Ah, that makes me sad - our daughter is adopted and giving her our last name (we kept her given name) was really emotional and important for us. It would crush me if she or her family had no connection to her name because she was adopted.

I know a couple who did this and changed their name to ‘Worthington’ (now that I think about it, possibly the couple who wrote in - details fit) - they were totally weird about it and first claimed it was an old family name, then admitted they made it up completely. They’re total annoying social climbers who picked…