Are Double Barreled Names Silly & Pretentious?

[davebro]

If Rebecca Long-Bailey's child married one of Mogsters brood would it be OK to be Fred Long-Long-Bailey-Rees-Mogg?

Why don't they just each stick with their pre-marriage name or decide which one of their surnames both will use? Bonkers!

[davebro]

oops - too many Longs!

[woofgang]

I think it would be their choice and not my business

[Bobbisox1]

Some sound nice if there’s just one for instance but when there’s a string of them, No, very pretentious

[MallyJ]

I use my surname and on occasions will double barrel both names .... I do that for couples who aren't married or who haven't let me know what they are calling themselves as a couple. Not really something to get narked about....and people who do double barrell their names don't tend to add all previous generations......!!

[Khandro]

If Wanda Hughes had married Henry Kissinger, she'd be Wanda hughes kissinger now.


For our younger readers who don't know who Perry Como was;

"I wonder who's kissing her now
I wonder who's teaching her now
I wonder who's looking right into her eyes
Oh breathing sighs and telling lies
Well I wonder who's buying the wine
For the lips that I used to call mine
Well I wonder if she ever tells him of me
Wonder who's kissing her now......."

[bhg481]

Clever, Khandro.

[Butterbun]

Khandro :-))

[mushroom25]

Tarquin Fin-Tim-Lin-Bin-Whin-Bim-Lim-Bus-Stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel?

[naomi24]

No, not pretentious, but I recently heard Rebecca Long-Bailey referred to as Rebecca Wrong-Daily. Quite amusing I thought.

[The Builder]

Well, it is Christmas, so time to wheel out an old favourite...

If Isla St. Clair married Barry White...

She'd be Isla White.

If they divorced, and she married Brian Ferry...

She'd be Isla White-Ferry :o)

[Ken4155]

If Barbara Windsor had married Roy Castle, she'd have been known as Peggy Mitchell:-)

[emmie]

i find hard to say Katrina Johnson Thompson,
it doesn't roll off the tongue as such.

[shoota]

Google Jacob Rees-Moggs' sons name for a mouthful...

[puzzled54]

I don’t understand the fashion for double barrelled first names either

[emmie]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-jacob-rees-mogg-reveals-10773873

talk about a brood.

[Old_Geezer]

That would be a quadruple barrelled name. No reason to ban it, but it would be silly. Folk can call themselves what they want, and I can understand wanting to retain both branches on descent. Helps genealogists too. Don't have an issue with that.

[emmie]

one of the Rees-Mogg brood is called Sixtus, what on earth....

[brainiac]

I, too, can't stand double-barrelled first names.
Private Eye has a regular column on funny 'if someone married someone' names - featured in their Christmas crossword this year.

[Khandro]

What about the Whall-Karpets & their son Walter ?

[emmie]

khandro, that made me laugh