Double-Barreled Surnames

GLaDOS · 03-10-2011 04:27PM

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

Carter P Fly · 03-10-2011 04:27PM

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 04:28PM

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

Abi · 03-10-2011 04:30PM

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 04:32PM

I'd prefer a double barrelled shotgun.

wolfpawnat · 03-10-2011 04:34PM

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 04:56PM

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 04:59PM

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 04:59PM

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 05:18PM

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 05:22PM

Mr Chumley-Warner :cool:

harry21 · 03-10-2011 05:24PM

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 05:27PM

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 05:30PM

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 05:32PM

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 05:39PM

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

anothernight · 03-10-2011 05:40PM

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 05:43PM

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 05:53PM

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 05:58PM

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?

Freddie59 · 03-10-2011 07:14PM

Abi wrote: »

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.

But what happens when one of your children marries someone else with a double-barrelled surname?

Abi · 03-10-2011 07:27PM

Freddie59 wrote: »

But what happens when one of your children marries someone else with a double-barreled surname?

I'd assume a male would hold onto the family double-barreled name, and a female could either keep it, or combine one her names (I'd imagine the paternal surname) and accept one of his (again, probably the paternal).

Skullsri · 03-10-2011 07:29PM

These people are usually found within the pale and usually think they are more important than they actualy are..just as bad as them d4 heads with the new trend of using the irish version of their names just to be "cool"..

Caraville · 03-10-2011 07:33PM

I hate them. Absolutely cannot stand them. And I know I shouldn't let it bother me, because what business is it of mine if somebody wants to have 10 surnames, never mind two.

I float between :mad: and :rolleyes: when I hear double barrell names. I know I shouldn't, but I do.

melekalikimaka · 03-10-2011 07:33PM

Skullsri wrote: »

These people are usually found within the pale and usually think they are more important than they actualy are..just as bad as them d4 heads with the new trend of using the irish version of their names just to be "cool"..

the fact you used the word ´pale´implies you are from ´da sticks´and clearly are not quite down with whats actually happening in dublin, allow me to correct you, it wont take too long.

you're wrong

GLaDOS · 03-10-2011 07:41PM

People realise that people can be named with DB names from birth right? It's not something done just to be trendy.

SparKing · 03-10-2011 07:43PM

Caraville wrote: »

I float between :mad: and :rolleyes: when I hear double barrell names. I know I shouldn't, but I do.

Quoted for Truth
the whole of After Hours makes me feel like one or the other

Skullsri · 03-10-2011 07:47PM

I wouldnt say im wrong now somehow mabey im using too general a steriotype but it does happen people using a double barrell name and a irish name for some it propably looks and sounds better on a guest list for crystal or coppers.. You dont have to be from dublin to know what goes on..

Dionysus · 03-10-2011 08:17PM

mikemac wrote: »

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

Alternatively they may note your name and think you have a fine grasp of your own Irish history, as Fiacha Mac Aodha Ó Broin, Aodh Mór Ó Néill, Eoghan Rua Ó Suilleabháin, Seán Clarach Mac Dónaill, Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna, Gearóid Mór Mac Gearailt and innumerable others could attest.

Oh how the Irish have declined with their simple English, and extraordinarily uncreative, 'John', 'Michael', 'Patrick' and all the rest of them - none of which link your child to a place or tradition or a family lineage.

It's a travesty that Irish understanding of traditional Irish nomenclature has plummeted with this abnegation of Irish tradition; what was Irish is now "English" or "pretentious" to these minds.

Dionysus · 03-10-2011 08:18PM

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....

Er, that is entirely the chip on your shoulder, mixed in with enormous ignorance of Irish cultural tradition and not a little inferiority complex to English culture, talking right there. Grow up.

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