These days it tends to be because women want to retain their given name after marrying and so double-barrell with their husbands name which is then passed on to the children.

Why double barrel names. Below are our current top three choices. We defiantly want to keep Taylor in the name and we think Catherine is too long for a middle name. This was often used in the higher classes and often a way to keep a family name alive in the event a male was not alive to carry on the family name.

Most popular double barrel boy names. Im finding that people are citing my work as Sasha Cohen or S Cohen et al. The History of Double Names.

A fake double barrel name. Viewed 461 times. In the UK double-barrelled names used to be an upper class thing.

Also if the parents are unmarried - the kids are double-barrelled to represent both families. One could safely assume that a double-barrelled name indicated a ducal family Innes-Kerr landed gentry Fox-Pitt or a Tory grandee Rees-Mogg. We thought that it would provide our child with a second option if they wanted it.

I think Im leaning towards the first one but in just curious because I never actually thought Id use a double barrel name until we fell in love with her name. A double name or double-barreled first name is often seen in Southern naming traditions and is when you choose two names for your little often joined by a hyphen. The point surely is obvious many live on a dollar a day some scrape and save to get their kids to school a very few spend huge amounts on luxury motorhomes and even fewer earn obscene amounts of money for kicking a ball which gives pleasure to millions of people from the previous groups.

Or wheels on a bike. It is a great option for giving your child a name completely unique to them. Jul 16 2015 at 739 AM.