How to officially register Megan Rose

[Taybz]

We've recently welcomed our little girl into the world and need to register her name officially soon. Would you register Megan as her first name and Rose as her middle name or write Megan-Rose as the first name with no middle name? If the latter, would you need to write the hyphen?

Why not just spell it as one word "Meganrose"

It's no wierder than Rosemary or Marianne

Hyphenate it - otherwise when she starts to sign off her emails people will think her surname is Rose.

Meganrose looks like a type of sauce.

I prefer it without the hyphen. You don’t need one really to use both names together and introduce her as that. I don’t have a hyphen and my dad has always called me by my first and middle name together. Nobody else does but they could if both my parents had insisted on it and I liked it (I don’t, I prefer just my first name).

Megan-Rose is a mouthful. I’m not keen on hyphens. But if you want her to be known as that then register her as that. It’s entirely up to you.

If you want her to be known as Megan-Rose, you'd need to hyphenate it and have no middle name.

Alternatively you could have Megan as first name and Rose as middle name, and introduce her like that as a baby when people ask her name, but going forward she will be known just as Megan. In that case have Megan as first name and Rose as middle name.

Please just call her Megan Rose. You can introduce her however you like but when she’s a fully grown adult she’ll probably be grateful she can just say her name is Megan.

I like it without the hyphen but as a full first name, Megan Rose. Will probably be shorted anyway, but at least you can call her by her full first name if you like. My sister has 2 first names, no hyphen. I don't think its too long or complicated to pronounce

Depends what you intend calling her
I have a middle name that was intended to be used but as it was put as a middle name it got dropped.
Still bitter cause my name is otherwise boring.

My name has a hyphen, I’m a child of the 7o’s !, and I’ve never ever used it, and I never will. Please register them as two separate names.

Not keen on Megan but like Meg. Rose is pretty but very popular as a middle name. Hyphenated names tend to be -Rose and -May names.
The hyphen and name tend to get dropped. Meganrose is awful.

Hyphenated names are a bit naff IMO

Congratulations! I am biased but I think Megan is a beautiful name.

First and middle name every time.

Megan is a lovely name.
Rose is a lovely name.
Megan Rose isn’t a name.

I used to have a hyphenated first name. I was born in the late 60s. I changed it by deed poll as I used to get some people calling me by the first part, some by the second, and only my parents and family by the whole thing, and I absolutely hated being called a mixture of names.

That's my reasoning behind not using a hyphen - it's personal! 😆

If you want people you use both together, hyphenate it.
If you want her to be known as Megan, don't hyphenate - and Rose will just be a rarely heard middle name.

Megan as first name and Rose as middle No hyphen

Agree with most saying don't hyphenate. I have one and go by initials but get really annoyed when people just call me the first part. Only older family use the whole thing. Also, with the specifics of the name you've chosen if she decides to go by initials she'll be MR and then that will add confusion. Trust me when I say it is so irritating when you have to explain your name to randomers on the phone several times a week.

Megan Rose is nicest, and you can still call her by both names. It's unlikely her peers will when she's been at school for a while. Megan-Rose might be most straightforward if you're always going to use both names, but people will still drop the Rose, and lots of people think hyphens are a bit naff.

Please don't run the two names together as Meganrose! I know of a girl whose parents named her something like Scarletterica (same rhythm and number of letters; two unrelated names) and it looks ridiculous.

I've just remembered, I briefly taught a girl called Camillamaya too! (Teacher)
She wasn't British, and didn't stay at the school or in the country for long.

Megan is a lovely name. Let it shine.

If you want her to be called Megan-Rose then register with hyphen as her first name.

If you want her to be called Megan then register Megan Rose. It's quite simple.

I think both names are lovely but personally, to me they only work as first and middle name, not hyphenated. They are too long to be hyphenated.

I worked with someone called Clarefrances. No hyphen, no space, no capitalised F. Her name was never shortened, so perhaps register her as Meganrose for the avoidance of doubt

Whatever you choose, remember however much you might like her to be called Megan Rose all the time, it's unlikely to be what everyone else always calls her, and might not even be what she chooses to call herself. Will she really want two names as an adult? Most of the people I've known with hyphenated names have ended up using much shortened versions, and even just the initials, e.g. M-J instead of Mary-Jane.

I have a Megan, spent quite a while thinking about hyphenating it with her first middle name, and didn’t in the end. Everyone (including me) just calls her Meg anyway!