does Elsie-May work?

[strugglingwiththepreteenbit]

I'm a bit sad that Elsie has made it into the top 100, but we've used the other family names already! A combination of our grandmothers' names. Does it work?

Prefer Elsa.

Don't see the point of hyphenated names.

Bored of seeing May as a middle name.

There is an elsie-may at one of my baby groups. Also an evie-may and a gracie-may.

Step away.from the hypen!

I like ida charlotte. Ida is definitely not overused.

I like it; it's cute and just gorgeous. I like your reason to include both names and to therefore hyphenate.

Both of my girls have hyphenated names. Gets a lot of criticism on MN but I've only ever had genuinely positive responses to their names in RL.

Biggest thing though, is that I love their names

Good luck to you,

MammaT

I know an Elsie-may and while it's ok on a super cute 3 year old I can't imagine it working on a forty year old professional

I like elcee-mae or Elcee-Mai
or LC-Mae or LC-Mai

Oh, as an alternative using your other family names I'd go for Louisa (from Louise) Jean. Louisa Jean is lovely, IMO.

MT

hate hyphens too. very chavvy. elsie and may are both nice though.

How can a hyphen be 'chavvy'?

I think Elsie-May sounds great, really cute

I think it's cute.

And it doesn't matter whether you hyphenate or not, she'll choose to use it or not and it will be fine.

I'm a -Jane of the '-Jane,-Marie, or -Louise' era that has now been replaced with '-Rose,-May and -Grace' My parents tried the whole thing for a while but it was too much of a mouthful and (apart from on obnoxious teacher I had right through secondary who insisted on always using every child's complete given name, grrr!) I haven't used the hyphen since I was about 4.

May and Grace are really over used as middle names

I really like it. In fact my dd3 is called Elsie may. She was born in may

My dd is Elsie Catherine (middle name). She is 6 and most people like her name. I don't see why you need to add anything onto it really!

ALthough Elsie and May are family names, Elsie-May looks faddish.

Jean, Mary, Doris, Emily, Bridget, Margaret, Minnie, Lucy, Florence, Katherine, Fiona, Elizabeth, Ethel, Maud, Irene, Daisy, Charlotte, Louise and Ida
A lot of lovely names there.

Mary Margaret
Mary Irene
Mary Louise
(or Marie-Louise? I have nothing against a hyphen when a name is French)

Lucy Margaret
Lucy Jean
Lucy Maud
Lucy Florence

Florence Irene
Florence Louise
Florence Emily
Florence Elizabeth
Florence Katherine

Katherine Mary
Katherine Elizabeth
Katherine Margaret
Katherine Louise
Katherine Lucy
Katherine Emily

Ida Louise
Ida Jean

Jean Louise
(or Jean Marie? Or Jean-Marie...)

Charlotte Mary
Charlotte Emily

Bridget Katherine
Bridget Louise
Bridget Margaret
Bridget Mary
Bridget Emily
Bridget Irene

Fiona Jean
Fiona Louise
Fiona Elizabeth
Fiona Katherine
Fiona Lucy

Margaret Lucy
Margaret Louise
Margaret Mary
Margaret Irene
Margaret Jean
Margaret Emily

*Jean-Marie would need to be Jeanne-Marie I think.

No- hyphenating doesn't work after they get to about 5 yrs. I also hate Elsie- and so do the 2 elderly Elsie's I know - one kept it a dark secret and always called herself something else, she had done this from a young age and I was quite old before I even knew that she was an Elsie. If you take out Ethel, Maud and Ida any of the rest are better.

There are some lovely names in your wider family list. Not keen personally on Jean, Mary, Doris, Minnie, Ethel, Irene or Ida but just about any combination of the rest would be preferable (IMO) to Elsie-May.

Bridget Lucy, Bridget Emily
Katherine Maud, Katherine Elizabeth
Margaret Fiona, Margaret Louise
Charlotte Daisy

Emily Jean
I like Elsie though.... maybe Elsie Charlotte

If your hubby doesn't like Elsie how about Elise or Elsa?

I wouldn't add 'May' either.

Some food for thought, an earlier poster suggested Elspeth (Scottish version of Elizabeth) did you know it can be shortened to Elspie?

It's prettier (imo) than Elsie and much less common.

You do have some great family named in your list though!

Mum2kaison

Anything - may/Mae/mai is just vomitous.. So naff and cutesy and just awful. You are naming a human being not a kitten. Adding a 'ie' in there a la Elsie, Gracie, Evie etc is just like stamping your dd with a mark saying 'I am not an adult to take seriously, I am a cute ickle girly' - awful.

I have just read "Elsie-May" and thought it sounds absolutely beautiful, and a combination of grandmothers names makes it even better. Oh it is gorgeous!

Love Elsie (but then I would go for Ethel if it wasnt for eastender's, and would certainly be seriously be considering Ida and maud). I don't think you need to hyphenate - give her the choice in later life whether to be an Elsie or an Elsie may.

Have to say I also like Bridget - I think this would be ahead of the trend of the next wave of old fashioned names.

My Elsie has may as her middle name, we only use Elsie.