Baby having both our surnames - which order???? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Do what sounds best. I’m married and we decided to take each other’s second names, and our children have both our names too, except it’s not double barrelled as there’s no hyphen (I personally recommend using a hyphen because it causes confusion having two surnames 😂). When it came to deciding which order, we went with what had a better ring to it. This just so happens to be my name first, but obv you do what feels right for you

thanks, this helps a lot.. I just don’t want it to sound a mouthful so basically the name I’ve chosen for her is 3 syllables - middle name 1 syllable - my surname three syllables - partners surname 2 syllables? X

I went to school with someone who had a double barrelled first name, middle name, and double barrelled last name. He got so many variations of his name depending on the seriousness of the conversation, and it somehow helped him understand how much trouble he was in.

Traditional it is woman-man. Then the next generation will drop the first surname so your legacy doesn’t continue.

If you can swap that the claim your legacy!

Not sure about which order is typical but I’d be inclined to go with whatever sounded better 😂 I’m not using a double-barrel but if I was I think I’d go my surname then my partners just because that would sound better with our names x

that’s only one more syllable than my daughter’s name. We rarely use her middle name tbh, and I think a lot of people don’t, it was important to us to have her middle name as she’s named after my mum who I lost during the pregnancy. So she has it for sentimental reasons, we don’t use it day to day as having 4 names for her is a bit impractical sometimes.

My partner and I aren’t married either and I briefly considered double barrelling the surnames as was going to go mine-his … but I’ve changed my mind because it ended up being a lot to say.
We’re engaged and will be getting married eventually so for now I’m okay with being the odd one out as I know it’s temporary.

I got married last year and kept my name and added my husbands name, once my baby comes i will just be using my married name as that’s the name we’re giving our baby, but if I wasn’t married I’d be giving him my name!🤣 the things we go go through for 9 months to then give them our partners name i don’t agree with🤣 luckily I’m married 🤣 x

We are double barrelling and chose my partners to go first purely because of how it rolls off the tongue.
Both pretty unusual surnames and if mine was first it would seem like a druggie nickname! Just wouldn't work as well and everyone I asked agreed. Try them both out and see how they sound out loud! May help you decide.
His is also K and mine is R so his is way higher up the alphabet as well so that is also another reason. Sucks being last for everything at school 😅

Both our surnames are 2 syllables.

oh yeah I never thought about the letters and which goes first I’m G and my partner is D so technically his would be first then mine which I think does sound easier to say as my last name isn’t English so it’s hard to pronounce to some so thinking I’d having it last but like you say I’m going to write then both down and see which sounds better thanks hun xx

I went with my partners surname then mine as it sounded better 😂

@Natalie yes! My partner is German. Also I like F names but then we need a strategic middle name to avoid initials like FKR or FAKR 😅😅😅 definitely no U middle name