WIBU to give our baby the surname Georgeson-Johns?

[AshtonBacks]

Not much else to it!

It sounds like Georgia St Johns

I wouldn't give a confusing name - either first name or a surname as you go through a lifetime of spelling it out and explaining it and it's extremely wearing

I was glad when I got married so I had a good reason to get rid of my annoying surname.

OP, I like your first name shortlist And I agree that the more you say the surname, the better it sounds.

It sounds like a lot of angst over nothing to me. Why can't the child just have one name?
It seems the parents are too busy stamping their ownership on the child that they lose sight of the fact the child will have a lifetime of spelling out their slightly naff name.
FWIW, for from being 'posh' I think double-barrelled surnames are the complete opposite these days.

I like it. We are not married yet, and will be double barrelling our daughters name too.

When we get married I won't change my name but at least our daughter will have both our names, and for school etc it won't bother us if we are both known by/contacted as Mr/Mrs double barrelled surname.

Isaac Georgeson-Johns definitely sounds like a P.G. Wodehouse character. Probably related to Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe or Augustus Fink-Nottle. Oh, there's Cyril Fotheringay-Phipps as well! The only way you can make it better is to give them a nickname like "Kipper" or "Chuffy"!

Sorry, we've been doing P.G. Wodehouse at school and it's all stuck in my head.

He'd need Jeeves.

They're all nice names.

TBH, unless the result of meshing or double-barrelling is really bad (I thought 'Smallwater' from the other MNer's thread was borderline) then that's just their name, isn't it? In a way?

You decided (quite rightly IMHO) that the baby will have both your names, the result isn't appalling so I'd just do it. If other people want to make a fuss or mock, that's their puerile decision.

I don't see the problem. The Spanish naming custom is given name(s) father's surname, mother's first surname. They seem to cope ok.

What do people with double-barrell names doooooo when they get married? It's all so confusing.

Bunty

I do wonder what a headache all these double barrel names will cause the next generation! Double barrel man and double barrel woman have a child and are both immovable about which is used. So settle for 'First name', 'middle name' georgeson-John-Jones-smith. I named my children with their fathers surname and a family name of my choosing as the middle name. I don't think it matters that much really.

Oh look another one!
So many today, what a treat

Lordy....

The Spanish naming custom works pts use it because it's that - a custom. Everyone does it, and everyone knows how it works. (And the names are not actually double-barrelled, anyway)

Just seems odd that OP and her husband both refuse to 'lose' their names, but are putting their child, or the child's spouse, in exactly that position further down the track. The child is going to have to lose Georgeson or Jones or both, right? Yet OP's husband won't have Johnson because it doesn't have enough of Georgeson in it.

Anyway, crack on - it's not my child, but you did ask for opinions.

I do wonder what a headache all these double barrel names will cause the next generation!

You should worry about anyone too feeble to meld two DB names together without getting a headache TBH.

Double barrel man and double barrel woman have a child and are both immovable about which is used

Half and half probably. Easy. Easier than many name dilemmas, in fact.

Or literally any other solution they like.

John Georgeson sounds a bit easier

Oh, I get it...it's one of those 'you're only allowed to actually have on opinion' threads. Lovely.

*one

Koala

"Just seems odd that OP and her husband both refuse to 'lose' their names, but are putting their child, or the child's spouse, in exactly that position further down the track. The child is going to have to lose Georgeson or Jones or both, right?"

WRONG

It's clearly hard for a lot of people on this thread to comprehend, but neither the child nor the child's spouse (if the child ever gets married) will "have to" lose a name.

As we've already said several times, they could both - SHOCK HORROR - keep their names.

Then give their children one surname from each parent.

Again, you're welcome.

Have any preference you like Koala. It's the 'opinions' that DB names are difficult, or painful, or confusing, or cause headaches that make no sense.

What, and have 3 names, Emma?

Can you actually count??

Can you read, dear?!

(Has this thread really gone so far downhill... oh yes it's a thread about surnames, of course it has.)

Jane Taylor-Smith and John Campbell-Jones could call their offspring

Taylor-Jones
Campbell-Smith
Smith-Jones
Jones-Taylor

etc.

etc.

Bunty Are you sure you counted those right? You missed out the third name

Well they could certainly add a third if they wanted to be all fancy shmancy like the Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe family!