Are hyphenated first names a bad idea?

[NannyOgg26]

Are hyphenated first names a bad idea? There are a couple that we like, but I've heard people be quite disparaging about hyphenated names before. The ones we are considering are
Anne-Marie and Amy-Beth.

I was at school with a Mary-Margaret. I still love that name, many decades later.

Reminds me of Gwendolyn Mary Lacey somehow!

But I agree: I actually think more classic (I suppose more stiff and starchy) hyphenated names are due a comeback.

I think it's the cutesy ones that have out people off.

Hyphenated names whether forename or surname are pretentious.

They can have a melodic quality that I like

I’ve never heard that before, and don’t agree.

They sound a bit 90s ish dated to me and a bit chavvy

I am of 50s vintage and have one of those classic hyphenated French names, and don’t like being called a shorter version.
I wouldn't have chosen it.

I know a hyphenated child, mum was very THIS is their name when they were young.
However, she must have thought it pointless to keep correctly as said child, now 4. in known by first name only now.

Not RTFT but Anne-Marie is ok but very 1960s. Amy-Beth sounds like she should be one of The Waltons. I don't like Amy or Beth and the hyphen makes both parts worse.

Pretentious?

'Downmarket' in a first name and 'unmarried parents' in the surname.

We clearly mix in different circles, you and I.

I've had people ask me if my parents really liked Spider-Man 😊 also people that know it as a name for marijuana 😂

Thank God.

Indeed!

I'm going to disagree with a majority of these comments. Anne-Marie isn't downmarket or chavvy. It's viewed this way only because names like Gracie-Mae and Isla-Jade have given all hyphenated first names (even the classics) a negative connotation. Anne-Marie sounds quite posh and potentially Catholic. Amy-Beth sounds very 1950s-1980s American.

I didn't realise hyphenated names were so disparaged until coming on mumsnet. I don't know if they are in real life or not.

I quite like names like Lily-Anne and Carla-Marie.

Totally agree.

You can't blanket-categorise these things.

I think it is a bit of a MN fixation - like Balonz!

Anne-Marie isn't downmarket or chavvy. RC name.
Lily-Anne and Carla-Marie Dreadful. Both sound like 1960s names.

Most hyphenated names are -May/Mae, -Rose, -Grace, -Rae or -Jay (boy)

Anne Marie makes me think of the singer with the bleach blonde hair. Also sounds like a wealthy Frenchwomen who gets murdered by the peasantry.
I like Amy but not Beth.

Amy-rose?

Amy-rose? Awful. Amy is dated and Rose is boring.

There are only a couple that have ended up being called the full version at all times at the school I work in most just use the first part.

I lknow one who goes by the last part and one who goes by a 'nn'.

The names are something like Kate-Lyn (Lynne) and Kelly-Anne (Lee).

Why add the hyphen?
I don't mind a double first name but I would never use a hyphen. I know of all these actual people who have lovely double names ..

Mary Rose
Mary Ellen
Sue Ellen
Marie Claire
Mary Beth
Anne Marie
Merry Ellen
Mary Faith
Sunday Rose
Wendy Joy
Maggie Mae
Eliza Jane
Emma Jane
Mary Louise

Isn't that a euphemism for cannabis/cocaine though? (Not sure which)