IF YOU AREN’T MARRIED DON’T GIVE YOUR BABY HIS LAST NAME

I mean, this is definitely not a “one size fits all” situation.

We aren’t married, our kids have his last name. I also plan on changing mine if we decide to push the wedding. But I’d rather not do three name changes, so they for his at birth and now the only legal name change I have to worry about is mine.

We’re pretty secure in our relationship and it’s never even a thought in our mind to separate for any reason.

Hyphenate!

Like Caitlin said theres isnt a one size fits all for this.
First few months of dating and getting to know each other, fall pregnant. Then its definitely a mum surname situation. Been together years, live together, just not married or anything legal but stable relationship. Put whoevers surname possible.
My parents were engaged so all us kids too my dads surname. They didnt get married until i was 10. At that point they had a 16 year old, 10 year old, 9 year old and a 6 year old all with my dads surname.
Me and my partner have been together 9 years all my kids have his surname. If we werent together so long to begin with. I wouldnt of given my kids his surname

I personally hateee hyphenated names lol

Our daughter has dad's last name, we were engaged when she was born.

DONT HYPHENATE. As someone who married a hyphen it is absolutely a giant pain in the ass in the US. My oldest isn’t my husbands. He was given his father’s last name. I’m pretty traditional about that kind of thing. His dad will always be his dad.