Just got married. How do we double barrel our names?

shellsuit

When I looked into double barrelling my name in 2010, legally it has to be done by deed poll.

Of course you can ask to be called anything, but to have it done all above board, deed poll is the way to go.

If you decide to have a double-barrelled surname, a Deed Poll is often required. Although government departments and many companies and organisations will change their records to show a double-barrelled surname upon presentation of the marriage certificate, many will not, particularly the financial institutions. A Deed Poll will guarantee that your double-barrelled surname will be accepted by everyone without question. The only way to find out if you need a Deed Poll to get your non-government documents and records changed is to contact, for example, your bank, building society, credit card company and mortgage company etc and ask what their policy is for changing your surname to a double-barrelled surname upon marriage.

http://www.ukdps.co.uk/AWomansRightsUponMarriage.html#OptionsNeedDeedPoll

The only reason I changed my mind about double barrelling my name, was that my older children weren't bothered what I was called. If they were younger, I definitely would have done it by deed poll, so that we were all still tied by name.

mildred1978

McKneff wrote: »

I didnt say 'always' or if I did I meant it in the traditional sense, ie since marriage began and carried on generation after generation
not just from 8 years ago.

I know what you meant!!! You obviously misunderstood me.

My first sentence was meant to be separate from the rest.

Person_one

McKneff wrote: »

I didnt say 'always' or if I did I meant it in the traditional sense, ie since marriage began and carried on generation after generation
not just from 8 years ago.

Traditionally women were their husband's property and marital rape was legal.

Tradition is no indicator of value.

iamashoppingaddict

Just chipping in here with another random question along the same lines. Myself and OH may not get married (but we may well do) but have been discussing me taking his surname. As there is no marriage certificate I guess then I'd have to change my surname by deed poll to enable me to get my bank/driving licence/passport changed then?

mildred1978

It's been the "tradition" in this country since the 1600s, allegedly. Surely we're past that now.

Person_one

iamashoppingaddict wrote: »

Just chipping in here with another random question along the same lines. Myself and OH may not get married (but we may well do) but have been discussing me taking his surname. As there is no marriage certificate I guess then I'd have to change my surname by deed poll to enable me to get my bank/driving licence/passport changed then?

Why do you want to take his name but not get married?

You won't have to change it by deed poll, you can just start using it if you want to, but I don't really understand why you'd want to.

mildred1978

Offer on deed poll name changes on wowcher...................

http://www.wowcher.co.uk/deals/cardiff/deal-9168-detail/14-instead-36-change-legally-uk-deed-poll-start/deal.html

Don't forget quidco too

loracan1

Whenever I hear of someone double-barrelling their name, my mind starts wandering along the path of what they call their child, and if their child then marries someone with a double-barrelled name...do they start knocking names off or adding even more?

claire16c

McKneff wrote: »

Could somebody tell me why you want to double barrel your name.

I can understand you wanting (female) to keep your single name.

Would you expect your husband to do this also or would be still be Mr xx and you would be mrs xx yy.

Genuine question,

My own opinion in the past has been that it has been a bit pretentious and people trying to put out that they are something that they are not but Im quite happy to have my mind changed.

My surname is unique to my family. My husbands is one of the most common in the country.

Therefore I did not want that to be my surname, but wanted us to have the same name.

Its also caused him problems when we go to the US on holiday because he has what they call a 'common name' and he often gets taken off for extra questioning at immigration which is really irritating.

So we are both now ''my surname-his surname.'

Mine went first because it sounds better in that order. I didnt expect him to take my name (although of course I wanted him to because I wanted us to have the same name) but he didnt expect me to take his either. He didnt mind a bit about changing his name too.

It also can come in handy because sometimes we choose what name to use depending on the situation. So I need to give a name in somewhere like a restaurant where I cant be bothered with telling them the full name and spelling out the first word, I use the common one.

But in other situations where a more unique name would be helpful I use that. For example we once were about to get on a coach which wed booked in the common name, and the driver told us that couple had already got on! So from now on for stuff like that I use our full name.

skypie123_2

Perhaps the OP and their partner are of the same sex, in which case whose surname do you take when you get married?
It would make sense in that case to double barrel surely?