# How many people with double-barreled first names do you know - and how many of them are female? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 12, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-with-double-barreled-first-names-do-you-know-and-how-many-of-them-are-female/737376 "2015-11-12T15:27:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-with-double-barreled-first-names-do-you-know-and-how-many-of-them-are-female/737376/41 "2015-11-13T01:09:03Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Any male being yelled at by their mother That was certainly me as a boy. > [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > 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. > [@sandra\_nz](#): > > Correct. 🙂 Ah, well, in that case, no, I don’t think I’ve known any, not even in West Texas. Back there it was just first and middle used, no hyphens. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-with-double-barreled-first-names-do-you-know-and-how-many-of-them-are-female/737376/42 "2015-11-13T20:10:21Z")
Thought of another: Key and Peele’s **Keegan-Michael Key**. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-with-double-barreled-first-names-do-you-know-and-how-many-of-them-are-female/737376/43 "2015-11-13T20:48:14Z")
Tons as Franco-Canadians: Marc-Andre, Michel-Louis, Jean-Claude, Jean-Michel, Jean-Guy, Jean-Francois… ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-with-double-barreled-first-names-do-you-know-and-how-many-of-them-are-female/737376/44 "2015-11-13T21:37:07Z")
I know a John Paul, Brandon Jay (BJ for short) and Jean-Louis. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-with-double-barreled-first-names-do-you-know-and-how-many-of-them-are-female/737376/45 "2015-11-13T22:33:58Z")
As a Catholic girl from a Catholic family, I know multiple Mary Graces, Mary Franceses, etc. None of them hyphenate, but they all go by both names. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-with-double-barreled-first-names-do-you-know-and-how-many-of-them-are-female/737376/46 "2015-11-13T22:54:20Z")
Assuming we’re talking about hyphenated, just one, Mary-Beth, and she’s (obviously) a girl. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-with-double-barreled-first-names-do-you-know-and-how-many-of-them-are-female/737376/47 "2015-11-14T00:28:31Z")
I work with a Caitlyn. Not sure if that counts though. I dated two guys who were called Kenny Wayne, but I think that was the first and middle name, not a double first name. I do have a female cousin named Bobbi-Anne. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-with-double-barreled-first-names-do-you-know-and-how-many-of-them-are-female/737376/48 "2015-11-14T00:35:03Z")
I know a Jim Ed. Arkansas, natch. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-with-double-barreled-first-names-do-you-know-and-how-many-of-them-are-female/737376/49 "2015-11-14T02:02:23Z")
As **Poysin** said, many many French Canadians have names like Jean-Guy and Jean-Francois. Even Jean-Marie. True story: Sometime around the end of the war a man named Jean-Marie applied to Princeton to do a graduate degree in mathematics. He got back a letter saying: Dear Miss X: We regret to inform you that Princeton does not admit women. He did eventually get a PhD in math from McGill, I believe it was in 1951. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-with-double-barreled-first-names-do-you-know-and-how-many-of-them-are-female/737376/50 "2015-11-14T02:14:25Z")
One, and he is male. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-with-double-barreled-first-names-do-you-know-and-how-many-of-them-are-female/737376/51 "2015-11-14T02:39:09Z")
I knew a Terri-Lynn once. I can’t recall ever knowing a male who went by two names. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-with-double-barreled-first-names-do-you-know-and-how-many-of-them-are-female/737376/52 "2015-11-14T03:40:13Z")
I met a woman named Anna-Keith once. Apparently her father died while Anna-Keith was in the womb so when she was born her mother appended her father’s name, Keith, to the name they’d chosen, Anna. That’s certainly the oddest double-barrelled first name I’ve encountered. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-with-double-barreled-first-names-do-you-know-and-how-many-of-them-are-female/737376.md?page=2)