Anonymous wrote:I’ve never met anyone with this name, but Anne-Marie/AnneMarie/Anne Marie as a double first name (NOT as a first and middle) feels overly pretentious to me (especially when hyphenated). Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Ana-Maria is an incredibly common name in Spain and parts of Latin America. But double barreled names are very common culturally, and also lots of people have just a ton of names in general because of naming customs. Would not be considered pretentious, but also not uncommon for people to go by nicknames with family and friends especially because the odds of having others in your family or friend group with the same first name are high.

Anonymous wrote:Banks
Steele
Sloane/Sloan

Many years ago I babysat for a kid named Banks Worthington. I’m still obsessed with that name.

Beautiful

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Anonymous wrote:Emerson, Beckett

I know a couple who have an Emerson (girl) and Beckett (boy).

Jaxon and Blakely to follow

Siobhan - a beautiful name - but so hard to pronounce.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve never met anyone with this name, but Anne-Marie/AnneMarie/Anne Marie as a double first name (NOT as a first and middle) feels overly pretentious to me (especially when hyphenated). Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Double barreled names can be very trashy, very catholic or apparently like "Alice May" from the PP very UP sorority. I think you just have to get the right flavor. Mary Louise, Lula Mae, Carol Ann, Mary Pat, Markwayne (haha), John Wayne, Jean-Marie, Bubba Joe, and on and on!

I had a roommate in my mid 20's whose name was Leemarie. Not Lee Marie. She was not trashy or uppity and I think was Catholic bc of her last name, but wasn't religious.

Anonymous wrote:Andrea, pronounced AHN-DREA. And the person is a fittingly pretentious New Yorker who thinks anything outside of Manhattan is provincial and unworthy of notice.

Thank you. Just thinking of this. ahn-DREA. Right up there with French pronunciation of Genevieve.

Anonymous wrote:Kingsley

Kingston

Gahdess pronounced goddess

Kingsley

Banks
Steele
Sloane/Sloan

Anonymous wrote:Burke

Was this comment inspired by a certain infamous Ramsey? I’ll do you one better: JonBenét.

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Anonymous wrote:caroline, alexandra, claudia

??? These seem like perfectly normal names to me.

Plus 1

Burke

Anonymous wrote:I’ve never met anyone with this name, but Anne-Marie/AnneMarie/Anne Marie as a double first name (NOT as a first and middle) feels overly pretentious to me (especially when hyphenated). Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Double barreled names can be very trashy, very catholic or apparently like "Alice May" from the PP very UP sorority. I think you just have to get the right flavor. Mary Louise, Lula Mae, Carol Ann, Mary Pat, Markwayne (haha), John Wayne, Jean-Marie, Bubba Joe, and on and on!