Thanks for sharing that, Nammu! That's a lovely story.

My married name has a little story, too. I was married to my hubby in Prague, Czech Republic. For that reason, I took his family name, but because I am a female, my new last name had the letters "ova" added. All women in most all Slavik countries have such a similar ending to their names. [Think of tennis great Martina Navratilova whose father's last name was Navratil.] When we returned to the US, I dropped the "ova" so that my last name would be the same as my husband's. We never had children, but if we had, the name difference would have caused confusion. However, now back in Czech Republic, I have to use the "ova" ending for various things. When I applied for the health insurance, they used this version from when I was married here. My US passport doesn't include the "ova", but my insurance card and my Czech ID, do. It's sort of just as well because if I didn't have the "ova" version here, most people who didn't see or hear me, face-to-face, just saw my name, would assume I was a man. They wouldn't necessarily know my first name was a woman's since my name is not used in Czech Republic.