Did your mother keep or change her name when she got married?

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Keep

No problem with this tradition, but it's more widespread than I'd expect considering it's basically pointless.

[Alcon]

It's not like women don't have a choice in the matter.  And if most women agreed with you, perhaps the share of women keeping their maiden name after marriage wouldn't have declined from 23% in the 90's to just 8% now.

I think there are apples-and-oranges statistical sources on that -- one was, like, a survey of records, while the other was a pre-survey of brides.  Another source I'm finding says that a third of women married in their twenties now keep their names.