I honestly do like them as long as the person is given a cute nick-name.
It’s [name]Unique[/name], I admitt. But It’s not something i like to use…
Double-barrelled names have a long cultural history… but only when the first part of the pairing is an extremely common, standard [name]Christian[/name] name. [name]John[/name], [name]Mary[/name] & [name]Anne[/name] are the only three that appear fairly regularly in multiple cultures. I thin the double-barrel tradition arose simply as a means of distinguishing amongst this sea of similarly-named children. Those three names were considered to be very pious, devotional names, and the child was considered to be under the protection of that personnage, hence their universal appeal.
I have to agree than any double-barrel name not using [name]Mary[/name], [name]Anne[/name] or [name]John[/name] (or their international variants) looks contrived, indecisive, overly precious and is rather cumbersome for the child.
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My husbands family lives in South [name]Carolina[/name] and it seems like a Southern thing to me. If done right I think it’s okay, like people have mentioned using “old fashioned” or “classics” but anything else can be bumpkin sounding. I have a friend in South [name]Caroline[/name] whose daughter is [name]Eliza[/name] [name]Louise[/name]. I think it’s cute but 5 syllables is like ok cmon.
What about like my name. The first word is short, but the second is more than double the amount of letters. [name_f]Lucy[/name_f] [name_f]Summerlin[/name_f] …? Opinions please, I’ve been considering going by one. I want to hear people’s opinions if they like the double name or if they like [name_f]Lucy[/name_f] or [name_f]Summerlin[/name_f].