How do you write a spanish woman's name after she gets married?

Answer 1

The woman's title changes from Señorita (Miss) to Señora (Missus) (Abbreviated Sra. (Mrs))

The standard traditional form for a woman's married name is simple in Spanish. She keeps her entire name up to her father's last name, then adds "de" and her husband's father's last name.

In Spanish a person's name is generally has First name, Middle name, Father's last name, and Mother's last name. When married the woman would drop her mother's last name and add "de" followed by her husband's father's last name.

Example:

Maria Carmen Gonzalez Perez. The woman's first and middle names are Maria Carmen. Her father's last name is Gonzalez, and her maternal Grandfather's (mother's father's) last name is Perez.

If this woman is married to a man named José Luis Alvarez Rodriguez, following tradition, her name Would be Sra. Maria Carmen Gonzalez de Alvarez

HOWEVER!!!!!

This form has fallen out of favor especially in the Western Hemisphere because the name literally means that the woman is "Of" her husband. It implies she is now his property.

The tendency now is for the woman to follow the more traditional English form of changing her last name to her new husband's paternal name OR to use her father's last name as her middle name and her husband's last name as her last name.

It is generally safe to call a married woman by her husband's father's last name. In the example above Srta. Gonzalez would become Sra. Alvarez.