[name_f]My[/name_f] last name is hyphenated. I’d like to use both of my last names and my partner’s last name, but I feel like it’s just too many names. “First Middle Last-Last Last” is just a lot. I’ve considered using one of my last names as a middle, but I’m not wild about either one as a middle. I think this is a problem with no perfect answers, and I’ll just have to wait and see how the cookie crumbles.
[name_f]Do[/name_f] you guys have any unsolvable/not satisfactorily solvable naming problems?
[name_u]Or[/name_u] any suggestions for how to solve my own, lol?
Is there a way to combine your two middle names into one to honour both? This would give your child(ren) a piece of both sides of your family without being overwhelming.
I might be able to play around with that. At first glance, they won’t blend very nicely, but maybe if I play with it enough I can work something out. Thanks for the suggestion!
If that doesn’t work, though, what if you moved one of your last names to the middle spot but changed it slightly?
So the last name [name_m]Pierce[/name_m] could become [name_m]Pierre[/name_m] or [name_u]Percy[/name_u], [name_m]Evans[/name_m] could become [name_u]Evan[/name_u] or [name_m]Evander[/name_m], etc.
Unfortunately, my last names are not conducive to things like that, but thank you for the suggestion!
Upon further research into naming practices from other cultures, I don’t think that “First Middle Last-Last Last”, is actually all that long, in the grand scheme of things, and I may even do two middles. [name_f]My[/name_f] future children can always go by a shorter version of their name, if they feel that it is cumbersome.
I do know someone who has a hyphenated last name, now that I think about it. He goes by only one in daily life, but legally uses both for anything official.
I’ve always wondered what kids who have hyphenated names do when they get married or have kids. What if both parents have a hyphenated last name?!
A really bad one is one parent wanting a [name_m]Junior[/name_m] or III or whatever and the other not really into it. Yikes!
A problem that I have… I sort of want to give any future kids my last name as a middle and give them my husband’s last name. However… our last names have the same ending, and same structure of letters. So it would sound slightly ridiculous sort of like [name_f]Ann[/name_f] [name_m]Harrison[/name_m] [name_m]Morrison[/name_m]. Maybe this isn’t as terrible as I think… I guess I’m mostly concerned about us not sharing a last name anywhere for ease when traveling or whatever but I don’t really want to change my last name.
What about taking one of your last names and hyphenating with your partner’s last name. So instead of First Middle Last1-Last2 Last3 it would be First Middle Last3-Last1?
That’s an interesting option. I don’t even want to think about both parents/spouses having hyphenated names. It’s a perfectly solvable problem, I just don’t like the solutions.