I'm planning on being (First Name) (Middle Name) (Maiden Name) (Married Name). Trust me, it's a mouthful. I'll be Ms. (Married Name). Quite honestly, it will be an improvement over certain teachers addressing me as Ms. (Maiden Name) because they were singling me out (the beauty of having a principal for a father). And I don't know that I would want to keep my father's name as the name I use professionally, given that he is a very well-known educator in the state I want to teach in, and I'd like to earn something on my own merits. Besides, I have no concerns about passing on my dad's family name given that I'm the ONLY girl on that side of the family
. My uncle had three sons, his eldest son has a son, and my aunt had a son. Either way, there's plenty of (Maiden Name)s and (Married Name)s out there. I really don't think my last name is all that special, especially given it's one of the many forms of "son of John" out there.