Opinions Please - To double barrel with my surname or not?!

I think Thomas-Brown sounds great! If you don't mind having a double barrelled name then I'd say do it, what does your OH think? I've often wondered about double barrelled names would your OH have the double barrel too? Not sure how this works! But at least there will still be the name connection between you and your daughter. Personally, I wouldn't want a different surname to my children (not that I have any yet!)

My other half is cool with whatever I decided but don't think he would double barrel. The registrar informed me that when the day comes and she ever get's married I can just resort to Thomas, I have a son with my H2B who has Thomas as a surname so I'm feeling a little nasty if I change mine completely.

I have a similar problem as I have 2 children from my previous marriage who have my ex husbands name, I am the last in the line of my maiden name also. Me & my OH's name are too many sylables to double-barrel & my Ex is unlikely to let us change the surname of my girls. But already my youngest who has been brought up by my H2B wants to know why she can't have the same name as us :-(

The best solution I can come up with is to add my maiden name as a final christian name to both me & my girls & any children me & my H2B have so if they wish to be known by either they can.

Rach x

I'm going to have my maiden name as my middle name, so that's another option....

I think Thomas-Brown sounds really nice. I really don't want to lose my maiden name but won't want a different name to any future children I have. Not sure whether Christie-Duckworth or Duckworth-Christie works tbh. I am the last in the Christie line and feel like i'd be losing a part of me if it went. Maybe I'll have to adopt it as a middle name like someone else said, that's a nice idea x

Oh, I think Thomas-Brown sounds really good, most names do not double barrel well, but they sound good together. Then you can have your daughter and husbands names. I'd like to double barrel mine but would sound ridiculous with OHs surname, so will try to arrange somehow to change my name to his surname, but add my surname as a middle name so I dont lose it completely.