Recently, I am also considering this issue now. When I delivered Amanda, the nurse put Chan as her lastname and the doctors keep thinking that I'm Mrs Chan and called my husband Mr. Chan. In old days, when woman got married and she can request name change in City Hall (it shows in the marriage certificate afterwards). However, when I married 3 years ago, City Hall did not provide this service any more. If I need to have name change, I have to find an attorney to do it. Also, I need to change all the records in bank, IDs, etc. There're a lot of works. Since I'm going to apply for citizenship exam, there's a chance to change my name via this process. But, my brother told me that I can use the a.k.a method so that I can use my English nickname without going through all the works for name change.
In my workplace, most of the American workers change their lastname after marriage so do our Chinese friends who born here. But, I also see some co-workers keeping their maiden name. One of my co-workers always get into trouble regarding her name. She got her insurance license before she married and it shows her Chinese name with her maiden lastname. Now, she married and she would like to use her English nickname and her hubby's lastname. But, in between, she sometimes used her English nickname with her own maiden name and sometimes her English nickname with her hubby's lastname. It creates a lot of confusions and many parties keep complaining that they cannot find her.
For me, I'm still struggling. Since I have my maiden name in my college certificates, SS card, ID card, bank a/c, mileage a/c.... changing name means a lot of works. Also, I always need to prove that I have 2 names. I just wonder how the American women deal with these.
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