does Elsie-May work?

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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?

Done. To. Death.

I work in a maternity hospital and last year we would have 1-2 a week.
Different spellings though, so they don't make the popular lists.
Elsie-mae.
Elsy-mai.
Elsie-May

Etc etc.

But it is pretty, I'll agree.

thanks all. It looks like a no! We told the dds that we're expecting today and once they were convinced we wouldn't be borrowing the names of any pop stars or harry potter characters they started calling it Josephine. Think it might stick.

We had Elsie May as our girl name (18 weeks) as it is also a combination of my nana's names ( are we related )
We both had our hearts sets on this name i think it is beautiful, however reading the above posts I didn't realise it was quite so popular!

Will need to get my thinking cap on again but totally gutted.

nobody else in the family pregnant that I know off, but congratulations:)

don't like Elsie. May is fine for a middle name.

Josephine is lovely.

But so is Jean. Jeannie is gorgeous.

I don't like any name that has 'May' as a 2nd part to it (or as a middle name) - it just sounds like the start of a sentence... 'Elsie may do this that or the other'. However, despite that, it is also really over used as a second part to a name , which would also put me off, tbh.

Love Josephine though - lovely 'full' name, but also some lovely 'shortened' names there too. Not over used either.