I was raised Catholic and my sister had a very Catholic sounding double first name like this (though not hyphenated.) she wasn’t crazy about the double name thing and started going by just the first name in middle school and it was nbd.

The sounding very Catholic is probably more of an issue. she’s no longer a practicing Catholic but is a church going mainline Protestant and I think it gets old to be regularly asked abt her “nun’s name.”

I’m Gen X and knew guys named John Paul, Jean Pierre, etc. from school. No hyphens. It’s the male equivalent of Ann Marie, Mary Kate, etc.

FTR, I went to Catholic school and John Paul sounds catholic.

I like both names separately but it’s too much for me together. It reads as try hard when the option to name him John Paul is right there!

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Anonymous wrote:I love the sound of it. I agree it comes across as very Catholic, and a specific type of Catholics. I'm Catholic, but wouldn't use it because I am not a fan of Saint Pope JPII, because of his handling of child sexual abuse.

Another combination that is I love John Luke. I wish John Thomas didn't have a slang meaning, but it does.

John Luke will get you pegged as an Anglophile trekkie

More like an Anglophone trekkie, but what's wrong with that?

I’d think you were extremely devout/conservative Catholics. Maybe that’s what you’re going for.

Saw a pp mention John Luke. I love this, but I’m a trekkie.

Anonymous wrote:I love the sound of it. I agree it comes across as very Catholic, and a specific type of Catholics. I'm Catholic, but wouldn't use it because I am not a fan of Saint Pope JPII, because of his handling of child sexual abuse.

Another combination that is I love John Luke. I wish John Thomas didn't have a slang meaning, but it does.

John Luke will get you pegged as an Anglophile trekkie

Anonymous wrote:What do we think of John-Paul? I'm a big fan of traditional double first names and think it would be perfect. DH says that it has been growing on him.

A name only for a Pope. You cannot be serious!

I think John Paul is 100% going to read as Pope related and you should skip the hyphen because it honestly looks like you don't know how JP2 spelled his name. Is this logical? No. But that's my opinion.

Hate, it’s giving Pope and not in a good way.

It depends on the last name.

JP is a great nickname

We just finished watching "Bad Sisters," and the WORST, most evil character is named John Paul.

It actually did ruin the name for me. I generally like names like this, and I love JP as a nickname.

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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.

Do you also despise Marianne or Rosemarie?

There's no smushing of Johnpaul together. That's...just not a name.

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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. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Anyone who goes by their initials tends to be a d*uche. I know a JC, JD, JJ, TJ, DJ, KC, AJ. I'm not kidding when I say they're all full of themselves and think they're God's gift to the world! It's a strange phenomenon.

My ILs were trying this because they didn't like my first son's name and I put a hard stop to that!
I love John-Paul, I think it's very handsome. Kids don't make fun of each others names these days. They find plenty of other stuff to mock but names aren't one of them.

Of course they do!

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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.

Do you also despise Marianne or Rosemarie?

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.