Opinions on hyphened first name (second part May)

[PSL1990]

What do people this of hyphened first names? Eg Alice-May

I think it’s overused now, plus whilst it sounds pretty for a baby/little girl it wouldn’t age too well. I remember at secondary school all of the girls with double-barrelled names just used the first part.

I do feel ‘May’ as a middle name is becoming what was the ‘Louise’ of my generation!

I wouldn’t see a ‘-may’ name and think ‘scummy’ though that’s a bit odd

Awful awful awful
So boring, over used, dated and tacky

Don’t do it

I knew an Ellie-May but kept calling her Ellie-Rose by accident. I'm sorry but I do agree with all.the previous posts saying its been done.

Are you going for hyphenated to get a third syllable in?

Too twee for me.

I don’t like it personally, over used.

"Alice May is lovely. Alice-May is awful. Rightly or wrongly hyphenated names instantly sound "scummy" to me and I say that as someone firmly "working class" for want of better phrases!"

^^This.

A friend named their newborn 'Lexi-Mai' a short while ago - and whilst the baby is incredibly lovely, it caused a few of us to blink when we were told it was because they "didn't want her to have a middle name". Also, how to pronounce it, but...

I'd never say this to my friend - their baby equals their choice, after all - but it just makes me think of young parents with poor educations who don't have any aspirations for their child, other than repeating the cycle of being a young parent with a poor education, themselves... I wouldn't even say "working class", to be honest.

'Alice' and 'May' are beautiful, classic names. To stick a hyphen between them would simply be to cheapen them in my opinion.

I just thinks it’s a bit chavvy and agree that teenagers always drop the second part

Very common and very chavvy

Whilst I agree it’s overused, the girls I know with ‘-may’ names all have lovely families and are not at all ‘scummy’ or ‘chavvy’.

Personally, it's shite.

Alice is a lovely name on it's own, you take that away from it when you add may/mae

Following a thread that was deleted (M-Jai), how about S-Mae?

My dds name is hyphenated I love it because it's just two simple names made a bit more lovely being used together. However Mae and Rose and Lee have become very common as second parts of hyphenated names and are considered a bit tacky by many.

Billie-Jean, Norma-Jean, Sue-Ellen, Mary-Ellen, Jim-Bob, Peggy-Sue, Jean-Claude, John-Paul, Marie-Therese, Rose-Marie. They’re just not very British.

Alice is lovely, don’t ruin it by tacking -May on like every second child lately. It’s so dull and pointless.

I’m a secondary school teacher and in one of my Year 7 classes there’s 8 out of 32 kids with a double barrelled first name 6 being -May names. 3 Lily-May’s!

Twee and unoriginal. Sorry

May is a beautiful name on its own though

They aren’t to my taste, but at least they’re both proper names with regular spellings instead of something cre8tive.

The best thing about them is when parents announce the name as if it’s very original, and they always seem to have a granny called May or Rose to honour 😂

Hyphenated first names are just a bit tacky and common to me. I'd much rather just have a first and middle name not hyphenated. Whenever I see posts about hyphenated names, it seems like people are just not a fan of them.

Not "Scummy" or "Chavvy" or even tied to one particular class people from every class have used hyphenated names through the years if you want both names to be used as first then it's the best way of saying so otherwise it can get tricky...

I think it will result in your child being judged as from a very poor background - particularly May / Mae on top. I wish that wasn’t a thing with kids’ names as it’s unfair & leads to predjudicial treatment etc but that’s just what will happen.

Flamingosbears - they absolutely are associated with class. What tends to happen is trends move through demographics & as they do, get abandoned by those who don’t like the new associations.
It’s very well known & studied here, but interestingly isn’t the case in many countries - we are peculiarly obsessed with the link between names & class.

I think they are awful personally.
I love middle names but not hyphenated first names.
But you should name your child whatever you like regardless of what people on the internet think.

Too common, anything hyphenated as a first name(s) make me shudder, especially when it's with May / Mae, sounds chavvy to me and I just don't like them