Opinions on double barrelled first names

My grandma is Mary Jane and she never knew it was slang for cannabis until I told her a few years ago.
Sarah-Jane, those kind of classics are acceptable IMO but I've seen Kayleigh-Laura, Sienna-Aaliyah and Amelia-Lily, it's ridiculous. Pick one name!

There are names that get more popular amongst different demographics. So the atticuses and the Romans and the Gabriellas and the Arabellas are popular in middle-upper middle class circles, and the lily-maes and Jayden-joes are more popular in working class circles. That doesn't make them bad, just more popular in those demographics.
If you want a name that signals that you are middle class or aspiring, avoid a double barrelled unless it's a classic like anne-Marie.
Personally I really hate double barrelled names not because of the class association but because I think they are cutesy and infantilising. They are used for boys but it's mainly girls who get the flopsy-rai-mai-jai type names and I just think it's setting them up to be viewed as less serious than other women. When you add in potential social-economic disadvantages too it's a double whammy of crap for the kids.
Chloe is nice enough but pretty common, and Grey isn't a first name. People would assume she's Chloe Grey-Smith rather than Chloe-Grey Smith.
There are so many unusual and lovely names out there. Don't go for the combination of boring+random shoved together with a hyphen.

My first name is hyphenated and I'd never known before MN it was 'chavvy' I rarely use my full name, it just kinda got dropped at some point, not for chav reasons, just because it's a bit of a mouthful I guess, my parents don't even use it

Why is it classed as chavvy??

My DS's name is hyphenated. Everyone always comments on what a lovely name and some have even said it sounds rather posh.

I really really hate hyphens, sorry.

I think the chavvy association comes from the rose and mai / may epidemic

Chavtastic

This is a wind up?

I really don't like double barrelled first names. Just pick one great first name!
Chloe is nice, I don't think Grey is nice at all, it's more of a surname.

I don't like them

They are a mouthful, they sound a bit twee. They make it seem like you couldn't make a decision so you diluted two nice names to make one that is less than the sum of its parts

Sorry double barrelled forenames usually label a child - not in a good way.

Considering the fashion for double-barreling surnames, she could end up with something ridiculous like Chloe-Grey Smith-Brown.

Bit chavvy with the hyphen - not so bad without the hypen so something like Lily Rose is lovely. But for some reason Lily-Rae or Lily-Mai would be chavvy. Not sure why Lily Rose is OK but it just looks nicer.
Grey isn't a name though and would look silly.

I don't mind double barrelled names but Grey is not a proper name. Chloe-Grace would be ok although Chloe on its own is fine too.

My DS has a double barrelled first name and I am due a DD soon who is also getting a double barrelled first name, neither of them will have a middle name and yes sometimes my son is just referred to as the first part of his first name (if that makes sense) but he will always have a unique name that isn't too out there...it also works wonders when he decides to - rarely - play up

I think the problem is that Grey isn't a first name and just adding it to Chloe with a hyphen doesn't change that fact. I don't particularly like double barrelled names
but at least if you go for a Sarah Jane or a Lily Rose people know the score. Chloe is a nice name as it is. If doesn't need something tacking on the end to be different

My name is double-barrelled, by my own choice. The second half was added by deed poll at 18 after a deceased parent. I use both, I have a death stare for just the first name (I express my preference for both gently first, but after about three times, the death stare comes out). I have three 'short' versions, but all include the second part. That said, I find it hard to 'hear' Chloe-Grey as other than first name-surname.

My dad has one, but his parents are Mexican and his name is in Spanish. It really works, in Spanish, French and other Romance languages. But in English? Sounds ridiculous. Sorry.

Many years ago I had a friends who's daughter was called 'Anna-Christina'. The mum never shortened it and everyone had to call her Anna-Christina. It put me off double barrelled for life

I didn't add earlier that my own name is double-barrelled. I probably shouldn't have forgotten that . I use a much shorter version though, even in professional situations, e.g. Abigail-Louise, known as Gail. If you do give your DD a long or hyphenated name, you need to accept that she (or others) might choose to shorten it.