第1524期:Millennial grooms take spouse’s name

No one knows how long humans have been giving themselves names, but one thing is sure: surnames are a much more recent idea than given names. In Europe, surnames were developed to distinguish between individuals who had the same moniker. They were brought to the UK by the French nobility following the Norman Conquest around the 12th century and became common around the 14th century.没有人知道人类给自己起名字已经有多久了，但有一点是肯定的：姓氏是一个比名字更近的概念。在欧洲，姓氏被用来区分拥有相同绰号的个人。它们在 12 世纪左右的诺曼征服后由法国贵族带到英国，并在 14 世纪左右变得普遍。Another tradition that the Normans introduced was that of coverture. This was a law which said that a woman became a man's property when they got married. In those days, only a man could be the head of the family and allowed to own property. At this point the bride lost her maiden name. Over time, this has led to the tradition that upon marriage a woman relinquishes her maiden name and takes on her new husband’s family name.诺曼人引入的另一个传统是隐蔽。这是一条法律，规定女人结婚后成为男人的财产。在那个年代，只有男人才能成为一家之主，才能拥有财产。在这一点上，新娘失去了她的娘家姓。随着时间的推移，这导致了一个传统，即女性在结婚后放弃她的婚前姓氏并采用她新丈夫的姓氏。Fast forward to the present. These days a woman choosing not to change her name to match her husband’s after marriage has long been a norm. The first recorded case is widely believed to be an American suffragette called Lucy Stone. When she got married in 1855, she refused to take her husband's name. After that, other ideas such as merging and double-barrelling also became common.快进到现在。如今，一个女人在婚后选择不改名以匹配丈夫的名字早已成为一种常态。人们普遍认为第一个记录的案例是一位名叫露西斯通的美国女权主义者。当她在 1855 年结婚时，她拒绝使用丈夫的名字。之后，合并、双管齐下等其他思路也开始流行起来。However, it would seem that a new trend is arising. One in ten millennial males is now electing to replace their surname with their wife’s. That's according to a recent study of 2000 UK adults by Opinium, a strategic insight agency. In a BBC article, Rory Dearlove née Cook, explained that for him it wasn’t important to keep his surname. He thought it would be nice for his wife and him to have the same last name. The bride, Lucy, had made it clear before getting married that she had no intention of changing hers, but thought that he would keep his too. “He's entitled to keep his just as I am entitled to keep mine,” she commented.然而，似乎正在出现一种新的趋势。十分之一的千禧一代男性现在选择用妻子的姓氏代替他们的姓氏。这是根据战略洞察机构 Opinium 最近对 2000 名英国成年人进行的一项研究得出的。在 BBC 的一篇文章中，Rory Dearlove née Cook 解释说，对他来说，保留姓氏并不重要。他认为他的妻子和他有相同的姓氏会很好。新娘露西在结婚前就明确表示，她无意改变自己的，但认为他也会保留自己的。“他有权保留他的，就像我有权保留我的一样，”她评论道。Other men had different reasons. Charlie Shaw, dubbed 'Morley' at birth, explained that it was, “a gesture of allegiance and an opportunity to acknowledge the unseen patriarchal bias and sexism in our society.” It’s worth noting that, in the UK at least, only the fathers of the couple being married are on the marriage certificate. The mothers do not appear at all.其他男人有不同的原因。出生时被称为“莫利”的查理·肖解释说，这是“一种忠诚的姿态，也是一个承认我们社会中看不见的父权偏见和性别歧视的机会。”值得注意的是，至少在英国，结婚证上只有夫妻双方的父亲。妈妈们根本没有出现。However, not everyone is in favour of altering tradition. Rachel Robnett, a researcher at the University of Nevada, surveyed a number of people in the US and UK and found that a man whose wife keeps her maiden name is viewed as ‘feminine’, while the woman was believed to ‘wear the trousers’. And when one family found out that their son was to take his wife’s name, they refused to attend the wedding. To them it was proof that he was totally under the thumb.然而，并不是每个人都赞成改变传统。内华达大学的研究员雷切尔·罗伯内特（Rachel Robnett）对美国和英国的一些人进行了调查，发现妻子保留婚前姓氏的男人被视为“女性化”，而女人被认为“穿裤子” .当一个家庭发现他们的儿子要取他妻子的名字时，他们拒绝参加婚礼。对他们来说，这证明他完全处于掌控之中。‘What’s in a name?’ Shakespeare asked in Romeo and Juliet. It would seem, depending on who you talk to, a great deal. Whether maintaining traditional naming conventions, keeping the surname, or swapping names, these days at least there is a choice to be made.“名字里有什么？”莎士比亚在《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中问道。取决于您与谁交谈，这似乎很重要。无论是保持传统的命名约定、保留姓氏还是交换名字，如今至少可以做出选择。词汇表surname 姓，同“family name”given name 名moniker 人名、绰号maiden name（女性婚前的）娘家姓family name 姓，同“surname”take her husband’s name 随夫姓merge 合并组成to double barrel 双方联姓的née（已婚女性的姓氏后标注的）原姓keep one’s surname 保持某人的原姓dub 称…为，叫作take his wife’s name 随妇姓naming convention 命名惯例swap name 替换名字

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