Urgent! Double barrelled last name - which gets dropped?

[samantha.xo]

I'm going to register Charlie today, and we've last minute decided to use both our last names linked. Originally I just wanted my last name because we aren't married, and then both of us take his when we are married.

OH said he didn't mind if I dropped his part of the name just as long as it was on the birth certificate.

So who's name goes where so his name is dropped in every day use?

 

[Tegans Mama]

Normally the second name is the one that gets dropped I think, as in if your name was John Smith-Brown most people would call you John Smith.

 

[lesleyann]

different people do it different ways, e.g Jake Luke-smith could become Jake Smith or Jake Luke.. However i would use it as Jake Smith..

But i use kyles like this; his full name Kyle Dylan Wailes Newson but i drop the Wailes as his second middle name lol

 

[bathbabe]

Whichever one you want i think

 

[neadyda]

Can you use both though? Like when he is at school?
My LO is James Declin Daly-Arnett and if me and my OH ever get married we want to all be Daly-Arnetts....

 

[lozzy21]

It depends what one your LO prefers. My cus drops the last bit cos its longer and no one can spell it yet a lad i went to school with dropped the first bit.

 

[clarsair]

I know a few people with double-barrelled surnames and if they do use, or get called by, a shortened version it always seems to be the first of the names that gets dropped.

 

[going_crazy]

You can drop either, but remember that on all legal documents / school etc it will still be double barrelled unless you go through deed poll to change it xxxx

 

[samantha.xo]

Thanks guys, think ill go with my name first and then his last

 

[sophxx]

id do it the other way round mines doble barrled and everyone always uses the last bit which is my mum and dads last name people always think the 1st is a middle name

 

[PepsiChic]

i would of liked to have double barreled last name with my LO but it'd be far too long winded

Barry Robert Ramsden-Bourbon
or
Barry Robert Bourbon-Ramsden

 

[amym]

I worked with someone whose name is Barbara Dugard-Craig and she gets called Barbara Craig quite often.... I assume the first one gets dropped as though it were a middle name.

 

[rockys-mumma]

I have a double barreled surname and it is the last one that got dropped. It actually didnt get dropped until I was in secondary school though! I suppose its just whatever one you prefer. Another girl in my class also had a double barrel name but she dropped the first surname as the first one was 'Benjamin' and people used to ask her why she had a boys middle name lol!

 

[suzanne108]

I have a double barrelled surname but mainly use the last part x