Betty Maud or Maud Betty?

[Hildegard36]

We definitely want to use Betty and Maud in dd’s name in some form - after mine and dh’s grandmothers.

We’re wavering between using both the names as middle names, and having something else first e.g. Madeleine/Caroline/Jemima/Eleanor Betty Maud

Or just using those two names, one as first, one as middle.
I.e. Maud Betty or Betty Maud

Our surname is two syllables, starts with O, along the lines of Oakland

Caroline Betty Maud

I love both betty and maud but I am not sure they go together. As they are both short names they almost need a longer filler name inbetween or after.

I would go for maud as a first name purely as it is less common than betty.

Eeek. Oh don't do this to your poor child. Sorry but Betty is hideous and Maud equally so. apologies. Madeleine however is beautiful

I love the name Betty...and Bette and I understand you wanting to use Maud to even it up ( even though I think it's a bit stern) so Betty Maud from me.

Both completely gorgeous. Betty Maude (would use the 'e', myself) flows better than Maude Betty - but I'd go for Elizabeth (Betty) Maude. My granny was Betty (found out long after she died that her given name was Elizabeth - so no need to publicise the Elizabeth bit, but it would give your DD options).

FWIW, my DD has a very long name, but has only ever been known by a diminutive (think Lottie, rather than Charlotte, though that's not her name). Most of her friends don't even know she has a 'long' name. So that's something you could consider...

Sorry, i hate both of them if I am honest. If I was to use them I would find a name that I liked for her first name and use them as middle names.

Maud’s derived from Matilda Google agrees with you but I'm pretty sure it's been used a variant of Magdalen, which would mean it's related to Madeleine. Magdalena is pretty, though if the OP likes Maud then perhaps we're looking for 'sensible' names rather than pretty ones.

I agree with the pps who have suggested Elizabeth Maude as an alternative to Betty Maud. Betty is really cute though.

Betty Maud flows better. But 99% of the time she'll just be Betty surname or Maud surname, middle names just don't get used that much. So for that reason I'd use both as middle names so it's equal. They're both short so it wouldn't make the full name too unwieldy.

Betty Maud is lovely. We'd have had Betty as a first name for our daughter but my husband already calls me Betty as a nickname.

Betty is fab as a first name.

Betty / Elizabeth is lovely.

Maud is awful. Makes me think of maudlin. I appreciate it’s a family name but did she have a middle name (the relative)?

Another vote for Elizabeth Maud. Betty as a NN from birth.
Gorgeous names!

Maud is beautiful. The stark plainness holds such poetry and romance.

(The optional 'e' is trying to be pretty. Better without.)

Maud Betty is gorgeous, my eldest DS was going to be a Maud.

I prefer Maud Betty (and yes, without the 'e').

Love Betty and Maud but I’d go Maud Betty because at least 50% of the people she meets will drop their t’s and so she’ll be called Beh’ee (hard to type the sound!) and that would be painful to my ears.

Either that or another first name and Betty Maud in the middle. Lovely.

Unrelated but why do people come and bash names that a poster has already made clear they are choosing - if you don’t like them, why comment?

I think the future teenage Betty Maud hates you for saddling her with such an awful old biddy name. Sorry.

The only Betty I've taught once came up to me upset because other kids had been calling her sweaty Betty in PE. So I'd avoid Betty and go with Elizabeth, you calling her Betty as a NN if you want. Then she's got the option of picking her own nn as an older child. Liz, Lizzie, Beth etc. if she doesn't like Betty herself by then.

Sounds like a pair of batty maiden aunts, sorry!

Caroline Betty Maud, or if not
Betty Maud

I'm not keen on Betty or Maud, and together it seems a bit overkill on the 'older lady names'. I'd use them both as middle names and give your baby her own name.

^This completely. Both names aren’t nice anyway

Echoing others Betty Maud is pretty bad, at least go with Elizabeth to give your DD choices when she's older.

I actually do not mind Maud (well it's better than Betty), however unless your going to double barrel the name, Maud will be barely used in conjunction with Betty.

Thank you for all the comments!

We appreciate the negative ones too - we’re definitely using them as middle names, but I think we’ve been swayed off either as a first name. They’re very meaningful names for us, but we understand they’re a ‘bit much’ together and by themselves.

I think it’s nicer for her to have her own individual first name, and then the names of two of her great grandmothers as middle names. It also seems fairer to the great grandmothers, rather than giving one of their names as first name and relegating the other to the middle name!

Now we’re just deciding between
Jemima Betty Maud and Caroline Betty Maud 😀

Jemima Betty Maud is super!

I think it’s fabulous - Betty Maud and I wouldn’t go for Elizabeth as I firmly believe that you name your child what you want them to be called and I don’t buy the “proper name” idea, a name is a name and if it’s her name it’s a proper name