This is basically the reason my kids have the last name that they do.
My last name starts with E and my wife's with Y. Bucking tradition, she didn't change her name when we got married, so when we had kids we had to decide what name to give them. We opted to hyphenate.
Historically, hyphenated last names were [Woman's last name]-[Man's last name]. However, my wife hated that her last name was near the end of the alphabet growing up.
We bucked tradition once again and put my name first, so that when sorted alphabetically they would be at the front of the list. Incidentally their first names start with A and B so that they show up at the front when sorted by first name too.
Haha, I've always enjoyed being at the end getting less attention from teachers. If the data merely shows a correlation, it may as well be explained by us at the end being under less pressure.
It was just a simple observation. You are reading into things too much. There's no need to be so defensive. Your comment hasn't upset me in the slightest ( rationally or irrationally ) and I sincerely hope you weren't offended by mine.
> It must be exhausting being married to a woman who wants to 'buck tradition'. Why didn't she buck tradition and just name your kids 'Aa, Aa', 'Aaa, Aaa', etc and be done with it? Heck why not go all the way and let them go nameless.
You managed to combine snarky reductio ad absurdum and a gratuitous attack on his wife in three sentences. Why wouldn't someone be annoyed by that?
My last name starts with E and my wife's with Y. Bucking tradition, she didn't change her name when we got married, so when we had kids we had to decide what name to give them. We opted to hyphenate.
Historically, hyphenated last names were [Woman's last name]-[Man's last name]. However, my wife hated that her last name was near the end of the alphabet growing up.
We bucked tradition once again and put my name first, so that when sorted alphabetically they would be at the front of the list. Incidentally their first names start with A and B so that they show up at the front when sorted by first name too.