Minnie May - is this a bad idea? And why do so many people dislike hyphenated names with Mae?

[caitlinrose]

Yesterday I watched "Anne with an E" for the first time and there was a character called Minnie May who was really sweet. I thought it was hyphenated because she was called by both names but google let met know it's not.

I thought it was kind of cute. What are your thoughts on Minnie May, called by both names? I think it's more of an idea right now and I wouldn't actually use it but I'd use May or maybe just Minnie.

What are your thoughts on just Minnie or just May? And Mae?

General question: why do hyphenated names with May, Mae seem to be disliked so much here even though May, Mae is a classic name? Does this apply to Mae, May on its own too?

Does it matter whether there's a hyphen or not? Is Minnie-May less popular here than Minnie May (called by both)?

And why do people seem to like May and dislike Mae (noticed this in a past thread)? To me they are both classic (Mae West etc.). Do you prefer Mae or May?

Use the name if you like it that much OP, as you said yourself it's no different to Maisie, Millie etc, theres nothing wrong with the name, if you want to add Mae I would use it as her middle name instead of hyphenated

I don’t know one single adult who uses a hyphenated fist name they all drop the second part. That’s why I wouldn’t use it.

Except Molly-Mae Hague whose double barrelled name is used across her numerous successful brands.

Never heard of Molly-Mae-Hague.
I’m speaking from experience from those I actually know. Fine if you know real people who do use it, but every single person I know obviously doesn’t like it or else they would use both names.
As an aside I don’t think Molly-Mae is a nice name, sounds like a dairy cow.