Double barrelled middle names?

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This just popped into my head - so it’s not a long standing idea that I’ve got my heart set on (feel free to be as truthful as you like).

What’s the general opinion on double barrelling middle names?

I am having my second (and last) child. She’s my first and only girl.
So I naturally have roughly 6282727 baby names that I need to narrow down - and I’m finding it hard!!

The name May is a family name for me. It is my mother’s maiden name, my middle name, and my grandparents surname. Using May as a middle name has always seemed like a nice way to honour everyone at once.

However I do also like other names which I would be tempted to use as a middle name, but then I don’t want to waste the opportunity to use May.

How do people feel about double barrelling middle names? Elara-May, or Lily-May (both random choices, but you get the gist)

awful? Or not bad as it’s a middle name?

A hyphen is always appalling, but especially bad with May as that's got a really Lexi-May style battering in the last few years.

Just give her two middle names

So to demonstrate, it would go something like Jane Mary-Kate Smith.

Nothing wrong with that format. If you want a hyphenated middle name, have one.

I think Anne-Marie /Ann-Marie is just about the only hyphenated name that isn't really naff.

@LancashireButterPie I agree, but they tend to run into each other.
-Kate sounds like 'c-hate. (Elsie-Kate - Elsic-hate)
-Anne/-Rose/-May/-Jane/-Louise sound twee.
-Rae sounds 'we're trying to be different'.
-Jay seems babyish etc.

I know someone with Louisa May as middle names, they seem to flow into almost one name nicely without the need for a hyphen and I think it’s lovely. Louisa-May looks twee written down imo.

Is the surname Alcott?

May is a lovely name to have as a first or second name.
I don't like hyphens.
Camilla May
Gabrielle May Claudette
May Alice Eliza
Victoria May

May seems stronger when it alone is the second name.
Except Louisa May is a beautiful combo.

No, not the little woman I’m thinking of

I don't mind things like Mary-Jane or the French Anne-Sophie.