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Warning: hyphenated name question (Something-Joy)

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MrsJellybye · 04/11/2012 18:13

Title says it all, really. I know the views on hyphenated names but I'm still thinking about one. Blush

I'm wondering about something I could hyphenate with Joy, a family name.

Or should I just not go there?

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Ohsiena · 05/11/2012 20:54

Alicia-Joy

Ohsiena · 05/11/2012 20:51

Stella-Joy

Ohsiena · 05/11/2012 20:49

Ella-Joy

Clara -Joy (LOVE THIS)

Emma-Joy

I tell you these hyphenated names are a pita to type on the iPad. You may want to consider that!!

Ohsiena · 05/11/2012 20:43

Nooooo. It was perfect!!

OK, I think it worked because it was short, ended in 'a'and was classic in style...Ill rack my bain for something nearly as good, will be hard though!!

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MrsJellybye · 05/11/2012 20:35

I hate to say this, but DP's most significant ex (broke his heart, married someone else blah blah blah) was (and probably still is) called..... Anna. I just couldn't do it.

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Ohsiena · 05/11/2012 20:26

I do know an Anna-Joy actually.

I find that this name flows beautifully.

It's easy to say, it's doesn't feel 'forced' like some hyphenated names can, and both are classic beautiful names in their own rights.

I've solved it for you. Grin

GoldPlatedNineDoors · 05/11/2012 20:23

Jemima-Joy.

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MrsJellybye · 05/11/2012 20:17

Ohsiena, I'm really not cool. I'd like to raise the possibility that I was cool in my youth, but that would be fibbing as well as being unconvincing, to boot Smile

I like Joy on its own but I do have my heart set on the hyphen option... Well, other than the initial nickname Thing but maybe I need to relax on that. I do believe you just have to let NNs take their course, provided you're not setting up the DC for something resembling a sex act or disease....

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Ohsiena · 05/11/2012 20:04

Joy is gorgeous, just use that one it's own.

Very cool.

Hyphenated names very uncool.

If coolness is important to you at all.

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MrsJellybye · 05/11/2012 19:56

I was just thinking about S-J. While it's undoubtedly better than the B-J alternative LaCiccolina rightly cautions against, I'm not that keen on the initials thing.

I just hadn't thought of the initials thing as a probable outcome, despite working for years with a Sarah-Jane who is known as..... drumroll...... SJ.

Hmmmm.

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MolotovBomb · 05/11/2012 19:47
missymoomoomee · 05/11/2012 19:39

I've just asked him - he lied

He prefered Abbie and made up a rubbish meaning for Ella. I've just sent him out for chocolate to help me get over my shock at being lied to Grin

Sorry OP for hijacking your thread.

I quite like Seraphine-Joy, I think it will be shortened to S-J. Would that bother you?

exoticfruits · 05/11/2012 19:36

I don't see the point of hyphens-they always drop them after about the age of 6 (unless American)

FrightRunScream · 05/11/2012 19:35

Josephine-Joy could have a lovely nn Jojo.

MolotovBomb · 05/11/2012 19:34

Sorry OP, I don't mean to turn your thread into the Ella Fanclub!

MolotovBomb · 05/11/2012 19:33

The Old English meaning of Ella is 'beautiful fairy maiden: beauty bestowed by fairies as a birth gift'

There's also a Germanic meaning which is 'everything; all, complete'.

I've not heard of it meaning 'fields' or anything like that, although some books will have it that Ella is only a post-script to other names and has recently become a name in its own right (they're wrong).

Both meanings are really lovely. It's an old name - I think it goes back to the 11th Century.

AnEerieAirOfHorror · 05/11/2012 19:32

Scarlet-Joy

LaCiccolina · 05/11/2012 19:31

All I'd say is with j second avoid a first name starting with b..... If it goes to initials u mightn't like it!

LaCiccolina · 05/11/2012 19:29

I'm a hyphen. So is my mum and mil. So is my dd.

I really couldn't give a flying toss of others views of it. It's given me ways of seperating groups who know me. I've been my first name, both names, second name and mostly since work just my initials. Depending what u know me as says a lot about wen I know u from, where and how well.

I love it. So pleased to b one! :)

TidyDancer · 05/11/2012 19:27

I wouldn't do it because I can't stand hyphenated names, but Joy is quite sweet as a middle name with most of the first names mentioned.

ArthurandGeorge · 05/11/2012 19:25

Lydia-Joy
Matilda-Joy

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MrsJellybye · 05/11/2012 19:24

He's def right that Abigail means something along the lines of "my father is my joy". Ella, I'm not sure about (meaning wise, I mean).

DD1 has an "El......." name so Ella-Joy, while v pretty, wouldn't work.

Seraphine-Joy?

(I do like the under-used names.....)

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GoldPlatedNineDoors · 05/11/2012 19:22

Sophia-Joy
Flora-Joy
Jenna-Joy
Daisy-Joy

missymoomoomee · 05/11/2012 19:19

Is that what Ella means?

DH was looking at baby name meanings when I was pregnant with my now 2yo and it was between Ella and Abbie. He said Ella meant something to do with fields I think and Abbie meant a fathers joy and thats pretty much what swayed it. I knew I should have checked it myself.

OwedToAutumn · 05/11/2012 19:17

Serena-Joy is the name of the wife in The Handmaid's Tale.