hyphenated first name?

I like hyphenated names. My best friends daughter is Ava-Grace & I love it. Ella-Rose is lovely, go for it!

sounds a bit twee and childlike iyswim.

Yes! This is why I hate them. They sound like nicknames. Like calling a baby Millie moo or daisy boo or something, but making it their actual name

It seems like you are naming a baby, forgetting that she will grow up into an adult woman and hopefully want to be taken seriously.

Hate hyphenated names in general, Ella is pretty but overused, Rose is pretty but overused. Ella-rose makes me cringe, EllaRose even more so. I'm sure you don't care what I think but believe me I'm not the only person who cringes at hyphenated names.

More than one name is unnecessary. Necessary is rarely a consideration in these things I find.

Not a fan or hyphenated first names. Just seems unnecessary really.

If it works in France then I will give it approval

Only for certain combinations, like Marie-claire, Anne-Charlotte, Mary-Anne. i don't like religious names for the sake of it but they are the only names that can side step the hillbilly vibe, or the can't decide vibe

It amuses me greatly how much people get worked up about hyponated names on MN, I've never in 34 years in RL have anyone make such a big to-do about my name!

Nor have I ever had anyone say they think it's pretentious, or pointless, or weird or anything really, it's just my name and I've never met another person with the same one

If you like it, do it, I think Ella-Rose is pretty

Ella-Rose is lovely!

I wouldn't bother hyphenating. The girls at school I knew with hyphenated names only ever used (and still do) the first part of their names.

Ella is a ok first name and Rose is an ok middle name but together as one name sounds a bit twee and childlike iyswim.

It will confuse all who meet her and make bank/card etc applications a nightmare as have to be redone when people miss off hyphen. And she will just get pissed off with having drs/nurses etc call her by the first name not her actual name.

I speak from experience

I disagree.

And I also speak from experience :)

I'm dead posh!!

I have a hyphenated (virtually unique) first name. Bit of a PITA sometimes but everyone calls me both, I don't recognise the first half as "my" name at all.

Amusingly according to MN hyphenated names are either dead common or dead posh.

Well he was an old copper in the seventies. Much older than my Dad was, and my Dad's dead!

probably long dead, copper You what?!

My dad was a copper in the 60's and is alive and well and having a lot of fun!

Yeah - It was uncalled for. It was in the 70s. Different age - I like to think it wouldn't happen now. I wonder how that particular, probably long dead, copper would cope with all the Polish names we have in our school now!!

Ella Rose is lovely by the way OP!

willyou I think your tale is more of an indictment upon the copper who read "hyphen" as part of Sarah-Jane!

It embarrsed the hell out of me when I was presented with my cycling proficiency test cert at the local town hall when I was at school. I had spelled my name for the copper who did the tests. In the TOWN HALL in front of a shed load of people he read out my name .." Sarah HYPHEN Jane.

Brought the place down, but I was mortified and I bloody hope my parents were too.

I think to say hyphens are "pointless" is a bit harsh, or that the only point of them is to make a name "popular and unusual". That's a quite a utilitarian way of looking at naming. What if one just likes the look and sound of the names combined?

I don't think there is any benefit to be gained by putting 'Ella-Rose' on the birth certificate. You can still call her 'Ella Rose', and even use the hyphen day-to-day, if you must.

People will probably mostly call her Ella either way.

I admit, I don't like hyphenated names in general. I think they are pointless, unless the point is just to give a child a name that is simultaneously popular and unusual. (106 "Ella-Rose"s in 2011, btw).

I like Ella Rose and you could call her both as suggested. I would think carefully about the hyphen. Our DD is Ellie-Mae. I still love her name but it does cause loads of problems. Admittedly the Mae spelling doesn't help. If you go for the hyphen get used to telling everyone about it and be prepared for it to take her ages to be able to write her name. Some people call her Ellie when they first meet her but they soon realise she's Ellie-Mae especially as she often tells them. She'll probably be an Ellie when she's older as I teach at a girls secondary school and nearly all of them abbreviate their names.

In your opinion orange which matter because...

Because this is a forum where everybody offers opinions maybe?

My opinion doesn't matter at all rockin. People give me a look when I tell them one of my children's names as its so out of odds with the others but we love it so don't worry about others opinions!

mmmmsleep I agree with you - also from bitter experience!!! Everyone will just remember it's "something-hyphenated". I get called all sorts of potentially hyphenatable combinations of nothing like my name. My fave is Sarah-Jane - yes it's hyphenated, but I have neither a Sarah nor a Jane in my name!!!