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[AmberMai]

I really don't get why so many people don't like hyphenated names? I have one amber-mai and I love it I only go by amber usually but I love both.

Some are okay.
Amber-Mai. Flows well. It's just the Amber part i don't like
Jade-Emma just sounds stupid. It doesn't even fithough.
Emma-Jade is nice.
As pp says noone csn see any further than the names Mai/Mae/May Rose or Grace for middle names. Theyre getting tired, now

@Awwlookatmybabyspider lovely

I don't like hyphenated first names for a few reasons;

1. You can have a really nice first name & a really nice middle name (Frances Grace), but joining them together with a hyphen, for me, takes a big chunk of the niceness away from each one as individual names & it becomes one duller sounding name.

2. They look cute on a kid, but I don't see many adults using both names and will revert to just one. Especially in their professional life.

3. As PP have said, it's always the same names, with different spellings... I just picture sheep, sounds and all.

4. Where I live, there are certain areas where every one has a hyphenated first name & you can hear the parents screaming at their kids with a fag in one hand & a MacDonalds in the other (sweeping statement)... Unfortunately for me, it has created a stereotype.

This is all just my opinion and I obviously am not looking to cause offence 🙂
I don't hate them or judge, they just aren't my cup of tea x

I'm not a fan of hyphenated names. I find a lot of them quite cutesy and imo they don't age well, or they are unwieldy and don't have great flow.

I know a
Lily-Jayne
Sarah-Lynne (both grannies)
Sammy-Jo
Phoebe-Ann
Kelsey-Ann
Ellie-Marie

I think Frances Grace is beautiful with or without the hyphen

I much prefer Frances Grace to Frances-Grace. The hyphen is clumsy looking or something.

Knickers is right about choosing with love and care. That's what matters, surely?

In the past - especially in some European countries - popular names such as Marie and (male) Jean had another name added to them to distinguish the baby from all the other Jeans and Maries. Hence Jean-Paul, Jean-Jacques, Jean-Pierre, Marie-Anne (Marianne), Marie-Claire, Marie-Helene etc. That made a lot of sense.

Today, the motivation for double-barrelling is not quite the same, I think. It's partly fashion and partly a wish - that, in my opinion, sometimes misfires - to make a perfectly nice name sound extra-special.

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Each to their own but I think hyphenated names just sound like people can't chose which name to go with - pick 1 and get in with it

Personally I assume them to be difficult on computer generated online forms. Hyphen not recognized and the second part viewed as a middle name etc.

I really dislike them. I think ‘just pick a name’. As lots of people have said it’s always the same very popular middle names that are used - May, Rose, Grace. Just use that as a middle name and be done with it.

My niece has a hyphenated name and I never use it. Now she’s older hardly anyone does anyway.

My best friend is called Jamie-Lee and she gets called it maybe like 25% of the time (I often just call her Jay). I love it though! Before I even met her it was my favorite hyphenated name and I used to wish I was called Jamie-Lee ❤

@AmberMai I know, hyphenated names are gorgeous ... my sister is khloé- Phillipa , hyphenated names run in our family really😂😍! Frances-Grace is absolutely gorgeous

It's just a way for unimaginative people to attempt to give their child a unique name. Then said child goes to school and parent is horrified that there are 4 other Lilly-Maes or Ellie-Roses or Jayden-Kais on the class list.

The Mae/Mai thing sets my teeth on edge most of all. It's not sweet or cute or original. It's just stupid. You've misspelled a 3 letter name. I hate it.

@BuntyII people who use hyphenated names know that they're popular , we don't use them to try and be 'different' it's because we like them ...

@kaylanelson thank you so much means a lot. @BuntyII there's no need for that mind I'm not calling my child mae/mai/May. Frances-Grace isn't not mae or mai or may not my fault my Mam called me that and she didn't misspell it my nana was born in May and is French therefore French for May is mai so think before you type.

Amber - some popular names in my region are: Holly, Millie/Milly, Mia/Mya, Amelia, Amelie, Freya, Grace, Phoebe and Ellie. For boys: George, Henry, Connor, Thomas/Tom, Oliver, Lewis, Louis. In terms of babies I know, I have met George and Tom contine to be popular and I know a lot of girls called Isla and Esme. Hope that helps.

You did ask for opinions!

I lived in America where hyphenated names had a bit of a redneck connotation which in certain areas was seen as a negative.

Mai is also a Welsh girl's name, pronounced My, and like the English May is a month, and possibly a form of Mary.
Emma Jade is much nicer than Jade-Emma

A lot of the hyphenated names (e.g. Elsie-May, Ellie-Mae) seem frumpy.