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I'm totally baffled by the two cases of hyphenated mns. In my experience, a hyphenated fn means that the child uses both: Sally-Anne and Peter-John, for instance. So the hyphen is a signal. But who will ever see the hyphen in the case of mns? Only some bureaucrat or banker. What can the point of it possibly be?

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No doubt it's possible that little Bella and Holly got their mns in honour of, respectively, Lilly and Anne, Lisa and Jane. But I don't believe it!