WIBU to give our baby the surname Georgeson-Johns?

[AshtonBacks]

Not much else to it!

[ILoveAGoodBrusselSprout]

If you have no intentions of marrying and/or if there's a chance you may separate in the future, you should go with tradition and name the child your surname only.

If you'll marry in the future and take his name then I'd give th child his surname.

If you choose not to marry but are confident to stay together, then double-barrel it if the names are so important to you.

[KoalaDownUnder]

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?

Erm, no, unless you assume that we are all halfwits.

Obviously when they get married themselves, they'll have to choose. If they stick to the same criteria as their parents, though, they're going to end up with a ludicrously long name.

So I think it makes it easier for the child in future to pick one surname. The mother's or the father's.

[Idliketobeabutterfly]

I don't see the issue but the child will have fun writing their full name when in school

[Saffronesque]

Worth knowing that whatever you choose, it can be problematic entering & leaving some countries with a parent with whom you don't share a name, on passport.

That won't help OP - DP at all though.

[SnotGoblin]

I keep wanting to transponse it Johnson-George!

[SnotGoblin]

*transpose!!

[Myownperson]

What's going to happen when double-barrelled-surname child gets married?

They pick which of us they like best obviously!

[PhotosGinAndALongLieIn]

I like it. I am saying it in my head though as Georgeson with three syllables. Is that right? I've only ever come across that name once before and it was pronounced "George-a-son". So I think that goes better together than if it were "George-son".

[MarklahMarklah]

I@m with AnotherEmma on p1. That's what I've done. It seems to confuse people when you say 'no hyphen' but it's not rocket science. :)

[deadringer]

I think if you are not married you should just use your name. I don't like double barrelled names but i think georgeson johns has a good rhythm to it. It sounds awful with every first name i could think of though so you would have to be very careful with the babys first name.

[BowieFan]

I mean technically it's fine but it does sound like the surname of a character from a Jeeves and Wooster novel.

[BowieFan]

Having said that, I teach a kid called Thomas Taylor-Thomas so it's by no means the worst name I've heard.

[Sancia]

I chose the more pleasant of our two surnames. Mine was a Germanic sputter and his a delightful airy-fairy nature-esque name reminiscent of hillsides and heather. Easy choice.

Georgeson sounds a bit like something out of Blackadder IV, a commander insisting he must be known as Georgeson-son-of-George or something. Johns is short, sweet and punchy.

Personally, I'd say go for Johns, regardless of whose it is obviously. It's just snappier.

John's Georgeson sounds like John has a nickname for his tackle, so definitely not that, and Georgeson-Johns sounds like you're still recovering from dental anaesthetic. It also, hate to say it, does sound a bit try-hard in the posho sense. Like on the Titanic and they ask "Oh, delightful, are you connected to the Boston Georgeson-Johnses?"

Right, reading the whole thread - yours is Johns. So now I'm leaning to you saying yeah, sorry, the kids are being Johns and they can have Georgeson as a second middle (they're as likely to use or drop their middle names as they are their clunker of a double-barrelling. Georgeson of George should get used to it.) Marrying and combining all into Johnson is also a nice idea.

But also, I get easily riled up, and there's nothing like a grumpy archaic bloke insisting on his name 'because tradition' that makes me want to flip him the finger.

[SpecialStains]

I like it. I double barrelled my ds' name as I liked the idea that he has two surnames to reflect his two sets of genetics. I'm not a pretentious twat, my DH and I both wanted baby to have our names.

I imagine ds will pick which one he wants to go by in day to day life, but I love the look of his full name on his birth certificate (and it's a longer surname than the one you are considering).

Don't let anyone pressure you into relegating your surname to baby's middle name! It's always the suggestion on here the mums surname becomes the unused middle name.

[BowieFan]

We won't be having a double-barelled name when we get married next year. Mainly because it would involve changing the kids' names, which we don't want to do, and I'm not that attached to my surname. I have 4 brothers and 2 sisters, so the name has already been passed down several times. I'll be taking DP's name for everything except for at school where I'll just stay under my maiden name to keep things simple.

[minipie]

I would suggest you use one as a middle name.

I have both my parents' surnames. No hyphen. Minipie Surname1 Surname2. I think in my very early years both were used but pretty quickly I became Minipie Surname2 and Surname1 is used as a middle name.

I'm quite glad I don't have a double barrelled name tbh, I think it would be a bit of a PITA for things like forms, spelling over the phone, email addresses. And yes, I do think it's just passing the buck to the next generation: "we didn't want to drop a name for you, but now you have to drop a name for your kids or they'll be triple barrelled".

The fact that one is a middle name doesn't mean that name is "lost" or won't be given to grandchildren. I have chosen to give my DDs Surname1 (i.e. my middle name) as their middle name.

[eurochick]

I rather like.

We've done the same and given our child both our names hyphenated as a surname. It's long and a bit clunky but it'll give her good writing practice in primary school!

[Kr1stina]

I'd use the fathers name as a middle name and yours as a surname. Yours is much nicer .

[Jackiebrambles]

I think I'd use your surname and have Georgeson as a middle name.

[Manumission]

Manumission Your point has been proved rather neatly

You couldn't make it up.

[mygorgeousmilo]

Sorry but it sounds dreadful... and I think your DP might need to suck it up, you have the better name - the two together really don't sound right. Sorry!

[Lancelottie]

I like it.

For the full effect, you need to call the child something like Joshua Georgeson Johns
(or maybe James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree Georgeson Johns)

[NameChange30]

I've already posted this (at 07.56) but clearly there are people who have posted since then and haven't read it, so here it is again:

"On threads like this people always start asking "but what do you people with double barrelled names do when they get married?" Hmmm let me see, they have lots of options - they could each keep both their surnames, one person could change both surnames to the other's, or one or both could keep one name and change the other. In Spain, everyone has two surnames, no-one changes their name after marriage, and children have one surname from each parent. The tradition is to pass on names from the male line but it doesn't have to be that way - you could give the child one or both of the grandmother's names, or just pick whichever combo you think works best."

You're welcome.

[AshtonBacks]

Yes, if we got married, it would still be an issue... As I wouldn't just take his name.

I think we might go with Georgeson-Johns. The more I say it, the better it sounds. First names we like atm are: Isaac, Reuben and Matthew - Leah and Ivy.

If my DC got married, how is that an issue??? They pick a name and double barrel? Or if they want, take the partner's surname or the partner takes theirs. It's not an issue.