Sister Wives' Meri Brown Explains Why She Won't Return to Using Her Maiden Name Despite Divorce from Kody (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Meri Brown.Photo:Meri Brown/Instagram

Meri Brown/Instagram

Meri Brownhas moved on from her ex-husbandKody Brown, but there’s one thing she is holding on to from their marriage: her surname.

TheSister Wivesstar’s maiden name is Barber. However, she took on Kody’s last name upon marrying him in 1990.

Meri Brown/Instagram, TLC

Meri notes that she will “probably keep it until I get married again and change it.”

“Hopefully, his last name also is not Brown,” she adds before referencing conversations she’s had with loved ones on the matter, saying, “We go with Black or White, we were thinking of all the last names that are colors.”

“It would be funny to just be Meri Christmas,” she adds, noting that she and her friends have joked about her changing her last name to Davenport because it’s “very, very regal.” (Meri joked about taking on the name Davenport, which was also her great-great-grandmother’s maiden name, in the Sunday, Dec. 29 episode of the TLC show.)

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(L-R) Kody Brown and Meri Brown are pictured on ‘Good Morning America’ on September 21, 2011.Ida Mae Astute/Disney/Getty

Ida Mae Astute/Disney/Getty

Over a year since her divorce (and following a brief romance in early 2024),Meri confirms she has reentered the dating world. And while she has been set up with potential suitors through loved ones, she is also using dating apps.

Yet, she admits, “Sometimes I get tired of it, and I turn my profile off, and then I just do my own thing for a while, and then it’s like, ‘Maybe I’ll try it again.'”

In looking for her perfect match, she says it’s “very important to me to have somebody who matches my energy and cheers me on with all the things that I’m doing.”

As for whether she would show her romance journey on her family’s TLC series, Meri adds: “I think it would have to get to a [certain] point of relationship before I did that, because that’s a big thing to be seen publicly like that.”

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Sister Wivesairs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.

source: people.com