Elsie-Mae or Sofia-Something?

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Asking on behalf of Dd, 18, who is 34 weeks pregnant.
She has been keen on Elsie-Mae for a long time, but recently has been considering Sofia-Something instead. Not Sofia-Mae as that is similar to the name of a friend she's recently fallen out with.
I know hyphenated names aren't popular with everyone and I strongly suspect that on a day to day basis baby will just be called by the first name, but does anyone have any thoughts about Elsie v Sofia, or suggestions for Sofia-what?

I like both Elsie and Sofia. I'd drop the hyphen though!

Drop the hyphen 100%! I'm not a fan of Mae it's a bit of a filler middle name. I prefer Sofia from the two, maybe Sofia Elise, Sofia Eve, Sofia Olivia, Sofia Isabelle, Sofia Belle, Sofia Kate, Sofia Alice, Sofia Winter, Sofia Ren

Sofia Bea
Love Elsie-Mae though.

You've done well. I usually hate all mn names!

I'd encourage her to drop the hyphen as well, she might like the sound as an 18yo bless her but maybe not in a few years. Elsie and Sofia are both fine by themselves.

Sofia is much nicer. Elsie is really old lady ish, yes I know it's popular, people are wrong

Elise, Elsa, or Eloise instead of Elsie? Sofia is lovely but very popular. Hyphens are naff. Sofia Rose or Sofia Grace are the obvious ones, and very nice too. Sofia Jasmine? Sofia Lily? Sofia Lilah? Sofia Lucy or Sofia Lucia?

Or Eliza? Eliza Rose or Eliza Jane are lovely. Or Eliza Grace or Eliza Kate? Just not Elsie!

Elsie is lovely on its own. Agree with others about dropping the hyphen, it’s so done to death and personally find quite tacky. I also don’t Elsie think it’s an old lady name, old traditional names are lovely and very popular. She could always use Mae as a middle name and still use it when referring to her DD, I do, I regularly call my DDs by both first and middle names when talking to them.

Sofia/Sophia is just too common for my liking there are at least 20 in my DDs small village school.

Not similar but I recently met a little Adeline which I thought was very cute.

I love Elsie. I'm not that keen on Mae as every "double"/ hyphenated name is -May/Mae or -Rose.

On the other hand I knew a ??-Bubbles, now that is taking it to the other extreme. I'm not saying the first name as I assume she is the only one but it was quite normal.

A friend of mine has a DD called Sofia/Sophia Florence which is lovely. Also if she likes Elsie she might like other older names such as
Sofia Ivy
Sofia Pearl
Sofia June
Sofia Lily
Sofia Lucy
Sofia Ada
Sofia Nora
Sofia Ruby
Sofia Kate

Or something more modern like
Sofia Dove
Sofia Willow
Sofia Lyra
Sofia Paige
Sofia Maeve
Sofia Rue
Sofia Hallie
Sofia Brooke
Sofia Beau

Sofia!

Ditch the hyphen. -Mae is particularly naff and Mae/Mae is overused as a middle name, as are Rose and Grace
I prefer the Sophia spelling as my eyes see Sofa not Sofia. Sophia/Sofia has veen very popular or a long time.
Not keen on Elsie, but it is very popular.

Ellie-Mae has been very popular, so Elsie Mae will probably get mixed up with Ellie-May.
I know several Sarah Janes, Sarah-Jane and a Sarahjane. They all go by Sarah now. I know a few Emma-Janes and Emma-Louises, and they're just Emma.

Elsie is beautiful on its own. I’d steer away from hyphenated names particularly-may/mae as people tend to make negative assumptions about the family.

Im not a fan of Sophia/Sofia but it is incredibly popular, I think it got the number 1 spot on name popularity so I think I’m in the minority.

@Twoinapod , I'm not keen on it either. I like Sophie, but Sophia seems too much and so overused.

I’d steer away from hyphenated names particularly-may/mae as people tend to make negative assumptions about the family.
This.
I'd add -Lee/Leigh, -Rae and -Rose for girls and -Jay for boys.

Elsie-Mae I'm not keen on. How about...

Sophia-Kaye
Sophia-Rae
Sophie-Jane
Sophie-Rose
Sophie-Ellen
Sophia-Dawn
Sophia-Claire

Sofia grace

Elsie-Mae is truly horrendous. Elsie itself isn’t great. Mae is awful. You could turn Elsie around and get Elise. Elise May is a lot better.

Sofia is better, though it’s Sophia generally, unless you’re Spanish, Greek etc.

Don’t hyphenate.

Sofia Grace is fine but chances are most of the other Sofia/Sophias will be Sofia/Sophia Grace too.

Sorry Elsie-Mae just seems really common 🙈
I like Sophia though.

Sofia-Grace was my first thought but I love Elsie-Mae ❤️

Thank you everyone. Lots to think about.
Anything too similar to Ella-Rose is out as that is the name of DD1's child.
DD2 already liked Sofia-Lee, although I prefer the Leigh spelling, DuchessOfSausage.

Sorry OP but Sofia-Lee sounds like 'so feely' to me!

I was going to suggest Sofia Lee but a quick Google told me it's literally the name of a pornstar

If she likes hyphenated names then go for it! I know lots of people with them, and people are less judgemental outside of Mumsnet! Elsie-Joy or Sofia-Joy would both be nice.

Don’t hyphen it.. and certainly don’t hyphen it to mae/May/mai. Ugh!

hyphening to mae really exaggerates the teen pregnancy 🫣

Sofia is the nicer of the two but again, no hyphenated first names, a bit naff.
May/mae/mai as middle names are also quite over done.
Personally I like family names for middle names, but a few that suit Sofia imo,

Sofia Gabriela
Sofia Celeste
Sofia Bella
Sofia Viviene
Sophia Mirielle