Double-barrelled surnames - how do initials work?

[greengecko]

So if your name is James Smith-Baker, would your initials be J S-B, JS or JSB? This might have an impact on the first name we choose, so grateful for advice!

[SobranieCocktail]

J S-B

[seeker]

My children are G L-C and P L-C

Or G LC and P LC. Always a gap between first and last names.

[SomeMightSay]

J S-B, but as your dc gets older, he may just use the one surname if a mouthful to make his life easier. I've known a few people with double-barrell and they've just gone with the one name, only for things un-official like introducing themselves, on property, like school books or staplers at work and so on.

[alittlebitshy]

we're double barrelled (dh's famiy been so for generations, not us joining our names).

we don't have a hyphen so we're "n xy". but with the hyphen i'd say your example would be J S-B.

our dd loves her 2 surname initials - is a bit different

we raraelt drop one of the parts of the name. V ocasionally for booking tables in resturants - but you do have to spell it out and say hyphen/no hyphen a lot!

[PostAndGo]

Seeker- those are their genuine initials? 1 into politics and 1 into business then, what?

[seeker]

I know. I can't believe we didn't spot the G L-C one. We had no choice about P L-C!

G's first names are GFI as well - GO FOR IT!

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[alurkerspeaks]

off topic
Friends unwittingly gave their son the initials BTW.

The couldn't understand why so many of us kept referring to 'by the way'...now they know.

I am the proud posessor of initials which make up another (male) name. Surefire way to cause havoc.

[llareggub]

I used to be double-barrelled and just used XYZ not XY-Z. To be honest it was a real hassle, because no matter how clearly I used to say my name, people would always get it wrong. My files would be filed under Z, not Y, and they'd claim not to have any record of me. I couldn't wait to be shot of it!

[seeker]

Llareggub - aren't you used to having a backwards name by now?

[Darnsarfupnorf]

know im posting 2 years to late but i had to put it on :p

my DD will have the initials ORSM...like the thought of having an awesome baby

[HelenaRose]

Using my username as the example...

Initials: HSJ
Name: Helen S-J
Full: Helen Smith-Jones

That's how we've done it in the family.

[Fantail]

I have a double-barrelled surname as well. I don't use the hypen when using initials.

Beware though, I have been asked on more than one occasion how to spell hypen when giving my name...

[Deliaskis]

I've a double-barelled surname and have never told anyone how to 'initial' me, but everybody has always done ABC, just the three letters (first initial, first part of surname initial, second part of surname initial), no space or hyphen.

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[bambiandthumper]

If any of us are doing initials we just do ABC (for example), but if we are writing our name it would be Apple Banana-Carrot. I don't always both with the hyphen but as it is on all our passports I try to remember to stop confusion.