Yep we chose two middle names for ds for the exact same reason as tt. The problem I'm having this time round is that dh and I can't even agree on one name for a first name let alone middle names!
My mum doesn't have a middle name and it's scarred her for life! Coupled with the fact that she never liked her name, it was her mum's name and her mum wanted to call her something else, but her father went and filled out the papers while her mother was still in hospital so it was done and dusted. FWIW, if I ever have a daughter I'm giving her my mum's name. It's old and it's gorgeous and there aren't too many around.
DH doesn't have a middle name. Again, scarring. All the first born sons in on his pateral side of the family where given the name W. His mother decided that she wanted to buck tradition and gave him a different name. To add insult to injury to a long line of W's she didn't even give him that name as a second name - she just named him P. He still holds it against his (deceased) mother.
DS1 has two middle names. His first name is N because I had a crush on an N when I was in year 3 at school (he's probably fat, bald and completely ugly now). His second name is for my pop (the man in question for giving my mother her name) and his third name is for my father's grandfather because I thought the name was completely cool but didn't have the guts to give it to DS1 as a first name. I wish I had now because it's a completely awesome name!!
DS2 has one middle name - actually he has my father's name, although there will never be any confusion because all the men on my father's side of the family go by their middle name and not their first name. The first name is the "proper" name and the ones after that are the preferred name that they really wanted to call their sons but didn't because they had to give them the proper one.
My eldest daughters name is Jemima her middle name is Alice but she tells people it is Puddleduck because I call her that so often. Alice is a family name but also from Alice in wonderland a name I loved but not for a first name.
She loves her name and she is only 6.
My youngest first name is my grandmothers and my mothers name hyphenated and her middle name is my middle name Cherie
I think with a hyphenated first name it was important to also give her a middle name so people didn't think her name was just the first part of the hyphenated name.
Baby in belly will have hubby's middle name if a boy and a random name we like if a girl, it helps keep it flowing because our surname ends in a eeee sound so any first name that ends in a eeee sound needs a buffer.
I don't think it's too late if you want to add middle names but you will need to pay to change them by deed poll. And will that effect the way they have to fill out forms all their lives? Will they have to put in a 'previous' name? Perhaps ring BDM and ask?
I have already looked into the fees, and I would be okay with paying them. Though it does make me wish I'd just given them middle names in the first place lol
I'd never thought about filling our forms for the rest of their lives, so thanks for bringing that point up. It's something I can ask if/when I take it further. In saying that, I have no issue listing my previous/maiden name on forms - it's only an extra 5 seconds or so!
I would think because they have no middle name and then they have one there's not really a "previous" name so I'm sure it would be fine just to fill things out with a middle name and leave it at that. I say go for it!
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