Hyphenated Surname

[ettcuk]

Does anyone have any recent experience of marrying in Thailand and both you and your husband and wife adopting a hyphenated surname?

At present, I'm considering changing my surname by deed poll in the UK to a hyphenated version, with an abbreviated version of her surname, a hyphen, then mine. After marrying, would there be an issue with her using that (my) new surname?

I've read contradicting things elsewhere from: "this may have once been possible, but some new law prohibits it", to "there may be problems at some amphoes", to "there won't be any problems".

Any useful pointers would be much appreciated. 

[proton]

when I got married at the amphur we sat next to another couple doing the paperwork at the desk. They were having an argument as the girl did not want to take his name, we were having an argument as I did not want mine to take my name. Maybe hyphens would have solved it.????

[warrima]

2 minutes ago, proton said:

Maybe hyphens would have solved it.????

A couple at our work got married and they picked a completely new family name for themselves. Even more confusingly they also changed their given names. It took us months to stop calling them their 'real' names. 

[recom273]

Yes! 

 

I found it strange that when working in the UK I came across Thai people who adopted their husbands name, Like Mayuri Smith, Jiraporn Matthews, etc. and I suggested to my wife, to preserve a little bit of her Thai identity, we / she had a double barreled name (hyphenated)

 

It was a total nightmare, its not really recognized here, the only way we were told it was possible, was for her Thai surname to become her middle name, which doesn't really work.

 

Then some organizations would only accept her married name, some used her maiden name (because it was the first that they saw), and it was a total nightmare in some situations where her file would be unsearchable or missing. Just before Covid, we went on holiday, and she needed a new passport and she insisted on adopting my surname, then spent a bit of time changing her social security, bank (which is still in Thai script), ID card and house book, et. luckily its not so hard to change your name here.