Double-Barreled Surnames

Freddie59 · 03-10-2011 12:42pm #1

Seems to be slowly creeping in here. What happens if two people with double-barrelled surnames marry? Does it become quadruple-barrelled? And if two with quadruple-barreled surnames wed.......opinions?

Overature · 03-10-2011 12:45pm

its like dividing by 0

My name is URL · 03-10-2011 12:46pm

I think the whole taking your partners name thing is bullshit.. double-barrel or not.

Freddie59 · 03-10-2011 12:47pm

My name is URL wrote: »

I think the who taking your partners name thing is bullshit.. double-barrel or not.

But where does it end?

My name is URL · 03-10-2011 12:53pm

Freddie59 wrote: »

But where does it end?

Germany - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8040118.stm

sunflower27 · 03-10-2011 12:57pm

I really love my surname.

When I finally find the lucky person that I want to marry, I will be informing them that I am keeping my own name

Blazer · 03-10-2011 12:59pm

sunflower27 wrote: »

I really love my surname.

When I finally find the lucky person that I want to marry, I will be informing them that I am keeping my own name

Woman..you'll do damn well what you're told to do...:mad:

tonycascarino · 03-10-2011 12:59pm

I think people take double-barrelled surnames because they think they sound posher. Load of hogwash IMO.

BBDBB · 03-10-2011 1:00pm

Sc@recrow wrote: »

Woman..you'll do damn well what you're told to do...:mad:

you have much to learn

and will be sleeping on the sofa

Bonavox · 03-10-2011 1:01pm

BBDBB wrote: »

you have much to learn

and will be sleeping on the sofa

'Cause the woman will be too busy sleeping in the kitchen?

Immaculate Pasta · 03-10-2011 1:02pm

Call me old fashioned but I see double barrelled surnames as pretentious. I'm not changing my surname when I get married and my wife will be taking my name (I hope

).

Kasabian · 03-10-2011 1:05pm

Alot of it has to do with single parents and the desire to have your child know that they have 2 parents.

tonycascarino · 03-10-2011 1:08pm

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

Call me old fashioned but I see double barrelled surnames as pretentious.

That's the word I was looking for:)

mikemac · 03-10-2011 1:18pm

People will note your name and think you are a Protestant
Not that's there is anything wrong with that of course

sh1tstirrer · 03-10-2011 1:19pm

tonycascarino wrote: »

I think people take double-barrelled surnames because they think they sound posher. Load of hogwash IMO.

Or else it's because they think they were so popular before that all their old friends won't know them if they take a different surname. Either way they are full of sh1t.

whubee · 03-10-2011 1:21pm

A guy i went to school with had the most god awful name, it didnt have to be so bad if his folks had just decided to not go with the double barreled thing.

one part of the surname was the type of name you'd just rather not have as it sounded ridiculous. The other part quite normal.

Plus they gave him the first name Daena (ghay name)

They could have just named him Darren and added the normal surname.

sunflower27 · 03-10-2011 1:27pm

Sc@recrow wrote: »

Woman..you'll do damn well what you're told to do...:mad:

Hahahahahahahahahaha

No, I won't.

sh1tstirrer · 03-10-2011 1:30pm

My name is URL wrote: »

I think the whole taking your partners name thing is bullshit.. double-barrel or not.

You are contradicting yourself there as the idea is that your children won't have a double barrel surname.

kc66 · 03-10-2011 1:31pm

There's usually nothing pretentious about it. I wasn't married when our children were born, but I wanted them to have my surname. I didn't really like it but it was ok. I am married now and my wife took my name as it is nicer for the family to all have the same surname. The children will have the second part of the surname dropped.

03-10-2011 1:34pm

My cousin lives in spain and they do it as standard over there. When you are born you take your mother's father's name and your father's father's name. When you get married, you keep your father's name and take your husband's father's name. Think that's it anyway!!

ejmaztec · 03-10-2011 1:35pm

Kasabian wrote: »

Alot of it has to do with single parents and the desire to have your child know that they have 2 parents.

There can't be many outside that criteria.:P

Kasabian · 03-10-2011 1:47pm

ejmaztec wrote: »

There can't be many outside that criteria.:P

Haha.

tightropetom · 03-10-2011 2:47pm

I seem to remember when I was in the Gaeltacht in Connemara long long ago (1990ish) that a lot of the folks there have to have long winded extra names instead of their surnames just so that people know who you are talking about.

For example - Kathleen Flaherty (or Caitlin ni Fhlahurtha - excuse my spelling) being a relatively common name. I remember encountering someone called Caitlin Marcus Beartla Mharcusin. They used the spouse's name, spouse's father, and spouse's father's father. There were other similar examples too. Practical, I suppose. And there could be no doubt which Kathleen Flaherty you wanted to talk to :-)

So it's not all bad

melekalikimaka · 03-10-2011 2:52pm

the pretencious buzz here hummmmms strongly of ah chip on shoulder bull. Its quite the norm in many european countries, and to me makes sense, personally dont have it, my missus does and it seems perfectly understandable why people do it. FF clearly have been out of the news too long and people need a good moan at something

Miss Fluff · 03-10-2011 3:09pm

It is ridiculously pretentious and so idiotic when people with spud-munching culchie names decide to merge them.

Daniel Day-Lewis? Grand
Penelope O'Shaughnessy-McGillicuddy? Aye....

Jake Rugby Walrus666 · 03-10-2011 3:11pm

sunflower27 wrote: »

Hahahahahahahahahaha

No, I won't.

I bet you're a traditionalist when it comes to getting a €10K shiny stone on your finger

melekalikimaka · 03-10-2011 3:16pm

Miss Fluff wrote: »

It is ridiculously pretentious and so idiotic when people with spud-munching culchie names decide to merge them.

Daniel Day-Lewis? Grand
Penelope O'Shaughnessy-McGillicuddy? Aye....

so it depends on the name? not the reasons for it?

Sky King · 03-10-2011 3:18pm

Did Ross O'Carroll-Kelly books add the social stigma or was it always there?

(I've always thought they were stupid btw)

melekalikimaka · 03-10-2011 3:22pm

Sky King wrote: »

Did Ross O'Carroll-Kelly books add the social stigma or was it always there?

(I've always thought they were stupid btw)

i think it did for some folk

tony 2 tone · 03-10-2011 3:24pm

They sound even worse when combined with female double-barreled forenames.
Sally-Ann huffington smyth....ugh

TomTom · 03-10-2011 3:26pm

Personally don't like it, think it is generally unnesessary. There may be cases where it would be required or usefull but I think in 99% of the cases it is just trying to one up someone.

GLaDOS · 03-10-2011 3:27pm

Amazed at some of the attitudes people have about double barrelled names... it's just a name ffs.

Carter P Fly · 03-10-2011 3:27pm

Im old fashioned, Any guy who takes on his woman's surname in any form is a pu$$y whipped pu$$y.

ejmaztec · 03-10-2011 3:28pm

Haven't the Spanish got about five hundred names each?

Abi · 03-10-2011 3:30pm

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

Call me old fashioned but I see double barrelled surnames as pretentious.

How is it pretentious?

When I was married I double-barreled my name. Men get to pass on their surname, but women are expected to be stripped of theirs when they marry. I liked the idea of keeping my family name, but also took my exes as a sign of acceptance to the family. It really has nothing to do with being pretentious.

Noo · 03-10-2011 3:32pm

I'd prefer a double barrelled shotgun.

wolfpawnat · 03-10-2011 3:34pm

I have a double barrelled name, it sounds pretentious and I only use one of them, can't wait to get married and lose the damn thing!!!!!

LeeHoffmann · 03-10-2011 3:56pm

I think in 99% of the cases it is just trying to one up someone.

Anyone who thinks they're being 'one upped' because somebody has one more surname than them has some odd insecurity issues. Anyone who takes offence to somebody else's name...:rolleyes:

wolfpawnat · 03-10-2011 3:59pm

LeeHoffmann wrote: »

Anyone who thinks they're being 'one upped' because somebody has one more surname than them has some odd insecurity issues. Anyone who takes offence to somebody else's name...:rolleyes:

I think you are misinterpreting what he/she is saying. My mother did it to me to one-up my father. Bítch caused me endless years of annoyance!

Abi · 03-10-2011 3:59pm

wolfpawnat wrote: »

I have a double barrelled name, it sounds pretentious and I only use one of them, can't wait to get married and lose the damn thing!!!!!

You don't have to use the whole thing if you don't want to, you can legally change it by deed poll.

wolfpawnat · 03-10-2011 4:18pm

Abi wrote: »

You don't have to use the whole thing if you don't want to, you can legally change it by deed poll.

Would go any bloody change it altogether and have nothing to do with either of them!

But all my bits and pieces are in the first part of my name (except banking details) Couldn't be bothered with trying to change everything.

Agricola · 03-10-2011 4:22pm

Mr Chumley-Warner :cool:

harry21 · 03-10-2011 4:24pm

I've heard of someone who was O'Driscoll-O'Driscoll.

Funniest thing I ever heard. Not sure if its true or not as I didn't meet the person.

ottostreet · 03-10-2011 4:27pm

If my girlfriend took my surname and used it as part of a double barrelled name, she'd sound like she was a type of dog food.

pickarooney · 03-10-2011 4:30pm

ottostreet wrote: »

If my girlfriend took my surname and used it as part of a double barrelled name, she'd sound like she was a type of dog food.

Agricola wrote: »

Mr Chumley-Warner :cool:

I think it shows a certain pedigree.

Feeona · 03-10-2011 4:32pm

harry21 wrote: »

I've heard of someone who was O'Driscoll-O'Driscoll.

Funniest thing I ever heard. Not sure if its true or not as I didn't meet the person.

This should be in the friend o' friend thread

03-10-2011 4:39pm

My middle name is my mother's maiden name, so I have a double-barreled surname without the hyphen.

anothernight · 03-10-2011 4:40pm

harry21 wrote: »

I've heard of someone who was O'Driscoll-O'Driscoll.

Funniest thing I ever heard. Not sure if its true or not as I didn't meet the person.

In countries like Spain, where people take both of their parents' surnames (or grandfather, in the absence of a parent), it's not all that uncommon to see people with the same surname repeated as a double-barrelled one.

lazygal · 03-10-2011 4:43pm

My God!

My eyes have been opened, me and my husband NEVER EVER considered what will happen if, forsooth, our future fruit wants to get hitched.

It's a non issue. It takes two people to make a baby, so our kids will get two names. Putting one name only is like doing a huge report for work as a team and giving only one person the credit, which is bullcrap. If I'm going to be pushing something the size of a watermelon out of my vagina, I'm sure as hell not going to give himself all the credit in the form of his surname only.

My name is URL · 03-10-2011 4:53pm

lazygal wrote: »

I'm sure as hell not going to give himself all the credit in the form of his surname only.

Surely the 'credit' is in raising the child more so than in what name is scrawled on the birth-cert.

TomTom · 03-10-2011 4:58pm

lazygal wrote: »

My God!

My eyes have been opened, me and my husband NEVER EVER considered what will happen if, forsooth, our future fruit wants to get hitched.

It's a non issue. It takes two people to make a baby, so our kids will get two names. Putting one name only is like doing a huge report for work as a team and giving only one person the credit, which is bullcrap. If I'm going to be pushing something the size of a watermelon out of my vagina, I'm sure as hell not going to give himself all the credit in the form of his surname only.

Have you considered a pet?

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