If Juliet and Romeo ultimately got together at the end of the play, she would've taken her husband's name and become a Montague. Juliet Montague, that is, which I think sounds better than Juliet Capulet. Mmh, it's fun that her first and last names have the same number of syllables, same kind of stress (JOO-lee-et CAP-you-let), and both end in "-et". But I think it sounds kind of boring, and if I were her I'd want to change my last name. What does "Capulet" even mean? Don't answer that, I don't want to get off topic just yet.
If I ever get married I hope to get a hyphenated last name. It's not uncommon in this day and age for women to keep their last names and I say good for them. I don't have anything against them, or against a woman who chooses to adopt her husband's name. But for me I'd like to have a hyphenated last name to adopt my spouse's name; if I get married I probably will have a kid/kids and would like them to have the same surname as me and my husband. It has yet to be determined in what order our names would be; if his surname starts with the same letter or sound as the last letter of mine I'd want my name to be first, and vice versa.
I happen to like my last name, but I know people who don't. I had one professor who was a feminist but took on her husband's name because she didn't like her own. Her last name meant "salesman" or "peddler" or something like that in her native language, despite the fact that no one in her father's family line had ever had that profession, and she was never really fond of that fact.
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