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It's the name that once made millions of middle-aged soap opera fans weak in the knees, but it will soon be gone forever because TMZ has learned, Lorenzo Lamas is taking his new wife's last name.

Lorenzo wed Shawna Craig this weekend in Mexico and his rep tells us Lorenzo wants "to start over fresh" from all his previous marriages and divorces (four of them), and desperately wants a change.

So, Lorenzo is going to reverse the tradition and take her name ... making him Lorenzo Craig.

Doesn't really have the same ring to it.