[Football] Double double barreled names

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Watching the footy this afternoon, it seems there are more and more double barreled names. At some point, could we see quadruple barreled names? And how the heck would they fit it on the back of a football shirt unless you are Adama Traoré?

Genuine question because I assume we have dbn's because people want to be even handed about each person's family name.

 

[warmleyseagull]

It's a big deal in Germany, where the amazing Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann-Maier-Leibnitz lives. Fortunately she is not a footballer...

See https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...the-barrel-with-law-change-on-names-mvljh6wj3

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

My family had one a few generations ago. But my grandfather, a staunch socialist and union man, thought it was too

My family had one a few generations ago. But my grandfather, a staunch socialist and union man, thought it was too bourgeois and got rid of it.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

My family had one a few generations ago. But my grandfather, a staunch socialist and union man, thought it was too bourgeois and got rid of it.

 

[jackanada]

I once had a girlfriend with a double barreled surname. The funny/tragic part was that in a cringing Hyacinth Bucket way her dad had amalgamated his middle and last name in an attempt to boost his social standing.
The banging your head on the wall part was that this gave the family the surname......... Graham-Taylor!

 

[Whitechapel]

My family had one a few generations ago. But my grandfather, a staunch socialist and union man, thought it was too bourgeois and got rid of it.

 

[BrightonCottager]

A Belgian lady married to a German told me that double barrelled surnames are now banned in Germany to prevent quadruple barrelled surnames.
EDIT: I just read that the laws have been changed to allow double-barrelled, but not more.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

My family had one a few generations ago. But my grandfather, a staunch socialist and union man, thought it was too bourgeois and got rid of it.

Three times. A truly committed socialist

 

[Frutos]

There's a current Conservative MP whose full surname is Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, although he only uses the last one generally.

My husband and I both went double-barrelled when we got married, simply because we both wanted to take each other's name while keeping our own.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

It is increasingly common among players of West Indian heritage to have a first name that sounds like a British politician or nobleman from the 1930s, and a double barreled family name where part is an English town or battle, and the other something random, possibly African

Ainsley Maitland-Niles
Hal Robson-Kanu
Stansgate Denton-Obote
Carrington Trafalgar-Akinfenwa

I may have made some of those up.

What do I call it? I call it flair.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

There's a current Conservative MP whose full surname is Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, although he only uses the last one generally.

My husband and I both went double-barrelled when we got married, simply because we both wanted to take each other's name while keeping our own.

My wife kept her own name. Saved a lot of hassle.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Double barrelled started in Victorian times. It was pure affectation. There was no history to it. It was initiated particularly with those that were called Smith, Jones and Brown, who wanted a bit more glamour in a socially conscious society.
John Wimpenny-Smith.....William Castelton-Brown....James Lennox-Jones.
The latest craze to retain maiden names within the confines of marriage is also pure affectation. It complicates genealogy, which has always started with the shortest names....Dodd, Hudd, Burn, Horn, Parr etc....and developed with ' kin ' and ' son '

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

There's a current Conservative MP whose full surname is Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, although he only uses the last one generally.

My husband and I both went double-barrelled when we got married, simply because we both wanted to take each other's name while keeping our own.

Richard Drax is Conservative MP for South Dorset.

from his Wikipedia entry:
A 2020 investigation by The Guardian found that Richard Drax still owns and grows sugar on the same Drax Hall Estate in Barbados that made the family's fortune. Over 200 years, 30,000 slaves died at this and the other Drax plantations, according to Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Chair of CARICOM's Reparations Commission. "The Drax family has done more harm and violence to the black people of Barbados than any other", he said.[1]

I don’t like him!

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

There's a current Conservative MP whose full surname is Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, although he only uses the last one generally.

My husband and I both went double-barrelled when we got married, simply because we both wanted to take each other's name while keeping our own.

Which are the only opinions that matter.

 

[WATFORD zero]

The latest craze to retain maiden names within the confines of marriage is also pure affectation. It complicates genealogy, which has always started with the shortest names....Dodd, Hudd, Burn, Horn, Parr etc....and developed with ' kin ' and ' son '

Mrs Wz carried on using her maiden name when we got married 33 years ago. It was what she was known as in business and she didn't want to get all the literature and everything else associated with her businesses changed

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

The most nuts one is my ex boss.

Alexandra Hall Hall - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The reason she has that ridiculous surname is that the vicar at her christening stuttered on the surname, pronouncing it twice, so it became her new surname. Very upper middle class family so possibly felt it was the ‘proper’ thing to do.

 

[B-right-on]

Went to my son in laws Birthday BBQ over the weekend and his sister was there with their 5 week old son. She's not married to her partner, the father They've given him a double barreled surname, his and hers, because if the kid just had the dads surname, she would need to get his written permission to take the son abroad without him.

Making it double barreled prevents this. As the dad works on ships, it's a very good chance they'll go overseas to meet him at various ports in the future.

Apparently for kidnapping reasons.One aspect of double barreled surname I hadn't thought of.

 

[Muzzman]

A trip to deed poll sorts this issue.

 

[AmexRuislip]

My wife kept her own name. Saved a lot of hassle.

Same here, less hassle.

 

[jakarta]

Sussex Cricket is posh..

Rory Hamilton-Brown
Robin Martin-Jenkins