Just curious…

If sometime down the road, they should get married do you think Beckett would take the Castle name, or do you think she would keep her own, or do the hyphenated thing?  Beckett-Castle

The other thing is, Castle isn't Ricks given name.  Even though this is his current official name since he changed it, do you think there would be a consideration of his 'given' name (Richard Alexander Rogers) to Beckett if they should marry?  Especially, since she was told once, by a psychic, that someone named Alexander would be very important to her and would save her life.

Would they name there kids (if they have them) Castle, or Rogers.  …..BTW, what is Alexis full name?  Is her last name Castle?  Have they ever said?

I wonder about these things…do you?

There's a teeny tiny fanfic that says Beckett can never take Castle's name because her middle name is Fionna.  If she took the Castle last name she'd be KFC and that's just not on! Of course, they've never told us what KB's middle name is, so who knows.

Frankly, i can't imagine changing my name to my husband's – my name is a fundamental part of who i am, as his is part of him.  It's also the name on which i've built my career and professional reputation.  I'd never ask him to change his name and wonder why anyone would expect me to do so.  I understand others may feel differently, but if you need a common name to make you a 'family' i think you've got other issues to deal with. If you think Beckett is the type to need Castle's permission for anything she wants to do – then you see a very different Beckett and a very different dynamic between the two than i do.  

There's also lots of places where your birth name is yours forever, unless you go through the formal exercise of a legal name change – like if i were changing my name to John Doe.  (Quebec is one of those places.) 

I've heard all the arguments on needing the same last name for the kids – but with serial marriages and step kids all over the place a remarkably large number of kids bear a different last name from at least one of the people who act as parent – mother's new husband, daddy's new wife, etc.  The world adapts.  

One female friend ( a lawyer) is the last of her family carrying the family name and kept it on her marriage – to no one's surprise.  Her husband is one of 6 brothers, each of whom have lots of male children.  When their son was born they gave him her last name.  No hyphenations – just her last name.  Both families supported the decision, but an amazing array of their friends and more distant relatives were shocked – even the ones who didn't change names on marriage.  Old habits die hard with some people.

I can imagine Beckett staying "Detective Beckett" at work and "Mrs. Castle" in her private life.