White-Knight/Knight-White... We can't, can we?

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DP's and I's first baby together. WWYD WRT the surname?

No worries mouse. You should see some of the crap I've spouted over the years!

Please don't double barrel it! I fully support a child having both parents' names, but not when there is a strong likelihood that it will lead to ridicule. Your surname or his but not both.

I agree, don't double-barrel but just make it one name - Whiteknight. Honestly, it will be a part of your child so other children won't question it. I know a family whose surname is Kitcat. The children don't even blink, even though I thought it was a joke when I first heard it. Now I just think it's cool!

I agree, don't double-barrel but just make it one name - Whiteknight

How does that change it, other than visually? I'm not getting at you, you weren't the only poster to make that suggestion.

A) I've never heard white knight as a term of abuse.

B) Names become just the name of whoever has them.

#TeamWhiteknight

No fabrication whatsoever, I know a Garlic who married a Mustard. Not sure if the children were double barrelled...

White Knight make tumble dryers .... oh and those hostess trolley type things.

No, just no.

#Teamwhiteknight

Eh? How old are you?

Just because you haven't heard of the derogatory meaning of white knight, doesn't mean it doesn't apply.

I was joking with the hashtag.

I know obviously some think it's a term of abuse, but I don't think it's that common or more people would have heard of it.

Anyway, op asked for opinions. I like Whiteknight, you don't like it, all is fine with the world. Hopefully the op will find a solution she's happy with.

I'd really not worry too much about millennial slang. It's likely to be fairly ephemeral. The OP's child isn't going to be messing about in online fora for 10 or 15 years by which time millenials will be considered old and irrelevant - two generations away.

I like it and I would pay little heed to it being a term of abuse. It will have fallen out of the vernacular of the relatively few people using it, by the the time your child starts nursery.

Even if the term falls out of usage in the context mouseclogs describes, it's still incredibly silly as a surname (with or without the hyphen). The OP's child would be the first person in the UK to use that surname.

This reminds me of 'The big bang theory', where Sheldon suggests take the 'Koo' from Koothrappali and the 'per' from Cooper. Do that! Take the beginning of your surname and the end of his.

Somebody already suggested that. Have you seen us arguing about discussing why you can't use Wight up thread? Also OP doesn't want a 'mashup' apparently.

I suggest an anagram. More a reinvention than a mashup

NewtHighKit

KenHighTwit

WetThighInk

Any of those, OP