Double barrelled surname

[MarmitesMyMate]

Aibu to think it's OK to shorten it like this on labels for school clothes etc

not real name Alice Glendennen Roe

Alice G Roe

Well, not really if it's double barrelled, it's not her middle name.

Is the G person upset by it?

I'd say that perfectly acceptable OP.

If anyone were to find it, it might not be obvious it belongs to your child.

Is there space for the class or even just the year group?

I'd leave off the first name by preference. That's what we've done. Bonus: the labels are usable by all siblings in the family.

That's what we do for our name. Imagine we were Jones-Brown; we'd shorten it to J-Brown or simply J-B.

DS has two long surnames. They’re always both used on nametapes etc.

I'd use both parts of surmame or neither Would compromise onAlice GR

@MurielSpriggs

I'd leave off the first name by preference. That's what we've done. Bonus: the labels are usable by all siblings in the family.

Sorry, just realised my post is not clear. In other words your name tape would be the double-barrelled surname only, no first name: "Glendennen Roe".

Alice G-R would be ok.

@MurielSpriggs

I'd leave off the first name by preference. That's what we've done. Bonus: the labels are usable by all siblings in the family.

Same here. I never used all 200 name tapes either way but at least it made hand me downs easier.

No, I think it's better to do initials G-R, or just the whole last name without the first name. If the surname is double-barreled, that is still her surname, not her middle name and a last name.

Just do the surname?

Or G-R

Just do the initial followed by the full surname. So instead of Robert Jones-Smith put R. Jones-Smith.

You need to use the full surname. Otherwise you are turning the first bit into a middle name, like my Dad who has his mother's maiden name as his second middle name.

To be honest, if the surname is too long for nametapes, then the child maybe shouldn't have been given it in the first place.

The full surname should be used.

No, not acceptable. I double barrelled my surname on marriage and absolutely hate it if anyone tries (using your example) “Alice G Roe”. (My family name is the equivalent of the “G” here by the way!)

If it’s your name you can do what you like with it. If it isn’t, then the choice is the owner of the name. If the name is recently hyphenated (e.g. you are Glendennen and your DH/W is Roe) then you get to choose about the Glendennen bit and your spouse chooses about the Roe part.

To be honest, if the surname is too long for nametapes, then the child maybe shouldn't have been given it in the first place. or name tape manufacturers should sort themselves out to take more characters

My friend’s DS has quite a long double barrelled surname and his name labels say Tom D-F (not real name or initials!)
I don’t think I could get too worked up about it though!

I wouid use either 'Alice G-R' or 'Glendennen Roe' - latter is the most useful as you can have one lot of name tapes for all DC with that surname. You can sharpie on the first name initial if necessary.

Do also be aware that some brands offer higher character numbers, so with eg Cash's the whole name would fit. And that might be the best solution

Depends what the person whose name it is wants. I'd just put the surname for mine, so would do the same for my kids' (different) one. If they want to drop one later then they can. Surely one advantage of double-barrelling is that there's unlikely to be another family with that name so it should get back to you.

If you must G-Roe

Ok for who?
Do what you like pending space, with the idea in mind the point of it is for identification.
If there's 8 Alice's in her class, I'd do more of the surname for example.
My point is is completely depends.

@cowburp

To be honest, if the surname is too long for nametapes, then the child maybe shouldn't have been given it in the first place. or name tape manufacturers should sort themselves out to take more characters

Ah. The OP didn't say it wouldn't fit on. That would make shortening it make slightly more sense. I still wouldn't just drop the first half, either initialise both or initialise the first name.