To hyphenate or not? Josy Rita

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We have just found out we are having a baby girl and have decided on the name Josy Rita after both our maternal grandmothers.

But we can't decide whether to have Josy (first name) and Rita (middle name) or to go Josy-Rita (first name) with no middle name??

Ohh love Josette! So pretty! No hyphen, Rita I think is very underused it's a lovely sassy name

No hyphen and Josette is beautiful

I agree, Josette Rita with Josy/Josie/Josey for short.

Joserita? Ends confusion about whether it's one name or two and youve still got your Josy nn

Josette Rita sounds better than hyphenating the names, although I expect her nickname will become Jo not Josy no matter what way around they are.

Hate the spelling Josy

Josette Rita for sure. You can collect the Chalet School books for her!

Loving the name Josette, I’ve never heard it before but it is so lovely.

Josette is beautiful

No hyphen
Prefer josie over josy but I do understand why you have it that way. Keep it. It's unusual!

Another vote for separate names Josette Rita with Josy as her nickname. Beautiful and unusual name that will grow with her yet also give her a gorgeous nn! Lovely.

Josette Margueritte/Margaret nn Josy. no hyphen

Definitely no hyphen!

Word of warning: Josette is massively unfashionable in France, it's deeply middle-aged and fuddy-duddy.

Josy-Rita sounds like a kind of slimming bread, but separate would be OK. Josy is a nice name on its own, so maybe Rita as a middle name?

Josette Rita, nn Josy is lovely. Hyphen’s are almost always awful.

Do not hyphenate the first names, a dreadful practice.

Josette is lovely. My kids are half French and one has a French ‘old lady name’. No one bats an eyelid. Someone has to be the first with the originality to reuse the name! It’s like Elsie or Mabel in the UK. They are now totally mainstream but seven years ago seemed quite ‘out there’!

I was also going to say Josy-Rita just made me think of Ryvita

I love the name but beware that you're not pronouncing it incorrectly. The J should be softer than in Josie, almost halfway between a j and a sh sound. It would be a shame to give her a French name and pronounce an anglicised version of it.

@DeeStopia I know how it should be pronounced, I've just kind of resigned myself to the fact everybody who isn't her French family will pronounce it the English way. It's exactly the same with my own name. I think both are lovely sounding so it doesn't bother me

Josette Rita sounds very nice.