Bank card. Double barrel last name dropping one

Leah30

My daughter has a double barrel last name officially/legally. She is changing this once she turns 16. She is just dropping one of the names. She has never been known with both names. 
Can her bank card say just 1 of her last names? Until the change? 
Thanks 

Exodi

I doubt it, I can't see why the bank would allow a customer to choose what to display on the bank card instead of their legal name (appreciate you'll argue that it's half of her legal surname, but you get the point).

If she's planning on changing it anyway (which would allow her bank to change it on her card), what's the issue? She's lived with it for her entire life, whats another year or two.

FWIW you can change her name while she's under 16 (with parental consent), assuming you agree with the change.

IanManc

Exodi said:

FWIW you can change her name while she's under 16 (with parental consent), assuming you agree with the change.

Just for info ......

In the UK both/all parents with "parental responsibility" must agree in order to change the name of a person under 16, unless you get a court order to override the refusal of consent by someone with parental responsibility.

Possibly the child has a double-barrelled surname because the parents have different surnames, and that the one whose name is being removed is unlikely to agree.

Also, where a court has made an order to determine/declare parental responsibility, such as where married or unmarried parents are separated and the court is making an order concerning contact and/or financial contributions, it is normal for clause to be in the order to say that a child's name cannot be changed without consent of the court.

DullGreyGuy

Leah30 said:

My daughter has a double barrel last name officially/legally. She is changing this once she turns 16. She is just dropping one of the names. She has never been known with both names. 
Can her bank card say just 1 of her last names? Until the change? 
Thanks 

Some banks give you options of how the name appears on a debit card, have you checked if hers does? 

Check with her bank also on what evidence they require to support a change of name. Most will accept a statutory declaration which is probably the cheapest and simplest way of doing it either now as their parent or in the future when they are 16 and can do it themselves. 

Obviously remember with a statutory declaration you are swearing that they will never be referred to by their former name and so all things must be changed immediately (eg passport). In principle failing to do so is perjury with punishment of up to 2 years in prison.

Gers

My late brother added to his surname without doing any deed poll or statutory declaration. He had bank accounts and passports in two countries with his new name. Mind you, this was probably done in the 1990s so perhaps things have tightened up since.

https://www.gov.uk/change-name-deed-poll/make-an-adult-deed-poll gives all the necessary info. Your daughter will need to do an unenrolled deed poll after turning 16 years and then, if necessary, the enrolled one when she reaches 18 years. 

Incidentally, I've never been known by my first forename and all my official documents are in my second forename. Even most of my family don't know of my first one, not that it's awful or a secret, just never been used