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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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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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/

Anonymous wrote:I love a double John name on little boys, it’s one of my absolute favorites and I’ve seen it in various parts of the country. I would also drop the hyphen.

There’s only one John John.

I love a double John name on little boys, it’s one of my absolute favorites and I’ve seen it in various parts of the country. I would also drop the hyphen.

No hyphen. Looks dumb.
Knew a golly with this name. He went by pope. I liked it. Know. Kid with this name. Goes by JP.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

I love John-Luke and hadn't thought of it. Thank you for the idea!

Jean-Luc makes me think of Picard!

Yes!

Ditch the hyphen. John Paul.

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.

Yeah it's pretty obvious when you hear my kids' names what religion we are and I'm ok with that. Our religion is important to us and if you're the kind of person who holds stereotypes about it and aren't willing to actually get to know us because of your stereotypes, then we probably wouldn't be friends with each other anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you Catholic? It's the name of the former pope, now saint. I would think you were a great admirer of his and Catholic.

Also has whiff of JonBenet to me. Unless you're French or French Canadian, a double name with John seems an odd choice.

We are Catholic.

If you want and/or are okay with everyone knowing you are Catholic and thinking that first thing with your child for the rest of his life, cool

I sense a hint of sarcasm in your comment but nothing wrong with it if they do want that. Plenty of practicing religious people use names that scream *insert religious group* because their religion is extremely important to them. Muslims frequently use Muhammad which screams Muslim. Moshe/Moses is popular in my (former) religious community and screams Jewish.

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.

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.

And not only. Just traveled to Korea and couldn’t use any of their automated check in cause of the hyphen in my name. John Paul is great is great and people will wonder if you’re super religious.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you Catholic? It's the name of the former pope, now saint. I would think you were a great admirer of his and Catholic.

Also has whiff of JonBenet to me. Unless you're French or French Canadian, a double name with John seems an odd choice.

We are Catholic.

If you want and/or are okay with everyone knowing you are Catholic and thinking that first thing with your child for the rest of his life, cool

Hate it. Sorry.