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(USGovernment-News.Com, July 01, 2013 ) Victoria, Australia -- More and more women appear to be utilizing moving their maiden name take place of their middle name. Those who want to keep their maiden name for one reason or another may be unaware of the logical option when deciding how to handle the name-change before marriage. Michelle Glah McCleary of Denver did just that do keep her rare-to-the-US last name of Glah.
"It's a cool name and it's also who I am. I've identified (myself) that way for 30 years," McCleary says.
The practice of women keeping their last name and migrating it to the middle has taken considerable hold I the United States, where studies currently show as many as 95% of married women take their husbands' name in one form or another.
There are still likely few that have yet to change it to the middle just yet. A study from the University of Pennsylvania noted that from a 1990s study anywhere between 3% and 25% of women were moving their maiden name to the middle.
Another 18% of women from a name-change website had relocated the name to the middle, rather than remove it or hyphenate to a longer name.
"It's definitely on an upward trend," says Tate, whose website has had 153,000 paying customers since late 2006. "Virtually no one is hyphenating anymore."
The practice is now catching on with younger women, and has likely been around since the 1970s. There were limited examples before that particular decade, and the practice is not exactly widespread. Today, the switch has more to do with family loyalty rather than anything else, according to Cathleya Schroeckenstein of Weddingbee.com.
"We want to figure out how to honor our families," says Schroeckenstein, who plans to use her maiden name, Geefay, as a middle name when she has children. "It's especially an issue for women who come from families with all daughters. I'm an only child, and my two cousins are women. It's a very heavy burden to realize that if we don't do something, this is the end of our maiden name."
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