Using double barrelled surname after marriage

emc712

I recently got married and want a double barrelled name using my name and my husband's name. Getting some conflicting advice in that some say just start using it and use marriage cert as proof while others say that we need to go through deed poll. Do anyone have any experience of this here?Which route did you take?

Toots

I just started using it, didn't need to do deed poll. I changed my passport and all I had to do was include the marriage cert and it was grand.

rustynutz

And what if your daughter wants to double barrel after marriage, and her daughter and so on and on....

boardsuser1

rustynutz wrote: »

And what if your daughter wants to double barrel after marriage, and her daughter and so on and on....

This is why I was always against any of my kids ever having a double barrel surname.

elperello

Sorry I just blundered in here.
I misread the title I thought ye were talking about double barreled shotguns after marriage!
I'll get me coat.

Caranica

I only double barrelled my passport and that just involved sending the marriage cert with my application. In the end I only did that and my frequent flyer account. When we split up 7 years later, I easily had the proofs of using my maiden name required to change my passport back.

I definitely wouldn't go down the road of deed poll, it's not necessary.

Bicycle

I've been using a double barrelled surname for over 30 years and never had a problem.

Shared stuff - credit card bills etc is in my married name. Passport, personal bank accounts etc are in the double barrelled version.

My kids all use his surname, not the double barrelled version.

mikemac2

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Victor

rustynutz wrote: »

And what if your daughter wants to double barrel after marriage, and her daughter and so on and on....

Just because someone has a double-barreled surname doesn't mean their children do.

Pat Mustard

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coylemj

As with middle names, you need to be aware of potential complications when doing simple things like renting a car in the US where a lot of places insist that your name on your driving licence and passport are identical in all respects.

In a lot of cases you will have documents that expire and get renewed at different times so it may not be possible to have them all showing the same name. Just make sure that you are aware of this and can deal with stroppy officials who may cause difficulties at an awkward time like when you're about to board a plane.

My own experience dealing with married women using double-barelled surnames is that I came across it far more in the civil service than in the private sector.

P. Breathnach

It was a pretty-well universal practice, and still common, for a woman to adopt her husband's surname on marriage. No legal procedure was involved, and marriage is not a renaming procedure. It's simply an established custom to take the husband's surname.

Adding a spouse's surname is not significantly different.

[Allow me suggest a style recommendation: don't hyphenate. It's "tidier" if John Murphy's mother is Mary Hayes Murphy rather than Mary Hayes-Murphy.]

blackbird 49

emc712 wrote: »

I recently got married and want a double barrelled name using my name and my husband's name. Getting some conflicting advice in that some say just start using it and use marriage cert as proof while others say that we need to go through deed poll. Do anyone have any experience of this here?Which route did you take?

You don't need to do a deed poll for this, as someone pointed out you just start using the name/names, if you want photo id ie a passport or driving licence, just send off the form with your birth cert and marriage cert included, it the same way if you had just taken your husbands name

BrianBoru00

rustynutz wrote: »

And what if your daughter wants to double barrel after marriage, and her daughter and so on and on....

The Spanish system is that you take one from each . . .
i.e. Aranxta Sanchez Vicario marries Carlos Valderama Quezillo
They're daughter Maria become Mariac Sanchez Valderama.

In some families they have much longer official names taking into account grandparents and even great grandparents

MissShihTzu

BrianBoru00 wrote: »

The Spanish system is that you take one from each . . .
i.e. Aranxta Sanchez Vicario marries Carlos Valderama Quezillo
They're daughter Maria become Mariac Sanchez Valderama.

In some families they have much longer official names taking into account grandparents and even great grandparents

It's the other way round! Father's name first -Valderama, followed by the mother's name - Sanchez. So it would be Valderama Sanchez.

However - in Portuguese-speaking countries it's mother's name followed by father's name. Confusing or what?? :pac:

L1011

MissShihTzu wrote: »

It's the other way round! Father's name first -Valderama, followed by the mother's name - Sanchez. So it would be Valderama Sanchez.

However - in Portuguese-speaking countries it's mother's name followed by father's name. Confusing or what?? :pac:

It gets ridiculous with common surnames - I've worked with a Diaz Diaz before.