See, I’m all for equality, and not making your wife take your surname, and giving your kids double barreled names, but where does it stop? They can’t do the same when they marry or they’ll have 3 surnames (4 if the bloke already has 2).
The Spanish and Portuguese have it sussed. A person born into a Spanish/Portuguese-speaking family is given two surnames, the first being your fathers surname (which he gained from his father) and the second being your mother’s surname (which she gained from her father).
For example – Alberto Contador Velasco, Joaquim Rodríguez Oliver & Ayrton Senna de Silva
Occasionally you end up with 2 surnames the same ie Rigoberto Uran Uran