How to officially register Megan Rose

Not keen on Megan but like Meg. Rose is pretty but very popular as a middle name. Hyphenated names tend to be -Rose and -May names.
The hyphen and name tend to get dropped. Meganrose is awful.

Hyphenated names are a bit naff IMO

My name has a hyphen, I’m a child of the 7o’s !, and I’ve never ever used it, and I never will. Please register them as two separate names.

Depends what you intend calling her
I have a middle name that was intended to be used but as it was put as a middle name it got dropped.
Still bitter cause my name is otherwise boring.

I like it without the hyphen but as a full first name, Megan Rose. Will probably be shorted anyway, but at least you can call her by her full first name if you like. My sister has 2 first names, no hyphen. I don't think its too long or complicated to pronounce

Please just call her Megan Rose. You can introduce her however you like but when she’s a fully grown adult she’ll probably be grateful she can just say her name is Megan.

If you want her to be known as Megan-Rose, you'd need to hyphenate it and have no middle name.

Alternatively you could have Megan as first name and Rose as middle name, and introduce her like that as a baby when people ask her name, but going forward she will be known just as Megan. In that case have Megan as first name and Rose as middle name.

Megan-Rose is a mouthful. I’m not keen on hyphens. But if you want her to be known as that then register her as that. It’s entirely up to you.

I prefer it without the hyphen. You don’t need one really to use both names together and introduce her as that. I don’t have a hyphen and my dad has always called me by my first and middle name together. Nobody else does but they could if both my parents had insisted on it and I liked it (I don’t, I prefer just my first name).

Meganrose looks like a type of sauce.

Hyphenate it - otherwise when she starts to sign off her emails people will think her surname is Rose.

Why not just spell it as one word "Meganrose"

It's no wierder than Rosemary or Marianne

In general Mumsnet doesn't seem to like hyphens (considers them lower-class or American) so i don't think you'll find many supporters for Megan-Rose. But if you want the whole thing to be her first name, hyphenating would be easiest. A lot of babies have hyphenated names in real life. Congratulations!

Hyphens are very tacky, and a class signifier (if that bothers you). I absolutely wouldn’t hyphenate it, she won’t thank you as an adult.

Rose is much nicer as a middle name only but if you want to use Rose daily then the first name should be Megan Rose. But that will also be a PITA for her and you can expect that correspondence etc will always be wrong and leave out Rose.

Either way around it is problematic.

Hyphenated names always end up sounding like a mouthful, I'm afraid. Take Megan-Rose and Annabel. Both 3 syllables, but because you're having to enunciate the space is sounds longer.

People will end up just calling her Megan whether you hyphenate it of not, so you may as well just use it as a middle name

Megan first name, Rose second name. Very pretty name choices!

Nothing to stop you calling her Megan Rose and introducing her to others as that. But I think you are very likely to start calling her Megan pretty quickly.

@Taybz MN hates hyphenated names so you probably won't get a fair hearing here.

My dd has a hyphenated name, it comes to 3 syllables so not excessive and isn't a mouthful. If you want it to all be used as her daily name then you will need to hyphenated when you register. Megan-Rose is beautiful!!

There are several kids in her class (boys and girls) with hyphenated. Dd loves her name and the history behind it.

Ohhh I didn’t know that! I stand corrected!

Her official birth name is Sue-Ellen. After the character from Dallas.

Bet she hates that!

hehe

If you really want people to know her as Megan-Rose then register that as her first name, and call her it consistently.
personally I do find it a mouthful as I know Megan as a complete name, but it’s up to you.
I have a child in my family called X-rose and everyone just calls her X even though she has the full hyphenated name on her birth cert (not her actual name of course!)

@Constellationstation Ms Braverman is called Suella, all one word, no hyphen, not sue-Ellen

If you're going to call her Megan Rose day-to-day put Megan Rose as her first name. No hyphen.

@Taybz as a kid I just wished I had a 'normal' name & used to get asked why I had 2 names etc!
As an adult it is a bit of a nightmare with paperwork. Quite a few websites you cannot add '-' or even a space to your name as they class it as a special character (ridiculous lol)!
Recently I signed up to a doctors & they registered me as just my 1st name (not the 2nd hyphenated part aswell) and because the midwives had me down correctly I received 3 fines for my prescriptions due to my maternity exemption certificate being a 'different name'.
That being said her name Megan Rose is beautiful but I wouldn't personally go for 2 names x

I would have Rose as a middle name. It's super common atm and dilutes Megan, which is a fab name and will stand out amongst the crowd.

Just call her Megan. Or Rose. Not both as a first name.

I would do Megan as first name and Rose as second name. Giving someone two first names makes me think of Texans. Or Sue-Ellen Braverman. I would have thought that she/other people would drop the Rose part anyway when she’s older, whether it’s part of her official name or not.
Nothing to stop you calling her Megan Rose, even if Rose is registered as the second name.

If her name is to be Megan-Rose, then register her as that, and introduce her as that.

People are likely to assume that Rose is a middle name, when they hear it, but you can just politely correct them.

Congratulations, and welcome to the world, little Megan-Rose!