You don’t even have to be a lady, there are several

• My last name is culturally important to me
• His last name is something like Cox or Boner and it’s just not worth it
• I got a doctorate before I met him and don’t want to change it
• I don’t want to change my name on all my documents and have people assume I’m stealing my own identity in the early months of our marriage
• I would rather keep my own last name out of personal preference
• I would rather keep my own last name to make a political statement
• I want my husband to take MY name

It’s 2018 and people ARENT PROPERTY

one of my high school literature teachers kept her last name so we were confused to find she was married to another teacher and she was like “his last name is Cummings” and we were like yea that’s reasonable