30% of Latinas are more likely to retain their last name after marriage

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30% of Latinas say they kept their last name, compared with 10% of White women and 9% of Black women, according to a Pew Institute survey. On the contrary, about 8 in 10 women in opposite-sex marriages say they took their husband’s last name.

Marriage in the United States has been changing in many ways over the past several decades – but the tradition of women taking their husband’s last name is still going strong. Most women in opposite-sex marriages (79%) say they took their spouse’s last name when they got married. Another 14% kept their last name, and 5% hyphenated both their name and their spouse’s name.

Among men in opposite-sex marriages, the vast majority (92%) say they kept their last name. Just 5% took their spouse’s last name, and less than 1% hyphenated both names.

Aside from Hispanic women, which women are more likely to have kept their last name after marriage?
Some women in opposite-sex marriages are more likely than others to say they kept their last name after getting married.

They include:

Younger women: 20% of married women ages 18 to 49 say they kept their last name, compared with 9% of those ages 50 and older.

Women with a postgraduate degree: 26% of married women with a postgraduate degree kept their last name, compared with 13% of those with a bachelor’s degree and 11% of those with some college or less education.

Democratic women: Democratic and Democratic-leaning women are twice as likely as Republican and Republican-leaning women to say they kept their last name (20% vs. 10%). While moderates in each party are about equally likely to say they kept their last name, liberal Democratic women are the most likely to say this (25%), and conservative Republican women are the least likely (7%).

Black women are more likely than White women to say they hyphenated their and their spouse’s last names, and White women are the most likely to say they took their husband’s last name. (There aren’t enough married Asian women in the sample to analyze separately.)

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