Amelie-Grace, Elsie-May & Gracie-May?

[haleyalannahxo]

Normally I don't like hyphenated names at all, but these few are really growing on me. My style tends to be more like, vintage/cutesy, so the cutesy bit doesn't bother me.

For middle names, I would probably use:

Amelie-Grace Louisa
Gracie-May Isabella (or Isabelle)
Elsie-May Kathleen

What names would you use as middle names for Amelie-Grace, Elsie-May and Gracie-May? Which of those three do you like the best?

Thank you :) x

Haley, reasons like this are exactly why DH & I decided to keep our son's name a secret until he was born. You could post about the most mundane names & people will still hate them (probably for being too mundane!) You should pick a name that you (and DP if you have one) like. Most people don't grow up hating their name that much. In fact, most of us at one point or another have wished we were called something else.

I have a 6 yr old Ellie-Mae. I still love her name but have had some regrets in the past. You will constantly be saying 'Hyphen MAE, yes all one name'. It will take her a long time to learn to write our other DD is Mia, much less hassle for her to learn to write and spell than E-M.Our Ellie-Mae also hates not having a middle name like all her friends.

Go for one of the ones you've suggested but be prepared for some regrets.

I like Amelie Grace the best by far.

Round here there are a lot of little girls who have a hyphenated name ending in May/Mae. Off I top if my head I know of an Ellie-May, 2 Olivia-Mays and a Daisy-May. I have a feeling it will date very quickly.

They're not dated as in vintage, they're dated as in naughties, imo, but I can only give an English perspective. Maybe they are de rigueur in Canada. There are an awful lot of ie and hyphenated with May names in my dd's Y5 class but I can only think of 1 ie ending name in my ds's YR class, and no hyphenated ones at all. It might be a bit like calling a girl born in the 1970s Linda, when all the other Lindas were pushing 20 and the babies were all called Claire and Sarah. I think Amelie and Louisa are lovely names and Louisa is the least likely to date.

OP are you bearing in mind your DD won't be so little at some point and might find those names a bit difficult to live with as an adult? I like them for a little girl but would probably remove hyphen so she has the option to be a bit more grown up when she wants to be.

All of the names are lovely, but not with a hyphen. They are strong enough names to stand on their own.

I agree with Jabber Jabber though, avoid May/Mae/Mai as a middle name. There are hundreds around at the moment.

I teach 3 children called Ellie-May/Mai/Mae in the same class!

bumbershoot - I am, don't worry. I think I'm going to drop Gracie-May all together (maybe use May & Grace as MNs for something else?),
keep Elsie May Kathleen, and Amelie Louisa Grace.

littlefish & jabberjabber - May's got a family connection for me, so I'd really like to use it, but thank you :)

Amelie-Grace is very pretty and since both Amelie and Grace are perfectly respectable grown-up names there is no reason why she can't just drop the hyphen when she is older if she wanted.

I like Louisa as a middle name with Amelie-Grace. Also Nicola/Nicole, Louella, Amanda, Miranda, Maria/Marie.

JohnnyUtah Sun 02-Mar-14 19:28:54
YOUR style may be vintage, but what about hers?

But JohnnyUtah I'm not sure how that arguement against a name works - doesn't everyone choose what they call their child based on what they like, not on what the future child may prefer? After all, we have no idea what the likes and dislikes of an unborn child might be?

Amelie-Grace is very pretty and probably ages best, but the hyphen might not age well- could her first name be Amelie Grace but without the hyphen? My name is a double name, but with no hyphen, and I love the options it gives for nicknames

If May is important to you, use it. Does it matter if it is popular to you? For many it doesn't. It wouldn't to me at all - after all, names only relly become popular because so many people do like the name.

Grace and May are both pretty classic names, around and in use for a long time.
Amelie - french name, ie spelling is the norm, not different whatsoever
Elsie - again, normally has ie spelling

Infact, only Gracie is the one I would say is a more cutsie not full version of a name, and more a nickname.

But then I have a DD with a name ending ie - and the ie version isn't even the most popular version. But I don't care - I prefer the version, the ie version has been in use for over 100 years, and the much older people we had heard of with the name ll used the ie version.

There is nothing wrong with the names you have chosen - they are nice names. I wouldn't personally choose to use Gracie as it it feels more like a nn, rather than Grace that's all.

I think that they are all charming.
Elsie May is my favourite as it has a family connection for me and was what I wanted for DD2 (was overruled by ExH).
But really, all lovely!

What about Rae instead of Mae/May?

Two friends did the -Mae thing last year.

This year, both their children have miraculously lost the -Mae.

So you can do it and drop it later, OP!

FWIW I love Elsie. Or Ilsa. Or Elsa.

Elsie- May is my favourite, I think it's really lovely :)

But if I was going to use those names I'd have Louisa Grace, just because I love the name Louisa

Rae is even worse than Mae.

Having the hyphen or not really won't make any difference to her as an adult.

Technically I have a hyphenated name and no middle name. But I haven't used the hyphen since I was about 12. It doesn't matter to me, that it's there, I just now tell people my name is Rebecca, not Rebecca-X. I'm not scarred for life by it.

I like

Louisa grace
Kathleen may
Kathleen grace
Elsie may
Elsie grace

All better without hyphens imo

They are all dreadful. Sorry. But what I obviously mean by that is, they aren't to my taste.

Amelie Grace without the hyphen is the best.

The May/Mae/Mai middle name is so popular. It's like the default middle name for girls. I work with kids and see endless Ellie/lily/Grace May's. Etc etc.

Hi have a just one year old Elsie-May, I love the sound of it and when she is older it will fit her nicely.

gatsby not to your taste that's fine. Doesn't make them dreadful though

Ah, from your first post I was going to suggest changing things around a bit to have Amelie Louisa Grace - but I see that you have already got there!

I do like May, but it just seems to be everywhere as an "add on" name nowadays. Like a middle name if people can't think of anything else - a bit like Jane in the 1970's.

All of your names are nice - although I'm not sure of how well Elsie will age, will it always sound like an 'old lady name'? - but I do prefer multiple separate names as opposed to one long hyphenated name.

Not my cup of tea but nothing wrong with any of them.

Love Kathleen and Louisa as middle names....

Or Helena