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As Im notes, an increasing number of women do not change their names when they get married — about 20%, with another 10% hyphenating or otherwise incorporating their original name into a blended last name.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2023

We have a problem in the UK with people hyphenating their job roles.

From The Verge • Sep. 3, 2021

You’re not even talking about hyphenating, or some other compound surname, or changing your child’s last name to yours—which would also be completely fine, by the way.

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2021

Pope.L was raised by a single mother in and around Newark; his distinctive last name melds his father’s surname with her initial, L, for Lancaster — a feminist gesture before hyphenating became a norm.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2018

Her father, Edward Barrett Moulton, came into an inheritance of property by which he was required to add the name of Barrett again, hyphenating it, and was thus known as Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett.

From The Brownings Their Life and Art by Whiting, Lilian