Double barrel first names - yes or no

[SillySallyStruthers]

Opinions?
Any that people like?

I love Marie-Claire or Marie-Helene

I’ve come across a Tee-Jay or two. It happens.

Dislike them

Having lived with a hyphen name I can't say I've had any negativity from it

It's hyphened names with odd spellings that's wrong!

My dd has one, no hyphen.
We didn’t persist using the second and she is only known as both when she’s in trouble.
They’re not very practical.
I still love her name.

Oh to add my name isn't shortened, I do have a nickname for very close friends but at work etc it's my full name. I don't respond if only half is said & it irritates me as it feels far too personal, it's clear in my emails what my name. I don't see it being different to a person called Benjamin that want to be called by their full name not Ben.

There is one boy in my child's playgroup named "Christopher-Dane" (not the actual name but similar)

It's annoying singing the welcome song with that many syllables

There are okay to a point- not too 'sing song'

Somehow short 'blunt' ending first names sound better when double barrelled with another
Like

Ruth-ann
Paul-Julian

Rather than -y names ( Rosy-ann , Sally-ann)

I have honestly never known anyone known as one of the initial names only

I can think of 3 in schools I've taught in, where the parents were insistent that 'CJ' was the child's actual name.

Not for me.

What about Mary Ann? Is that bad? Was thinking of it for future DD.

There is a massive difference I think in the names Mary-Ann/Jane to Lacey Mae/Ann in my opinion. The later is chavvy

My DD has a double barrelled name, I wouldn't say her name sounds chavvy, just two perfectly normal nice names. Some double barrelled names I don't like and can see where people are coming from but it's like with any name. I wouldn't automatically dislike or label a name as chavvy because it's double barrelled

I like them. Some are lovely.
I like both French and English.

I know a few adults with double barrelled names and I like them. But they are the traditional sort of European name - think Marie-Paule, Marie-Luz, Anne-Marie, etc. Both parts of the name are used. Names like Marianne or Rosemary used to be double barrelled and have changed their spelling over time. I know an Emma-Jane and an Anna-Rose as well and I like those.

Mary-Ann is nice, though I do prefer Marianne - admittedly pronounced differently.

Yes. But good luck with keeping it, many English can't manage one name without having to shorten it.

I have one. I'm forty though, so it's not one of the modern ones mentioned in the thread! I've pretty much always just used the first name of the two. That started from day one of education and having to learn to write my name (the full one being incredibly long compared the the first name alone)! Having said that all official documents (including exam papers) have needed my real hyphenated name on. Takes forever!

Not a fan

So if you have two first names but no hyphen what exactly makes them both your first name? It wouldn’t appear any different on a birth certificate than someone with one first name and a middle name would it?
Eg if I saw someone’s name as Jane Margaret Doe how would you know that her parents intended her to be Jane Margaret as a first name and not just Jane?

I’m in my 40s with a double- barrelled hyphenated name and have hated it all my life so it’s a no from me.

Hyphenated first names always seem unpopular on name forums. I can see why, it's just annoying for the child to have to constantly spell out her name: "No, it's not Mary Anne, it's Mary hyphen Anne"....you don't want that kind of scenario their whole life. Especially as it could just be two names, one first and one middle and she could still use them.

I know several children with hyphenated names. Most of them are two names put together that don't actually 'go' so they are awkward if you only hear them said, and for one at least (my dsd) people have a lot of trouble spelling it.
I also know another child who has a hyphenated name but is just called a short version of the first half of it. Seems a bit pointless!
But some more traditional ones, or that at least work together can be nice.

I have a double barrelled name and I like it. Both names are ordinary enough on their own and neither is May/Mae or Rose. Or Leigh. I've never experienced negativity either.