Carrying on from oor wullie, the current trend is to double-barrel-ise family names, either just for the children, or for the adults too, aquiring the double names on marriage, or on jumping the broomstick. All well and good, but what happens when the children marry? Do they then aquire a quadruple-barrel name? and then for their children? I think this fashion is doomed to be shortlived
In my parents generation, it was the fashion for the first child to take the mother's family name as their second given name (so my Mum rejoiced in 'West' - very feminine!).
When I first came up to Scotland in 1969 as an undergrad nurse, I looked after a string of Douglasinas, Thomasinas, Williaminas, yes Donaldinas, Alexandrinas, mother in law was Georgina. If the trend had continued for me, I could have been Normanina, Frankina or even Vernonina or Reginaldina