#22 Having Two Last Names
January 24, 2008 by clander
In recent years, white people love giving their children two last names. This is a direct result of white women thinking it’s sexist and outdated to take on their husband’s name. It is also sexist that the child would only carry the name of one parent, especially since the unnamed parent is the one who carried the child for nine months. The only logical solution is to give the kid a split last name. White people can’t get enough of it!
As a result we have children growing up named Elijah Sadler-Moore.
While it’s true that many Spanish speaking cultures do this, often times their names are crazy long but are often shortened into sweet one word nicknames like Pele. Also, there is a historical precedent.
Being a recent phenomenon, we have yet to see what happens when one split named person marries another split named person. Does their kid end up with four last names?
I have a feeling that College Lacrosse and Soccer Jerseys are going to look pretty strange in the next few years.
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Oh please, with this one.
What’s with blacks and these “africanized” names.
or made up names?
Deshawn?
Funniest one was a black lady that had twins;
Lemonjello
Oranjello
after her two favorite foods: Lemon Jello & Orange Jello
True story.
o f*ck I know two kids with those names - are they from evanston?
Eh Pele wasn’t spanish,he was brazilian.
What about those of us with double-barrelled first names? The one thing I am grateful to the Olson twins for is that Mary-Kate made it not so odd to have 2 first names again. It’s like having a split personality – I can change at will – sometimes I use the first half of my name, sometimes the second, sometimes I’ll be hyphenated, and sometimes I’ll just stick it all together and wait for the interesting pronunciations (even though each name read separately is quite easy to pronounce).
I remember when the world went computer and forced me to limit my name to letters only, since many ‘forms’ would not allow for a non-letter to be used in a name category.
Eventually I married my English husband and moved to the land where double-last names are considered ‘posh’ (upper-class), the United Kingdom. Here the practice of double last names has been going on for generations; I think it started from the desire to keep a family name alive when the male lines died out. There is a bit of snobbery attached to it here and you can occasionally here people talk about having a ‘proper hyphenated name’ – meaning their hyphenated name has been passed down through generations due to an ‘important’ lineage rather than a personal choice.
I did have quite a few laughs with my husband about hyphenating my last name after I got married and becoming a ‘double-hyphen’ (both first and last names hyphenated). We may be on the verge of witnessing the start of the next big ‘white’ trend, double and even triple hyphened names. Adding a hyphenated middle name could become the mark of true ‘whitness’ some day.
I have 2 last names as everyone in my country. Some people have 3 of them!
we are the whitest!
And having moms last name havent done anything to make women more participant on public life…
the only time i see someone with two last names is a black person, hell sometimes its either the first or middle…all ethics have some fucking weird ass person like that..and the only time i seen a white person with more than one last name is their maiden name.
Er, I have three but I go by just one of them, but being British and Upper Middle Class absolves me somewhat I fancy.
Have to say this is incorrect. Black people made two names popular (see Jada Pinkett-smith and David allen-greer).
first of all using the term “white people” is very racist. i can’t believe you would post something like that up on the internet. and secondly giving a child two last names isn’t b.s. just because you wouldn’t do it doesn’t mean you should judge. many people i know who have done this do it because they have a child out of wed-lock. the child shouldn’t always get the father’s last name, it’s just that our culture carries it out that way. if i was married i would give my child the husband’s last name as well as myself because i don’t mind taking his last name. if i was a man i would want it the same way for me. but i’m not married and i’m having a child. I’m the one whose going to be mainly supporting her and i don’t think it’s fair that as the main caregiver she can’t have my last name too. my daughter will have a hyphenated last name because it will make things easier for both of the parents. when i have to pick her up from school or if my parents needed to because i was unable to and her father couldn’t having the hyphenated last names makes it easier to get her. you should respect the choices one makes and not be so critical because it isn’t your decision.
um… Christian Lander IS white. How is using the term “white people” racist?
Hahaha .. yeah everyone should refrain from making references to “white people” and their culture in mainstream society, it’s unacceptable.
Right..
Anyhoo, Pele is Brazilian where the language is Portuguese not Spanish. Aaaaaannnnd I just fulfilled Thing That White People Like # 1,909454, correcting others on trivialities that don’t matter in a high-handed yet neutral fashion, in order to rectify the mistake and simultaneously demonstrate their superior knowledge but without appearing condescending, for fear of offending anyone. Heh. I rule.
This comment is the biggest slam I have read in a long time. NICE! I love it.
you are annoying
Christ on a bike….. When you were made did they forget to include your sense of humour?!?!?
CHRIST ON A BIKE?!!!
NOW THATS SOME WHITE SH!T RIGHT THERE….
I actually think combining names is a buch of bs. that’s my 2 cents worth.
I AGREE
first of all using the term “white people” is very racist. i can’t believe you would post something like that up on the internet. and secondly giving a child two last names isn’t b.s. just because you wouldn’t do it doesn’t mean you should judge. many people i know who have done this do it because they have a child out of wed-lock. the child shouldn’t always get the father’s last name, it’s just that our culture carries it out that way. if i was married i would give my child the husband’s last name as well as myself because i don’t mind taking his last name. if i was a man i would want it the same way for me. but i’m not married and i’m having a child. I’m the one whose going to be mainly supporting her and i don’t think it’s fair that as the main caregiver she can’t have my last name too. my daughter will have a hyphenated last name because it will make things easier for both of the parents. when i have to pick her up from school or if my parents needed to because i was unable to and her father couldn’t, having the hyphenated last names makes it easier to get her. you should respect the choices one makes and not be so critical because it isn’t your decision.
Having two last names is a common practice in lots of cultures. Both sides of my family come from cultures which do this (albit in different capacities). Then the kid marries another person with two last names, and they use a combination of both grandfather’s last names… and so on. When a woman marries, traditionally her mother’s last name becomes her middle name, her father’s last name becomes her second last name, and her husband’s last name becomes her new last name. Whew. It sounds way more confusing than it actually is.
wow
could i see an example of that?
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