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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.

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