Double-Barreled Surnames

Freddie59 · 03-10-2011 01:42PM #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 01:45PM

its like dividing by 0

My name is URL · 03-10-2011 01:46PM

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

Freddie59 · 03-10-2011 01:47PM

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 01:53PM

Freddie59 wrote: »

But where does it end?

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

sunflower27 · 03-10-2011 01:57PM

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 01:59PM

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 01:59PM

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

BBDBB · 03-10-2011 02:00PM

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 02:01PM

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 02:02PM

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 02:05PM

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 02:08PM

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 02:18PM

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 02:19PM

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 02:21PM

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 02:27PM

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 02:30PM

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 02:31PM

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 02:34PM

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 02:35PM

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 02:47PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

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

Haha.

tightropetom · 03-10-2011 03:47PM

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 03:52PM

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 04:09PM

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 04:11PM

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 04:16PM

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 04:18PM

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 04:22PM

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 04:24PM

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

TomTom · 03-10-2011 04:26PM

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.

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