twohyphens.net: Surnames, last names, family names, & conundrums

Hyphens for all!

Both Meg and Ry's sets of parents took a bit of a stand when they got married, and kept their own names via hyphenation; the products of which are the Grady-Troias and Strohm-Hermans, respectively.
While we applaud the equality & creativity with which they approached the status quo of familial naming, it has put us in a bit of a pickle regarding our own last names as we head down the proverbial aisle.

Do we alphabetize? "Grady-Herman-Strohm-Troia" won't fit on many government forms, that's for certain.

Do we Acronymize? GHST only needs an "O" to become "Ghost," but neither of us are terribly drawn to such an ethereal moniker, and we'd prefer something pronounceable otherwise.

Perhaps we pool all our letters and see what we can make of it, like a game of Last Name Scrabble. For all the words we got out of it, the only ones we liked were "Moonmen" and a misspelling of "Ghesundheit," neither of which are particularly appealing as surnames.

Maybe we keep our own names. But then how do we carry on the great respect & care for family names that our nuclear families instilled in us?

The running hope among our friends is that we simply take the word "hyphen" as a last name, as it is both a recognizable word, and something that respects our pasts & traditions. We see at least two problems with this, however:
1) Meg may well end up being called Mrs. Dash; and
2) We foresee many problems when we try to convince people to spell a common typographical symbol.
We liked it enough to take it as a website domain, but the future name of the Hyphen family is still up in the air.

We are taking suggestions, advice, and bad name jokes, so if you have an idea, email us.