Hyphenated first names?

[Sunmoonstars33]

My DH chose the name for our baby who is due in 3 months. Its a name that has a lot of meaning to him and as I basically chose the names of our last two children (we agreed on them together and he likes them its just they were suggested by me) I think I want to use his chosen name for this child. However this name is only two letters.
The name is Io (eye oh) as in one of Jupiter's moons. My husband loves anything to do with space.
I just feel like Io is very short so I was considering hyphenating it with another more traditional name to make it longer?
I wondered what peoples thoughts were about this.... the name we would use is Celeste. So it would be Io-Celeste.
I've never actually met anyone with a double first name but I know they are common, lily Rose, Anne Marie, Lisa Marie, etc
Interested to hear peoples thoughts

You can't name your child based on what ignorant people might say.

IO-Silverlining?

I have a hyphenated name and it's just annoying, I've dropped it but have to use it for medical/official things and just really wish it was a middle name.

Also the hyphen can cause problems with online things - I also have an apostrophe in my surname and both cause issues with online registrations at times.

Stick with Io, make sure she writes the capital I with the lines at the top and bottom to prevent the Lo thing that everyone is on about and have Celeste as a nice middle name.

Yes it's short but it's two syllables - I think most names are one or two syllables really. I like it

Thanks to all the people who have been reasonable. I am not going to hyphenate the name, I agree with pp that actually it makes it too much.
The name Io was never up for debate. That will be her name.

You can all unclench with your 'child abuse and 'saddled' comments. Out in the real world I dont think any child given a name out of love would resent her parents for it.. (although it may become an issue if their relationship with their parents is damaged in many other ways too) its possible she won't like it and will change it when older which is up to her.. but I had a friend called Sarah who did that.. kids can dislike any name. Hopefully she will love it.
I like my unusual name. My husbands first name is very unusual and he's a psychiatrist.. contrary to what a previous poster tried to say, they do not prevent you from entering medical school if your name isn't in the top 10 names of that year.
Kids today do not have the same type of names as in the past. Some of the names on the top hundred baby names at the moment would have been considered very out there only a generation ago. I won't be naming my child simply to try and fit in. I will be naming my child something out of love that was personally chosen. Everyone is free to do as they please but some of these comments are downright ridiculous. Fair enough if its not to your taste but there is no need to be rude. Children get bullied for anything and everything. Its the bullying that's the problem not the child's name, or how the child looks or speaks.. I dont think its a great lesson to not name a child something you love for fear they will stand out. Everyone stands out anyway for various reasons. Personally I like the name Io and do not see what makes it more socially unacceptable than names like Ivy or Erin... I had thought it a bit short hence my idea about the hyphen. However I do agree with pp saying it actually lessens the beauty of the name and becomes clunky were I to do that. So I'm just going to have Io as the first name and Celeste as the middle.

Io is lovely. I really like it.

I'm glad you've decided against a hyphen. I teach and there are a remarkable number of children with hyphenated first names coming up into high school. Oddly, the -Grace, -Rose and -Leigh brigade are being replaced by names that really don't go together at all. Things like Robert-Thomas. Every single one I teach has asked to drop the second name and to be known by only one name.

Io is a great name, very cool. Yes she might have to spell it sometimes but so what- my DH gets his name misspelled and he’s called John 😂

> I dont think any child given a name out of love would resent her parents for it

Are you serious?

Print out this thread, keep it somewhere safe. Take a look at it in 3 years.

I agree with you. Some of the comments are so unnecessarily rude.

I'm just here to say I know a very competent, well respected consultant anaesthetist called Io...
OP I think it's a beautiful name. Don't water it down with a suffix!

I worked with a woman who had double-barrelled first AND second names! I don’t know if the hyphenated surname came from her parents or was one she chose on marriage, but it was a real shame because people mostly remembered her as “that woman with the over-elaborate name”. She was very particular about being addressed by all four parts- fair enough, it was her name, but she must have spent so much time correcting people.

Hi 👋 @Sunmoonstars33 our daughter is due in February and she will have 2 names as her first name which I think sound beautiful & been told by others also it's a beautiful name.. my problem is not sure whether to hyphen it myself 🤣 so I fully understand your thread hun don't let anyone put you off from calling your baby the names you like! It's unique & YOUR baby at the end of the day 😊 feel free to PM me if you like x

@LylaLee I have two other children also called unusual (although very much real and historically used) names. They are both over the age of 3 and have had absolutely no issues. My son is nearly at secondary school age and has always been very proud of his name.. I do maintain that while a child may dislike their name, that can happen with absolutely any name rare or common, if they actively resent their parents for giving them it theres probably far more going on in that relationship than just the name.

This.
People are being kind on here. It’s a truly awful word because it isn’t even a name.

And hyphenated first names are not nice.

Celeste is lovely. Just give the child a proper name.

I’ve never heard of Io but love it. Glad that you decided against the hyphen though. Why spoil a pretty name?

Io is a proper name. Those of us saying it's lovely genuinely think that, we are not just being kind.

@Blackandwhitemakesgrey it is a proper name. Its been around since ancient Greece and although never common, has been in usage in the UK for over a hundred years. Since 2000 its been rising popularity.. I mean its not very common still.. only 15 girls called Io in 2021in the UK. But you couldn't say it wasnt a proper name thats ridiculous.

I love Io. Io-Celeste is awful though.
Io followed by a normal name would be best.

(No hyphen )

Hyphenated names are very popular at my school. It's a rough, and deprived area.

Could you swap it the other way round so Celeste is the first name?

Yes I’ve come across a couple of people with double barrelled fist names and double barrelled surnames. Neither of them had names which flowed. So not Mia-Mae or Jonathan-James but more like Lilac-Nadine Somersby-Gothenburg. Or Arlo-Brain Thompson-Bottomley.
Must be a growing trend.

Please don't name your child Io.

It sounds like I owe. SO with a hyphen it'll sound like I owe Celeste. If someone introduced themselves like this i'd ask what they owe and why. It also sounds a little bit like a small child trying to say hello.

Truly awful name. Needs a serious rethink!

She'll have no trouble learning to write her name!

Io is a beautiful name. The moon is actually named after a nymph in classical Greek literature. I taught an Io, who was lovely. Yes you/she will probably have to explain pronunciation but that’s not a big deal. People are so ignorant!

Never hyphen. Never.

it makes anyone sound like a hillbilly

Just give her a more conventional middle name so she can dump it if she doesn’t like it.

Iona does work as a full name, just saying..