A New Mexico mom has gone viral for revealing that her first name is also her last name. Bailey Grace Bailey took to TikTok in January to share how she became Bailey squared. “It’s spelled exactly the ...

“She told me to do it for her because it would make her really happy … [but] I don’t accept her as my mom,” the 19-year-old wrote on Reddit Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been ...

Some American parents have been breaking the patrilineal tradition for generations, but the number who do so remains small. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller has her mother’s last name as a ...

When I was younger, I did a bunch of things that some might call dumb. I also did one thing that I was told was just a part of the life everyone was supposed to live: When I got married, I changed my ...

A couple kept their baby’s name secret, until the man's sister-in-law mysteriously discovered it and used it for her own son first The sister-in-law claimed she wanted the cousins to have “matching ...

My last name is Davis and my husband's is Smith, so I figured I'd go by both. Without a hyphen, I never knew if I was going to show up as just Davis or Smith for reservations. Looking back, I'd ...

I got married in 2004 when I was 22 and changed my last name to match my husband's. I was raised very conservatively and was told that was what I needed to do. Now I want to change my last name, but ...