Amelie-Grace, Elsie-May & Gracie-May?

Adore all those names but without a hyphen

Hahaha omg
I was spot on then when I thought they were a sign of immaturity

I wouldn't invest much time worrying about the OP florascotia! She is a 18 year old student studying at University - not even pregnant and not intending to ttc for a good while yet!

Women definitely sometimes have a hard time being taken seriously. Only today Mary Beard was misquoted as saying that women should lower their voices to be taken more seriously in broadcasting. (She actually said women are told to lower their voices)

timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2014/03/what-i-really-said-about-womens-voices.html

Yes tiny. Really.

haley Don't go. I think the reason why so many people get so heated on this thread is because names matter. They really, really do. Any antipathy revealed is not personal to you. It touches on all sorts of deeper themes. Names reflect fashion, refer to history, signal chosen cultural, ethnic and religious affiliations, reveal educational backgrounds, current social/political/economic aspirations, and, particularly in an English context, say something about class.

I'm from Scotland where there is undoubtedly a class system, too, but it is to some extent overridden by a sense of national identity. Scottish parents have traditionally preferred Scottish names, though that is changing, fast. Interestingly, however, the most popular non-traditional names in Scotland are not quite the same as the most popular 'new' names in England. I am not sure why. At the same time, consciously 'heritage' names are also popular.

I am sure that Canada - some parts of which have close ties to Scotland - will have its own naming fashions and traditions. They won't be the same as in Scotland or the rest of the UK. It would be hard for outsiders to understand all the nuances of a Canadian choice of name. In the same way, some of the names you like have resonances over her that probably simply don't apply in Canada. It sounds horrid to say that a young woman with a 'cutesy' name might not be taken quite so seriously in her chosen profession over here in the UK, but I think it is probably true - at least until she's got established. (I don't think Cherie Blair's name did her any favours, for example.) It's a minor point; increasingly women are hired on merit. But I don't think that we've yet achieved equality, and anything that stands in the way is perhaps best avoided. (I know that that's a conformist argument, but it's loading a lot on any young person to expect them to have to do extra battles for a good cause.)

Sorry to go on so.

erik women have a hard time taken seriously?

Really?

I had a great-aunt May as a child. But her name was shortened from Mabel. :)

If in doubt, visualise the name on a stroppy teenager and then a woman working in a responsible job, say in a law court. She won't be a baby forever.

What? You wouldn't name your kid after Emmy-Lou Lou Pankhurst? Or honey-Mae Clinton or janey-Rae Austin or Maria-ruby-Rae curie?

I'm sorry, but I think hyphens are best reserved for other uses such as the compound noun.

OP have you ever looked at Netmums? I'm not directing you there because you aren't welcome here, but from what I know of it, people are far more polite, and also write in the same style as you seem to, and it might be a more pleasant experience all round to ask the people there.

Gracie-Lou Freebush. Don't forget the Freebush.

It's like in miss congeniality. Grace = FBI agent. Gracie-Lou = beauty pageant contestant.

I wouldn't judge a child based on her name but is judge the parents. I'm afraid I would judge an adult woman called Gracie-May and wonder why she persisted with such a cutesy little girl type name. I'd assume she was a bit vacuous to be honest.

I would assume that a person who gives their daughter a really cutesy-cutesy name has certain expectations - different from mine- of how girls should be.

I know that's probably wrong but that's what i assume.

Giving a child a double name is a sign of immaturity?

I wish I were still able to be immature. My elsie suits her name perfectly and always will. Anyone who casts a judgement on her based on a name is quite frankly a moron

Afraid not. I think rent a gob would have something stronger to say than that.

If it's any consolation, my dd2s name is a bit marmite. I asked for opinions before I used it, because I wanted to know what people were REALLY thinking and as others have said, no one is anything but polite once it's a done deal. I found it useful. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I do assume that people posting in the baby names section are after real responses.

Also I did give dd2 a very sensible middle name, so if she thinks her name is mad, she can use that. I think it's a good idea.

Fruit's post is fine.
I don't think the hatred for cutesy doubled barreled names is necessarily a class issue. For me, it makes me cross that people name babies as if they were little dolls rather than future adult women. I'd be ashamed to have a 'cutesy' name as an adult and would feel like people wouldn't take me seriously. I think going for a nickname type cutesy name is a sign of immaturity, rather than an indicator of social class.

fruit your post is really offensive. Are you katie hopkins?

There is a class element, sadly. If you think your daughters might want to become FT100 board directors or barristers in the future you need to know that 'Amelia' or 'Grace' or 'Isabella' would just be names that wouldn't raise eyebrows. Why not have those as names and use the 'ie' forms as family nicknames.

Gracie-Mae just seems gratuitously sweet and female. I'd be worried about stereotyping, just as I would with the 'Steel' name Burren refers to above.

Honey is right that the baby names forum on here is a foment of class anxiety, acknowledged by some and not by others. And yes, the exact kind of hyphenated names you are proposing have been very heavily used here in recent years, but as they've become more popular, there's a growing perception that they are somewhat lower-middle-class in UK terms. You are outside the UK, so it may not matter in the least to you, or such names may have entirely different class connotations, if any, in Canada.

Personally, I would be more concerned about the extent to which they 'define' a girl in terms of cutesiness, in much the same way I would if you were proposing calling a baby boy a sterotypically macho name like Steel or Biff.

Those names may be your style, but will they be your daughters? I like names with character, but you have to leave a bit of room for your daughter to make her name her own. I would be utterly embarrassed to introduce myself to anyone as Elsie-May. Well, actually, I just wouldn't, I'd call myself Elsie, or May, or use my middle name. Seriously, can you imagine a grown woman with using those?

Anyway, may I suggest you give her a more grown up middle name if you do go down this route. Then if her tastes are different to yours she has some options.

When are you due, OP?

Could you settle on your favourite and roll it around in your mind for a while before registering?

YYou need to go with what you like, but some names are very of the season, and if that bothers you, you need to choose carefully.