How would you “spell” this double name

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ann Marie Smith

No need to smush them together. Nobody smushes Marybeth or Marykatherine together.

I have seen Marybeth.

+1 Marybeth is a name.

Just because someone goes rogue with a unique spelling doesn’t make it right.

Mary Elizabeth nn Mary Beth is proper.

Ann Marie is proper.

Annmarie looks silly.

AnneMarie looks aggressively stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anne-Marie
Anne Marie
AnneMarie
Annemarie

I’m partial to last option but not committed...

The bolded is the best one.

[Anonymous]

As a Catholic with family in the south, I’ve been around double-barreled names my entire life. It’s fairly routine to go by both the first and middle names. There’s no need to smush together and hyphenating is low-brow.

Nobody ever suggests smushing together or hyphenating boys names, so let’s not do it to girls. People will call your kid whatever you tell them to, and once she goes to kindergarten it’s her choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a Catholic with family in the south, I’ve been around double-barreled names my entire life. It’s fairly routine to go by both the first and middle names. There’s no need to smush together and hyphenating is low-brow.

Nobody ever suggests smushing together or hyphenating boys names, so let’s not do it to girls. People will call your kid whatever you tell them to, and once she goes to kindergarten it’s her choice.

OP might not live in the south. Double first names are much less common in the rest of the country, especially for boys. When you hear Jim Bob or Billy Ray, you know their parents didn’t hail from Connecticut. Annmarie would help people who aren’t southern get her name right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anne-Marie
Anne Marie
AnneMarie
Annemarie

I’m partial to last option but not committed...

The last one is low rent and "kreative." It reeks of a 17 year old pregnant for the 2nd time.

[Anonymous]

Anne Marie.
My DIL's aunt is AnnMarie. So if you want Anne, I would put a space.
I was going to be Ana Maria, but mom stuck with Ana.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anne-Marie
Anne Marie
AnneMarie
Annemarie

I’m partial to last option but not committed...

The bolded is the best one.

Yes!

Just be ready to tell everyone early on that she uses BOTH names.

-Elizabeth, never Beth

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a Catholic with family in the south, I’ve been around double-barreled names my entire life. It’s fairly routine to go by both the first and middle names. There’s no need to smush together and hyphenating is low-brow.

Nobody ever suggests smushing together or hyphenating boys names, so let’s not do it to girls. People will call your kid whatever you tell them to, and once she goes to kindergarten it’s her choice.

OP might not live in the south. Double first names are much less common in the rest of the country, especially for boys. When you hear Jim Bob or Billy Ray, you know their parents didn’t hail from Connecticut. Annmarie would help people who aren’t southern get her name right.

Well, I live in Montgomery County and know countless upper class folk from old money New England with double barreled names.

Mary Pat
Mary Kate
Mary Beth
Mary Claire
Ann Marie
Michael Ann
John Mark
John Peter
John Watson
Etc.

I have colleagues in DC with double-barreled names from all races, ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds. Nobody smushes stand alone names together or hyphenates them.

[Anonymous]

The only correct answer is two separate names, Anne Marie.

Signed,
A double name with an Anne Marie friend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a Catholic with family in the south, I’ve been around double-barreled names my entire life. It’s fairly routine to go by both the first and middle names. There’s no need to smush together and hyphenating is low-brow.

Nobody ever suggests smushing together or hyphenating boys names, so let’s not do it to girls. People will call your kid whatever you tell them to, and once she goes to kindergarten it’s her choice.

OP might not live in the south. Double first names are much less common in the rest of the country, especially for boys. When you hear Jim Bob or Billy Ray, you know their parents didn’t hail from Connecticut. Annmarie would help people who aren’t southern get her name right.

I mean, what’s the real price home you’re trying to solve? Is it the fear some stranger might call her just Ann initially? That’s easily corrected by saying, “It’s Ann Marie.”

Don’t saddle your poor kid with a kreative spell-ing if that’s your concern.

[Anonymous]

Concern, not price home.^^^

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anne-Marie
Anne Marie
AnneMarie
Annemarie

I’m partial to last option but not committed...

The bolded is the best one.

Agreed.

[Anonymous]

Anne Marie

[Anonymous]

Anne Marie. Lovely name choice!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anne-Marie
Anne Marie
AnneMarie
Annemarie

I’m partial to last option but not committed...

The last one is low rent and "kreative." It reeks of a 17 year old pregnant for the 2nd time.

You sound untraveled. It’s a common German and Nordic name. I am not an Annemarie or related to an Annemarie, but it was common enough when I taught abroad.