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[tribulation.livejournal.com]

What do you think of having two first names like, say, Rose Felicia? Would a middle name be overkill in that case? Is it too much of a mouthful to say?

I have this weird nagging fear that if I were to name my hypothetical daughter something like this, she wouldn't be able to bubble in her first name during tests. You know, like on electron sheets in school. yeah, idk. :\

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[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

I don't like it unless it's obvious, like Mary Anne or Mary Jane or something like that.

[tribulation.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I kinda suspected that it only works in those cases.

[cairtirnin.livejournal.com]

I have a good friend whose full first name is Anne Theresa. No one except her mother has ever called her anything but Anne. I think it's kind of inevitable.

[kort-ni.livejournal.com]

I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. I know several women who have double first names and they aren't all Mary Beth or Mary Catherine (though I know many of those as well). I know a Betty Jean, Anna Beth, Rose Marie (though she has to correct from the assumed Rosemary often) and a SarahBeth off the top of my head. It may get shortened but honestly, so might almost any name you give to someone. Maybe it's just the southerner in me but I think it works fine.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I don't see it being an issue, but I imagine most people would probably call her by only the first one. I also don't see a problem with having a middle name on top of that, especially as so many people are doing two middle names now.

My name is Stephanie, and I wasn't able to fill it all in on standardized tests. My first name always became Stepha, in those cases. It's the last name that's the bigger deal in those situations, anyway. I imagine it would suck to have a hyphenated last name...

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

I like it if it flows, and Rose Felicia definitely does.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

Hmmm, I'm undecided. I have a cousin who is Carrie Ann and a lot of times, we just call her Carrie Ann and not just Carrie.

[notresponding.livejournal.com]

I knew a Jenny Beth, but I think she went by Jenny at school for formal purposes, but everyone still called her by her given name.

[after-the-ashes.livejournal.com]

I don't like Rose Felicia and it only works when it makes sense, like in a Southern context, IMO.

[kjerlandsen.livejournal.com]

I know a Courtney-Anne and a Pearl-Anne. Both are hyphenated and go by their initials, CA and PA.

Other than that, I've known a few Sarah Beth's...

ETA: I think a middle name might be overkill. The 2 I know with the hyphenated names do not have middle names. The Sarah Beth's that I knew, didn't have middle names either...unless Beth was technically a middle name, but they went by both first and middle names...

[chillinbabejodi.livejournal.com]

Rose Felicia sounds great! There's loads of babies (in Leeds, England) with hyphenated first names; Ella-Jai (does have a middle name but I've forgotten it), Lily-Mae Edith, Charlie-Paige, Tyler-James Lee just to name a few, so I think it's perfectly fine. Also, many of those children have middle names so I don't think that it's over kill.

[sliveredlight.livejournal.com]

I'm a Kelly Lee with a middle name as well, but NOBODY calls me Kelly Lee. (My folks included). It makes me kinda sad, since it would differentiate me a little bit.

I prefer Felicia Rose to the reverse. I think it flows a lot better. If you wanted to add a middle name, more power to you.

[saharazaad.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, my name, Elizabeth, never fit in those scantron exams :)