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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.
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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.
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* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': Akio married into the Ohtori family and took their name so he could take over their namesake academy.
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* When Music/JohnLennon married Music/YokoOno, he legally changed his middle name from Winston to Ono.
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Compare and contrast TheMaidenNameDebate where the wife has the option of keeping her maiden name while the husband keeps his own surname. Compare NomDeMom where it's the married couple's child who takes the mother's maiden name.
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Compare and contrast TheMaidenNameDebate where the wife has the option of keeping her maiden name while the husband keeps his own surname. Compare NomDeMom where it's the married couple's child who takes the mother's maiden name. A subtrope of ShedTheFamilyName.
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* The husband has personal issues with his original surname. Either he doesn't want to keep the surname of his AbusiveParents or he has a DarkAndTroubledPast that he wishes to leave behind. Alternatively, he [[EmbarrassingLastName didn't like his original surname]] or [[OnlyOneName didn't have one in the first place]].
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* [[ShedTheFamilyName The husband has personal issues with his original surname. surname.]] Either he doesn't want to keep the surname of his AbusiveParents or he has a DarkAndTroubledPast that he wishes to leave behind. Alternatively, he [[EmbarrassingLastName didn't like his original surname]] or [[OnlyOneName didn't have one in the first place]].
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* In Japan, it's a common tradition for men married to the daughter of a [[UptownGirl well-off family]] to take his wife's family name, especially if he's considered to succeed a family business or, before 1948, a peerage.
** A notable example of this would be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiroemon_Kimura Jiroemon Kimura]], primarily known for being the only male verified to have reached 116 years of age. He was born Kinjiro Miyake, and changed his name on marriage since his wife's family did not have a male heir.
* In Germany, parents have to settle on one "family name" for all their children (which can be either the name of the mother or the father, but not a combination of both to avoid overly long family names), while the parents themselves might (depending on the current ruling at the time of marriage) either stick both to their names, or one of them having to use a combination. In general, the husband taking the family name of the wife has become more common.
** A notable example of this would be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiroemon_Kimura Jiroemon Kimura]], primarily known for being the only male verified to have reached 116 years of age. He was born Kinjiro Miyake, and changed his name on marriage since his wife's family did not have a male heir.
* In Germany, parents have to settle on one "family name" for all their children (which can be either the name of the mother or the father, but not a combination of both to avoid overly long family names), while the parents themselves might (depending on the current ruling at the time of marriage) either stick both to their names, or one of them having to use a combination. In general, the husband taking the family name of the wife has become more common.
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* In Japan, it's a common tradition for men married to the daughter of a [[UptownGirl well-off family]] to take his wife's family name, especially if he's considered to succeed a family business or, before 1948, a peerage.
** A notable example of this would be[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiroemon_Kimura Jiroemon Kimura]], primarily known for being the only male verified to have reached 116 years of age. He was born Kinjiro Miyake, and changed his name on marriage since his wife's family did not have a male heir.
* In Germany, parents have to settle on one "family name" for all their children (which can be either the name of the mother or the father, but not a combination of both to avoid overly long family names), while the parents themselves might (depending on the current ruling at the time of marriage) either stick both to their names, or one of them having to use a combination. In general, the husband taking the family name of the wife has become more common.heir.
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* In Germany, parents have to settle on one "family name" for all their children (which can be either the name of the mother or the father, but not a combination of both to avoid overly long family names), while the parents themselves might (depending on the current ruling at the time of marriage) either stick both to their names, or one of them having to use a combination. In general, the husband taking the family name of the wife has become more common.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'': The husbands (Agustin and Félix) of the female Madrigal triplets (Julieta and Pepa, respectively) took their wives' surname. While the Madrigals aren't a FamilyBusiness in the corporate sense, they do serve as the foundation of their community and wish to carry on that legacy under a unified name.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'': The husbands (Agustin and Félix) of the female Madrigal triplets (Julieta and Pepa, respectively) took their wives' surname. While the Madrigals aren't a FamilyBusiness in the corporate sense, they do serve as the foundation of their community and wish to carry on that legacy under a unified name.name, particularly since Julieta and Pepa's brother, Bruno, did not marry or have children.
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* The husband needs to change his surname in order to hide his identity because he's a criminal on the run or having a recognizable family name could be a problem if he wishes to keep a low profile in his married life.
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* The husband needs to change his surname in order to hide his identity because he's identity. Reasons include being a criminal on the run or having a that his original family name is recognizable family name could be a problem if and he wishes to keep a low profile in his married life.
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* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', Kyoka Jiro's father Kyotoku took his wife Mika's name when they married, something tht is apparently more common in the series' universe than in reality.
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* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', Kyoka Jiro's father Kyotoku took his wife Mika's name when they married, something tht that is apparently more common in the series' universe than in reality.
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* ''Series/Peacemaker2022'' has a lesbian example. Leota Adebayo pointedly takes her wife's last name when she marries her to [[spoiler:hide her relation to her mother, [[TheDreaded Amanda Waller]].]]
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* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Gendo Rokubungi became Gendo Ikari when he took his wife Yui's surname. The reasons why aren't explicitly made clear, but it seems Gendo did it because [[PetTheDog he really did love Yui]] and wanted to prove that he was utterly devoted to her. Besides that, some [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental materials]] imply Yui was the daughter of a SEELE member and therefore of [[UptownGirl high social status]]. It's also possible Gendo just [[ShredTheFamilyName wanted to lose the Rokubungi surname]]; there's some implications pointing towards him a dark past he wanted to get away from and/or a bad relationship with his own family.
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* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Gendo Rokubungi became Gendo Ikari when he took his wife Yui's surname. The reasons why aren't explicitly made clear, but it seems Gendo did it because [[PetTheDog he really did love Yui]] and wanted to prove that he was utterly devoted to her. Besides that, some [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental materials]] imply Yui was the daughter of a SEELE member and therefore of [[UptownGirl high social status]]. It's also possible Gendo just [[ShredTheFamilyName [[ShedTheFamilyName wanted to lose the Rokubungi surname]]; there's some implications pointing towards him having a dark past he wanted to get away from and/or a bad relationship with his own family.
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* [[UsefulNotes/NFLDefensiveAndSpecialTeamsPlayers NFL]]'s London Fletcher-Baker adopted the Baker to honor his father-in-law.
* A Hollywood talent manager named Elaine Lively divorced her husband but kept Lively as her surname, rather than go back to her maiden name, [=McAlpin=]. In 1979, she married character actor Ernie Brown. Realizing that "Lively" was a much more distinctive last name than "Brown", Ernie adopted his wife's name, using Ernie Lively as a StageName. Creator/BlakeLively and Creator/EricLively, the two children of Ernie and Elaine, have Brown as their birth name, but use Lively professionally, matching their half-siblings from Elaine's first marriage, Creator/JasonLively, Creator/LoriLively and Creator/RobynLively.
* [[UsefulNotes/NFLDefensiveAndSpecialTeamsPlayers NFL]]'s London Fletcher-Baker adopted the Baker to honor his father-in-law.
* A Hollywood talent manager named Elaine Lively divorced her husband but kept Lively as her surname, rather than go back to her maiden name, [=McAlpin=]. In 1979, she married character actor Ernie Brown. Realizing that "Lively" was a much more distinctive last name than "Brown", Ernie adopted his wife's name, using Ernie Lively as a StageName. Creator/BlakeLively and Creator/EricLively, the two children of Ernie and Elaine, have Brown as their birth name, but use Lively professionally, matching their half-siblings from Elaine's first marriage, Creator/JasonLively, Creator/LoriLively and Creator/RobynLively.
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* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Gendo Rokubungi became Gendo Ikari when he took his wife Yui's surname. The reasons why aren't explicitly made clear, but it seems Gendo did it because [[PetTheDog he really did love Yui]] and wanted to prove that he was utterly devoted to her. Besides that, some [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental materials]] imply Yui was the daughter of a SEELE member and therefore of [[UptownGirl high social status]]. It's also possible Gendo just wanted to lose the Rokubungi surname; there's some implication that he had a dark past he wanted to get away from or a bad relationship with his own family.
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* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Gendo Rokubungi became Gendo Ikari when he took his wife Yui's surname. The reasons why aren't explicitly made clear, but it seems Gendo did it because [[PetTheDog he really did love Yui]] and wanted to prove that he was utterly devoted to her. Besides that, some [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental materials]] imply Yui was the daughter of a SEELE member and therefore of [[UptownGirl high social status]]. It's also possible Gendo just [[ShredTheFamilyName wanted to lose the Rokubungi surname; surname]]; there's some implication that he had implications pointing towards him a dark past he wanted to get away from or and/or a bad relationship with his own family.
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* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Gendo Rokubungi became Gendo Ikari when he took his wife Yui's surname. The reasons why aren't explicitly made clear, but it seems Gendo did it because [[PetTheDog he really did love Yui]] and wanted to prove that he was utterly devoted to her. Besides that, some [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental materials]] imply Yui was the daughter of a SEELE member and therefore of [[UptownGirl high social status]]. It's also possible Gendo just wanted to lose the 'Rokubungi' surname. There's Rokubungi surname; there's some implication that Gendo he had a dark past he wanted to get away from or a bad relationship with his own family.
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* Yui Ikari from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' kept her maiden name when she married, which is generally only done if the woman comes from a prominent family whose name holds power. Her husband, Gendo Rokubungi, became Gendo Ikari when he took Yui's last name. The reasons why aren't explicitly made clear, but it seems Gendo did it because [[PetTheDog he really did love Yui]] and wanted to prove that he was utterly devoted to her. It's also possible he just wanted to lose the 'Rokubungi' surname. There's some implication that Gendo had a dark past he wanted to get away from or a bad relationship with his own family.
** ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' averts this: in this continuity, Gendo's surname was always Ikari, and Yui's maiden name was [[spoiler:Ayanami]].
** ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' averts this: in this continuity, Gendo's surname was always Ikari, and Yui's maiden name was [[spoiler:Ayanami]].
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* Yui Ikari from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' kept her maiden name when she married, which is generally only done if the woman comes from a prominent family whose name holds power. Her husband, ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Gendo Rokubungi, Rokubungi became Gendo Ikari when he took his wife Yui's last name.surname. The reasons why aren't explicitly made clear, but it seems Gendo did it because [[PetTheDog he really did love Yui]] and wanted to prove that he was utterly devoted to her. Besides that, some [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental materials]] imply Yui was the daughter of a SEELE member and therefore of [[UptownGirl high social status]]. It's also possible he Gendo just wanted to lose the 'Rokubungi' surname. There's some implication that Gendo had a dark past he wanted to get away from or a bad relationship with his own family.
** ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion''averts [[AvertedTrope averts]] this: in this continuity, Gendo's surname was always Ikari, and Yui's maiden name was [[spoiler:Ayanami]].
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* ''Literature/{{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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* In ''A Love for All Time'' by Bertrice Small, Queen Elizabeth commands one of her courtiers, Conn O'Malley, who is a troublesome Irishman, to marry Aidan St. Michael, who is a titled Englishwoman, and to take her name along with the title that went with it. He agreed, mainly because of the title. One of the queen's advisors pointed out that this would effectively make Conn an Englishman.
* In ''Literature/TheSharingKnife'', [[{{Muggles}} farmers]] have the wife take the husband's name and [[WitchSpecies Lakewalkers]] have the husband take the wife's name. This causes a minor issue for interracial couple Dag Redwing and Fawn Bluefield. While they briefly consider splicing their surnames (Redfield, Bluewing) or merging them (Purple-something), Dag eventually takes Fawn's surname.
* ''Literature/TortallUniverse'': Literature/BekaCooper'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.
* In ''Literature/TheSharingKnife'', [[{{Muggles}} farmers]] have the wife take the husband's name and [[WitchSpecies Lakewalkers]] have the husband take the wife's name. This causes a minor issue for interracial couple Dag Redwing and Fawn Bluefield. While they briefly consider splicing their surnames (Redfield, Bluewing) or merging them (Purple-something), Dag eventually takes Fawn's surname.
* ''Literature/TortallUniverse'': Literature/BekaCooper'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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* Mike Bennett began competing in the WWE in 2017 (with his real-life wife, the returning Wrestling/MariaKanellis), 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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* Mike Bennett began competing in the WWE in 2017 (with his real-life wife, the returning Wrestling/MariaKanellis), 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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* In the ''VideoGame/GrimTales'' series of mystery {{hidden object game}}s, 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 [[Literature/ThePictureofDorianGray Dorian Gray]].
* ''VideoGame/Persona4'': 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.
* ''VideoGame/Persona4'': 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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* ''Moon Over June'' has a lesbian example. The former Dr. Summer Winters M.D. made a point to adopt her wife's name after they married because: A) she considered her old name [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude silly in its own right]], B) she was tired of being so close to the end of the alphabet, C) she finds her brothers aggravating enough to take any opportunity to distance herself from them, and D) having researched what Akagawa actually means ('Red River') [[LadyInRed she found]] [[MeaningfulName it fitting]]. Hatsuki for her part decided to change her last name essentially on impulse after overhearing Summer answer the phone, leading later to considerable confusion when Doctors Akagawa (M.D.) and Winters ([=PhD=]) went before a judge to formally adopt each other's daughters.
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* In ''Literature/ArrivalsFromTheDark'' 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 UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions 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 OverlyLongName (for bonus points, the commodore's names were Olaf Peter Carlos) and stick with the French surname.
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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/26926/1/Destinys_Child Destiny's Child]]'' has [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma]] take up the Tendou name due to the Tendou's higher status and lack of male heirs.
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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/26926/1/Destinys_Child Destiny's Child]]'' has [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma]] take up the Tendou name due to the Tendou's higher status and lack of male heirs.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': 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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* In "In Your Space!" when Bernie is gushing over Amelia, he imagines taking her last name.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': 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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* ''Series/OrphanBlack'': Donnie took his wife Allison's surname, Hendrix, in order to be rid of his EmbarrassingLastName Chubbs. Allison'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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* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', [[TheHero 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. [[spoiler: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 deserted from the Gotei 13 to marry the human Masaki, keeping such famous last name would've been a potentially huge red flag had anybody come looking for him.]]
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* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', [[TheHero 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. [[spoiler: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 deserted from the Gotei 13 to marry the human Masaki, keeping such a famous last name would've been a potentially huge red flag had anybody come looking for him.]]
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** 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 calling himself a Nakiri after his father-in-law kicked him out for abusing his daughter Erina.
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* ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'': Kyousuke and the twins's 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 [[{{Muggle}} he's the only Kasuga without]] PsychicPowers.
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* ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'': Kyousuke and the twins's 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 [[{{Muggle}} he's the only Kasuga without]] PsychicPowers.
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* Yui Ikari from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' kept her maiden name when she married, which is generally only done if the woman comes from a prominent family whose name holds power. Her husband, Gendo Rokubungi, became Gendo Ikari when he took Yui's last name. The reasons why aren't explicitly made clear, but it seems Gendo did it because [[PetTheDog he really did love Yui]], and wanted to prove that he was utterly devoted to her. It's also possible he just wanted to lose the 'Rokubungi' surname. There's some implication that Gendo had a dark past he wanted to get away from, or a bad relationship with his own family.
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* In ''LightNovel/ReZero'', Wilhelm took on his wife Theresia's last name when they got married because the van Astrea are a noble house renown for their swordsmanship. After avenging Theresia's death, he takes up his original surname, Trias.
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* ''Fanfic/{{SAPR}}'': In chapter 124, "Re-Forged," Pyrrha reflects that when her 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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* In ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/10264509/499/ Tales of Fairies]]'' chapter 499, Lucy reveals to Erza that the Heartfilia women always kept their last name while their husbands take theirs, hence why Lucy and Layla have a strong resemblance to their ancestor Anna Heartfilia, suspecting it was a way [[spoiler:for Zeref to find them to help open the Eclipse Gate and bring the Dragons and dragon slayers to the present]]. She also says that while her father Jude was happy to take his wife's last name, he had trouble getting other eligible men to take his daughter's name, since they refuse out of pride.
* ''Fanfic/UmeiNoMaisUnchained'': Since his Lord-Wife Izuna is ''significantly'' higher-ranked than him, Tobirama is now referred as Uchiha instead of Senju.
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* In ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/10264509/499/ Tales of Fairies]]'' chapter 499, Lucy reveals to Erza that the Heartfilia women always kept their last name while their husbands take theirs, hence why Lucy and Layla have a strong resemblance to their ancestor Anna Heartfilia, suspecting it was a way [[spoiler:for Zeref to find them to help open the Eclipse Gate and bring the Dragons and dragon slayers to the present]]. She also says that while her father Jude was happy to take his wife's last name, he had trouble getting other eligible men to take his daughter's name, name since they refuse out of pride.
* ''Fanfic/UmeiNoMaisUnchained'': Since his Lord-Wife Izuna is ''significantly'' higher-ranked than him, Tobirama is now referred to as Uchiha instead of Senju.
* ''Fanfic/UmeiNoMaisUnchained'': 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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** In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', the couple takes the name of whomever initiates the marriage action. So, quite a few male Sims end up taking their wives' last names.
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* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'': Dominic's father Donovan [[OnlyOneName 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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* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'': Dominic's father Donovan [[OnlyOneName 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 guilt-trip her disapproving parents into accepting him.
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* Website/{{Buzzfeed}} writer Andy Golder was né 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 unwieldly), as well as the DoubleStandard around the act (people automatically assumed his wife would change her name and are taken aback and confused by how he did instead) [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/i-took-my-wifes-last-name-and-this-is-what-i-lea in this article]].
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* Website/{{Buzzfeed}} writer Andy Golder was né 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 unwieldly), unwieldy), as well as the DoubleStandard around the act (people automatically assumed his wife would change her name and are taken aback and confused by how he did instead) [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/i-took-my-wifes-last-name-and-this-is-what-i-lea in this article]].
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** A notable example of this would be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiroemon_Kimura Jiroemon Kimura]], primarily known for being the only male verified to have reached 116 years of age. He was born Kinjiro Miyake, and changed his name on marriage, since his wife's family did not have a male heir.
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** In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', the couple takes the name of whomever initiates the marriage action. 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. So, quite a few male Sims end up taking their wives' last names.
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** In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', the couple takes the name of whomever initiates the marriage action. 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. So, quite a few male Sims end up taking their wives' last names.
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** In ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', Geoffrey Landgraab of Sunset Valley took his wife Nancy's surname upon marriage because the Landgraabs are [[BlueBlood old-money aristocrats]] who helped build the town.
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**In ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' 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 [[BlueBlood old-money aristocrats]] who helped build thetown.town.
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** ''VideoGame/TheSims4'' 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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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/26926/1/Destinys_Child Destiny's Child]]'' has [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma]] take up the Tendou name due to the Tendou's higher status and lack of male heirs.
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* Played with in ''VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland'' 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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* ''Literature/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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* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' 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 ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleMovie''[[/note]]
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* ''Fanfic/BeyondTheOuterGateLies'': 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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* An interesting case with Creator/JonStewart. His birth name was Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, and he chose Jon Stewart as his [[StageNames professional name]] (mostly because he'd had some really nasty fights with his father). About a year after he married Tracy [=McShane=], they ''both'' changed their legal last names to Stewart. Note that even before he got married, Stewart [[DoNotCallMePaul refused to respond to anyone who called him by his birth name]] except when it was unavoidable (e.g. on official ID documents).
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When a couple gets married, the expectation 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.
This trope applies when there was a significant reason for the husband changing his surname. Some possible cases are:
* The most common one is [[UptownGirl 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 FamilyBusiness. 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 AbusiveParents or he has a DarkAndTroubledPast that he wishes to leave behind. Alternatively, he [[EmbarrassingLastName didn't like his original surname]] or [[OnlyOneName didn't have one in the first place]].
* The husband needs to change his surname in order to hide his identity because he's a criminal on the run or having a recognizable family name could be a problem if he wishes to keep a low profile in his married life.
Compare and contrast TheMaidenNameDebate where the wife has the option of keeping her maiden name while the husband keeps his own surname. Compare NomDeMom where it's the married couple's child who takes the mother's maiden name.
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* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', [[TheHero 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. [[spoiler: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 deserted from the Gotei 13 to marry the human Masaki, keeping such famous last name would've been a potentially huge red flag had anybody come looking for him.]]
* If there's a rich BigScrewedUpFamily in ''Manga/CaseClosed'', it's almost a sure thing that one of the daughters will be married to a man who has taken up the family name:
** In the "Hatamoto Family Murders", the husbands of Akie and Natsue, [[GoldDigger Tatsuo]] and [[BecomingTheMask Takeshi]], are middle-class men who married into the Hatamoto family and thus took up their surname.
** In "A Suspicious Uncle", Hidekazu took up Hiromi's surname since she was the eldest daughter of the rich Yabuchi family.
* ''Manga/FoodWars'':
** 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 calling himself a Nakiri after his father-in-law kicked him out for abusing his daughter Erina.
* After the ending of ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'', [[spoiler:Mikiya]] takes the surname of his wife [[spoiler:Shiki]] upon their marriage. It makes sense since he was born into a normal middle-class family while [[spoiler:the Ryougi]] are a very wealthy and powerful clan.
* In ''Manga/{{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.
* ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry'': Nils Nielson became Nils Yajima when he married Caroline Yajima, likely due to the fact that the Yajima family is very powerful and influential.
* In ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'', when Nozomu married Rino, he took on her last name due to her being the [[spoiler:adopted]] heiress of a prominent family, but you wouldn't know this unless you read ''Manga/MyGirlfriendWithoutWasabi''.
* ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'': 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, Fushigoro, in order to spite his family. He continues to go by Fushigoro 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.
* In the backstory of ''Manga/{{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.
* ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'': Kyousuke and the twins's 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 [[{{Muggle}} he's the only Kasuga without]] PsychicPowers.
* At the end of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Sai becomes Sai [[spoiler:Yamanaka]] considering [[OnlyOneName he didn't have a last name]] ''and'' his wife [[spoiler: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 CodeName as his legal first name.)[[/note]]
* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', 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 ''Manga/LoveHina''.
* Yui Ikari from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' kept her maiden name when she married, which is generally only done if the woman comes from a prominent family whose name holds power. Her husband, Gendo Rokubungi, became Gendo Ikari when he took Yui's last name. The reasons why aren't explicitly made clear, but it seems Gendo did it because [[PetTheDog he really did love Yui]], and wanted to prove that he was utterly devoted to her. It's also possible he just wanted to lose the 'Rokubungi' surname. There's some implication that Gendo had a dark past he wanted to get away from, or a bad relationship with his own family.
** ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' averts this: in this continuity, Gendo's surname was always Ikari, and Yui's maiden name was [[spoiler:Ayanami]].
* Towards the end of ''Manga/PrivatePrince'', [[spoiler:Will]] tells his girlfriend [[spoiler:Miyako]] that he will take her surname after taking the decision of giving up on royalty.
* In ''LightNovel/ReZero'', Wilhelm took on his wife Theresia's last name when they got married because the van Astrea are a noble house renown for their swordsmanship. After avenging Theresia's death, he takes up his original surname, Trias.
* In some ''Anime/RoninWarriors'' [[AllThereInTheManual 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.
* ''Manga/ShamanKing'': 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 UptownGirl since he was a hobo-like street musician whereas her family was a very traditional shaman clan.
* In ''Anime/VividStrike'', 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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* ''ComicBook/MilesMoralesSpiderMan'': Jefferson Davis took the last name of his wife Rio Morales because he shared the name with a Confederate slaver.
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* ''Fanfic/BeyondTheOuterGateLies'': 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.
* In ''Fanfic/CostumesAndGames'', Shinji chooses to change his surname when he gets married to Asuka because he wants nothing from his parents.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5538660/34/Naruto-Demon-s-Path Demon's Path]]'': At Mei and Zabuza's wedding, Naruto jokingly points out that Zabuza should take Mei's surname instead of her taking his, due to the fact that Mei is the Mizukage and Zabuza is not only one of her ninja but he technically didn't graduate so she has a higher social standing than he does.
* ''FanFic/GreenTeaRescue'': [[AbusiveParents Hisashi Midoriya]] took on his wife's last name because, according to Izuku, his own had too much baggage attached to it. [[spoiler:Given that he's an active member of the Meta Liberation Army, it was probably to hide from further scrutiny.]]
* ''Fanfic/HeisheRinanovai'': Romulans are semi-matriarchal, so Merken tr'Ortikant took his wife Liorae t'Vreenak's surname, Vreenak, when he married her in an ArrangedMarriage.
* In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry 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.
* A double example with Yu's family in ''Fanfic/TheManyQuirksOfPhantomThievery'': 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.
* ''Fanfic/NotTheIntendedUseZantetsukenReverse'': 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.
* ''Fanfic/{{SAPR}}'': In chapter 124, "Re-Forged," Pyrrha reflects that when her and Jaune get married, he's going to have to take her name because she's from an ancient royal house.
* In ''Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook'', it's mentioned that [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Fenris]] took his wife's surname (Hawke) when they married as a sign that he was leaving his painful past behind.
* Jiraiya in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'' takes on Tsunade's surname Senju when they get married. When Naruto asks him about it, he reveals that [[OnlyOneName he never had a last name to begin with]], and even if he had one, he doubted Tsunade would change hers.
* In ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/10264509/499/ Tales of Fairies]]'' chapter 499, Lucy reveals to Erza that the Heartfilia women always kept their last name while their husbands take theirs, hence why Lucy and Layla have a strong resemblance to their ancestor Anna Heartfilia, suspecting it was a way [[spoiler:for Zeref to find them to help open the Eclipse Gate and bring the Dragons and dragon slayers to the present]]. She also says that while her father Jude was happy to take his wife's last name, he had trouble getting other eligible men to take his daughter's name, since they refuse out of pride.
* ''Fanfic/UmeiNoMaisUnchained'': Since his Lord-Wife Izuna is ''significantly'' higher-ranked than him, Tobirama is now referred as Uchiha instead of Senju.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'': The husbands (Agustin and Félix) of the female Madrigal triplets (Julieta and Pepa, respectively) took their wives' surname. While the Madrigals aren't a FamilyBusiness in the corporate sense, they do serve as the foundation of their community and wish to carry on that legacy under a unified name.
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* ''Literature/TheHundredAndOneDalmatians'': 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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* Part of the VictimOfTheWeek's backstory in ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "[[{{Recap/CastleS2E6VampireWeekend}} Vampire Weekend]]". The victim didn't know that his birth mother had disappeared when he was a baby and that his father had [[MarryTheNanny remarried the nanny]], taking her name to escape the publicity. [[spoiler:In fact, the nanny killed his mother with this exact aim, and the victim when he worked it out.]]
* ''Series/Dark2017'': Unusually for the rural German setting, Regina Tiedemann's husband Aleksander was née Köhler, 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 [[spoiler:him hide the fact that he killed a boy named Aleksander Köhler and stole his identity]].
* ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'': 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.
* In ''Series/MorkAndMindy'', Mork takes Mindy's last name ([=McConnell=]). This is because Mork [[OnlyOneName has no last name]].
* ''Series/OrphanBlack'': Donnie took his wife Allison's surname, Hendrix, in order to be rid of his EmbarrassingLastName Chubbs. Allison's mother considers Donnie pathetic and unmanly for taking his wife's name and still calls him Mr. Chubbs as an insult.
* In ''Series/{{Underground}}'', Tom Macon was born Tom Hawkes. He took his wife's name instead of the other way around, probably due to the HeirInLaw situation.
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* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'', 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. [[spoiler: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.]]
* A variation in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'': Oghren took his wife Branka's ''first'' name as his new last name due to her status as a paragon (essentially a PhysicalGod) 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.
* [[WordOfGod According to the lead writer]] of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', the ancient hero Nerevar took his wife Ayem's House name, Indoril, upon marrying her. She was a high priestess belonging to one of the Great Houses, whereas he was formerly a caravan guard born to an irrelevant minor house. (Ayem later became the goddess Almalexia.)
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'': 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.
* ''VideoGame/TheSims'':
** In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', the couple takes the name of whomever initiates the marriage action. 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. 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 (né 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 [[PlantPerson PlantSim]] heritage.
** In ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', Geoffrey Landgraab of Sunset Valley took his wife Nancy's surname upon marriage because the Landgraabs are [[BlueBlood old-money aristocrats]] who helped build the town.
* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': 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 [[SempaiKohai Senpai]] and forces him into a relationship. So, in this case, the husband taking the wife's surname (not by choice) seems to indicate [[HenpeckedHusband the nature of their relationship]] and the way {{Yandere}}-ism [[ItRunsInTheFamily runs in the family]].
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* ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously'': 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.
* In the backstory of ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', Eva Ushiromiya, [[HeirClubForMen having been passed over to be the family heir]], proposed to her husband 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 in order for their son George to be considered as a potential family head.
* ''VisualNovel/WalkureRomanze'': Takahiro manages to form a relationship with Noel or Celia regardless of the [[UptownGirl difference in class]]. At the end of their routes, he marries into the Ascot or Aintree families respectively.
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* ''WebAnimation/ActuallyHappened'': After he gets married to his girlfriend Kathie, Noah takes her surname in order to distance himself from his parents.
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Jacques Gelè changed his last name upon his marriage to 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 [[HeirInLaw successor to his father-in-law]] Nicholas Schnee.
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* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'': Dominic's father Donovan [[OnlyOneName 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.
* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'':
** 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.
** [[AllThereInTheManual 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, [[OnlyOneName 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.
* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Daigo hasn't officially taken his wife's last name (Kato), but they've used it for the name of their newly-established noble house. Daigo is saving his own last name for an emergency.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Precocious}}'', the Oven family's surname came from Sydney. Joseph changed his when they married. His reason is quoted below:
-->'''Joseph Oven:''' I mean, my last name was ''[[EmbarrassingLastName Brungster]]!'' I couldn't subject my kids to that with a clean conscience.
* In ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', Jason Pratchett decides to take Aubrey Chorde's surname, mostly because of issues with his dad.
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* Website/{{Buzzfeed}} writer Andy Golder was né 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 unwieldly), as well as the DoubleStandard around the act (people automatically assumed his wife would change her name and are taken aback and confused by how he did instead) [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/i-took-my-wifes-last-name-and-this-is-what-i-lea in this article]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'':
** 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 [[HumanAliens Mewman]] father Dave ("maiden" name unknown) took his wife's last name after marrying the demon queen Wrathmelior Lucitor.
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* In Japan, it's a common tradition for men married to the daughter of a [[UptownGirl well-off family]] to take his wife's family name, especially if he's considered to succeed a family business or, before 1948, a peerage.
** A notable example of this would be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiroemon_Kimura Jiroemon Kimura]], primarily known for being the only male verified to have reached 116 years of age. He was born Kinjiro Miyake, and changed his name on marriage, since his wife's family did not have a male heir.
* An interesting case with Creator/JonStewart. His birth name was Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, and he chose Jon Stewart as his [[StageNames professional name]] (mostly because he'd had some really nasty fights with his father). About a year after he married Tracy [=McShane=], they ''both'' changed their legal last names to Stewart. Note that even before he got married, Stewart [[DoNotCallMePaul refused to respond to anyone who called him by his birth name]] except when it was unavoidable (e.g. on official ID documents).
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This trope applies when there was a significant reason for the husband changing his surname. Some possible cases are:
* The most common one is [[UptownGirl 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 FamilyBusiness. 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 AbusiveParents or he has a DarkAndTroubledPast that he wishes to leave behind. Alternatively, he [[EmbarrassingLastName didn't like his original surname]] or [[OnlyOneName didn't have one in the first place]].
* The husband needs to change his surname in order to hide his identity because he's a criminal on the run or having a recognizable family name could be a problem if he wishes to keep a low profile in his married life.
Compare and contrast TheMaidenNameDebate where the wife has the option of keeping her maiden name while the husband keeps his own surname. Compare NomDeMom where it's the married couple's child who takes the mother's maiden name.
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* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', [[TheHero 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. [[spoiler: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 deserted from the Gotei 13 to marry the human Masaki, keeping such famous last name would've been a potentially huge red flag had anybody come looking for him.]]
* If there's a rich BigScrewedUpFamily in ''Manga/CaseClosed'', it's almost a sure thing that one of the daughters will be married to a man who has taken up the family name:
** In the "Hatamoto Family Murders", the husbands of Akie and Natsue, [[GoldDigger Tatsuo]] and [[BecomingTheMask Takeshi]], are middle-class men who married into the Hatamoto family and thus took up their surname.
** In "A Suspicious Uncle", Hidekazu took up Hiromi's surname since she was the eldest daughter of the rich Yabuchi family.
* ''Manga/FoodWars'':
** 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 calling himself a Nakiri after his father-in-law kicked him out for abusing his daughter Erina.
* After the ending of ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'', [[spoiler:Mikiya]] takes the surname of his wife [[spoiler:Shiki]] upon their marriage. It makes sense since he was born into a normal middle-class family while [[spoiler:the Ryougi]] are a very wealthy and powerful clan.
* In ''Manga/{{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.
* ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry'': Nils Nielson became Nils Yajima when he married Caroline Yajima, likely due to the fact that the Yajima family is very powerful and influential.
* In ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'', when Nozomu married Rino, he took on her last name due to her being the [[spoiler:adopted]] heiress of a prominent family, but you wouldn't know this unless you read ''Manga/MyGirlfriendWithoutWasabi''.
* ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'': 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, Fushigoro, in order to spite his family. He continues to go by Fushigoro 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.
* In the backstory of ''Manga/{{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.
* ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'': Kyousuke and the twins's 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 [[{{Muggle}} he's the only Kasuga without]] PsychicPowers.
* At the end of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Sai becomes Sai [[spoiler:Yamanaka]] considering [[OnlyOneName he didn't have a last name]] ''and'' his wife [[spoiler: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 CodeName as his legal first name.)[[/note]]
* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', 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 ''Manga/LoveHina''.
* Yui Ikari from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' kept her maiden name when she married, which is generally only done if the woman comes from a prominent family whose name holds power. Her husband, Gendo Rokubungi, became Gendo Ikari when he took Yui's last name. The reasons why aren't explicitly made clear, but it seems Gendo did it because [[PetTheDog he really did love Yui]], and wanted to prove that he was utterly devoted to her. It's also possible he just wanted to lose the 'Rokubungi' surname. There's some implication that Gendo had a dark past he wanted to get away from, or a bad relationship with his own family.
** ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' averts this: in this continuity, Gendo's surname was always Ikari, and Yui's maiden name was [[spoiler:Ayanami]].
* Towards the end of ''Manga/PrivatePrince'', [[spoiler:Will]] tells his girlfriend [[spoiler:Miyako]] that he will take her surname after taking the decision of giving up on royalty.
* In ''LightNovel/ReZero'', Wilhelm took on his wife Theresia's last name when they got married because the van Astrea are a noble house renown for their swordsmanship. After avenging Theresia's death, he takes up his original surname, Trias.
* In some ''Anime/RoninWarriors'' [[AllThereInTheManual 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.
* ''Manga/ShamanKing'': 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 UptownGirl since he was a hobo-like street musician whereas her family was a very traditional shaman clan.
* In ''Anime/VividStrike'', 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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* ''ComicBook/MilesMoralesSpiderMan'': Jefferson Davis took the last name of his wife Rio Morales because he shared the name with a Confederate slaver.
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* ''Fanfic/BeyondTheOuterGateLies'': 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.
* In ''Fanfic/CostumesAndGames'', Shinji chooses to change his surname when he gets married to Asuka because he wants nothing from his parents.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5538660/34/Naruto-Demon-s-Path Demon's Path]]'': At Mei and Zabuza's wedding, Naruto jokingly points out that Zabuza should take Mei's surname instead of her taking his, due to the fact that Mei is the Mizukage and Zabuza is not only one of her ninja but he technically didn't graduate so she has a higher social standing than he does.
* ''FanFic/GreenTeaRescue'': [[AbusiveParents Hisashi Midoriya]] took on his wife's last name because, according to Izuku, his own had too much baggage attached to it. [[spoiler:Given that he's an active member of the Meta Liberation Army, it was probably to hide from further scrutiny.]]
* ''Fanfic/HeisheRinanovai'': Romulans are semi-matriarchal, so Merken tr'Ortikant took his wife Liorae t'Vreenak's surname, Vreenak, when he married her in an ArrangedMarriage.
* In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry 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.
* A double example with Yu's family in ''Fanfic/TheManyQuirksOfPhantomThievery'': 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.
* ''Fanfic/NotTheIntendedUseZantetsukenReverse'': 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.
* ''Fanfic/{{SAPR}}'': In chapter 124, "Re-Forged," Pyrrha reflects that when her and Jaune get married, he's going to have to take her name because she's from an ancient royal house.
* In ''Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook'', it's mentioned that [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Fenris]] took his wife's surname (Hawke) when they married as a sign that he was leaving his painful past behind.
* Jiraiya in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'' takes on Tsunade's surname Senju when they get married. When Naruto asks him about it, he reveals that [[OnlyOneName he never had a last name to begin with]], and even if he had one, he doubted Tsunade would change hers.
* In ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/10264509/499/ Tales of Fairies]]'' chapter 499, Lucy reveals to Erza that the Heartfilia women always kept their last name while their husbands take theirs, hence why Lucy and Layla have a strong resemblance to their ancestor Anna Heartfilia, suspecting it was a way [[spoiler:for Zeref to find them to help open the Eclipse Gate and bring the Dragons and dragon slayers to the present]]. She also says that while her father Jude was happy to take his wife's last name, he had trouble getting other eligible men to take his daughter's name, since they refuse out of pride.
* ''Fanfic/UmeiNoMaisUnchained'': Since his Lord-Wife Izuna is ''significantly'' higher-ranked than him, Tobirama is now referred as Uchiha instead of Senju.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'': The husbands (Agustin and Félix) of the female Madrigal triplets (Julieta and Pepa, respectively) took their wives' surname. While the Madrigals aren't a FamilyBusiness in the corporate sense, they do serve as the foundation of their community and wish to carry on that legacy under a unified name.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheHundredAndOneDalmatians'': 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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* Part of the VictimOfTheWeek's backstory in ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "[[{{Recap/CastleS2E6VampireWeekend}} Vampire Weekend]]". The victim didn't know that his birth mother had disappeared when he was a baby and that his father had [[MarryTheNanny remarried the nanny]], taking her name to escape the publicity. [[spoiler:In fact, the nanny killed his mother with this exact aim, and the victim when he worked it out.]]
* ''Series/Dark2017'': Unusually for the rural German setting, Regina Tiedemann's husband Aleksander was née Köhler, 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 [[spoiler:him hide the fact that he killed a boy named Aleksander Köhler and stole his identity]].
* ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'': 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.
* In ''Series/MorkAndMindy'', Mork takes Mindy's last name ([=McConnell=]). This is because Mork [[OnlyOneName has no last name]].
* ''Series/OrphanBlack'': Donnie took his wife Allison's surname, Hendrix, in order to be rid of his EmbarrassingLastName Chubbs. Allison's mother considers Donnie pathetic and unmanly for taking his wife's name and still calls him Mr. Chubbs as an insult.
* In ''Series/{{Underground}}'', Tom Macon was born Tom Hawkes. He took his wife's name instead of the other way around, probably due to the HeirInLaw situation.
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* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'', 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. [[spoiler: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.]]
* A variation in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'': Oghren took his wife Branka's ''first'' name as his new last name due to her status as a paragon (essentially a PhysicalGod) 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.
* [[WordOfGod According to the lead writer]] of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', the ancient hero Nerevar took his wife Ayem's House name, Indoril, upon marrying her. She was a high priestess belonging to one of the Great Houses, whereas he was formerly a caravan guard born to an irrelevant minor house. (Ayem later became the goddess Almalexia.)
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'': 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.
* ''VideoGame/TheSims'':
** In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', the couple takes the name of whomever initiates the marriage action. 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. 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 (né 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 [[PlantPerson PlantSim]] heritage.
** In ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', Geoffrey Landgraab of Sunset Valley took his wife Nancy's surname upon marriage because the Landgraabs are [[BlueBlood old-money aristocrats]] who helped build the town.
* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': 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 [[SempaiKohai Senpai]] and forces him into a relationship. So, in this case, the husband taking the wife's surname (not by choice) seems to indicate [[HenpeckedHusband the nature of their relationship]] and the way {{Yandere}}-ism [[ItRunsInTheFamily runs in the family]].
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* ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously'': 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.
* In the backstory of ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', Eva Ushiromiya, [[HeirClubForMen having been passed over to be the family heir]], proposed to her husband 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 in order for their son George to be considered as a potential family head.
* ''VisualNovel/WalkureRomanze'': Takahiro manages to form a relationship with Noel or Celia regardless of the [[UptownGirl difference in class]]. At the end of their routes, he marries into the Ascot or Aintree families respectively.
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* ''WebAnimation/ActuallyHappened'': After he gets married to his girlfriend Kathie, Noah takes her surname in order to distance himself from his parents.
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Jacques Gelè changed his last name upon his marriage to 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 [[HeirInLaw successor to his father-in-law]] Nicholas Schnee.
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* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'': Dominic's father Donovan [[OnlyOneName 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.
* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'':
** 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.
** [[AllThereInTheManual 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, [[OnlyOneName 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.
* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Daigo hasn't officially taken his wife's last name (Kato), but they've used it for the name of their newly-established noble house. Daigo is saving his own last name for an emergency.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Precocious}}'', the Oven family's surname came from Sydney. Joseph changed his when they married. His reason is quoted below:
-->'''Joseph Oven:''' I mean, my last name was ''[[EmbarrassingLastName Brungster]]!'' I couldn't subject my kids to that with a clean conscience.
* In ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', Jason Pratchett decides to take Aubrey Chorde's surname, mostly because of issues with his dad.
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* Website/{{Buzzfeed}} writer Andy Golder was né 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 unwieldly), as well as the DoubleStandard around the act (people automatically assumed his wife would change her name and are taken aback and confused by how he did instead) [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/i-took-my-wifes-last-name-and-this-is-what-i-lea in this article]].
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'':
** 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 [[HumanAliens Mewman]] father Dave ("maiden" name unknown) took his wife's last name after marrying the demon queen Wrathmelior Lucitor.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* In Japan, it's a common tradition for men married to the daughter of a [[UptownGirl well-off family]] to take his wife's family name, especially if he's considered to succeed a family business or, before 1948, a peerage.
** A notable example of this would be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiroemon_Kimura Jiroemon Kimura]], primarily known for being the only male verified to have reached 116 years of age. He was born Kinjiro Miyake, and changed his name on marriage, since his wife's family did not have a male heir.
* An interesting case with Creator/JonStewart. His birth name was Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, and he chose Jon Stewart as his [[StageNames professional name]] (mostly because he'd had some really nasty fights with his father). About a year after he married Tracy [=McShane=], they ''both'' changed their legal last names to Stewart. Note that even before he got married, Stewart [[DoNotCallMePaul refused to respond to anyone who called him by his birth name]] except when it was unavoidable (e.g. on official ID documents).
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