Warning: hyphenated name question (Something-Joy)

[MrsJellybye]

Title says it all, really. I know the views on hyphenated names but I'm still thinking about one.

I'm wondering about something I could hyphenate with Joy, a family name.

Or should I just not go there?

basking I do like Clara-Joy. I also like Delphine-Joy, and Delphine generally, but that damn donkey on Peppa Pig has ruined it for me.

My current faves are:

Cordelia-Joy

Seraphine-Joy

Clara-Joy

Kezia-Joy

Isn't it Keziah traditionally? Is there a reason you would drop the H?

No Scream, only a typo! I agree completely- it should have the H. (Despite my hyphen fixation, I'm a purist and traditionalist when it comes to name spellings; unfortunately my IT skills are less evolved)

Fair enough. I tend to tread carefully with spelling in case it is a standard spelling for another country, but with an H is much better

I like a lot of your choices individually but, when hyphenated with Joy, they became awfully long. I realise Joy is a short name but, in my experience, names 3 syllables or longer are generally shortened (e.g. Josephine > Josie, Victoria > Vicky, Alexandra --> Alex, etc). It seems to me that it would defeat the point of hyphenating if your daughter Cordelia-Joy was mostly known as Cordy or Cora or your Keziah-Joy was known as Kizzy. On that basis, you're left with Clara-Joy, which I think works well as a combination. I think it sounds very uplifting.

In my opinion, I feel that if you're going to go to the bother of hyphenating your child's names, you ought to treat it as a 'double name' and refer to them by it - otherwise just call them Lily Sue or Jesse James. I don't understand mums and dads who name their children Jesse-James or Lily-Sue and only ever call them Lily and jesse.

I haven't read the whole thread so I apologise if any of these are off the mark but how about: Sophie-Joy, Lucy-Joy, Molly-Joy, Megan-Joy, Alice-Joy, Zara-Joy, Emma-Joy, Lauren-Joy, Bridget-Joy, Leah-Joy, Margot-Joy, Heather-Joy, Layla-Joy?

I know a hyphen joy.

They are known as Lj.

I think J is an easy second letter.

So be prepared for a

Tj
Lj
JJ

etc.

I think Joy is lovely but would personally put it as a middle name rather than hyphenated. Genevieve Joy is my favourite but not hyphenated.

I think Keziah-Joy works really well.
(sorry if repeats)
Audrina-Joy, Aurelia-Joy, Dahlia-Joy, Mary-Joy, Lola-Joy,Betsy-Joy or Betty-Joy, Luna-Joy, Madga-Joy, Martha-Joy, Sally-Joy, Mila-Joy, Nina-Joy, Phaedra-Joy, Sadie-Joy, Eliza-Joy?

Amity-Joy?

(Or, when people hear Amity, do you think of the Amityville Horror films?)