History Main / TookTheWifesName

* ''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, particularly since Julieta and Pepa's brother, Bruno, did not marry or have children.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14173757/7/Muggle-Intervention Muggle Intervention]]'' Rob Banks decides to adopt his fiancee Jenny Peach's surname because he dislikes the contrast between his birth name and him [[IronicName being a policeman]].

* 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.]]

* ''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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* ''Fanfic/UmeiNoMaisUnchained'': Since his Lord-Wife Izuna is ''significantly'' higher-ranked than him, Tobirama is now referred to as Uchiha instead of Senju.

* ''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.

* {{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 ''[[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 [[IdenticalGrandson strong resemblance to their ancestor]] Anna Heartfilia. She suspects 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.

* 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.

* In "In Your Space!" when Bernie is gushing over Amelia, he imagines taking her last name.

* 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.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Arcane}}'': The city council's titles are passed through lineage and when a fan asked the writers about it, the writers [[https://twitter.com/leeloo104/status/1472265454831869959 confirmed]] that councilwoman Kiramman kept her surname and her husband took it on.

* ''Webcomic/TheLegendOfGenji'': After marring Opal Beifong, Bolin took on her family name because [[OnlyOneName 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".

* 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.

* In ''VisualNovel/ParascientificEscape,'' 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 [[HonestCorporateExecutive suddenly cleaned it up,]] which would make sense with someone who joined the corporation suddenly (as by marriage).

* 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 since their her direct descendent. She suspects 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.

* 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.

* ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo:''' [[spoiler: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.]]

* 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.

* ''Webcomic/TheLegendOfGenji'': After marring Opal Beifong, Bolin took on her family name because [[OnlyOneName he didn't have a last name of his own]]. Well that and he was really happy at finally being able to officially call Toph "grandma".

* ''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.]]