>Now Alan, I can pronounce your name. Does that make me nobody? :)

Rhymes with Kung-Pow, as in Kung-Pow Chicken. ;-)


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>>Believe me, had I ever been married, I'd have gladly taken my wife's name. Nobody knows how to pronounce Popow, which is a corruption anyway of Popov (or Popoff, your pick).
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>>Because of my last name, my nickname growing up was 'Pappy'. My younger brother was 'Little Pappy'.
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>>>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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>>>>To the best of my knowledge, it's perfectly acceptable in Canada. The way the law reads allows a spouse to adopt the name of the other spouse. It doesn't refer to man or woman or hermaphrodite. There are small catches here and there. In many provinces, when you adopt your wife's/husband's name, your birth certificate remains unchanged, so you can use it as ID if you want to use or go back to your original name, but here in Ontario, your birth certificate changes too.