To Hyphenate or Not...

Re: To Hyphenate or Not...

• bbiutmcph member

  March 2016

  I would not hyphenate the first name. If you want to use both do two middle names. I find that Rae as a double first name gives off a very country vibe at least to me where I am from.

  
  
  

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• Bringmemylongswordho member

  March 2016

  I would do a double middle before a double first.
  
  I would not use a hyphen.  More hassle than it's worth.

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• CaboBride2015 member

  March 2016

  Just say no to hyphens! Are Rae and Kate their full names?

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• alyssa0714 member

  March 2016

  Definitely no to Ayla-Rae. I also don't think Rae and Kate go together, its a nice idea but maybe save Rae and use it for a middle for your next daughter. Ayla Kate is cute!

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• ksteeb611 member

  March 2016

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• SmrBrd2012 member

  March 2016

  Katherine Rae or Katelyn Rae? Definite no to hyphenating. Even Kayla Rae could work maybe?

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• RLVbaby member

  March 2016

  @cabobride2015 yes it is their full names. I would flat out name DD Kate but DH doesn't want to

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• thepicklemonster member

  March 2016

  Ayla Rae-Kate sounds beyond awful.  Ayla Kate is barely better.  PP's suggestion of Ayla Katherine is decent. My parents gave me two first names with no hyphen but wanted me to be known by both (e.g. Mary Jane, not my actual name) and I had to spent my entire life explaining "no hyphen, but they are both part of my first name."  I hated it and really resented the name.  When I was around 11 I dropped the "Jane" completely and only go by Mary.  I am a firm believer that you should just give your child a first, middle and last name.  Why make their life harder.  

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• sapphire021 member

  March 2016

  I would choose Ayla Kate, not a fan on the hyphen.

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• elizabethannette85 member

  March 2016

  I love the hyphen! I think Ayla-Rae Kate is very unique which is something my SO and myself want for our child.... Then again we both have very common names so that's probably why we are so bent on choosing something unique for ours. I think it's good for a child to embrace his or own self being as how they are all different. I'm not a fan of Kate by itself simply because there are so many Kate, Katie, Katelynn, Kaitlyn out there. Everyone likes different things, just my two cents!

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• groovylocks member

  March 2016

  Hyphens don't belong in proper names. My daughter has a hyphen in her middle name - inlaws chose her middle name and while it's beautiful (it means "Crimson sunrise" in English or, as I joke, "Red Dawn" since her dad's Chinese.) it has a frickin hyphen in it which drives me mad.
  
  So no. 

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• CaboBride2015 member

  March 2016

  IMO Rae is going to make any name sound cutesy country or backwoods hick, depending on your perspective. So, frankly, I wouldn't use it at all. Kate is actually something you can work with and Ayla Kate isn't terrible. I'm NAF of Ayla so if you really want to use both names now, if you don't think you'll have more children, then I'd try to find R and K names you like and honor them that way.
   

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