Just call her Meghan Sussex NOT Markle: 'This is our family name.'

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Say goodbye to Meghan Markle.

Meghan says, just like her husband Prince Harry and their two children, Archie, 5, and Lilibet, 3, her surname is now Sussex.

She made the name change clear on the second episode of her new cooking and lifestyle show on Netflix and again in interviews with Drew Barrymore and PEOPLE.

On the episode, Meghan is teaching The Office star Mindy Kaling, mother of three, how to host a children’s party when Kaling says: “I don’t think anyone in the world knows that Meghan Markle has eaten Jack in the Box (an American fast food chain) and loves it.”

Kaling is then cut off by Meghan.

“It’s so funny, too, that you keep saying Meghan Markle, you know I’m Sussex now. You have kids and you go, no, I share my name with my children. And that feels so, I didn’t know how meaningful it would be to me. But it just means so much to go, this is our family name.”

Meghan’s new surname also appeared in Thursday’s segment of The Drew Barrymore Show called: “This is the Fast Five with Meghan Sussex.”

And in a PEOPLE interview, Meghan said the Sussex name for her and Prince Harry “is part of our love story.”

“It’s our shared name as a family, and I guess I hadn’t recognized how meaningful that would be to me until we had children,” she said. “I love that that is something that Archie, Lili, H and I all have together. It means a lot to me.”

As per Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Harry and Meghan became the Duke and Duchess of Sussex when they wed in 2018 and were allowed to keep their titles after they stepped down as royals in 2020.

However, they are no longer addressed as his or her royal highness (HRH) and were told to stop developing their “SussexRoyal” brand, and not to market themselves that way or profit from their titles.

But there’s nothing stopping them from using their titles as a last name as other royals do.