Bit of fluff - double barrelled surnames

In the US there are no laws restricting how many names a person can have. There are restrictions on computer programs about how many letters will be accepted. So at work the computer won't accept my full name because it is too long.

Most times people with hyphenated last name marrying someone with hyphenated last names will either keep theirs, take his, or she will keep one of hers and take one of his to make a new hyphenated name she and future children will use.

They could if they wanted to. You can call yourself anything you want or legally change your name by deed pole but most people in the UK take their husband's name after marriage. There are exceptions such as Doctors or Lawyers etc who have established themselves under their maiden name and continue to use it in a professional manner but often outside work they are referred to as Mrs husband's name.
I don't think I could be bothered to choose two double barrelled name though.... eek...writing that all out ever time you signed your name...no thanks!!

In Norway this has become almost the norm. I don't think most people hyphenate a double last name, but most kids born in Norway for the last 10-15 years have both mother's and father's last name.
Being in a country with a lot of last names ending in -sen, I know several kids called Olsen Hansen, or Larsen Svensen.

I think it has become very important for Norwegian families to show equality in this way. We are one of the most gender equal countries in the world, and this is an extension of that. (That being said, we have a fair bit to go still in equality, but we're getting there)

I'm not sure what will happen to the next generation. Will they have four last names because they are all important to them? Then eight....?

In my own family the middle names of our kids were more important to us than the last names.
So both our girls have a medium-length first name, a long middle name from two different grandmothers, and a very short last name.
We decided om his short last name instead of my long one because they both have long middlenames. He offered to take mine, but we decided on the shorter one.

Some cultures has like, 8-10 names and it's completely normal. So strange to me.
And royals have ALL the names from their family trees!

I hope this double-barreling will stay double, and not become triple og quadruple etc.

Do you think so? I'm in the UK and only know one person with a double-barrelled name. I'm getting married (yay!) and I think I'm just going to use both surnames, because his is already Van (XYZ) so I shall be Kate (ABC) van (XYZ) which I think sounds awesome. No one can spell my name anyway

My kids have 2 last names, mine and their dads. They can keep one, keep none, have 3, make a new one, I don’t care. I just wasn’t gestating and pushing out a living being who would then not have my name.

Situations like this are the reason I am not in favor of hyphenating last names.
Just select one and move forward.

Hyphenated last names are a real PIA on computer forms as well.

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Same.

It's a British English term for a hyphenated last name.