Why does everyone on here hate double barrelled names?

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Just that really, I have noticed so many are against them and just wondering why?

I have 2 names I really want for dd when she arrives, I love them both, go well together, and I want to use both as I don't just want one to get swollwed up as a middle name never to be used!

Please I think it gives a option when child is older to choose if it would rather go by just one of the names!

Please tell me you reasons why you don't like them

BrianTheMole: no need to be offended, the thread is about hyphenated first names, not double-barrelled surnames (I can see why you were confused initially)

It always sounds like you are telling the child off when you call them.
Amy-Jane! come here right now

I think its because if you were being told off in the 70s your Mum would call Amy Jane Smith* come here right now !

• made up name

sound like the parents couldn't decide - that's why dd has 3 names
and cutesy flowery too - which I dislike on girls too
bizarrely, didn't think of it at the time

My dh has a double-barrelled first name (his dad is German, I think half the country is Hans-something). He always goes by the second half of his name and avoids the Hans bit as much as possible!!

I think that the ones common now are too cutesy and I agree about the try-hard element. And the fact that it's the same names over and over again. Don't people realise?

Several reasons. Firstly, they usually sound stupid. Bodging two names together for the sake of it sounds just crap in my opinion. Secondly, they are boring and dated. Especially the - Mae, - Grace, - Rose ones. Just shut up already. Thirdly, they often sound cutesy and nicknamey, and I find the whole infantilising effect really annoying. People seem to forget they are naming an adult woman who needs to be taken seriously. Bitsie-Boo type names are not appropriate for adult women as far as I'm concerned.

I do like trad French names like Ann-Marie and Jean-Paul however. Just on French people.

'Don't people realise?'

Exactly weegie.

I think most of the parents think they are being original. I may be wrong but it does make me wonder.

Oohhh, op, what's the name!

There are 2 in my dds class and both fall into the hillbilly category of names unfortunately. Although lovely children and parents!

I don't like the ones where May/Mae is added to the end. It sounds a bit trailer trash.
Or Jim-Bob.

I have 4 dd's each with hyphenated names, bil jokingly calls us hillbillies but I don't mind. It's each to their own and it's only on MN that I find negativity about it, in rl either people aren't fussed what you name your own child or have better manners than to voice their opinions.

Why do those with hillbilly Hicksville names not seem to do so well in school I wonder. Somebody somewhere must have done a study on it

Heels surely that's a generalisation though! my dd1 is in top sets for everything at high school and is doing very well even with a hyphenated name

DH and DS are hyphenated. We are French so I guess it's acceptable? But there's a long tradition of those hyphenated names here, often with Anne or Marie for girls and Charles, Jean, Marc, Paul for boys. Or things like Francois-Xavier. Very rarely invented, which I think is people's beef with Lily-Rose, Isla-Grace, Ella-May etc.

Plus they're used in full, unless you're among family and there are 5 daughters and the mother who are all Marie-X then among themselves it may just be X, but everyone outside will call them by their full names whereas in the UK there's a tendency to shorten I think.

Is dd at high school in alabama?

Yes of course she is Heels, she is excelling in moonshine making and straw chewing just as I type

My name is hyphenated - I hate it and never use it, nobody knows this my actual name,
Nothing against anyone else's choices though, your kid your rules

Hyphenated names are a bit too redneck to my mind.

Think 'Deliverance'.

PortlyPinUp of course people are too polite to say this to you in RL. Doesn't mean they don't think it though ;)

Or the folks on Justified

I really don't like hyphenated names for many of the reasons given. However this is my own prejudice I realise. It's funny but while I don't like Anne-Marie, I love Marianne and it was a strong contender for DD (in the end I decided I would be annoyed if people called her Marian).

Sorry for the thread derail.

Ehric- but does it matter what other people think really? If someone chooses a name that they like that should be enough surely?

I don't know! Does it matter to you? If you're happy with their names then I guess it doesn't matter.

Ah, but Portly, the whole thread was an opinion gatherer, so we are all expressing our opinions. The OP must wish to hear what other people think or the question wouldn't have been posed.

In the 80s there was loads of girls called (something) -Louise so, Sarah-Louise, Emma-Louise, Katy-Louise etc. the Louise bit generally became "L'Weeeeze" and the first name would be mumbled or garbled.

To me Anne-Marie, Sarah-Jane etc are very 80s names and I don't particularly like them in the same way that I don't particular like any of the popular names from my childhood (a raft of Lauras and Rebeccas)

Some other hyphenated names are a bit cutesy for my taste, but again I'm not a fan of cutesy names anyway - I know cutesy is a horrible word but that's what they are in my head.

I met a Daisy-May yesterday, in her 20s. What struck me was that she really, really suited the name Daisy but Daisy-May seemed more like a young girl's name than a 20 something professionals name. But that's the same as I can't help but see Stanley as an older man's name, though I know a lovely 2yo Stanley.