Thoughts on John-Paul?

[Anonymous]

^ until they're old enough to have the values of your family instilled.*

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I love it.

My daughter's name is Mary-Kate. There is one other girl at her school named Mary Cate (no hyphen). I believe she is Mary (first) Catherine (middle).

We decided to go with the hyphenated double name instead of doing first and middle because I did not want teachers to call her Mary. I go by my middle name but had a strict teacher refuse to call me anything other than my legal first name when I was in school. (She was the type that would refuse to call a Christopher "Chris".) If my daughter decides to go by Mary, Kate, or MK in the future, then that will be her choice.

I had a colleague like this when I was a schoolteacher. It changed my perspective entirely when it came to naming my own children. I named them what I wanted them to be called.

This could be a wise practice going forward given the fact that schools in Florida, Texas, Indiana, Iowa, Arkansas, North Carolina, Alabama, Montana, and North Dakota (I could be missing some states) have already started requiring parents to fill out a permission form in order for kids to be called by their nickname/a shortened version of their name (a side effect of the trans issue). I suspect this policy will spread to other states.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/1193393695/parents-in-florida-must-ok-a-teacher-calling-their-child-by-a-nickname
https://www.cfpublic.org/education/2023-08-09/florida-schools-roll-out-consent-forms-student-nicknames
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2023/08/10/pronouns-law-parents-annoyed-schools-must-report-nicknames-indianapolis-marion-hamilton-county/70562122007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/04/11/fallout-teachers-using-students-preferred-names-pronouns/83016730007/

Schools being required to report a student's request to be called Ben instead of Benjamin is INSANE. I'm worried for my kids as they're still young. I don't want this nonsense to be their normal.

Homeschool them.

😂 +10000

[Anonymous]

Are you the perdon also considering Mary?

[Anonymous]

Pope

[Anonymous]

No, too catholic and for god's sake not hyphenated!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a Catholic schoolboy turned college frat bro who exclusively goes by JP and is kind of d*uchey. 🤷🏼‍♀️

This. I also just despise double first names. There's this type of mother that loves to yell "Sarah Jane" on the playground because she's so in love with her kid's two names, and thinks it's just so speshul.

I am so with you in this. I find it so cringey

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a Catholic schoolboy turned college frat bro who exclusively goes by JP and is kind of d*uchey. 🤷🏼‍♀️

This. I also just despise double first names. There's this type of mother that loves to yell "Sarah Jane" on the playground because she's so in love with her kid's two names, and thinks it's just so speshul.

I am so with you in this. I find it so cringey

I actually feel this way too about double girl names, but not double boy names-I really like double boy names.

[Anonymous]

Screams pope. Too papal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a Catholic schoolboy turned college frat bro who exclusively goes by JP and is kind of d*uchey. 🤷🏼‍♀️

This. I also just despise double first names. There's this type of mother that loves to yell "Sarah Jane" on the playground because she's so in love with her kid's two names, and thinks it's just so speshul.

I am so with you in this. I find it so cringey

I do sort of feel that way but on the other hand it can also be really practical. One of my sisters went by double name at home growing up because her first name was the same as my moms. And I think the whole Mary Kate Mary Ellen Mary Ann etc grew up because so many girls were named Mary at one point in time.

My daughter is a teen now and goes by just her first name but when she was little we often used both, in part because her first name is very short so saying both was a better way to get her attention and in part because her middle name is after my grandmother who had just died, so we liked to use it. When she went to school she preferred just the first so that’s what we use now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The hyphen will be troublesome on plane tickets, boarding passes, stuff that has to mstch ID.
Call him John Paul George. Paul is middle name but you can always say it as one name.

My first name is hyphenated and I’ve never had a problem with any travel documents

Sometimes it has a hyphen, sometimes it has a space, sometimes it’s both names smushed together without a space

And not a single person, not even the most anal border guard, has ever said this was an issue

[Anonymous]

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DCUMer

These shirts need to be made. Raise your hand if you’re a real DCUMer

[Anonymous]

I love this name. I

[Anonymous]

not a fan. I don't like double names or girls or boys but really hate t for boys.

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

Just an fyi if DCUM doesn't like your name you've picked a good one