A girls name with a hyphen!!!

[morningcuppatea]

I'd like to honour a special relative who was named Marion but I don't like that form of the name. I do like:

Marie-Anne
Marie-Anna

But the recent MN hate for hyphens is making me doubt the names now. What do you think?

Marianne? Lovely name.

I’m not keen on a hyphen o have to be honest. In my area it tends to go along with people who are a little hard of thinking 😬. However if you love it, then use it. A hyphenated name certainly won’t look out of place in the future.

And I agree with the PP. Marianne is a lovely name.

Marianne and Marianna don't need hyphens. Lovely names

No hyphen needed with those names

Marianne/Marianna is lovely. I also like Marigold. Think either would work

I am an Anna-Marie. No one has called me that, ever, since my mum died as she was the only person who did. I have my daughter my mums name as a middle name as she was born a year after mum died.

Marianne is a gorgeous name.

I personally don't like hyphenated names.

I always say this but I'm going to say it again, if you've spent most of your life having to explain that your name is Marion, not Marian or Marianne or Marie-Ann, I just don't think you'd feel at all honoured by someone calling their daughter one of those other names. I have a name that's easily mistaken for something else and has lots of quite similar names, and I wouldn't feel in any way honoured by someone choosing to use one of those names rather than, you know, my name.

Just give them the middle name Marion and choose something else entirely.

I agree with having Marion as a middle name. Marie-Anne, or even Marianne isn’t the same, so I wouldn’t say that’s really ‘honouring’.

Marina?
Anne-Marie is ok, as is Marianne, but Marie-Anne and Marie-Anna aren't.

Marie-Anna sounds like the Mariana Trench in the Pacific, the deepest ocean trench in the world. Which may be ok for you. Or not.

Hyphenated names are bloody awful
Sorry

It’s weird to hyphenate the two names when it’s totally unnecessary as both Marianne and Marianna are real names without the hyphen!

I also agree that it's not really honouring someone to effectively say you don't like their name.

Anne-marie, Marianne and Marianna all flow really nicely but marie-anne and Marie-anna don't, the 'ee-ah' sound in the middle is quite jarring.

I love Marianne but Marion is also great itself and fits with similar style names that are coming into fashion now, like Barbara. I do know a toddler Marion.

Another one agreeing that calling your child by a different name isn't "honouring", especially as the hyphenated ones you're thinking of are nothing like Marion.

Just use Marion as a middle name.

No

I know a Marie-Anne and I think it's very pretty. Marie-Anna is also lovely.

I think it's fine to honour someone by using a similar but not same name. I have done this with my daughter.

I also like hyphenated names and what I particularly like is if you can use them, as here, to turn two rather ordinary names into something just slightly more unusual.

Marianne without the hyphen is lovely.

YABU

Marianne would be lovely

My mum is Mary, which I don't like but i do like Mairi which I think would be an "in honour of" compromise.

How about a name of your choice and Marion as a middle name.