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Double barrel first names - yes or no

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SillySallyStruthers · 19/07/2019 12:19

Opinions?
Any that people like?

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Pinktinker · 23/07/2019 13:53

No way, it’s pure chav.

ChicCroissant · 25/07/2019 14:38

ZillaPilla Thank you Lily-Anna-Rose

If that starts a trend for triple hyphenated names I am holding you personally responsible ZillaPilla Angry Grin

AverageMummy · 25/07/2019 14:59

I’m sorry they do very much sound like a certain demographic.... I would never treat a child differently because of their name & it’s sad that people do - but I would personally try to avoid giving my child a name that has such negative connotations & may well hold them back in life. Hyphenated is probably worse than names like McKenzie.

Also for those who have hyphenated names - it didn’t have the same connotations decades ago.

SillySallyStruthers · 25/07/2019 15:06

Wow! Amazed by such a reaction... and mainly negative. I feel sorry for the people with those names now after reading some of the comments. Confused I didn't realise people felt so strongly about it

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habibihabibi · 25/07/2019 15:18

I wonder what strippers will call themselves when all the hyphenated named girls come of age ?

notacooldad · 25/07/2019 17:00

No way, it’s pure chav
Oh give over!
Dd's friends mum is called Marie Claire. My grandmother was Hannah- Louise. The manager on a different team to me but shares our space is called Anne- Matie. My sisters friend is Sarah-Jane.
There is nothing that indicates 'pure chav' about these lovely people. To say that us deliberately being insulting.
If you dont like hyphenated or double barrelled first names that's absolutely fine but theres no need to be rude about them

MikeUniformMike · 25/07/2019 17:42

notacooldad, you have given examples of names that aren't particularly downmarket (presumably with typos).
Anne-Marie is a catholic name.
Sarah-Jane is a bit twee, and in the early 1960s, nearly every Sarah was a Sarah Jane.
By the 1980s, every other little girl was a something Louise, typically Claire Louise. Some had hyphens.

Nowadays hyphens have become commonplace, but the names are so similar.
The middle names May/Mae, Rose and Grace are often hyphenated with a very popular first name. Lily-Rose, Lily-May etc
The trend seems more popular with less priviled areas, and is definitely used more for girls than boys.

Some of the hyphenated names are pretty, but as you can see from the responses on here, they tend to not be seen favourably.

Most of the hyphenated boy's names I haver seen have seemed downmarket.

People will prejudge you on your name. They might assume a social or ethnic group, age group and education level.
Whether they should or not is a different matter, but they do and they will.

I know lots of people who are always known by Firstname Middlename without the hyphen, and it doesn't seem downmarket.
The double-barrelling makes it seem c**v.

The people I know with a double barrelled first name - I think I know 4, 3 female, 1 male (Sarah-Jane, Emma-Leigh, Charlie-Marie and Ian-Jon) are known as Sarah, Emma, Lee, and Ian (E to his friends).

(I have substituted some of the names for similar ones lest they out anyone)

drumandthebass · 25/07/2019 17:57

Hate them with a passion

WineOrGin · 25/07/2019 21:57

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Alwaysthesun · 25/07/2019 22:06

Very very chav

whattodo2019 · 25/07/2019 22:17

Molly-Mae!!!!Grin

AuntieStella · 26/07/2019 10:03

And MM's sister Ella-Bella (that's a full form for the BC)

MikeUniformMike · 26/07/2019 12:33

I thought she was Ella-Eve, pronounced Ellereev.

AuntieStella · 26/07/2019 12:55

I didn't know she had an actual sister!

I was drawing from her Ellie-Bellie companion

MikeUniformMike · 26/07/2019 16:27

You've lost me. I made Ella-Eve up. It looks pretty but Ellereev sounds awful.
Ellie-Bellie is good and not chavvy at all.

CruCru · 27/07/2019 00:12

All the adults I know with a hyphenated name dropped the second part as soon as they could.

OhTheRoses · 27/07/2019 00:27

Know lots. Now mostly women in their 60s.

Sarah-Jane (SJ)
Emma-Jane (EJ)
Mary-Anne
Marie-Louise

All quite posh.
Don't know any from my dc's era b 1994-98.

OldAndWornOut · 27/07/2019 00:33

I really don't like them at all.
They're just such hard work, especially when the children are being told off.. "Brandon-Lee, you know mummy doesn't like it when you do that. Brandon-Lee!"

ChelseaCat · 28/07/2019 15:25

No no no no NO! Any double barrelled first name is chavtastic

Kokeshi123 · 28/07/2019 21:26

Even the old school ones like Anne-Marie were always a bit sickly sweet sounding.

The new ones like Evie-Mai are grim, sorry. Especially when people use them because "There are a lot of Evies around so I want mine to sound a bit more unique..." Erm, except that ere will be loads of other parents doing the same thing and calling their daughter Evie-Mai or something very like it, and they will all end up being called "Evie" anyway. Just pick a more original name if you want something less common!

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