don is a photographer and Adrienne is a novelist, they likely kept their own names for business purposes. | |
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Tales of Karmic Lies Aftermath reveals that Caline Bustier kept her maiden name after marrying, mostly because she didn't want her students to think she'd 'gotten old'. | |
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In Lady Archimedes, Hermione establishes this when George proposes to her early in the Battle of Hogwarts, lampshading the Trope. | |
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