>>I see less and less spouses here in Quebec taking the name of the other spouse. My wife have kept her name and I've kept mine. My only daughter have my name (Tremblay is way too common here :), but if we had another child, he/she would surely have taken my wife name.
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>In most of Latin America, a wife basically keeps her own name. To this, she might sometimes add "de" + husband's name. "de" means "of" or "from", but it might also mean "belonging to", so, this might sound to some as if she were her husband's property...

My wife is from Peru and her family is from Spain. Her name is Enriqueta Cristina Mendivil-Bojorequez de Whiteley. I call her Katy for short! :)