I've met my first ever double double barrel named child!

[llamajohn]

I wondered when it would happen, when two people with double barrel names have a child.

I met Alice Smith-Jones Williams-Taylor*

*Not real names, but you get the gist ... In fact her surname is actually longer than the above!

Imagine embroidering their name on the aertex PE top.
Is this till done?

Absolute opposite for me! The ‘roughest’ families always take the dads for some reason, even if the women looks after them all the time and isn’t married to him. Never got that.

Do many many other countries double double barrel? What do they do after that?
Or do they just double barrel, and then have a system for continuing it through, which would be perfectly reasonable.

In Spain we don’t double barrel. We stop at 2 surnames

I’ve not come across this before. I’ve come across a child with a double barrelled first name and then double barrelled surname with none of the names being common ones. Along the lines of:

Logan-Seth Dock-Randalls

4 surnames is excessive. Poor child

So what do they do in Spain? Which name do they drop?

Genuinely interested.

I work with a guy who has a double barrelled surname and he’s very much a boarding school RP posho

i, on the other hand, have a double barrelled forename and am Glaswegian scum

A while ago I taught several half-siblings over the course of a few years, they all had the dad’s surname then each different mum’s surname, double-barrelled. Dad got around a bit!

for the children ? The second one for the dad and mum.

I’m Easter white brown
if I married in Spain id keep my surnames.
my husband would be husb black red

when I have a child they’d be
child black white.

They should do what companies do when they merge and all the previous names get unwieldy. Either had some kind of boardroom deathmatch or drawing of lots to decide which name gets eliminated, or have marketing consultants in bow ties come up with a completely different name. She could be Alice Dynamon™ or something.

That or an acronym. Alice SJWT, perhaps. (I have arbitrarily italicised the J there, as a symbol of the family's commitment to proactive leveraging of diversity, or some such bollocks.)

And then they work at a legal firm or something. I have visions of a phone call:

“Hi there, its s Tom Smith-Jones Brown-White Mason-Thompson Lewis-Hutchinson, I’m calling from Langley-Smith Robertson-Jones-Thompson-Middleton Anderson-Michael…”

This is really nasty. The kids can't choose their names until they are adults so you're basically sneering at a bunch of kids.

Not in dc school! We had to embroider our initials on PE tops and skirts but even that would be a massive faff!

Couldn't be further from the truth in my circles

Yeah, well those tragically small-minded days are long gone, fortunately.

Computer systems rejecting your name is a huge deal.

What is pretentious are the English gentry who have triple-barrelled names, like the Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes**

I worked with a chap from that family. He was one of the nicest and least pretentious people I’ve ever met - and always, always went by “Fiennes” and nothing else (the triple barrelled name only came to public knowledge when I was travelling with him and he had a problem with a visa application that wouldn’t take all three names and had to match his passport!).

- sure, a few computer systems might spit the name back out but is that really a big deal in the grand scheme of things?

Of course it is. It will create huge problems.

No child has lasting trauma from a tricky name.

They really do you know.
I'm guessing you've not worked with many people with some of the names I've seen.

In Spain the child gets the fathers first surname as their first surname and then the mothers first surname as their second one.

So if Mary Ryan Murphy married John Smith Roche, the child would be called Sarah Smith Ryan. There would be no hyphen between the surnames.

Both surnames are used on anything official / paperwork, but lots of people just use the first surname so Sarah would many times just introduce herself as Sarah Smith. This is personal preference though as some use both.

You are absolutely right.

In the UK people use your first name and your last surname. Whatever is in the middle gets forgotten.

Getting a prescription from the pharmacy is an interesting experience. They don’t know where to put you 😂

@whathasitgottodowiththepriceofoliveoil hear hear. My double barrelled friend assumed her name on marriage, her ensuing kids were told to pick which surname they liked best to use IF they marry and IF they want to change it. Or maybe they’ll just keep the double barrel name. They won’t quadruple barrel.
They also have no middle names as she and DH thought it was unfair to saddle them with long names at school. The kids will choose one if they wish when older. Seems fair.

not a double barrelled name but i have more than one middle name so when it comes to forms, or boarding passes or anything like that, i ALWAYS get funny looks because not all of my names will fit so i get a lot of stops and stuff while they double check

@WimpoleHat At least one man of the gentry triple-barrelled to marry a rich wife: see "Second marriage and children" of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CharlesVane,3rdMarquessofLondonderry

I’ve come across a child with a double barrelled fist name and a double barrelled surname, both hyphenated. She also had 2 middle names. The fist names were both long too and none of the names flowed very well.
Think along the lines of:
Aurora-Josephine Lyra Marjorie Hiscock-Simpleton.

When I was younger only the posh people had double barrel names, so I was shocked when I got to high school and a non posh kid had one… we used to call him posh because of it though. He was called posh Sam, because thier were 2 sams 😃