WIBU to give our baby the surname Georgeson-Johns?

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Not much else to it!

" Bee Nope, married or not the surname should be whatever they want it to be."

Actually, on reflection I sort of agree with you Bee - I do think if they're not going to double-barrel or use Johnson, it should be Johns because that's the mother's name.

Unless you have difficulty pronouncing perfectly normal words i cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would have an issue with it.

Phalenopsisgirl
"I thought the op wanted to have the same name as dc, so it would, kind of solve it"
Haven't you RTFT? Haven't you worked out yet that marriage does not equal an automatic name change?! Even if they got married, the OP and her partner would still need to decide whether to keep or change their names, and how to name their child.

Toss a coin, one or the other. Let fate decide.

As a woman, you have the right to choose

Does the baby not have two parents then

Yes, but legally if the parents are unmarried it's the mother who has to be there to register the child (which includes choosing the surname). So as a woman (who is not married to her child's father) she does have the right to choose. That doesn't mean that the surname shouldn't, in practice, be agreed between both parents -- but in law it's up to the mother (unless the parents are married, in which case it's up to whichever parent can get to the register office first).

Manumission Your point has been proved rather neatly

It is a bit lengthy but it is what it is, it's fine. Don't call the kids George/ Georgie or John though. There's lengthy names and then there are tongue twisters.

I like it too Go for it!

Marriage doesn't solve anything, you don't have to change your name.

i like it. my daughters also have two surnames (not hyphenated) and the eldest does like her identity "us girls have two surnames, daddy only has one"

It's a bit of a mouthful but not the worst I've heard.

Child in dd's class is called

Twosyllables-onesyllable Threesyllables-Twosyllables

I have to admit to a slight eyebrow rise the first time I saw that written down.

It's fine, DSs is longer and more ackward (7 syllables, double barrelled and foreign)

I would have flat out refused not to have the same name as my DC, particularly if I weren't married.

It's absolutely fine as a surname.

Dd has both surnames, no hyphen, total 6 syllables and 16 letters. We have relatively rare surnames too, one Jewish and one French. Once she is old enough to choose she can use one or both or neither if she wants to change her name. We weren't married when she was born but we are now and I never had any intention to change my name.
She does have a short first name though!

It always baffles me when people assume getting married will fix everything when it comes to surnames. What if you both want to keep your own names and end up double barreling for future kids anyway?! Marriage solves nothing on this front unless both parties are happy to agree to one surname.

OP, I actually find it easier to get my mouth around saying Johns-Georgeson than I do Georgeson-Johns. For some reason G-J ends up getting stuck on my tongue and garbled into one strange sounding word that sounds very little like either name Whereas I can say J-G totally clearly. I think it sounds better and it's certainly easier to say

It's fine

Actually it's really rather nice once you've said it once and got your head round it. Go for it!

My niece has a double barrel surname and a couple of years ago pointed out to me that if she married someone else with a double barrel name (and there are a lot of people in her age bracket with them) what on earth would be her children's name? I thought is was a fair point. I think we should maybe do what they do in Iceland and use the mothers first name for a girls surname and the fathers first name for a boys.

I actually think double-barelling names is quite selfish. What happens when Georgeson-John has a kid of his or her own? They aren't really going to have the option of giving them 3 or 4 hyphenated names. You are passing on a problem to the next generation, just pick a new surname for your new family.

It sounds like George st John, He will spend his life correcting that!

Yes George St. John is how it will be spelled.
And he won't have same name as either of his parents.

I don't understand the point, really.

What's going to happen when double-barrelled-surname child gets married? S/he will have to triple- or quadruple-barrel with the spouse's name?

It seems a bit...unsustainable. As a concept. Just picking one as the middle name and one as the surname makes more sense, IMO.

I like it. I think as one of the names is shorter it works fine. I would give a short first name though, one or two syllables max.

Yes, very wanky.

My kids have double barrelled name, Greek-British. It's harder to spell and say than yours!

As for all the 'what happens when they grow up' questions - well, when they're older they can make the change to something else entirely or have a conversation with their significant other.

Another option though is to use one of the surnames as a middle name.

Only if his first names are George and John

George John Georgeson-Johns

All these people who can't get their head round double barrelled names and what would happen when they marry....

Is it really that alien a concept that the individual about to marry will get to choose?

How hard is it to realise that or are people being deliberately obtuse?

Seriously?!!!