How to double barrel or portmanteau these names

[Beekeepersapprentice]

Asking on behalf of a friend....
They would prefer to have the same name after marriage and for any future children to have the name too.
They would have preferred to double-barrel or portmanteau the names rather than one person take the other person's name.

Unfortunately the names don't work very easily for that...
The names are something like Van Driesen and Sampson.
How would you try and make this work? Can you double-barrel a name where one of them already has two bits to it?

How about Van Sampson? It’s the only sensible way I can see of doing it.

Van Driesen Sampson sounds fine actually, or Sampson Van Driesen.

Or how about Vandriesen Sampson, or the other way round?

Van Sampson

Is one name actually Van Whatever or is that just your example?
If so, I don't think you can have 'Van' on its own without the name to which it refers.
I may be wrong, but I think it's a Dutch prefix which means 'from'
Van isn't a name on its own. So Van Sampson is a bit odd.

Sampson Van Driesen sounds good.

I think Vandriesen-Sampson sounds good. Although a bit of a pain to have to write down/too long for some name boxes etc.

Van Sampson is also a nice compromise.

Sampdriesden

Driesampson

Samriesen
Samsen
Drieson
Van Damson
Van Sampson
Sam Driesen

Van Drampson.

If it is a “van” name then it’s only the space when written that makes it seem like it’s already double- barrelled but really it’s no different to being called MacDonald or FitzHerbert. Sounds fine double - barrelled to me Sampson - Van Driesen.

I wouldn't, it'll lead to loads of questions.

"Is Sampson a Dutch name?"

Leave the final letter off Dreisen so that it's dreez not dreezen. Sounds better without the sound 'enn' repeated.
ie Sampson Van Dreise sounds ok and not too cumbersome.

Thev"i wouldn't" was i wouldn't portmanteau them!! Didn't explain that well.

😅

I's go double barrelled.

Van Driesen-Sampson or Sampson-Van Driesen.

I hate blended names only slightly more than I hate super long double barrelled names.

I think Sampson-Van Driesen is fine, it's only 5 syllables, which isn't ridiculous for double barrelling. But if it needed to be shorter, you could drop the Van, so either Sampson-Driesen, or Driesen-Sampson

They all sound pretentious to me.

It's like Van Something. So the same issue. I agree I didn't think it would be possible to separate out the van and the other bit...

Thanks everyone. Helpful thoughts...

That's a good way of looking at it...

Vamp

Out of interest, does the person write it

“van Driesen” or “Van Driesen”.
I think if lower case then the van bit is even less likely to look like a standalone name.

Vanson

Sampson Van Driesen.

I wouldn't mess around with a hyphen.

Sampson Van Driesen

Although it sounds like a full name. A bit like Trent Alexander Arnold.

Van Sampson sounds a lot sillier than Van Drieson Sampson or Sampson Van Drieson both of which sound fine