Original sentence: Because of this, and because many upper class families have multi-part surnames, it is often assumed that double-barrelled names signify a certain pretentiousness or snobbishness on the part of the bearer.Double barrelled names may be formed for a variety of reasons.Double-barrelled names are sometimes adopted to avoid having a 'common' surname.Double-barrelled names may also be used by children who are not brought up by their birth-parents to combine the surname of a birth-parent with that of an adoptive parent, or the surname of their biological father with that of a stepfather.In fact, as we have seen, double-barrelled names may be adopted for a number of quite different reasons.Some are formed when women add their husband's surname to their own family name upon marriage, thus forming a new two-part surname, or when children are given surnames combining those of both parents
Edited sentence: Hence double-barrelled surnames are particularly associated with English upper and upper-middle class families who wish to avoid having a 'common' surname.Jones), to prevent the wife and children adopting a surname which is very commonplace.Such a name is formed when, upon marriage, the husband and wife's last names are joined with a hyphen (usually wife's followed by husband's) to create a new surname, e.Such surnames are most often created when the husband's surname is particularly widely used (e.Those who have inherited a double-barrelled surname often shorten it, frequently to the second (more distinctive) half of the name, both for practicality and to avoid appearing pretentious