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    Tradition on name changing after marrying

    1) After getting married, do Armenian women keep their maiden name as a middle name and adopt their husbands name as surname?

    2) When an Armenian couple have a child, does the child bear the mother's maiden name as a middle name?

    I know American women tend to replace their last name by their husband's, but a lot of other countries, the women will keep their maiden name and just add their husband's. I, for example, have my mother's family last name as my middle name and then my dads family last name. (hehehe I know it sounds confusing)
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    Re: Tradition on name changing after marrying

    not sure what the tradition is, as I know people who have changed their name to their husbands name or chose to keep the maiden name. I have not heard of anyone keeping both or their children having the maiden name as the middle name.

    I don't have a middle name...............maybe I can give myself one? hehehe

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      Re: Tradition on name changing after marrying

      Really??? For some reason I thought that was common...well, I guess only in xxxx...

      You see, my name is xxxxx, xxxx being my mom's family name...and now that I come to think of, everyone on my family has named their kids like that. Also, the wives don't just get rid of their name, and I don't think it's right anyway...why should I, get rid of my families name if I can keep them both when I get married?
      Last edited by Jen; 11-02-2018, 05:31 AM.

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        Re: Tradition on name changing after marrying

        Originally posted by Crissy
        not sure what the tradition is, as I know people who have changed their name to their husbands name or chose to keep the maiden name. I have not heard of anyone keeping both or their children having the maiden name as the middle name.

        I don't have a middle name...............maybe I can give myself one? hehehe

        I can unfortunately only speak for how it was in Armenia, but from what I remember the wife didn't adopt the husband's last name, though I could be wrong. For the children the lastname is always the father's lastname and the middle name was the father's name with a little ending meaning "of". We're talking a strong patriarchal society here.

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          Re: Tradition on name changing after marrying

          Very interesting...but I didn't get the middle name thing...could you please give me an example?

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            Re: Tradition on name changing after marrying

            Originally posted by JenMinassian
            Very interesting...but I didn't get the middle name thing...could you please give me an example?
            sure,

            Say your father's name is Ashot, them your middle name is Ashotee. The ending ee means of Ashot. This is actually "borrowed" from the Russians who have those "ich" ending middle names, also meaning "of", as in Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. In fact when the Russian influence in Armenia was still strong during the Soviet times, many people would have the "ich" ending middle names, as in "Ashotovich". Weird as hell.

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              Re: Tradition on name changing after marrying

              although many women didn't adopt their husbands name, still some people did. I remember asking my mum why she kept hers etc etc. she said even in those days some ppl changed their name to their husbands. Like I said though, I don't know what's tradition and what not.

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                Re: Tradition on name changing after marrying

                What about you Crissy...do you have your mom's family name and your dads? Or just your dads?

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                  Re: Tradition on name changing after marrying

                  oh in regards to kids, all the children, as Karo said, kept Dad's name only. Pretty much what Karo said, don't want to repeat hehehe

                  I have my dad's surname. I remember when I went to get my drivers permit, I had 2 documents (ID) one was the citizenship papers which they spelled my name wrong CRISTINA no H. and the russian translated birth certificate where it had my dad's name as my middle name. I picked the citizenship papers hahaha

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                    Re: Tradition on name changing after marrying

                    Well theres no tradition, one of my aunts kept her last name, and my uncles wifes sister did too. But generally I know more that adopt the husbands last name than anything else.

                    And the children almost always take the fathers last name.

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