Over the years, celebrity couples like Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz Beckham have decided to shake things up when it comes to their married names.
The pair got engaged in July 2020 after less than one year of dating. They got married two years later in April 2022. Shortly after exchanging vows, the duo took the next step by changing their last names to the joint Peltz Beckham version.
“We had this idea — we kind of combined our last names. I was just like, ‘Oh, we could start a new thing, and it’ll be so cool to have our own kids and have little Peltz Beckhams running around,’” Brooklyn told Variety in August 2022.
Carlos and Alexa PenaVega also decided to take a different approach with their last names. After getting married in 2014, the Hallmark stars combined their individual monikers to PenaVega.
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Sam Taylor-Johnson and Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Shortly after exchanging vows with the director in 2012, Aaron discussed his decision to change his last name.
“I just don’t see why women need to take the man’s name,” he told Evening Standard at the time. “I wanted to be a part of her just as much as she wanted to be part of me.”
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John and Yoko Ono Lennon
After getting married in 1969, the Beatles band member took his wife’s last name.
“Yoko changed her name for me, I’ve changed mine for her,” he said at the time. “One for both, both for each other. She has a ring, I have a ring. It gives us nine ‘O’s between us, which is good luck. Ten would not be good luck.”
Lennon died in December 1980 after he was shot while entering his apartment building in New York City.
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Carlos and Alexa PenaVega
The couple, who got engaged in 2013, exchanged vows one year later and changed their names to make it official.
“We stepped back and discussed it with each other because we knew we always wanted it to be PenaVega,” the Big Time Rush member, who shares kids Ocean, Kingston and Rio with the Spy Kids star, said during an interview with Mario Lopez in 2018. “We sent the paper over, got it stamped, and I shouted, ‘We’re PenaVegas!'”
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Clive Standen and Lucy Martin
The former Vikings costars got married in August 2024, telling Us Weekly that they both decided to hyphenate their last names as Standen-Martin.
“I’m still Clive Standen for everything else, but you know my parcels will say Standen-Martin,” Standen exclusively told Us. “It’s not a big deal really, I just think there’s no reason that a woman has to take a man’s name these days, and I think it’s a nice [gesture]. And Lucy has a massive family, and her father has more of a heritage than my side of the family.”
He continued, “I have a dad who brought me up since the age of 8, and he has a different name to me. My mum has his name, so I don’t know why I held onto my name so much — maybe because I’m an actor now and people know me like that. But my surname doesn’t hold the same gravitas as Lucy’s does to her family, so it wasn’t such a big deal to me to take Martin on and add it onto my name.”