Double barrel first names - yes or no

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Opinions?
Any that people like?

I think they're chavtastic.

Wow quite a response! Seems quite negative overall. Food for thought 👍 thank you all x

@GoodJobSteve I've watched Ted

No

Oh haven't you heard? General consensus on mumsnet is that people do NOT like hyphenated names!

I don't really care. Some are bleeh but so are loads of singular names. Just depends which names are put together.

Thank goodness it is not just me with the Mae/May
I come from a country where traditionally names are like that but not double barrelled, just usually Mary something. I think nowadays is less common though and usually people don't say the Mary part, just the other name.

But these Lilly-Mae, Lilly-Rose, Blah-May here is driving me nuts and I don't know why!!!! I really dislike it and normally I don't give a flying duck as I am not used to English names anyway so I don't have an opinion.
Oh my, I can't stand them

I heard a dad in Aldi repeatedly calling for his daughter, Ava-Grace. He put a lot of emphasis on the Grace part and elongated it slightly which did a great job of ruining two perfectly nice names in my opinion.

One of the posters has said they dislike a name they have used in their own MN user name. Ironic.

So everyone hates double barrelled names which can be pretty but love horrible names like Ethel and Doris?

Calling people chavs as well, how very sneery

I would be very wary if you care about fidelity to the name OP. I know a few people who get upset when the second part is invariably dropped by other people. I think for particularly popular ones like May and Rose it will happen automatically.

I really hate them. May/Mae seems to be a popular choice & I just think mostly the two names used are lovely I.e. Lily-May, Lucy-May, Molly-Mae but double barrelled they sound chavvy. Sorry

It’s a definite no from me.

It's fine if you are French.
It's looked down on in the UK.
Not often used for boys in the UK, and even more naff than for girls.
The name after the hyphen is usually dropped.
It is better than joining the names, which often seem unreadable.
Just use both names without the hyphen like Sarah Jessica Parker does.

No. Particularly ending in May/Mae or Rose.
Sounds like a prize Jersey cow to me, and very twee.

No definitely not.

I am not keen on the older names either actually, but I think that's because I am old myself so always associated them with elderly aunts and uncles

No. Awful and chavvy IMO.

I have one, it's ok but please please please put a hyphen in it if you want child to be called whole name eg if you want her to be called Ella-May don't name her Ella May as she will be forever saying it's Ella May not just Ella.

To be fair names like Marianne started as Mary (or Marie in France) - Anne.

But I'm not generally a big fan.

In some cases they are first and middle names, and the child is known as Paul, rather than Paul Joseph. The initials are used as a nickname

I have honestly never known anyone known as one of the initial names only. The babies were always announced as both. I grew up in Ireland and these names were very popular back then (1970s).

The first name was used to honour a father or grandfather’s name and the second to differentiate the child from the father or grandfather.

However names like Mary Ellen were often known by just Mary or Ellen (to avoid the confusion of having so many Mary’s).

Think of CJ in Reggie Perrin.

His name was Charles Jefferson.

It wasn't an abbreviation for Callum-Jayden.

Think of CJ in Reggie Perrin.

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