Quick question. My wife & I are expecting in January and have a somewhat unique situation. I have a hyphenated last name, let's call it Philly-Eagles. We got married during COVID so my wife never got around to changing her last name yet, let's call it Green. We would like to give the child the last name Eagles (in this scenario), but since my legal full last name is Philly-Eagles, are we allowed to only take part of my last name? Or do I need to legally change my last name to Eagles first?

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PinsAndBeetles t1_iu429zn wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:14 PM

You can give your child any name you choose. If you’re taking suggestions I’d go with Dragon.

time4anewusername t1_iu42clt wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:15 PM

My husband has a philly-eagles last name, I took his name philly and we also gave our baby the last name philly

mwier17 OP t1_iu46xms wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:55 PM

Thank you for this. Did you take his Philly name when you originally applied for the marriage certificate or after you were legally married? My wife and I are having a hard time figuring that part out since everything happened in 2020 and no government offices were open. On our marriage certificate she still has her original last name, so I'm hoping we can still use marriage as the reason for the name change instead of petitioning through the court system.

time4anewusername t1_iu47bhj wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:58 PM

It was after the marriage certificate. I did it through our local prothonotary office but I know it was after we were married because my maiden name is on our marriage certificate too prothonotary office list PA

mwier17 OP t1_iu47h0p wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:59 PM

thank you so much!

time4anewusername t1_iu47j2y wrote on October 28, 2022 at 1:00 PM

Of course!

LilDutchy t1_iu40pbq wrote on October 28, 2022 at 11:59 AM

You don’t have to choose either of your last names or any last name at all for the child, but it could complicate matters where you’ll have to constantly prove they’re your child. You can choose to hyphenate all your names together if you want. Choosing just Eagles is fine. However being named “Jason Kelce Green-Philly-Eagles” would be pretty fucking awesome.

ohmymother t1_iu6rguh wrote on October 28, 2022 at 11:51 PM

I was born with a hyphenated name, I hated it.

MortimerDongle t1_iu90mq4 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 2:28 PM

You can give the child any last name. You can invent a brand new one for them if you'd like.