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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Double names for girls.[/quote]

I have a double name.  Hyphenated.  I didn't choose it.[/quote]

Well, nobody chooses their name. And people with double names aren’t bad. But it can sometimes (not always) be very much a class signifier for the parents.[/quote]

Funny, to me it’s very Catholic working-class, but that just shows my own bias.[/quote]

I'm with you on that. I also think of it as a Catholic working-class thing. [/quote]

When I hear double names my mind automatically thinks Bible Belt. It feels very southern, but I can also see the Catholic working class angle.

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Anna-Grace, Emma-Kate, Sarah Mae, Grace-Ann...those all scream southern Bible Belt to me. I think there are a good number of Mary Xs in the south too. But as far as Catholics go and double names go I only think of the Mary names (working class or otherwise) as the double names that Catholics will use- grew up with many a Mary Bridget, Mary Margaret, Mary Kate, Mary Grace etc. in my highly Irish Catholic Boston suburb. Which was mostly middle class. But I don’t remember a single other double name besides those that contained Mary. I did have an Ellen Mary in my high school class...[/quote]

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