Lexi... yay or nay?

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My dh wants to called our baby Lexi-May but I don't like it. Lexi feels a bit overused and slightly chavy to me, and May has been done to death. So many kids at other dd school called "something-May. "
He doesn't seem open to many alternatives. Sigh

Nay

Your thoughts about it are correct.

Do not do this to your child.

Alexandra is fine.

Oh No, keep looking

I agree with your thoughts about both Lexi and May

No.
Hate the name Mae, May or whatever it is, too.

Horrible name. I know a couple of them and they are high maintenance.

My friends beagle is called Lexi. Nice for a short fat dog but less nice for a child I think.

I think May is fine as a stand alone middle name but not Lexi, I agree with you and personally hate hyphenated names.

Very over used, there are 3 Lexis in my daughters current class, and a couple more in the school.

I don't think the Lexi bit is bad but it's too much like Alexa, and May is just too common IMO.

Lexi is nice as a nickname but I don't love it as a full name. I completely agree with you on May/ Mae and don't think Lexi-May sounds good together.

Lexi could be short for:
Alexandra / Alexandria
Alexis / Alexa / Alexia

I agree with others that the compromise of Alexandra May is the obvious and fair one - he can call her Lexi May the way any parent can use nicknames or affectionate forms of names if he wants but she won't be "labelled" (for want of a better term) with a name you have reservations about.

Its an awful name and to add it to May makes it even worse Lexi-May sounds like one of Stacey Slaters kids in Eastenders. The kind of girl who is always in trouble and bully's other kids at school before leaving at 15 to have a baby with her drug dealing boyfriend.

Alexis with Mae as the middle name. At a push.

I'd go with Alexandra May - with May as a middle name with no hyphen. Your partner can called her Lexi May affectionately if he wants (I quite often use DD's middle name in this way), but her first name is Alexandra, or Lexi if you like it (though I prefer Alex as a shortened version - much classier).

Chavtastic IMO

My sister is Alexandra, but known as Lexi. I like Lexi but to me it is a nickname rather than a real name.
May is just awful - so dull as a middle name. Along with Rose, it's the Louise of the noughties. All nice enough but completely lacking in imagination

Not keen if I am honest, but it is popular. I heard a parent the other day shout Alexa, I thought she was talking to her “assistant” and wondered why she was being so loud, then saw the child. I would avoid names like this tbh.

I've definitely heard that combo before.

Much prefer Alexa out of all the full name alternatives and definitely not May (or Louise!)

I don’t like Lexi as a stand alone name but Alexandra would NOT fit in with children names of my friends etc.
I would go with Alexia/Alexa and maybe spell Lexi as Lexie?

Lexi is awful.

So so bored of -May. Unoriginal and massively overused. It makes Lexi worse.

I think your instincts are correct - it's not a great name...

I would also avoid Alexa though - the Amazon Alexa has made it unusable for a child.

I don't like Lexi, personally. Fine as a nickname for Alexandra, but as a full name, I'm not keen on it. The Something-May trend also seems rather overdone to me at this point - so many 2010s-born girls have similar names, it will probably seem quite dated in the future.

Nah.

You don’t like it and for that reason alone I wouldn’t go for it.