Adam Ramsay Peaty

[Mrsnothingthanks]

And why not? Why is it still seen as so "out there" that a man should double-barrel upon marriage? Nobody would pass one comment if his wife had changed her name to Holly Peaty.
My husband and I both db'd upon marriage. Titles remain unchanged.
It's 2025 ffs!! Stop with the misogyny!

For some reason I find it really cringe. I think because the name is so associated with her dad. And the fact it comes before his own surname. Plus they don’t flow at all.

It's incredibly naf though given the circumstances, and Holly hasn't added his name so it's clearly pointed at his family.
I fear he'll come to regret this.

@ClassicStripe What would you think if she'd taken his name instead?

Surely if it was pointed at his family, he'd have completely dropped his name?

Even if he does come to regret it, he can just change it back.

well why can't she be Ramsey Peaty as well ? that's fair

The misogyny is strong with you.

Women frequently double barrel while their husbands don’t as a way to keep their.name without causing everyone else to have a hissy fit. Why shouldn’t it happen the other way around? Are you frightened there are more women that will refuse to change their identities just because they’ve signed a legal contract?

@SnowDaysAndBadLays Surely if it was "pointed at his family" he'd have become Adam Ramsay? But why don't people ever think that of a woman changing her name? Isn't that "pointed at her family" in exactly the same way then?

They are such a cringe pair.

She is!

And yet when women do it nobody raises an eye.

They should have merged them and gone for Peasey.

They don’t flow well as a double-barrel.

I don't know why anyone changes their name when they get married.

I didn't change my name so no misogyny here.

@AmIHumanOrAmIAYeti Agree! As a feminist no way was I giving up my name or changing my title to Mrs!! And I wasn't going to add to my name if my husband wasn't willing to do the same.

Are they both using the double barrel name? Or just him.
Gosh, I’d disown my DS or DD if they married into the obnoxious Ramsey family.

Names don't have to flow, they reflect you family.

If my mum and aunt went bitching to the tabloids I would drop their names too.

Two things can be true.
Only one of them claims to have class, when they clearly don’t, another case of money can’t buy it.

Fascinating how double-barrelling/changing your last name as man is seen so very differently to that of a woman. When do you ever hear "Oh she became Mrs/Ms HisLastName - she really must be dropping her own family!"

It’s a gen z thing no? Lots of younger people of both sexes who I meet through work seem to be doing this name joining thing with/without hyphens

Ramsay is the more famous name. Dollar signs maybe in his eyes.

FWIW, I db’d, as did my husband, with my surname coming first (purely because I changed my passport before he did, and thus spoke the clerk). To answer a PP, I changed it so when we had children we would all have the same name.

It would be easy, I'll grant you.

@Onceuponatimethen Husband and I both db'd when we married to Mr and Ms MyName-HisName. 40 and 44 when we married so definitely not young (just older and wiser!)

It sounds awful. Ramsay Peaty sounds better. But either way it's just cringe the way he shuns his entire family then takes on the surname of his new billionaire fancy celebrity family. Like a low rent version of Brooklyn Peltz Beckham.

It just sounds like saying, 'fuck you, my new family has more money and status and I'm fully capitalising on that at the expense of my relationship with my closest family who raised me.' And seemingly didn't do that much wrong?

But who knows. That is definitely a tabloid infused version of the way it looks.

If it was just a normal family where one was a dustman, the other a plasterer, and they just wanted to be a bit progressive and blend their families names it would seem pretty innocuous and even quite cute.

Our names together make a famous Hollywood actor. I changed my name so I wouldn't be asked regularly for the rest of my life whether we were fans of this actor.

Friends of ours both double barrelled same as the Peatys. Seems fair.