I've just been reading about Tilly Christmas and Kieran White who, on their marriage, have taken the joint surname White-Christmas
That's lovely, but what do you think about couples taking on a double barrel surname when they marry? Fair enough, yes? But then what happens when the children get married? Do they take on four family names? Do they revert to just one of their parent's surnames?
I quite like the American way where some women keep their mothers name and their father's, but not hyphenated, but men don't seem to do that. Nordic names often end in -dottir or -sson, but I don't know how that progresses, if it does.
I have noted that legally my name is: two given names followed by my father's family name, followed by my husband's family name. My mother's legal name however, was her given name, then her mother's family name, then her father's family name, then her first husband's family name followed by her second husband's family name - quite a mouthful!
Just cogitating, and we're not even in enforced lockdown, just shielding as usual here in Scotland.