What surname do your children have?

DS has my name as the father and I are not together. I'm already double-barreled with both of my parents' surnames. It's all ok now, but I do wonder how the next generation will deal with this issue. Quadruple-barreling?

It does seem that hyphenating is a political solution and not a very practical one.

of course you know that is unusual almondcakes

We are married. The DCs have my name. I didn't realise this was unusual. Maybe it is.

Not married and our children have both our names. I could not conceive of my children having a different name to me. It never occurred to me for them to have my partner's name solely. He felt the same so we made the (somewhat uncomfortable) compromise of hyphenating.

I don't particularly like my last name or his. If he had a last name that I though really beautiful I may have decided differently.

Eldest has my name. Youngest has dh's name. Fair's fair. We are very much a family unit.

I'm not bothered if teachers do not realise they are siblings. They are individuals and I've never met a teacher who would discriminate anyway.

My DS has his dads name, we weren't married but engaged. Now separated so me and my son have different names. I wish id thought more about it but I thought we would get married in a year or two and then all have the same name. I don't really like having a different name now and in the future and other children I have will be different surnames to my son. Have thought of asking his dad of we can change and hypenate his surname especially as his surname is a boys name so could be moved to be ds second middle name if that makes sense.

my son has my name. i was not married and there's no way i'd give him a name other than my own.

Same as 5madthings though the child isn't here yet. My partner's family are all assuming it'll be his surname, which is quite funny.

People like to get quite het up about "but what will the children do when they get married". It's hardly any of my business! I also expect they will drop one name as they go along, I'm totally fine with that but want to start with both and mine in particular as I'll be doing all the primary caring stuff.

Mine has DP's. Mine is difficult to pronounce/spell/gives rise to teasing. it is foreign and would give DS a name of which he is only a 1/4 of that nationality- also arguably he should have the male version of the name rather than the female so would end up with a different name to either of us.
DP's is a simple english name.
Plus DP cared- i didn't (he expected me to want to use my name and was going to go along with it unhappily) - it just doesn't bother me

Not married and madthings have both surnames hyphenated, even if we were married they would still have both surnames and if we ever get married I won't change my surname.

mine has his (ex's) name, we were married. he's since changed his name to his wife's name.

Have thought about changing my name, but dd doesn't want to be different to me, nor does she really want his name anymore.

mine got both with mine first - as their dad's name is unpronouncable to your average brit and he does not bother with them anyway, his has been dropped off with time. what a shame.

We're married, and ds is myname-hisname.

"We're not married, and I felt that people would be more likely to assume that they were my children, and question whether they were his, if they had my name"

Why would it matter what they thought? Not intending to be snippy- but this is one of the many arguments around this issue that I don't understand.

We're not married, and our children are hyphenated. They would have been even if we were married.