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Took the Wife's Name

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Took the Wife's Name	comment	When a couple gets married, the expectation in most cultures is for the wife to take her husband's surname. However, there can be cases where it's the husband who changes his surname. This is very uncommon in many countries around the world, but it's considered fairly normal in some, such as Japan (where spouses are legally required to have the same surname). This trope applies when there was a significant reason for the husband changing his surname. Some possible cases are: The most common one is difference in social status. If the wife's family is wealthier and/or more prominent than the husband's, it's expected for him to marry into the wife's family. Related to above, the wife's family owns a Family Business. Therefore, the husband and his children need to have the wife's surname in order to be potential heirs to the business and/or fortune. The wife is the only successor of her bloodline, in which case the husband may want to preserve her family name. They live in a society where matrilineal succession is commonplace or expected. The husband has personal issues with his original surname. Either he doesn't want to keep the surname of his Abusive Parents or he has a Dark and Troubled Past that he wishes to leave behind. Alternatively, he didn't like his original surname or didn't have one in the first place. The husband needs to change his surname in order to hide his identity. Reasons include being a criminal on the run or that his original family name is recognizable and he wishes to keep a low profile. Compare and contrast The Maiden Name Debate where the wife has the option of keeping her maiden name while the husband keeps his own surname. Compare Nom de Mom where it's the married couple's child who takes the mother's maiden name. A subtrope of Shed the Family Name.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_1cc09117	comment	In Bleach, Ichigo's father Isshin took the family name of his wife, Masaki Kurosaki. Given how obsessed he is with Masaki even a decade after her death (such as mounting a huge photo of her in the family's living room), it's seemingly just because he loved her so much. Eventually, it's revealed that there's far more to it than this. Isshin is not only a former Captain of the Gotei 13, his family name was Shiba, one of the most powerful noble clans in Soul Society and an equal of the Kuchikis. Since he had effectively deserted from the Gotei 13 via giving up his powers to save Masaki's life, keeping such a famous last name would've been a potentially huge red flag had anybody come looking for him.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_2271de63	comment	In the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood Gender Flip fic From Liverpool, England, Erin (male Erina) took the name of his wife Johanna (female Jonathan) since she was a noblewoman and her name was of higher standing by Victorian England standards. Word of God confirmed that had Dio's plan to seduce and marry Johanna succeeded, he would have also had to take her family name as well.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_25f6f1a0	comment	In the backstory of Umineko: When They Cry, Eva Ushiromiya, having been passed over to be the family heir, married Hideyoshi in the hopes of producing a child when her older brother and his wife had trouble conceiving. For Hideyoshi, who didn't have any remaining family of his own, it was an easy decision to take Eva's last name to make it possible for their son George to be considered as a potential family head.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_267cbfa	comment	Dominic Deegan: Dominic's father Donovan didn't have a last name before his marriage to Miranda Deegan, on account of being an orphan who didn't know his birth parents' names. Flashbacks show that Miranda used this to guilt-trip her disapproving parents into accepting him.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_26ef42e7	comment	Kevin & Kell has several examples, usually resulting from previous ostracization of the husband in the marriage: When Kevin married Kell, he changed his (and his adopted daughter's) last name to his wife's, mainly because he had been disowned by his family. Considering he's a rabbit and Kell's a wolf, the name change was the least of people's concerns. According to the FAQ, Kell convinced Rudy to change his surname from Foxglove (his father's last name) to Dewclaw after his father's death. When Dip marries Caniche, he takes her last name of Chien, since, as a former wild animal, he never had a last name to give her. Or a first name, for that matter: Dip is short for diploma, which was his original occupation, being raised to be eaten by a college graduate (Rhonda, in Dip's case), with their diploma tattooed on him to be removed and tanned after being eaten. An interesting circumstance between Ophelia Stoat and George Gopher: Ophelia had to fake her death to escape pelt hunters, and received a turtle shell previously used by the frog Todd, deciding to take the name Ophelia Turtle. When she and George married, the wider turtle community accepted both of them in, and invited George to live as a turtle as well (using a 3D-printed shell he previously made). Since George's father at the time was literally plotting his death, he changed his last name to Ophelia's.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_30a5ebfd	comment	At the end of Naruto, Sai becomes Sai Yamanaka considering he didn't have a last name and his wife Ino was the only daughter of her quite prominent family. note (Technically, he didn't have a first name either; he ends up adopting what was formerly a Code Name as his legal first name.)
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Took the Wife's Name / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: RWBY teammate Weiss Schnee's father Jacques GelÃ¨ changed his last name upon his marriage to her mother Willow Schnee in order to gain profit and recognition off of the fame the name entailed, specifically the social status of the Schnee family and the Schnee Dust Company. This worked as he was later named the president of the company and successor to his father-in-law Nicholas Schnee.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_3c1f955d	comment	Yandere Simulator: The Aishi surname seems to always be passed through the wife. It's notorious for the fact that every woman in the family is a Yandere who kidnaps her high-school Senpai and forces him into a relationship. So, in this case, the husband taking the wife's surname (not by choice) seems to indicate the nature of their relationship and the way Yandere-ism runs in the family.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_3e4d48d5	comment	Food Wars!: Jouichiro Saiba took his wife's family name when he married, becoming Jouichiro Yukihira. Because of this, he inherited the Restaurant Yukihira that originally belonged to his wife's family. Also, there is enough of a whiff of scandal in his past that he may have seen it as a convenient way to change his name and drop off the radar. As a corollary, protagonist Soma Yukihira also inherited his mother's surname, which (for good and ill) makes people not immediately realize who his father is. Azami Nakamura became Azami Nakiri after marriage. In this case, his wife's family is extremely wealthy and powerful. However, he should have lost the right to call himself a Nakiri after his father-in-law kicked him out for abusing his daughter Erina.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_43a79959	comment	Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!: Yamato Naoe becomes Yamato Kuki in Monshiro's afterstory since the Kuki family is about on par with the heads of first world nations. He quickly gains the status of a Kuki with his own personal attendant (Stacy or Lee) and treatment from servants equal to that of the Kuki siblings.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_44fe781e	comment	In the unlinkable Neon Genesis Evangelion fanfic Science: Saving Humanity without regard to Morals or Ethics, while it has not happened yet Misato is very much in favor of Shinji taking on her name, mostly because Gendo is that much of a uncaring jerk.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_457571f9	comment	In the backstory of The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure, Elie MacDowell's father took her mother's last name, though they've long since divorced by the beginning of Zero, and neither parent was named in that arc. It's later revealed in The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak that his first name is Ryan and that after the divorce, he returned to his maiden name of Connery.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_4656dd6f	comment	Jack White was born Jack Gillis and took Meg White's surname when they got married. He kept the last name even after they divorced.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In Lancre, there's a sort of tradition of matrilinearity, at least amongst witches. So when Miss Gytha Ogg got married, she became Mrs. Gytha Ogg and her husband became Mr. Ogg (as did her subsequent husbands). Her married sons, however, are still Oggs, because none of her daughters-in-law are brave enough to explain to Nanny that they shouldn't be.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_483044b3	comment	Gundam Build Fighters Try: Nils Nielson became Nils Yajima when he married Caroline Yajima, likely due to the fact that the Yajima family is very powerful and influential.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_4b51e278	comment	A double example with Yu's family in The Many Quirks of Investigation Teamery: The Narukami surname is extremely important in the business world, so Yu's father took the Narukami surname when he married, while Ryotaro took his wife's last name to escape the family legacy.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_533edb91	comment	The Legend of Genji: After marrying Opal Beifong, Bolin took on her family name because he didn't have a last name of his own. Well that and he was really happy at finally being able to call Toph "grandma".
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Took the Wife's Name / int_55d81244	comment	In ViVid Strike!, Dan took Lorrie's last name when they got married. It makes sense considering that the Berlinetta family owns a large company.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_5694548d	comment	In The Sharing Knife, Lakewalkers use a matrilineal system of naming and inheritance where the husband normally takes the wife's 'tent' name, and households are passed to the eldest daughter. Meanwhile, farmers use a patrilinal system. The mixed protagonist couple ends up using the Lakewalker custom after some confusion.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_5921531b	comment	Persona 4: If the protagonist romances Yukiko Amagi, on Valentine's Day, she'll tell him that if he marries her, he'll have to take on her family name, since the Amagis run a historical inn. Given that Yukiko's mother is the current manager, it's likely that Mr. Amagi also had to change his former last name.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_5c574281	comment	SAPR: In chapter 124, "Re-Forged," Pyrrha reflects that when she and Jaune get married, he's going to have to take her name because she's from an ancient royal house.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_6040c28d	comment	In I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying, when Nozomu married Rino, he took on her last name due to her being the adopted heiress of a prominent family, but you wouldn't know this unless you read My Girlfriend Without Wasabi.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!: In "Portrait of Francine's Genitals", Jeff Fischer mentions that he has taken Hayley's last name after marriage, making him Jeff Smith.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_61d236b7	comment	InCryptid: After Dominic De Luca and Verity Price get married, he takes Verity's last name to become Dominic Price, symbolizing a break with his Covenant past.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_629cd094	comment	A variation in Dragon Age: Origins: Oghren took his wife Branka's first name as his new last name due to her status as a paragon (essentially a Physical God) while his family was in the warrior caste. Dwarven society states when a new House is founded, it's named after the paragon that founds it, and the paragon's first name becomes a last name.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_63a951c3	comment	In Skyhold Academy Yearbook, it's mentioned that Fenris took his wife's surname (Hawke) when they married as a sign that he was leaving his painful past behind.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_6b8ed439	comment	In The Ronless Factor after Ron is brought back to life, after Wade declares such a resurrection impossible Kim observes "Anything's possible for a Possible, even if it is just honorary... for now", defending her declaration as her thinking of the future. Ron affirms that he has no problem with the idea of taking Kim's name rather than the other way around, even speculating that if he takes her name people might start getting his own right in the press for a change.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_6cdb8162	comment	Unchained (Umei no Mai): Since his Lord-Wife Izuna is significantly higher-ranked than him, Tobirama is now referred to as Uchiha instead of Senju.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_6d7c7f1c	comment	In SomethingPositive, Jason Pratchett decides to take Aubrey Chorde's surname, mostly because of issues with his dad.*
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Took the Wife's Name / int_6f76d71a	comment	The Sims: In The Sims 2, the couple takes the name of whoever initiates the marriage action. So, quite a few male Sims end up taking their wives' last names. The Capp and Summerdream families of Veronaville seem to follow a matrilineal tradition, as multiple generations show husbands taking their wives' surnames upon their marriage. Jason Greenman (nÃ© O'Mackey) from the Seasons expansion pack took his wife Rose's surname. This was apparently out of love for her and possibly a desire to become closer to her PlantSim heritage. The Tricou family of Downtown might fallow the matrilineal tradition as the sons-in-law of the family took their wives' last name and some players have suggested the family patriarch, Jon Smith Tricou, might have originally been Jon Smith and took the Tricou name when he married. A lot of player challenges place restrictions on this (legacy heirs must keep the legacy family name and such) and there are mods to choose the name or to enforce a "traditional" marriage, where different-sex couples take the male Sim's last name and same-sex couples both keep their own last names. The Sims 3 does things slightly differently, with the married couple taking the surname of the Sim who proposed, rather than the one who initiated the marriage ceremony. However, Sims' names can be changed at City Hall in this game, so players could get around this if they wished. Geoffrey Landgraab of Sunset Valley took his wife Nancy's surname upon marriage because the Landgraabs are old-money aristocrats who helped build the town. The Sims 4 does away with name changes upon marriage altogether, but is the first game in the series which allows players to edit characters in Create-A-Sim at any time, so last names of married couples can be changed entirely at the player's discretion.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_7041cf12	comment	Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: While it's never outright stated, a family tree in Chapter 98 implies that both Maki's father and maternal grandfather took the Shijo name after their marriages since her claim as a member of the Shinomiya bloodline is traced through her maternal grandmother. Averted with the main couple. Despite coming from an infinitely more prominent family, Kaguya took the Shirogane surname after getting married, both out of a desire to be considered a part of their family and to distance herself from the Shinomiya family as much as humanly possible.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_72f3e556	comment	In Arrivals from the Dark series, a commodore whose last name is Trevelyan-Krasnogortsev explains that an ancestor of his was a Tsarist Russian officer named Krasnogortsev who escaped to France during the Romanovs and Revolutions period and married into the wealthy and respected Trevelyan family, choosing to hyphenate his name in order to be considered one of them. Several generations later, the commodore's descendants choose to drop the Overly Long Name (for bonus points, the commodore's names were Olaf Peter Carlos) and stick with the French surname.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_73735573	comment	Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2018): Jefferson Davis took the last name of his wife Rio Morales because he shared the name with a Confederate slaver.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_74603f32	comment	Arcane: The city council's titles are passed through lineage and when a fan asked the writers about it, the writers confirmed that councilwoman Kiramman kept her surname and her husband took it on.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_755cbdcf	comment	In Precocious, the Oven family's surname came from Sydney. Joseph changed his when they married. His reason is quoted below:
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Took the Wife's Name / int_764768c	comment	In The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, Erika Russell's husband Dan took her last name. We never even find out his maiden name.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_797793b1	comment	Shaman King: When Hao and Yoh's dad Mikihisa married their mom Keiko, the only daughter of the Asakura family, he took up her surname. This is also a case of Uptown Girl since he was a hobo-like street musician whereas her family was a very traditional shaman clan.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_79ab0b3c	comment	Tortall Universe: Beka Cooper's husband decides to take on her last name, citing that his mage name of Farmer Cape is nothing special. When asked what his birth name was, he reveals that it was Pincas Huckleburr.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: Phineas and Candace's maternal grandparents are named Clyde and Betty Jo Flynn despite being their mother Linda's parents and not their disappeared biological dad which hints their biological dad changed his name to Flynn or after Linda was either divorced or widowed, she changed her name back to Flynn and then Flynn-Fletcher via marrying Lawrence Fletcher.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_7c313cea	comment	ACTUALLY HAPPENED: After he gets married to his girlfriend Kathie, Noah takes her surname in order to distance himself from his parents.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_7c884aca	comment	Ennui GO!: When Izzy, Darcy and Tanya marry each other at the end of part 1, Izzy and Tanya take Darcy's last name, Slater; in Izzy's case, it's a sign of her character development in distancing herself from her old self-destructive ways and starting over after dealing with her traumatic past.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_7cb620a7	comment	The Hundred and One Dalmatians: Cruella de Vil mentions that she made her husband change his name to hers when they married because she was the last of her family.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_7cf1b706	comment	Played with in Escape from Monkey Island where Elaine took both last names, but because she's such a prominent figure on Melee Island, everyone assumes that protagonist Guybrush Threepwood took her name, leading to a Running Gag of him correcting everyone who calls him "Mr. Marley".
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Took the Wife's Name / int_7f39a041	comment	In Gintama, Taizo Hasegawa agreed to take his wife's family name instead of the opposite, as she comes from a higher social class. He still uses the Hasegawa surname despite his wife leaving him because he's unemployed.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_7f640c58	comment	In The Sims 2, the couple takes the name of whoever initiates the marriage action. So, quite a few male Sims end up taking their wives' last names. The Capp and Summerdream families of Veronaville seem to follow a matrilineal tradition, as multiple generations show husbands taking their wives' surnames upon their marriage. Jason Greenman (nÃ© O'Mackey) from the Seasons expansion pack took his wife Rose's surname. This was apparently out of love for her and possibly a desire to become closer to her PlantSim heritage. The Tricou family of Downtown might fallow the matrilineal tradition as the sons-in-law of the family took their wives' last name and some players have suggested the family patriarch, Jon Smith Tricou, might have originally been Jon Smith and took the Tricou name when he married. A lot of player challenges place restrictions on this (legacy heirs must keep the legacy family name and such) and there are mods to choose the name or to enforce a "traditional" marriage, where different-sex couples take the male Sim's last name and same-sex couples both keep their own last names.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_7f640c59	comment	The Sims 3 does things slightly differently, with the married couple taking the surname of the Sim who proposed, rather than the one who initiated the marriage ceremony. However, Sims' names can be changed at City Hall in this game, so players could get around this if they wished. Geoffrey Landgraab of Sunset Valley took his wife Nancy's surname upon marriage because the Landgraabs are old-money aristocrats who helped build the town.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_7f640c5a	comment	The Sims 4 does away with name changes upon marriage altogether, but is the first game in the series which allows players to edit characters in Create-A-Sim at any time, so last names of married couples can be changed entirely at the player's discretion.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_81692f99	comment	In Star Trek, it's implied that Betazoid women own their men, even though that would imply slavery, which is illegal in the Federation. But regardless, Betazed is very much a matriarchal society, and the Troi family is the "Fifth House of Betazed", one of the most prestigious noble families and the protectors of the planet's greatest historical treasures. While it isn't an official case, Captain Picard jokingly calls Riker "Mr. Troi" after his marriage to Deanna Troi in Nemesis.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_842199c7	comment	Spider-Man: Spider-Verse: Miles's dad changes his name from Davis to Morales at some point between Into and Across, which take place roughly a year apart. This is in line with the comic plotline that occurred between film releases. Unlike in the comics, there's no mention of the change having happened or why. He's simply Captain(-to-be) Jeff Morales.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_85eecea0	comment	After the ending of The Garden of Sinners, Mikiya takes the surname of his wife Shiki Ryougi upon their marriage. It makes sense since the wife is the head of a very wealthy and powerful clan.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_892aa56a	comment	Murdoch Mysteries has Constable Higgins take the surname of his wife Ruth and has become Henry Higgins-Newsome. His friends are all a bit perplexed by this decision (this is Turn Of The Century Toronto,) but since Henry is merely a workaday policeman and the Newsomes are an incredibly prominent and wealthy local family, Henry doesn't need much convincing.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_8aa7c509	comment	Star vs. the Forces of Evil: When Star Butterfly's parents married, her father (born River Johansen) took her mother's last name. This is apparently tradition for the Butterfly Family; since the throne is matriarchal and most of its born members are female, the husband of a queen or heiress apparent always takes the Butterfly name so they can continue the lineage. The same thing happened with demon prince Tom's parents. His Mewman father Dave ("maiden" name unknown) took his wife's last name after marrying the demon queen Wrathmelior Lucitor.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_8aad83bb	comment	In some Ronin Warriors side-materials, Shin Mouri (Cye of the Torrent) is troubled because his Ronin duties conflict with him becoming the heir of his family's traditional pottery business. To solve this, his older sister and her boyfriend agree on him marrying into the Mouri family and taking up the surname.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_91c3a59e	comment	Heis'he Ri'nanovai: Romulans are semi-matriarchal, so Merken tr'Ortikant took his wife Liorae t'Vreenak's surname, Vreenak, when he married her in an Arranged Marriage.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_960062b7	comment	In My Hero Academia, Kyoka Jiro's father Kyotoku took his wife Mika's name when they married, something that is apparently more common in the series' universe than in reality.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_967347ea	comment	Revolutionary Girl Utena: Akio married into the Ohtori family and took their name so he could take over their namesake academy.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_99709ae6	comment	Motherland: Fort Salem: This is standard in witch society, as one might expect given the importance of matrilines. Female witches pass their surnames on to their children and it's their husbands who change their name after marriage, even in the case of Raelle's father Edwin Collar, a civilian, who took his witch wife Willa Collar's name. Outside of witch society, it appears to still be the norm for the father's surname to be passed on among civilians.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: When one Lannister king died without male heirs, his son-in-law changed his name from Joffrey Lydden to Joffrey Lannister as a condition of being given the throne.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_9dd34381	comment	Dark (2017): Unusually for the rural German setting, Regina Tiedemann's husband Aleksander was nÃ©e KÃ¶hler, and took his wife's name upon marriage. When Clausen comments that this was especially odd in the 1980s, Aleksander replies that he wanted to keep Regina's name alive since she was an only child. It's also implied that doing so added legitimacy to him inheriting the swanky power plant job from his wealthy father-in-law, and helped him hide the fact that he killed a boy named Aleksander KÃ¶hler and stole his identity.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_a12cd9cf	comment	Big City Greens: When Alice Green first met her husband Ernest, she asks him to take her last name upon accepting the proposal, revealing Alice was the one who held the Green family name at the time.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_a26120ed	comment	Mike Bennett competed in the WWE from 2017 to 2020 (with his real-life wife, the returning Maria Kanellis), taking Maria's real-life last name as part of a gimmick of a young couple in lust with each other.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_a465e6bd	comment	Jujutsu Kaisen: Toji Zen'in was abused by the Zen'in clan for being born unable to use cursed energy, so he took his first wife's surname, Fushiguro, in order to spite his family. He continues to go by Fushiguro after his first wife's death to keep his son Megumi out of the Zen'in clan's clutches, even passing the name on to his second wife.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_a5a8cf60	comment	Towards the end of Private Prince, Will tells his girlfriend Miyako that he will take her surname after taking the decision of giving up on royalty.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_a6fa8ad8	comment	In Underground, Tom Macon was born Tom Hawkes. He took his wife's name instead of the other way around, probably due to the Heir-In-Law situation.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_a85955ce	comment	In Parascientific Escape, it's heavily implied that the head of the Amabishi Corporation, Evsej Amabishi, took his wife's name on marriage. He has a Russian first name and his daughter Merja is half-Russian, half-Japanese, which implies that her father is the one she got her Russian heritage from. It's also shown that the Amabishi Corp used to be far more corrupt until Evsej came along and suddenly cleaned it up, which would make sense with someone who joined the corporation suddenly (as by marriage).
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Took the Wife's Name / int_a8729c90	comment	The Fairly OddParents! reveals that Mr. Crocker has a nephew named Kevin Crocker who's his half sister's son hinting that his father might've had a different name.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_aa37c2ad	comment	Kimagure Orange Road: Kyousuke and the twins' Kasuga surname is actually their mother Akemi's family name. Their dad Takashi married into the Kasuga clan since Akemi was the only daughter, which certainly explains why he's the only Kasuga without Psychic Powers.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_aaa65d7e	comment	Rebuild of Evangelion averts this: in this continuity, Gendo's surname was always Ikari, and Yui's maiden name was Ayanami.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_ab9ec4d0	comment	Orphan Black: Donnie took his wife Alison's surname, Hendrix, in order to be rid of his Embarrassing Last Name Chubbs. Alison's mother considers Donnie pathetic and unmanly for taking his wife's name and still calls him Mr. Chubbs as an insult.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_aba7ffb9	comment	In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, Irina Reinford's husband Franz took her last name. We later find out that his maiden name was Lughman, revealing that the "Professor Lughman" the party had encountered over the course of Cold Steel III was none other than Franz Reinford Back from the Dead.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_ae3cad7b	comment	Peacemaker (2022) has a lesbian example. Leota Adebayo pointedly takes her wife's last name when she marries her to hide her relation to her mother, Amanda Waller.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_af3345f5	comment	I Love Yoo: After marrying Yui, Rand adopted the Hirahara surname.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_af925ef9	comment	Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse): In the original fic, it's mentioned that the Belmonts would force any man marrying into the family to take up the Belmont name if there were no other male heirs. For example, Simon only had daughters.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_b407d2d7	comment	In the backstory of Corpse Party, the Shinozaki family maintained its spiritual power by having the women in the family marry men willing to discard their family names for the sake of love. Unfortunately, the men who marry into the family have a tendency to die within a few years of their children (almost all female) being born.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_bdcd318c	comment	Jiraiya in Son of the Sannin takes on Tsunade's surname Senju when they get married. When Naruto asks him about it, he reveals that he never had a last name to begin with, and even if he had one, he doubted Tsunade would change hers.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_c0643e8d	comment	Beyond the Outer Gates Lies... A high school library?: Sona and Serafall's mother is the original Sitri, and their father took the Sitri name. It was not an issue for him, since he was treated terribly by his family.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_c1ef941d	comment	A convoluted example occurs in volume 10 of How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom when main character Souma Kazuya is formally coronated as King of the United Kingdom of Elfrieden and Amidonia and marries his Battle Harem. Due to Name Order Confusion early on,note He didn't realize Elfrieden used Western name order until a couple months in, so "Souma Kazuya" ended up on too many official documents to fix it to Kazuya Souma. his original surname ended up becoming his given name, and as two of his wives are the princesses of the two kingdoms whom his legitimacy as king partly depends on, he adopts his third queen Roroa Amidonia's surname as his middle name and his Top Wife Liscia Elfrieden's surname as his surname, resulting in the regnal name "Souma A. Elfrieden".
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Took the Wife's Name / int_c43df4d8	comment	In Doctor Who, the Doctor insists that this is the case after Amy Pond and Rory Williams get married, calling the latter Rory Pond despite his weak protests.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_c72c2d06	comment	Alrich Wren of Star Wars Rebels takes his name from his wife Countess Ursa Wren. This is apparently commonplace on Mandalore, since who gets the family name depends on rank rather than gender. And the Wrens are one of the top clans within House Vizsla (the former ruling house of Mandalore), immediately subordinate to Clan Vizsla itself.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_cef428cd	comment	Walkure Romanze: Takahiro manages to form a relationship with Noel or Celia regardless of the difference in class. At the end of their routes, he marries into the Ascot or Aintree families respectively.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_cf8e87c8	comment	In Re:Zero, Wilhelm took on his wife Theresia's last name when they got married because the van Astrea are a noble house renowned for their swordsmanship. After avenging Theresia's death, he finally finds enough confidence in his own abilities to take up his original surname, Trias.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_cfc9f1d8	comment	In World Neverland, a newly-married couple has the opportunity to take whichever last name they want, and NPC couples will do so more or less randomly, meaning about half of all in-game couples will have the husband take the wife's name. The exception is if the wife is the head of a Mountain Corps family or the kingdom's Queen or Crown Princess, in which case the husband will automatically take his wife's last name because he is now part of her prestigious family line.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_d3b01b2e	comment	In Costumes And Games, Shinji chooses to change his surname when he gets married to Asuka because he wants nothing from his parents.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_d81d22b5	comment	In the backstory of Karin, both of Karin's grandfathers, James and Daniel, took their wives' last names, mainly because Elda and Cecilia were the last surviving members of the Marker and Armash clans respectively.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_d8cc01de	comment	An interesting variant came when Big Time Rush alumnus Carlos Pena decided to marry former Spy Kids star Alexa Vega. Upon their marriage; the new husband and wife decided to combine their last names into PenaVega.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_da72cf97	comment	Comes up a few times in the Trails Series: In The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, Erika Russell's husband Dan took her last name. We never even find out his maiden name. In the backstory of The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure, Elie MacDowell's father took her mother's last name, though they've long since divorced by the beginning of Zero, and neither parent was named in that arc. It's later revealed in The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak that his first name is Ryan and that after the divorce, he returned to his maiden name of Connery. In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, Irina Reinford's husband Franz took her last name. We later find out that his maiden name was Lughman, revealing that the "Professor Lughman" the party had encountered over the course of Cold Steel III was none other than Franz Reinford Back from the Dead.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_dbb6bdf2	comment	In Mork & Mindy, Mork takes Mindy's last name (McConnell). This is because Mork has no last name.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_e04f934e	comment	Fire Emblem: Three Houses: In Bernadetta's non-Azure Moon ending with Felix, she convinces him to marry into House Varley. In their later years, he ends up handling most of the house's documents, signing them as Count Varley.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_e46d33d6	comment	Encanto: The husbands (Agustin and FÃ©lix) of the Madrigal sisters (Julieta and Pepa, respectively) took their wives' surname. While the Madrigals aren't a Family Business in the corporate sense, they do serve as the foundation of their community and wish to carry on that legacy under a unified name, particularly since Julieta and Pepa's brother, Bruno, has no spouse or children of his own.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_e67a7d6c	comment	In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Konoka's father Eishun married into the very powerful Konoe clan and took up their surname. His original one is Aoyama, which is the same name as the clan of Shinmei-ryuu swordsmen from Love Hina.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_e936047a	comment	In the episode of Hey Arnold! where Arnold dreams he marries Helga, he ends up being called Arnold "Pataki", both to show what a nightmare he thinks marrying her would be and to keep up the mystery of what his surname is.note At least until Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie
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Took the Wife's Name / int_eee1691	comment	Green Tea Rescue: Hisashi Midoriya took on his wife's last name because, according to Izuku, his own had too much baggage attached to it. Given that he's an active member of the Meta Liberation Army, it was probably to hide from further scrutiny.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_f0c816fb	comment	An unusual case in Breaking Bad: When Walter White forges his new identity, he uses the last name 'Lambert', which is his wife Skyler's maiden name. The implication is that he still wants to see himself as part of his family despite them wanting nothing to do with him.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_f33913cb	comment	In the Grim Tales series of mystery hidden object games, protagonist Anna Gray eventually marries a man named Dorian Black. However, as clarified in the installment The Generous Gift, he recognizes that Anna's name is synonymous with her detective work, and decides to take her last name instead of having her take his. And yes, this means that he becomes Dorian Gray.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_f73f989a	comment	In Kyon: Big Damn Hero, Keiichi changed his family name from "Maebara" to "Fuurude" when he married Rika as per custom in Hinamizawa to preserve the traditional name of the shrine maidens that minister to Oyashiro-sama's shrine.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_fc13a76	comment	Buzzfeed writer Andy Golder was nÃ© Neuenschwander and he discussed his reasons for changing his name to his wife's (wanting her to keep the name she used professionally and disliking his own last name, which he found unwieldy), as well as the Double Standard around the act (people automatically assumed his wife would change her name and are taken aback and confused by how he did instead) in this article.
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Took the Wife's Name / int_fdc66d32	comment	Kamen Rider Double: Upon marrying Saeko Sonozaki at the start of the series, Kirihiko Sudo takes her surname thanks to the Sonozaki family being very wealthy, owning the Futo Museum, and generally being Kirihiko's social superiors.
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