Advice needed please.

[thecactus]

Hi, we're planning on giving our new DD both our surnames even though we are married and am just looking for some advice about the best way to go about this. We plan on using only one of the surnames on a day to day basis. as we don't want her name to be over complicated or sound too over the top.

The option we are thinking of at the moment if giving her a double barrelled surname but non-hyphenated so that each surname could stand alone. Has anyone done this and how has it worked out?

Any advice at all would be much appreciated on any of the options. We just want to keep both name but not over-complicate things! Thanks

Hi

Friends of mine have this. Albeit it was joined surnames a couple of generations back. Basically they don't hyphenate the names just have and "extra" middle name. For e.g. emma jane smith jones and sib called peter george smith jones but they get emma jones and peter jones. Make sense?

I think it's really nice!!

Good Luck x

We've done it. DD is Robin Deborah (myname) (DH name). So it's on her passport this way but in general life she's Robin (DH name).

We did it this way because I didn't change my name after marriage and as we travel a lot, we both wanted to have a connection to her on our passports. No idea if this is important but thought 'you never know'.

No bother with it all so far.

I know of people who have used Firstname Surname Surname, and it works fine.

My cousins all have their mum's maiden name simply as a mn - so Beth Mary Sandy (Myfamname) (Dad'sname) (bit long but meh!) which works very well now as they are divorced (probably not why you are considering it but!), and the kids call themselves both names - its on docs etc as (Dad'sname) only but they will, I think, use both or their mum's name when older. I always wished we had both so I had the choice but it was't really done when I was born!

DS has First name, middle name, middle name, my surname, exP's surname. Yup. 5 names. If you don't hyphenate it, the first surname will become an additional middle name. DS is known at school as Firstname exP's surname. Does that make sense?