After a few years she divorced but kept her married surname.
After marriage, both women and men keep their surname from birth.
Persons who keep their own surname after marriage do so for a number of reasons.
Many people in the village keep their surname as yerradoddi.
Woodhull divorced her husband after bearing him two children, and kept his surname.
Since 1977, married women have had the option of keeping their own surname.
When his mother remarried in the mid-60s, he was the only child to keep his natural father's surname.
The bride, 32, is known as Daisy and will keep her surname.
She is known as Megan and is keeping her surname.
I don't give a monkeys about a member of the royal family keeping their surname.