Hyphenated boys names

[Siennasun]

I really like boys names starting with john (John-Paul, John-Joseph,etc). All my work colleagues hated them when we were talking about it last week . What does everyone else think?

No. Stop it. Your colleagues are right.

He'll sound like a pope or one of the Waltons.

I don't like hyphenated names for boys or girls tbh. I think they look indecisive and strangely greedy, like you had to use extra names because a first and a middle name just weren't enough.

However, that's probably deeply unreasonable of me.

Just no

Sorry but it sounds as if the parents just couldn't make up their minds.

Well that's pretty decisive.
I do agree with the pope comment - not what I want for future DS

Around where I live hyphenated boys' names are reakly only used by the Irish traveller community. I don't mind these names TBH. At least they're not Jake/Oliver/Charlie etc etc etc.. How's about using two names but no hyphen. E.g., Brett Easton Ellis.

I like them! I think I prefer them without the hyphen though. John Paul and John Joseph are nice.

I also like John Luke, John Andrew, John Charles, John David, John Francis, John Henry, John James, John Jacob, John Michael and John Peter.

Hyphenated names are ok, but not starting with John. It's so boring it sounds like you had to use John, but actually wanted the other name so compromised with John Joseph or whatever. If you like John plus a bit extra just use Jonathan, which is perfectly nice.

There are tons of Irish men born around 1978/79 called John-Paul. And John-Joe is a real farmer's name.

Personally I'm not a fan of hyphenated names.

I like them, but they can sound very religious. One of my favourite names is Anne-Catherine, and I've always loved Mary-Jane. Not boys names but... hey ho.

Very French

I love Jean-Luc (as in Picard) but I think you can only really get away with it if you are French

I'd love to have had a boyfriend called Jean -Baptiste.

don't-do-it
More common in the Irish traveller community

There is a John-James at ds2's school he is known as JJ

I like BillyElliot. One word. 2 capitals.

Yay not everyone hates them
I've got a couple of friends called John Joseph (JohnJoe), both Irish, though not travellers. I also know a John-Paul through work who is really fit nice, which is what gave me the idea, I think.
DS 1 has the only boys name that DH and I both liked so really struggling to think of potential boys names....

Where I am it is often done to disambiguate a child from the other John Smiths in the class/family/community.

I would deffo go without the hyphen to avoid banjo-twanging appalachian connotations though

Is disambiguate a word?

Without the hyphen would John Paul not just get called John with Paul being a middle name?

Also we have a very Irish surname (though I've never even been to Ireland and nor has DH). Would that make any double name even more travellery?
Is it that bad? I quite like traveller names - Tyson Fury

Differentiate may have been a better choice but yes, disambiguate is a perfectly good word and is in the OED

Excellent! I love a new word

Me too. I have to rein myself in in RL otherwise I find myself getting blank looks when I try out my new terms :) :) I'm all for plain English but language is so fascinating.

if you spell john jean its much more palletable

John-Paul is the only hyphenated boys name that works. But beware, I know 2 and they are both known as JP.

As the owner of a hyphenated name no don't do it.

Loads of reasons why, getting called a Walton, computers not recognising the hyphen , getting teased a bit.