To be upset DS is going to double barrel his surname when he gets married?

Do people genuinely never have concerns over their children? I understand it’s not my name and it’s not something I will have to deal with but do people not think about their children and their decisions?

I think they can choose they order of the names but they have to include the fathers surname from each of theirs.

From Wikipedia

Traditionally, the father’s surname is placed first, but since 1999, Spanish law allows parents to choose the order of their children’s surnames, provided they agree on the arrangement. Once established, this order must be consistent for all their children.

Spanish parents can choose which surname to pass to their child. Your preoccupation with family trees is bizarre. Do you think in the age of the internet that genealogists really won't be able to cope with non traditional naming conventions?

Do you have anything to add on the topic, or are you now flailing about and lashing out because your arguments haven't held up to scrutiny?

I am glad that they won’t be judged for it if the replies here are anything to go by. I’m just not sure we are surrounded by people similar to the replies here as I’ve casually mentioned it to friends and they haven’t replied similar to the ones here at all. It honestly is more about the length and having to spell it out because people didn’t clock it’s 2 names etc that’s far more the problem. If the names went together, I really wouldn’t be here thinking oh they can’t do that because she needs to take his name. It’s obviously not this but it’s along the lines of Greenwood-Williamson. It’s very long and clunky

To make thing simple, why not just give future children, about whom some seem so concerned, the wife's name as their middle name. Then the children can choose.
So: Ptolemy Smith-Brown can be simply Mr P.S.Brown or Mr Ptolemy Brown (or Smith if he prefers...)

If your objection is genuinely that the name will be too long, just suggest he takes his future wife's name?

Yabu

And I bet you wouldn't be whinging if your daughter was going double-barrelled and keeping her link to her wider family identity. Sexism.

Double-barrelling can be inconvenient at times but it's none of your business.

Please don't be the MIL who every year "accidentally" addresses the Christmas card/birthday cards with the format of names they would have adopted if it was still 1950. Nothing says "I disrespect you" to a DIL more than failing to even register her name, no matter how nice you pretend to be when you see her. Especially if you also "forget" if she prefers not to use the "Mrs" title.

And you're still going. Unhinged.

Ah, you've misunderstood the concept of rhetorical questioning. Makes sense.

You are the one sounding unhinged on this thread. You're very obsessive. You've posted around 20 times on this thread, and mostly to ask ridiculous questions about things that shouldn't need to be explained to you if you had a decent amount of brainpower.

DS is due to marry his girlfriend soon and they have recently announced they’re going to double barrel. I am not against double barrelled surnames and I do of course understand that it’s 2025 and more of a modern concept to keep it “fair”. However it’s truly just too long. Her surname is really quite long, along the lines of Williamson and we have a 2 syllable 8 letter one! I have asked him what he wants and he said originally he didn’t consider it and did think it would just be his surname, until she spoke up about what she wanted and he was open to it and said yes. I asked if he responded to it at all and questioned the practicality and he just says no he didn’t because it’s not a big deal. I think he is completely undermining how much of a burden having to keep repeating and spelling the double barrelled names will be, especially as they are hoping for children one day. I get it’s his life but what is the general opinion on this? I am curious if he would change his mind when realising what people will actually be thinking behind his back. Grandparents are horrified but I have tried to explain it’s more usual nowadays and DH doesn’t like it at all but hasn’t said anything yet

Does your brain have the space to work it out, even with the torment of trying to trace your family ancestry and fill in forms and apply for a passport? Impressive!

People will have a little snigger if it's really long and clunky, and the school will refer to any children as Talullah G-W, rather than saying the whole name, but it's not a biggie.

You sound unhinged. Why is people choosing their surnames a "chaotic mess"? You would do well to calm down about this.