Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author (left) hyphenated her last name when she married her husband (right).Courtesy of Susan Teresa I felt pressure to give ...

At 19, I had the shocking discovery that not only did I have a different name when I was born, but that I was adopted from Colombia. When I was adopted, my birth name was immediately changed, and ...

The thing about hyphenated last names is that it’s a tradition that has to end at SOME point. We can’t just keep generally adding name after name – we’d have to start putting our driver’s licenses on ...

A frustrated man checks his cell phone while a happy couple stands at the alter. Sometimes the universe has a truly demented sense of humor. Here’s where it gets weird. The new husband’s last name is ...

JENNY: It was a long time coming because Joanna and I had known each other because we were both working for major digital media networks at the time. She was at Flama, and I was at BuzzFeed and Pero ...

Hyphenated-domain-names were a big deal in the early days of SEO because search engines initially used primitive keyword-based algorithms for ranking web pages. Hyphenated keyword domain names were ...

As we embark to celebrate another 4th of July to commemorate our country’s Independence from the British, I’m reminded of how divided we are around the notion of how to define “American." A reader of ...

As I stood in the clerk's office applying for a marriage license, I faced three options: no name change (keep mine), name change (assume his), or hyphenate (enjoy both). It seemed like a simple task; ...

As I stood in the clerk's office applying for a marriage license, I faced three options: no name change (keep mine), name change (assume his), or hyphenate (enjoy both). It seemed like a simple task; ...