Double Barreled Surnames

[black_cat51]

there seems to be a trend of couples who aren't married giving their children both of the surnames of the parents, making a doubled barreled name. What happens in the next generation when two such people have children? Quad-barreled surnames?

[EcclesCake]

I had had a D-B name through my family for over 100yrs.

When I married a downsized!

[emmie]

good point, how would they be listed on a birth certificate - i know some women sports stars have resorted to using their surname as well as the husband,
i remember watching the drama the West Wing - and the character Sam Seaborn was supposed to marry a woman called Sherborne, and one wag suggested that they didn't get married because she would be
Mrs Seaborn-Sherborne, not sure why i mentioned, but always found it funny

[woofgang]

They could each choose one surname from their two and put them together to make a new double barrel.

[ummmm]

You don't have to give your kids either of your surnames.

[emmie]

if that's the case what surnames would they have.

[black_cat51]

i know you don't, it was meant tongue in cheek!
mt friend was telling me there is another trend for a couple getting married to chose a new surname for themselves, made out of a part of each of their surnames. Something about feminism

[emmie]

info on names, quite interesting

http://www.deedpoll.org.uk/CanABirthCertificateBeChanged.html

[woofgang]

When the feminist "thing" was to keep your own surname when you married because it wasn't feminist to take a man's name, I used to wonder why they never realised that not taking their husband's name simply meant that they were keeping another man's name, that of their father.....

[maggiebee]

Took my youngest grandson for a hospital appointment when he was only months old. While son was parking the car I went to reception desk to let them know we had arrived. Couldn't find an appointment until one receptionist asked if his name was double-barrelled. Daughter in law has pretensions of grandeur so has given both children her surname hyphenated to my son's. Load of nonsense.

[ummmm]

Emmie....my cousin debated naming her child after our maternal grandfather as that side of the family was all girls. She had a girl though so seemed a bit pointless. A few boys have come along since then.

[emmie]

maybe they preferred their maiden name, and it doesn't necessarily run true that you will have your dads name, not if he isn't on the birth certificate, could be the mothers side of the family name

[emmie]

thought we were discussing surnames, you can call your child any forename, some do so without remotely thinking of the child.

[ummmm]

Yes...she considered using my granddads surname.

[Dee Sa]

I have a double barrelled name because when I married Mr Sa all that time way back my friends, we lived in Dubai at the time, all said that Dee Sa sounded like a stripper and also on Facebook there is a lady with that name who is a brothel keeper in Thailand.

[emmie]

Dee, keeping good company then x x

[Dee Sa]

lol ! emmie x dee x

[mikey4444]

Pretentious nonsense.

Naming of kids has got out of hand these days. I met a woman alst month that called her daughter Pepsi. When I gently enquired why, she told me that 4 weeks after the birth, she still hadn't named her but someone pointed out that she was always drinking Pepsi Cola. Thank god she wasn't addicted to Horlicks.

[emmie]

or irn bru

[mikey4444]

Or indeed Lapsang Souchong !

[netibiza]

It is the normal over here in Spain, the child gets the father's name and then the mother's name (sometimes they are the same name) ie Torres-Torres, so the child would be Juan Torres Torres, then when he married or not then his children would have his name first Torres and then the mother's name Clapes, so his children would be Pepe Torres Clapes. It gets difficult when we foreigners do not use this system.