Child's Surname

pinkpig08

I doubled-barrelled my sons name 8 years ago because I knew that when his father and I got married my surname would be double-barrelled too. Now I have a daughter and all 3 of us have the same surname.

Magpie.

My daughter was registered with her father's surname. We never married although we planned to. When we split I had to fight to get it changed by deed poll to double barrelled.

Why do you say absolutely no way to that. If I have anymore children I would absolutely double barrel again and even when I marry I will double barrel my own.

starnight_2

My DS has my surname and I wouldn't change it. I do have a friend whose wee one has fathers surename as a middle name and mothers as surname ... not double-barrelled.

pulliptears

When DS was born I had already left his father so I automatically gave him my surname. As this man was every kind of scumbag I also omitted him from the birth certificate.
I met OH when DS was 8 months old and married him when he was 3, it was a special day that saw both my son and myself change our surnames to my husbands. It made the day very special for DS and it was something that I would not have been able to do as easily had I given him his fathers surname.

balletshoes

Is the process for changing your child's surname different in Scotland compared to England? My DD had my surname when she was born (in Scotland), as I wasn't married to her dad at the time. We changed her surname after we got married, she was 2 years old, and we did it all as an alteration through the local registry office.

digitalphase

We're not married or planning to be in the near future, but my baby will get OH's surname. I'd also take his surname if we married. OH would be unbelievably offended if I didn't take his surname anyway.

In an ideal world we'd be married before baby came along, but ours wasn't planned.

Tish_P

My beloved and I have neither married nor bred in the last ten years so aren't likely to do so in the immediate future, but I certainly wouldn't take his name on marrying. We probably would give a hypothetical kid his surname, though, because
a. it's unusual (although I appreciate this is a cop-out; if I had the unusual name I'd very likely be all "Oh but his is SO much easier to spell!") and
b. it would upset his extended family if we didn't. Which still has its roots in sexism, but hey - you have to pick your battles and I simply don't care very much about this one.

Plans_all_plans

Our daughter took my surname as I wasn't married to her dad and I didn't want she and I to have different surnames when she went to school etc. To be honest, I would have been mortified. Her dad (who is now my husband) is on the birth certificate but I wasn't prepared to give her his surname unless we were married. Now that we are married, I have changed her surname to his and we all now have the same surname.

I wouldn't double barrel just cos I really dont like double barrelled surnames at all and our names would not have gone together well in any case.

Gavin83

Do you not need both parents permission to change a childs name?

looby75

Gavin83 wrote: »

Do you not need both parents permission to change a childs name?

only if the father has parental responsibility, otherwise the mum can change the childs name to whatever she wants.