I knew someone who hated his last name so much he insisted when he married, his wife keep her name and when they had kids, they used her last name.

I don't know if I would want to change my name if I were to marry my partner. My first and last name is the same as a relatively famous author, and in that regard it would be nice to change it. But it IS a cool name, and I would be sad to let it go. It's also one of the few things I relate to my father after identifying so much with my mother's side of the family and culture so it would be nice to keep it to honour my father's side of the family.