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Meanings of double-barrelled name in English

Russian
составная фамилия
Portuguese
sobrenome composto
Spanish
apellido compuesto
Catalan
cognom doble

Family name that is a combination of two other family names.

      составная фамилия
      Synonyms
      Examples for "double surname"
      Examples for "double surname"
      1
      He was henceforth, however, better pleased with his name, for he fancied in it something of the dignity of a doubled surname.
      What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1
      2
      "Your family has a DOUBLE surname, then?"
      Through Russia
      1
      As a high-school student drawn to radical leftist politics, he dropped his double-barrelled surname.
      Reuters
      2
      If only he had a double-barrelled surname, he'd be a certainty for the title.
      The Guardian
      3
      Ivan Ivanovitch had a rather strange double-barrelled surname-Tchimsha-Himalaisky-whichdid not suit him at all, and he was called simply Ivan Ivanovitch all over the province.
      The Wife, and Other Stories
      1
      Her relations address letters to our children using an invented hyphenated surname.
      The Guardian
      2
      At the Smithsonian in Washington, the curator of coins and medals was a gentleman with a dry voice and a hyphenated surname.
      The burglar who studied spinoza
      3
      It is long since that Leith Clay-Randolph (note the hyphenated surname) knocked at the back door of Idlewild and melted the heart of Gunda.
      Moon-Face, and Other Stories
      Usage of double-barrelled name in English
      1
      I do not have a double-barrelled name here either, he thought.
      Depths
      2
      Susanna, 42: I had a double-barrelled name, and I just dropped his and started using back my maiden name.
      Jamaica Observer
      3
      Alex Liddington-Cox writes in Essential Baby that his child will be taking their mother's surname, because of the hell of a having a double-barrelled name.
      Radio NZ
      4
      "Awkward thing sometimes having a double-barrelled name," he continued.
      Pushed and the Return Push
      Translations for double-barrelled name