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?

[askyourgran]

I couldn't do that, my kids would have sounded like a railway station.

[Dee Sa]

in U.A.E I had a boss called Stathis Stathis he was Cypriot.

[netibiza]

and of course, the first surname is the important one, so my child having two christian names and one surname ie Mary Jane Doe is addressed as Senorita Jane, they thinking that the Doe is the mother's name

[mikey4444]

Sounds terribly complicated to me !

I met someone called David Evans once, in Cardigan, who was worried that his Mothers maiden name was going to die out, so he renamed himself as David Evans-Evans ! As Evan is sometimes used as a Christian name, I can only hope he never had a son called Evan !