How many people with double-barreled first names do you know - and how many of them are female?

I just got a business email from Robert-Michael lastname. And it occurred to me that this is the first time I’ve seen a double-barreled first name for an English speaking man.

Have I just lived a sheltered life? :smiley:

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the composer, actor, singer/rapper genius behind the Broadway show Hamilton?

I know two ladies who did it when they got married (both American but one’s a Kiwi now), but it’s not clear if their husbands followed suit.

But I did know a single male from California who had a name like that.

What, you’ve never met Billy Bob Thornton?

Y’all know some pretty famous people! :wink:

:smack: D’oh! Misunderstood. I thought you meant a double-barreled surname.

Having grown up in West Texas, I knew a few. None now.

Off the top of my head, I have two friends (one male and one female) who go by first and middle names, but none with hyphenated first names (that I can think of).

I know a Sally Ann and a Mary Anne. Can’t think of any men I know.

Kinda?

I generally go by Maggie in real life, but when I’m forced to use my birthname (which I don’t really hate, but it just doesn’t feel like “me” anymore), I like the sound of firstname-middlename better than just my firstname.

I know three, and they are all friends. It gets confusing sometimes.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard “Margaret-the” before. It’s unique. Be proud. :smiley:

Ronnie James Dio
John Paul Jones
Any male being yelled at by their mother

:stuck_out_tongue:

I was thinking the OP was not referring to people who went by their first and middle names together, but who had literally two first names or a hyphenated first name.

I know a young woman whose first name is Sarah Riley. Riley is not her middle name, it is part of her first name.

I wouldn’t come home for weeks at a time
She wouldn’t accept that she was free
Oh Debbie Denise was true to me

Correct. :slight_smile:

I know three women with double first names. My SIL’s is very unique! It’s Mary Something and when people call her just Mary it is very jarring to me.

Well maybe I know more…I don’t know how the Joannes I know actually spell their names :slight_smile:

I can’t think of any men I know.

I don’t think it’ll be very easy to count famous people whose first names aren’t hyphenated. Most of those people are probably using middle names for their professional names.

Mary-Something (with or without the hyphen) is a fairly common construction. Mary-Kate, Mary Anne, Mary Beth, etc.–sometimes there’s another middle name, sometimes not.

Double barreled names for women don’t seem all that rare to me - I worked with a Marie-Anne, grew up with a Betty Ann (given name Elizabeth Ann, but never went by that name), know a Lesley Ann and a Teri-Lynne, and once met a Jane-Gray (no idea what the story was behind that name.)

Men - only one springs to mind - a Jean-Paul I used to be friends with, though many of his friends called him JP.

I work with Jo-Ann and Anne-Marie.