Nothing is stopping you from giving your children double barrelled names. But still....Damn you society!!

That's a shame, in the UK you can choose the surname at registration

You can't choose your last name for the kids?

My wife kept her last name, which was totally fine to me, but our kids have my last name at her suggestion. Just keeps thing simple. I would have been happy for them to take hers, and neither of us wanted hyphenated last names for them.

I have both my mom and my dads just one is a second middle name

Why not zoidberg?

Where I live, and in most spanish-speaking countries, you must have both

don't lots of people have double-barrelled surnames?

A lot of people are named "[FirstName] [Parent'sLastName]-[OtherParent'sLastName].

Because after two generations the last names would become unmanageable - Jones-Smith-Carter-Brown for the first generation and then for the second it would be twice as long. I'm happy that it is a choice these days.

I have my mother's last name, dad decided my middle name.

In Denmark children get both parents names most often

In my country everybody have 2 surnames, from mother and father, and people usually choose which one to use professionally when adult.

Where do you live???

I have both surnames, it’s very common for us Latinos. This does mean our full names are very long. I am mostly referred to by my fathers surname unlike my sisters who mostly uses my mother’s surname, although that has it’s own history (hint they’re my half-siblings)

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My kid is going to have both our surnames. Some states don't allow it, but mine does.

If you’re “quite pissed” how did it get that far.

Your last name came from another man, your father. So it’s not really YOUR last name, it’s your dad’s. So, choose which man’s last name you want. You want the one you were forced to have at birth, or the one you chose to spend the rest of your life with? I don’t understand women thinking it’s somehow less sexist to keep their father’s last name.

some do use both surnames with the children

Nothing says you can't do exactly that. My step mom kept her name and my siblings have both her and my dad's last names.

My kids have my last name even though we are married. I told my husband you want kids for my uterus then they get my last name.😄

Plenty of people give their kids hyphenated names. The only problem is then what do they do? You can’t really hyphenate a name that’s already hyphenated.

Must have? Who gets to decide? And if they should have your name, your husband can change his name to yours

granger-weasleys coming in!

As a male that is happy to change his surname or (hopefully future) wife to keep hers. You cant keep combining surnames because when they get married your kids will want to combine thus your grand children will be stuck with 4 surname combination and that doesn't fit of forms. Easier just to make up a new one that represents both of you...

I never married my partner and our child has both surnames.

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Yeah, a lot of kids at my school have 2 last names for this reason, it's so wrong that they have to have your husbands name.

Mexico uses both surnames. Its pretty cool

You don't in the UK

I've been married for almost 14 years now and, though we initially followed the traditional route (purely because it's the norm), as of about 2 years ago we decided to switch to my wife's surname. I identify much more as part of her family than the one I grew up in

Wouldn’t she know if you were a controlling man before marriage? I had no clue last name was about control. I was raised believing it was unity regardless of which name is chosen, the woman’s or the mans.

That's patriarchy in a nutshell

So? In the same way, you could argue that no man has his own name, either... after all, his name is his father's name...

If Seaman's your real last name, poor guy! I don't blame you a bit!