To be confused. Can we use a / in a name?

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Often people double barrel a surname with a hyphen.
Is there any reason why a slash can't be used?
So say my name was Lucy and my Husband had the surname Baron and I had the surname Jones, could I not be 'Lucy Baron/Jones' ?
I'm thinking that for the kids school I am Lucy Baron, but for my bank accounts I have remained Lucy Jones.
I am just filling in a new form and always trip up when completing my name. Is there such a thing as having a slash in a name? Like could I be Lucy Baron/Jones instead of Lucy Baron-Jones?

No, not appropriate. Just use a hyphen.

@Taswama

Unless you are a surgeon or something where you can't have your phone with you, wouldn't you just give school your mobile number to ring?

I spent all of the primary years being called Mrs Hisname, despite the paperwork having my actual name on it, so I wouldn't assume anyone is going to read any actual notes if they need to ring you, it will just be 'whats the phone number for Dora's mum?' .

Aren't there loads of jobs where you can't have/answer your mobile?

Surely it is more common than not?

No you can’t because the slash symbol means “or” and you can’t have your legal name be “this or that” when what you mean is both. Either hyphenate or have an extra middle name.

Given that the specifics are that you use your maiden name at work, just put an asterisk next to the surname in the box that they know you as, and add in the information on some blank space on the form that should they need to contact you at work you go under whatever name there. You can't be a slashie surname!

Has anyone cited the Magna Carta yet?

@Blackbird2020

You could just do it the old fashioned way, Lucy Baron née Jones.

This is actually a very sensible answer

I use maiden name professionally. Legally I use my married name so when I recently sold my business it meant including my marriage certificate in the ID process.
For school stuff I use my married name but put my professional name in ( ) to make sure that school know who to ask for when contacting me at work.
It has been handy over the years having two identities.

I think it's a dash (-) or a space, rather than an oblique (/)

You could just do it the old fashioned way, Lucy Baron née Jones.

That really wouldn’t help. “Lucy Baron née Jones” surely means a person called Lucy who now has the surname Baron but used to be Jones. I teach in a secondary school and if I were contacting a parent with this written in the contact details I’d ask for [title] Baron and if told there was no such person apologise for wasting time and I’d hang up.

OP, just write the name you’re known by at work, if that’s the emergency contact number you’re giving.

At her primary school I am Mrs Baron (same surname as her and my husband) but at work I'm Lucy Jones so I was thinking that in an emergency, if school were to ring work, and ask for Mrs Baron, know one would recognise that name. I was thinking it might be useful to know that I go by the names Lucy Baron / Jones. ie. Lucy Baron and or Lucy Jones

I had this exact thing happen to me when the school once phoned my work number and a colleague answered it as I’d stepped away from my desk. The school asked for me by my married name, which was different to the maiden name i was known by at work. My colleague was a bit mystified but took a message anyway and I phoned the school back. I then had to explain to the school that I was known by another a name at work and explain to my work colleagues (since the one who answered the phone asked others if they recognised the name) that I was known by a totally different married name at home.

It wasn’t a secret or anything, it just hadn’t occurred to me to inform either. Fortunately it wasn’t an emergency, but I think your approach in letting the school know in advance that you’re known by a different name at work is very sensible. You could also let your colleagues know too, in case there’s any chance they’ll pick up your desk phone.

Wouldn't it be simpler to just not change your name to your husbands? If he gave a crap, he could change his and then this nonsense would be his problem.

Depends on where you work, but at my office I just make sure my colleagues known that my kids surname is actually Jones, so if they ever get a call for Lucy Jones, it’s actually for me, Lucy Smith. But tbf the school read the paperwork and have never not called me by my name

Schools are very used to parents having non-matching names, just use your maiden name for everything, if you don’t want to change it.

Please don't

In Scotland, legal documents refer to a married woman as “Jane Brown or Smith”. (We referred to them as “or women”. One memorable case was when Wendy Sidebottom married a Mr Topj

It doesn’t imply that Jane uses both names, just that she had one surname at birth and acquired another through marriage.

Why have anything. Why not just Baron Jones

The easier thing would be for men to take on our name when we get married, and dc take on our name since we're the ones that give birth!
It's just another example of the patriarchy. Once again women have the expense and form filling shite that men don't need to go through.
my husband refused point blank to take on my name. When I asked why it was simply 'It's traditional' .
But I know exactly what you mean OP, I have kept my maiden (see even the term maiden name is patriarchal shite, men don't have a bloody maiden name....I mean when you start looking at it you realise how fucking ingrained 'woman know your place' is)
However on all school forms it simply asks "Name" followed by "relationship to child". So that seems to sort any issue (may be easier in my case though as I never took on DH name. Interestingly dd keeps asking if she can change her last name to mine. She hates the fact we have different names.

Oops I may have had a little rant there! All I know when I attempt to use DH name it all got too confusing! So I reverted and have kept my name before marriage (making a stand against using the term maiden).

Yeah as opposed said in your case it’s best to just put a note or if room bracket work name by work number like (as Lucy X).

The slash would still be confusing as they would have the info of when and where to use which version if that makes sense. Even though it might seem self explanatory.

*I have kept my maiden (see even the term maiden name is patriarchal shite"

Maiden name is a ridiculous term and I'm astonished at the unthinking use made of it by posters on here.

I kept my name; my husband kept his name.

@KimikosNightmare

*I have kept my maiden (see even the term maiden name is patriarchal shite"

Maiden name is a ridiculous term and I'm astonished at the unthinking use made of it by posters on here.

I kept my name; my husband kept his name.

Agree 100%

The correct answer has already been given.

It's Mrs Lucy Baron (known professionally as Ms Lucy Jones)

shortened to:

Lucy Baron AKA Lucy Jones