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

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Changed/Other depending on definition. She uses it as a middle name.

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Keep

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

What tradition? keeping her own name or changing it to the husbands?

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Here in Denmark it is increasingly common for the husband to take the wifes name, because it simply matters more for women than for men. Is this unheard of in the US? And would it be considered unmasculine if a guy did it?

Often the couple also choses the best sounding name for their children regardless of where it comes from and sometimes chose it as the common name for the entire family. Like I have a couple of friends where his name was Kampenborg Christensen and hers was Saxlund Bischoff. They elimated Christensen for being too common, Kampenborg for being too clumsy and ugly and Bischoff for being too German and then landed on the whole family being called Saxlund, so their children are named after their maternal grandmother.