Is it strange to give my child my maiden name in a double barrelled surname if I use my husband's surname in daily life.

[Winter2028]

I never officially changed my surname after marriage as it's hard to do in my country unless you do deed poll. I just added my married surname in brackets which does allow me to get a bank account, mortgage under my married surname and use it professionally. It's a very English surname and when I moved back to UK 9 years ago I quite liked the sound of it. I also married in Europe where it is very common for ladies to take on their husband's surname and when I lived in europe, the embassy asked if I would like to add married name to my passport and it was easy to do.

However my maiden name is still in my passport and also the nhs has both my maiden and married names.

I am pregnant now and we have decided we would like a double barrelled surname for our child. I don't have any brothers or male cousins sharing my name so it would be nice if the next generation has my surname. My husband is also the last of his line..

My child will never live in my home country (as a citizen) unless he gets a work visa as an adult. He is liable for 2 years of national service and 20 years of reservist training as a citizen of home country most likely as a combat soldier. Even if he is born overseas. I am likely to also to post 40k gbp bail for him as a teenager until he returns to serve national service.

If it was a girl I would also tread carefully as she would have to renounce at 21 due to multiple citizenship unless she gives up british citizenship and when she renounce this would affect all future opportunities to work or live in my home country even if she gets a work visa. Risk is less obviously but most people don't know what country they will settle in long term or want to work in at 21.

I do lose thousands of dollars in baby bonus money not getting my baby citizenship in my home country but the long term ramifications aren't worth it.

My dh's mum is divorced from her dh ans she travelled with her 4 kids quite easily. In fact for most of her marriage, he hardly left the uk while she spent 3 months of every year in her home country.

Honestly, don't over think it. If it sounds ok together and it's legal in all the countries that matters, do it.

I know a lot of women who use their maiden name as a middle name so not officially double barreled and used every day but still part of the child's legal name

Probably wouldn't work in Germany. Continental Europe typically doesn't think about a "middle name" as a separate concept, but allows "two first names", and distinguishes more which words are first names and which are surnames (with some overlaps).