Realised we made a huge mistake re. DC's surname!

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Have name changed as this is massively outing. When DC1 was born DH and I weren't yet married so decided to give DS a double barrelled name as I didn't want to have a completely different surname to him. All was good, we thought it sounded good at the time and, actually, it does work with his first name. However it sounds utterly crap with everything we like for DC2.

The surname is Fox-Wilde and now I kind of think it doesn't work well at all. DC1 is in reception so knows his name etc, but would it be weird if
a) DC1 and DC2 have slightly different surnames (DC2 would just be Wilde which is DH's surname)
b) we changed DC1's surname to just Wilde?

You could change DS1 to Jesse Fox Wilde with Fox as a middle name then all be Wilde. I've had children at school name change before with no problems.

I do like Fox-Wilde though :)

Brilliant surname - you should all be Fox-Wildes forthwith.

It is rather Jilly Cooper, but in a fabulous way.

We did the double-barrelled thing (for various complicated reasons) and it's merely a mouthful that needs constant spelling-out and is nowhere near as cool.

I have double-barrell envy

Wasn't there a Wild movement in England in the seventies where some people railed against the nuclear family set up and saw communal living as the future? They all changed their surname to Wild to represent that everyone was part of the same free spirited family.

Or did I imagine that?

I have a surname that other people are jealous of and even I'm of your dc's! If were you I'd defo change all to Fox-Wilde

Forgot to say, Jesse and Gus both sound amazing with Fox-Wilde!

They have to be famous with names like that!

Squoosh you have hit the nail on the head! Hmm not sure if I should be encouraging DH to double barrel his name

I think it's a fantastic name. Very posh!

What an amazing surname! You'd be mad to not all use it!

Fox-Wilde is an extremely cool surname.
I think it works with many name.
Jack Fox-wilde
Joe Fox wilde

The short no ie ending names work best.

All of the following sound fab with Fox - Wilde. swoon

Laurence Fox - Wilde
Sebastian Fox - Wilde
Benedict Fox - Wilde
Barnaby Fox - Wilde
Conrad Fox - Wilde
Dominic Fox - Wilde
Edward Fox - Wilde
Fabian Fox - Wilde
Gabriel Fox - Wilde
Ivan Fox - Wilde
Lucian Fox - Wilde
Marcus Fox - Wilde
Nathanial Fox - Wilde
Oscar Fox - Wilde
Rufus Fox - Wilde

Ooops. I meant

It's brilliant, leave it alone.

As others have said it works because they are both short. The double barrelled DC I know has one that is a real mouth full.

Gus, Ivo and Zia all go really well IMO.

Lucky kids with SUCH a fab surname!!

Ivan instead of Ivo?
Romily or Romana as fn for Romy?

"You could change DS1 to Jesse Fox Wilde with Fox as a middle name then all be Wilde"

thats what I was going to suggest! But I love the name, its fab. My fave names are Gus Fox-Wilde and Coby Fox-Wilde (think Jesse and Coby go nicely). To me Ivo sounds like "I've a fox....

I Am not a fan of double barrelled surnames but fox-Wilde is amazing! I love it. I'd keep it personally and play around with the first names.

That's a fab name! I didn't even consider taking DH's name but he's insisted the DC's have it. They are all now Otters.

Gustav Fox-Wilde?

Thinking of the composer Gustav Holst.