Double-Barrel Surnames.Is This a Way Of Saying...

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  • butterworthbutterworth Posts: 17,872
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    Look at me I'm Posh.:D

    ....or quite common.
  • Red OkktoberRed Okktober Posts: 10,434
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    Like Foghorn-Leghorn Esquire?

    Are you posh :)
  • UKMikeyUKMikey Posts: 28,728
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    A feller I know recently hyphenated his first and middle names.

    Must be something to do with working for a French company.
  • RAINBOWGIRL22RAINBOWGIRL22 Posts: 24,459
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    Look at me I'm Posh.:D
    johnny_t wrote: »
    ....or quite common.

    Or born out of wedlock? :D
  • Mrs TeapotMrs Teapot Posts: 124,896
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    Or born out of wedlock? :D

    That's happening more and more at school. Not condemning it but it's a pain fitting names on the drawers :)
  • SystemSystem Posts: 2,096,970
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    I've always wanted to meet someone called Fortesque-Smythe
  • butterworthbutterworth Posts: 17,872
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    Mrs Teapot wrote: »
    That's happening more and more at school. Not condemning it but it's a pain fitting names on the drawers :)

    Not wishing to generalise, but would you say it was across the board, or from more at one end of the social spectrum, so to speak..
  • UltrasonicUltrasonic Posts: 4,994
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    Look at me I'm Posh.:D

    I think it's often a way of saying, "We want the same surname, but neither of us are willing to drop ours completely."
  • SystemSystem Posts: 2,096,970
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    I have a double-barrelled surname and I'm far from posh :D
  • kyresakyresa Posts: 16,629
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    My son has a double barrelled surname. This is because I am not married to his father nor do we intend to get married and so one surname shouldn't have been given precedence over the other in our opinion.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 5,095
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    Mine will be double when I get married. Although this is more to do with not wanting to drop my surname totally than to seem posh! Although it will be very posh sounding! :o

    I like my surname and it has become synonymous in my social circles.

    If I dropped it, it would be like dropping most of my personality and reputation (a good one! before anyone comes back with filthy comments :p) which is not what I would like to happen.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,876
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    I see it as a sign of equality in a couple

    (nb. I'm neither in a couple or have a double barrel surname at this time)
  • wemblycatwemblycat Posts: 698
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    I have a double barrelled surname. I'm not posh, nor did I want to keep my own name particularly. My husband decided to change his name to incorporate mine (by deed poll) before the wedding, as a suprise.

    I was certainly suprised cos I hated it for a couple of years. Got used to it now, but still cant say i love it. Its made our childrens names really long too, and difficult to spell for a 4 year old learning to write!
  • butterworthbutterworth Posts: 17,872
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    kyresa wrote: »
    My son has a double barrelled surname. This is because I am not married to his father nor do we intend to get married and so one surname shouldn't have been given precedence over the other in our opinion.

    Best hope he doesn't meet, and then eventually have a child with, someone in the same position.....;)
  • BerBer Posts: 24,562
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    alone wrote: »
    I see it as a sign of equality in a couple

    (nb. I'm neither in a couple or have a double barrel surname at this time)


    Ah yes.... but what happens when a double barrel marries a double barrel :D
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 5,095
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    wemblycat wrote: »
    I have a double barrelled surname. I'm not posh, nor did I want to keep my own name particularly. My husband decided to change his name to incorporate mine (by deed poll) before the wedding, as a suprise.

    I was certainly suprised cos I hated it for a couple of years. Got used to it now, but still cant say i love it. Its made our childrens names really long too, and difficult to spell for a 4 year old learning to write!

    But in the long run, according the recent name surveys splashed about the news, it will make them ultimately more successful! :D
  • PorcupinePorcupine Posts: 25,231
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    I really wish i had gone 'double barrelled' when i got married ..... and it really does sound posh. I would be invited to all the society doo's if i changed my name ;)
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 5,095
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    Ber wrote: »
    Ah yes.... but what happens when a double barrel marries a double barrel :D

    I know alot of them were actually created so that families who's surnames were lower down the ration lists could be bumped up to the top during the wars!

    I worked with a girl who had a very posh double surname and when she told me, I didn't believe her, but my nan said that it deffinately happened. It was a way of avoiding the cheap cuts apparently!
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,876
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    Ber wrote: »
    Ah yes.... but what happens when a double barrel marries a double barrel :D

    :D

    well you don't have to sign for stuff anymore (chip and pin)
    computers/laptops/technology are on the rise - who knows in 20 years maybe we won't need to write with our hands :confused:

    Although... debit/credit cards are going to have to get longer to fit all the text of the name on!
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 5,588
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    I've always wanted to meet someone called Fortesque-Smythe

    I know a Tarquin Fortesque-Smythe...err not really ..if I did I wouldnt admit it.
    kyresa wrote: »
    My son has a double barrelled surname. This is because I am not married to his father nor do we intend to get married and so one surname shouldn't have been given precedence over the other in our opinion.

    But you must have given one name precedence, which name comes first in the double-barrelled name?

    Personally I think its all pretentious BS.
  • UKMikeyUKMikey Posts: 28,728
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    It's de rigeur in Spain, isn't it?

    When Spaniards marry I figure the mum's name gets dropped. In modern Britain I imagine you'll have a choice.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 3,150
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    I have a double-barrelled surname but it's not a combination of both my parent's names, it's just my dad's. It doesn't come across as "posh" because it's just one ordinary Pakistani name followed by another.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 916
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    Look at me I'm Posh.:D

    I plan to double barrel my maiden name and married name if I get married. I don't think I am "posh" at all really, neither would I expect anyone to think I was, or trying to be.

    I don't really see why I should drop my Dad's name after marriage, although admittedly, for practical reasons I will just use one or the other most of the time.
  • kyresakyresa Posts: 16,629
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    AmjidS wrote: »
    But you must have given one name precedence, which name comes first in the double-barrelled name?

    Personally I think its all pretentious BS.


    Funnily enough,that was mine - but purely because it sounded better the way it is rather than the "other way" :)
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 5,588
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    kyresa wrote: »
    Funnily enough,that was mine - but purely because it sounded better the way it is rather than the "other way" :)

    as long as your partner was happy with that...then thats all that matters :)
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