It’s Officially Millie Bonnie Bongiovi Now…. Did You Change Your Last Name?
Amy & T.J.
iHeartPodcasts
3.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
21-year-old Millie Bobby Brown announced this week that she has officially changed her name after marrying Jake Bongiovi. We learned her middle name is actually Bonnie, not Bobby, so from now on, she’s Millie Bonnie Bongiovi, or as she joked, Millie Bon Bon. It got us curious just how many women in this country change their last names once they’re married, and the numbers surprised us, with 8 out of 10 women choosing to take their husband’s name. It’s even more interesting when you look at which women are more likely to keep their given surnames and how the United States compares to other countries around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. It is Friday, December 5th. And should a woman take her new husband's last name? |
| 0:16.9 | Or should I say it this way? Should the new husband give it to her? |
| 0:21.4 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:24.0 | You all should see her eyes right now. |
| 0:26.1 | That was just to be provocative. |
| 0:27.7 | Let's get on track here. |
| 0:29.1 | This is about Millie Bobby Brown. |
| 0:31.4 | Started a conversation. |
| 0:32.9 | The actress from Stranger Things, of course. |
| 0:36.5 | She has changed her name. a woman that famous, changing |
| 0:39.7 | her name. At 21. And it got people talking. It's an age-old debate, is it not? It has been in my life. |
| 0:47.8 | Okay. Where has? Do you think, let's say, let's say your lifetime, has the conversation shifted and the mindset shifted? Because |
| 0:57.8 | it used to be just an automatic. Yes, of course. I'm going to take the man's last name. |
| 1:03.0 | But what is it now? In this country, I don't think so. And I don't think it's changed that much. |
| 1:08.8 | I was shocked by today's, as in 2025. Actually, the |
| 1:14.5 | recent, the most recent Pew Research Survey is from 2023. And I was surprised. Now, I grew up in |
| 1:25.4 | the Midwest and the South. |
| 1:29.2 | I live in the Northeast. |
| 1:30.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.0 | I've had very different experiences based on where I have lived, not necessarily the years in which I made different decisions, but where I was living in the country definitely had an impact on how it was received. |
| 1:51.2 | And nobody has to ask which was which, right, at this point. |
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