Double barrelled first name?

[Misty9]

Possibly our favourite name for dc2 is two names - so do we double barrel it, or keep it as first and middle name but refer to her as both?

What are people's experiences of double barrelled first names? Annoying? Too long?

I have a hyphenated name.I haven't used it since I was 7, its too hideous,as are they all.
Don't do it to a kid. tack-a-rama.

my 15 year old has a hyphenated name of five syllables - and it's so unusual that she's probably the only one.

I liked it then and I like it now. she's known by the first part usually and she loves her.name

Just use Rose as a middle name. Hyphenated names are too much of a mouthful and will get shortened anyway. And, I'm sorry to say, the trailer trash connotations of hyphenated names in the area where I live just aren't very nice.

My ds has a hyphenated name becuase his dad wanted to call him the second name and I wasnt to sure and found a named I liked it sounds ok togther but I and everybody in contact with ds just call him by his first part of his name only use his whole first name when his naughty

If you leave out the hyphen there is nothing stopping you from calling your DD Emily Rose. If this works well for you and you like it she can always be known by both names. If it doesn't you can slip into just calling her Emily without any hoo-hah of explaining to people that you've changed her name.

My DD2 has become known by a nickname we would NEVER have thought of (due to sister's mispronunciation) and that is what we call her all the time now, as do lots of family members. You might be calling your DD something entirely different on a day to day basis!

happydutchmummy - it's only a matter of time before "CJ" becomes an actual name!!

Emily Rose is lovely. Emily-Rose is horrible. Would you actually call her "Emily-Rose" all the time? As in "Emily-Rose, it's tea time"?

She'd probably just get called Emily/Milly/Emmy/Em anyway.

Only in your opinion.

Which is what has been requested here, no?

And as the general consensus appears to be 'no', clearly not 'only'.

I'm going to agree that the current trend for hyphenation is chavvy, don't do it.

Don't do it. Naff

I assume people use hyphens to be different. So they can use a top 100 name but somehow make it "unique". The problem is there only seems to be a very short list used for the second part (Mae, May, Rae, Rose), so to me the result is that the name seems even less original as it's "just another one of those double barrelled names".
It must be a nightmare for teachers where this is popular as they have to remember two names for each child, especially when the second name is one of the similar sounding list!

Emily Rose is a nice name, not my taste but is perfectly useable. I wouldn't use a hyphen as it cheapens it (imo) and exaggerates the Exorcism of Emily Rose link.

I'm not keen on double barrelled first names personally, however Emily Rose is a nice name, but I would probably still go with Rose as a middle name.
I knew a Holly-Freya which never really flowed very well so they just ended up calling her Frolly all the time.

Holly-Freya just why?

At least it's not Hunni-May or Mortimer-Moon, both of whom have been at ds1's schools in the past four years...

Mortimer-Moon! Mortimer fine by itself, if a little quirky but Mortimer-Moon??

I'm not one for poking fun at kids names but Holy God, that's a doozey!

And he has a hyphenated double barrelled surname too... I kid you not, you can find it on Ancestry public BMD records. You can't see the hyphens on thesearch index, but it was always hyphenated on all school documents.

I know a lovely [English] Marie-Claire who always gets both names.

I would bother with the hyphen. They're not my style but that's not why I say it really.

Rather, I knew flipping LOADS of Sarah Louise's and also Laura Janes. By reception class at school nobody, but nobody ever called them anything other than Sarah or Laura.

Just a waste of time.