Ellis-Harper for our girls name?

[Foxff1]

Me and my DH absolutely love the name Ellis for a girl after both of our favourite authors, Ellis bell (Emily Brontë) and Bret Easton Ellis. We’ve had mixed reviews on this with people absolutely either living or hating it!

I love double barralled names and boy names for girls and I like the sound of Ellis-Harper. What’s everyone’s thoughts?

I would assume it was a boy's first and surname.

I definitely see Harper as a surname and Ellis as a boy's name.

@opalescent I agree :/ but I think the name is beautiful and you’ve made a brilliant choice :)

As a primary school teacher - double barrelled names are so hard to fit into labels

Also as a primary school teacher, these names are a right gobful in day to day teaching and always strike one as simply Trying Too Hard. Ellis-Harper would just sound like I’m calling the register every time ...

I am not too keen on the name “Ellis” I know two children who have the name and they are both boys, and I don’t like the name Harper either.

“Ellis-Harper” I do not think it is a name that anyone could take serious, OP please remember she has to grow up and apply for jobs.

@Foxff1 thank you! Nobody on this page liked it when I put it in our short list. But we've had an incredible reaction and loooads of people commenting on how much they love it!

@opalescent it is a lovely girly name I think! People on here are mostly traditional (and very boring.. And rude..) with their tastes... Like I said my 25 year old sister has never had an issue with it! Other than people thinking she had said 'alice' at first but that's expected. And once corrected people love it!

How about Ellis Aria? Then you keep the musical theme going from Harper to Aria. It flows much better. But I'd still drop the hyphen personally.

Why not just use Emily? An infinitely nicer name.

@MrsHappyAndMrCool

I’m aftaid I have to disagree with you there I already have a daughter with a doubled barrelled name and school just call her by the first part Kaiyah. I also already know two other female Ellis and one is an accountant and the other is a barrister but thank you for your input x

I am a huge fan of Bret Easton Ellis but I cannot imagine naming my daughter after him. His work is dark and very misunderstood.

Ellis-Rose might soften it?

I immediately thought Greys Anatomy too!

I don't understand why you would give a double barrelled name only for her to be known by just the first name? 🙄

@Mayhemmumma

Ellis-Rose was my first choice but we already know one with the exact same name! So we really wasn’t sure whether to consider it or not :(

Do you watch Greys anatomy? They’re both names of dead characters

This- I’m watching GA at the minute and it sounds like the new version of the Harper- Avery award- to include Ellis Grey :)

I also already know two other female Ellis and one is an accountant and the other is a barrister

Er, sorry OP, but the register of practising UK barristers does not have any females listed with a first or middle name of Ellis. Maybe the one you know has Ellis as a surname.

@Ginger1982

She isn’t everyone else calls her by her full name and she loves it but school sometimes just use her first part for ease for things like the register.

My name is double barrelled also and I’ve never had problems with it some use just my first, some us both and my family calls me by my nickname bee.

I really like your suggestion of Ellis-Rae

Kaiyah-Rayne and Ellis-Rae?

I also already know two other female Ellis and one is an accountant and the other is a barrister

It must be a more common name than my own experience reflects as I've never met one in 40-odd years.

Neither name is my style, but Harper on it's own would be my preference.

Just call her Ellis. Harper mn.

Do you like Grey's Anatomy on TV? First thing it made me think of. Ellis Grey and Harper-Avery (surname) are two important characters in the show.

OP, are you in the UK?

I like Ellis but I don’t like Harper.

What about Ellis-Belle

Two surnames is a dreadful first name.
Reminds me of the now defunct shoe shop Freeman Hardy Willis.

@MollyHuaCha

Thank you for the correction—Soon to be qualified Barrister—I didn’t realise the FBI was performing background checks on my post about naming my child 🤦🏼‍♀️🙄

I like the name, but hyphenated names seem to indicate you're in a lower socioeconomic group these days, unfortunately. I'd leave out the hyphen.

It’s absolutely awful, and (dare I say it) chavvy as fuck.

^I’d be thinking this, but obviously I’d never say it out loud - I imagine lots of other people would too.

Please please please remember that your baby will be an adult longer than they are a child and you cannot impart personality through giving them a yooneeke name. They will have to apply for jobs and introduce themselves to people, so just give them a nice, normal name that they don’t have to explain or spell out.

Yours - someone with an easily misheard and mispronounced name x

I like it, I only know of one boy with that name and I know a girl with it as a middle name. Just go with it