Absolutely! There is no law that you must take your husbands name. Many many women continue to use their maiden name in a work context. Some couples even choose to take on the womens surname.
When asked if she ever thought about changing her last name Kate Gosselin Tweeted: "Not for a split second. Never will. Will possibly hyphenate if it comes to it...want name to be same as my kids"
last name is your married name, if married
No.
i guess she did before she got married, and im sure she did after she got married
Priscilla Presley's maiden name was Wagner. She took Elvis Presley's last name when they got married and has continued to keep it.
The last name of your mother is called her 'maiden name' and that was her real name before she got married. When she got married she would take the last name of your father. If your parents divorced sometimes the mother would keep her married name, but some mothers prefer to go back to their maiden name and because she has custody of you then she prefers to change your name from your father's last name to her own last name. If your parents were not married and living together then your father did not give you his last name and your mother is considered a 'single mother' so she would put you under her own last name.
A married womans maiden name is the last name she had before she was married, the last name of her parents.
You have a last name because when you are born you have a last name and it is not chosen you are passed it down generation by generation. But if you are a girl and you get married your last name changes to your husbands name and your original last name becomes a maiden name. When you are 18 and you are a adult you have the choice to change your name or to keep it the way it is.
Even married the mother can choose the last name of the child. Ex-girlfriend means nothing in a legal sense, she can choose what last name to give her child.
In the US, you have options for what you would like for your name to be after marriage. You may keep your name as given, you may drop you current last name and take your spouse's, you may drop your middle name, move your maiden to middle and take your spouse's last, you may tack the new last name to the end and have 4 names, you may hyphenate, you may merge your current and your spouse's name to form a new last, etc.
niether. or both. it doesn't matter really. LOL.
It doesn't matter if you're famous or not, every time a female gets married they decide whether or not to keep their maiden name. That is a matter of preference; there is no law that says a woman has to take her husband's last name, whether she's famous or not. Many women choose to keep their maiden name as part of their married name and hyphenate. For example, Mary Smith marries John Doe, then her name is Mary Smith-Doe.