Double barrel first names - yes or no

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Opinions?
Any that people like?

If you love a specific name combo I would just call your child that full name without a hyphen, eg Geoffrey Charles on Poldark (lol, have always loved that name). But I agree the hyphen is a bit cringe, this way your child has the option of only using one name.

Francis Crawford Although maybe he took it a bit far with James James Morrison Morrison Willoughby George DuPree

Weatherby! Weatherby! (But I love the reference! Always wondered if James Morrison's parents were A A Milne fans! )

@CatkinToadflax I always assumed that James Morrison was the son of a single mother, who was possibly having MH difficulties and he was effectively a (very) young carer, it at least saw himself like that. This could very well be projection on my part!

Lobster Well he’s certainly done very well for himself regardless!

Love your user name - love a bit of Lewis Carroll as well as AA Milne!

@CatkinToadflax oh sorry!! I meant the James Morrison in the poem (is it called Disobedience?). I always found it quite sad - that a three year old felt responsible for his mother's safety - and especially the line "last seen wandering vaguely, quite of her own accord" as if she'd had a breakdown. And that JJMMWGD didn't have a father so felt that he alone was responsible for her.

Or I just overthink!!

Thank you; it's my favourite of the Alice poems.

Lobster I always assumed that JJMMWGD was a total control freak and his mother found it easier to just go along with him! It’s a rather lovely poem though, I’m a fan of all of the Milne poems (although ‘Here Lies A Tree - By Owl’ is my favourite!).

I hate them all with a passion. I find them tacky and classless personally.

Anne-Marie is ok.
Jaydon-Kai or Lily-Mae seem very downmarket.
The Sarah-Janes and Emma-Janes of my age groups are known as Sarah or Emma. My DC are of the -Louise age group.
When someone told me that her GDD was Jade-Emma , I heard Jaidemma and thought ???. She refers to her as Jade these days.

Not a fan and I have a niece with a double barrelled first name... And surname.

Odd thing is that we don't actually use the full first name, only the first portion, so I am extremely confused by my sister's decision.

I really wanted a double barrelled name for my DD, I loved Holly-Louise as Louise was my mum's middle name.

Ex vetoed the double barrelled name (incl Holly), TBH I am grateful he did, nice idea but wasn't that practical. Although DD never Louise as a middle name :(

I find them awful, every other child at school is something-mae, something-jo or something-lee.

Holly and Louise are both nice but Holly-Louise is a bit of a tongue twister.

I am going to read the entire thread just to see if my name turns up. (Yes, I’m actually wuther-ing)

Love all the judgeyness, tho. Seriously, people. I’m in my 40s and life’s enough of a bloody great upwards struggle without people being unkind about my name (which I didn’t bloody choose, but quite like?).

Hyphen; no hyphen discrimination? Fuck that.

Oh no; my hyphenated first name doesn’t come up.
I like it.
And I’d not particularly consider myself either “tacky” or “classless”. But, maybe I’ve missed other people thinking that about me.

Answer to this; go for a hyphen if you like the names together.

WutheringBites My name's come up quite a bit on this thread.........oooooooo. I am 48.

Extremely common to do this where I live - especially for boys:

John Norman
Iain George
Murdo John

Etc

Hideous, so chavvy.

I don't see how names like Anne Marie, Marie Claire or John Paul are ' hideoes' ' chavy' or " awful'

@HotChocolateLover charming! I post that I have a db name and two posts later you say they are hideous and chavvy.

No to hyphenated first names.

They sound even more silly on grown up people.

@WutheringBites @ZillaPilla my hyphenated name hasn't come up on this thread either. I like mine too and I'm nearly 50 - people I've met during my life must have pretended to like it ...

I'm in the minority and although none of mine have double barrel names, I do quite like them!
I know they are way over used but still love...
Rosie-Mae
Mollie-Kate
Clara-Louise
Heidi-Rose.
I was never brave enough to use them for mine but I think they're fine.
They can always drop the hyphen as they get older if they want a stand alone name.

I'm not afraid to disagree with the crowd. I think hyphenated names are fine!

Thank you Lily-Anna-Rose