Testimony
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A desire to pay homage to a parent, to break away from another or from their past, more and more of them are changing their name. Today, in the first episode of our series, Marina, 26 years old, who works in law in Paris.
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Since the simplification of the procedure in July 2022 thanks to the Vignal law, 150,000 people have already changed their last name, a tripling of demand, according to an INSEE study. The process was undertaken by relatively young people: half are between 18 and 29 years old, a quarter between 30 and 39 years old. And it is mainly women, at 57%, who have changed their name. Today, Marina (1), 26, has only kept her mother’s name and describes a “feeling of justice”.
“I changed my last name in the summer of 2022, right after the law came into effect. Already, at university, I put the two names of my parents together as common names. I finally amputated my father’s. At the civil registry, they asked me if I was sure. I had to wait a month before I could sign. It made me think about the week of reflection for a
